"Court's ruling on campaign funding draws fire": Financial Times has this news update. Agence France-Presse reports that "White House shrugs off Alito spat." At "The Caucus" blog of The New York Times, David Kirkpatrick has a post titled "White House v. the Supreme Court." At the web site of The ...

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. "One Minutes" (10 per side) H.R. 3254 ̵ ...

Last week the British Columbia Court of Appeal ever-so-slightly varied the Supreme Court of British Columbia decision in Graham v. Chalmers.As I previously wrote, the trial judge in Graham v. Chalmers, varied the will of the late Dolores Jean Graham, who had left a quarter of the residue of her esta ...

Last week the British Columbia Court of Appeal ever-so-slightly varied the Supreme Court of British Columbia decision in Graham v. Chalmers.As I previously wrote, the trial judge in Graham v. Chalmers, varied the will of the late Dolores Jean Graham, who had left a quarter of the residue of her esta ...

The value and potential of Facebook and Twitter real-time updates are obvious. So obvious that companies and websites implementing real-time systems for themselves are gaining significant benefits. The report  The Real-Time Web and its Future, edited by ReadWriteWeb lead writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, ...

Twenty-three years ago, a complete unknown sprang into the international lime-light. His name was Eugene Hasenfus. Shot down Oct. 5, 1986, while kicking crated cargo to anti-government terrorists from a CIA plane over the back-country of Nicaragua, his capture by Sandinista militiamen led to the exp ...

NY Times: Catholic Group Supports Senate on Abortion Aid, by David D. Kirkpatrick: WASHINGTON — In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that...

NY Times Magazine: The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker, by David D. Kirkpatrick: On a September afternoon, about 60 prominent Christians assembled in the library of the Metropolitan Club on the east side of Central Park. It was a gathering of unusual...

On December 17, we reported on the Convertino case in which a judge found that the attorney-client privilege was not waived for emails exchanged on an employer's network, even though the employer had access to them. It did not take long to find a case with virtually identical circumstances in which ...

The Fed isn't upping interest rates, which was predicted, but it doing so unanimously.  That is of perhaps a little note - there have been some dissenters over the course of the past two years.  However, it's worth noting that the Fed also announced that its liquidity programs would for the most par ...