As detailed in , which is headlined "Pawlenty: Time to get tougher on sex crimes," Minnesota's governor (and a future presidential candidate?) is talking about significantly increasing his states punishment table for sex offenders. Here are the basics: this local article Gov. Ti ...

Man glaubt es kaum, aber dieses Weblog wird heute 9 Jahre alt. Es sind keine besonderen Feierlichkeiten vorgesehen, also business as usual. Aus der Geschichte: Vor ziemlich genau 6 Jahren hat Matt Mullenweg (Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, an ...

William Faulkner's speech upon his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Stockholm City Hall, December 10, 1950 (audio via YouTube):I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for ...

Today's Legal Headline News... Toyota Motors recalls 8 million Prius cars over sticky gas pedals, Poker lobbyist want to legalize gambling int he US this year, Alan Greenspan says unemployment rates will remain high, Robert Matthews of Faegre & Benson died in a plane crash, Michael Jackson's d ...

Thanks to Ed. at Blawg Review for passing along this (somewhat rambling but well worth watching) lecture at Stanford University by  Deborah Kolb, the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Simmons College School of Management.  Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki ...

I am on a serious roll with business novels. This time it is the newly-published Simplifying Innovation by Michael A. Dalton. The basic idea behind this book is to apply Theory of Constraints ideas to the process of innovation. Overall, I thought the book did a good job of putting it all together ...

By Sherri Oslick -- A note to our readers: In an effort to catch up with recently filed biotech and pharma cases following a brief hiatus, Patent Docs presents this additional installment of Court Report. Teva Women's Health, Inc. v. Lupin, Ltd. et al. 2:10-cv-00603; filed February 3, 2010 in the Di ...

Governor Rendell has nominated Lewis Wood Wetzel, Esquire of Dallas and Joseph Van Jura, Esquire of Kingston to fill the open judgeships on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. It is hoped that these nominees will be whisked through the nomination process quickly so they can assist with the bac ...

A 75-year old Murrieta man lost his life in a Riverside County auto accident as the vehicle he was driving crashed into a center median of the road along the 41000 block of California Oaks Road in Murrieta. This fatal car accident took place on February 7, 2010, around 6:30 a.m. The deceased, Eugen ...

CNN Money.com has posted an article about how you might still be pursued by mortgage lenders even after your home has been foreclosed. If a foreclosed home sells at auction for less than what the mortgage is worth, the former homeowners are responsible for the difference. These "deficiency judgmen ...