Since the advent of iPhone applications in July, 2008 over 134,000 iPhone applications have become available at the Apple App Store. Over 3 billion of such applications for news, information, entertainment, and more have been downloaded by iPhone users. With ESPN, The New York Times, Facebook, Li ...

A few days ago I criticized an entry on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, The Ticker, that found less “opportunities” for women as coaches and athletic directors based only on evidence that women made up a higher proportion of players than of coaches and ADs. Now “The Ticker” is back with news ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

Greg Yates has joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in the firm’s New York office. The former partner at Steptoe & Johnson joins the firm’s bankruptcy practice. Yates focuses his national practice in the areas of debt/creditor relations, including workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy ...

First the White House National Security Advisor, John Brennan, said Republicans were briefed on the FBI detainment of the Christmas Day panty-bomber, including that the terrorist had been mirandized. In fact, that was not true. Now John Brennan says critics of the White House are serving ‘th ...

Yesterday on NPR I heard a report that Nebraska Democrat Senator Ben Nelson will join with Republicans to oppose the nomination of Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. Purportedly this means that it is likely that "Democrats cannot find the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP ...

Tomorrow, Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is launching a money bomb for Marco Rubio. You need to understand specifically why it is important that this be a success. DeMint is under massive and sustained attacks from establishment Republicans for daring to challenge the hand pi ...

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty NASA published a notice of a Meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (PDF) in today’s Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 6407-6408): SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics a ...

I was talking the other day with a partner in a large national firm. For a variety of reasons, including the nature of his practice area, his annual billings have been declining for a couple of years now, and he’s been contacted about it by some of the senior people in the firm. He’s bee ...

The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...