If you base it on the amount of screaming and jumping in my house alone, the most exciting moment in tonight’s Super Bowl coverage was Carrie Underwood singing the national anthem. But then, to my knowledge, neither Peyton Manning nor Drew Brees has appeared in an evening dress at the same eve ...

NOTE TO SELF: If you are ever asked to sing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Superbowl (unlikely, I realize,but you never know for certain), do not — REPEAT, DO NOT — attempt to sing it a cappella. Remember Carrie Underwood’s gruesome, off-key performance at the 2010 SuperBowl, and resist the tempt ...

By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Bahamas court has rejected a U.S. bid to extradite a Czech-born financier on charges of plotting to bribe officials in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in the late 1990s to get favourable treatment in oil deals, officials said ...

Financial lessons are often best learned in retrospect, which can make it difficult to tell when you're going down the wrong financial path. Luckily, we can always learn from the mistakes of others. The Detroit News reports that former Detroit Lions lineman Luther Elliss was forced to file for bankr ...

Defendant’s vehicle stop was with probable cause from a citizen informant he was carrying a stolen gun. The search of the trunk where the police were told by the citizen informant to look was justified by the automobile exception, consent, or the inventory exception. As to inventory, the police had ...

Equal Danger, by the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, is set in an unnamed country not, perhaps, entirely unlike Italy.  The hero, Rogas, goes to see President Riches of the Supreme Court.  As tactfully as he can, he suggests judicial error may have resulted in the conviction of ...

Good read in this morning's New York Times by Alex Williams explaining that a law degree from a top law school is no longer a ticket to riches in large law. Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, an associate in 2006 at Pillsbury in San Francisco was willing to work mammoth hours "for the prospect of Caribbea ...

The quickly fading story of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s “light skin” and “non-Negro dialect” offered an opportunity for the President to lead on the issue of race in America, and he passed. Back in March of 2008, given a similar opportunity to show ...

If you like this blog and have not yet joined up as a member of the China Law Blog Group on Linkedin, you are really missing out. About two weeks ago, I asked the Group to list out what they thought to be the best ten books on China business. Within about a week, Forbes Magazine asked me to writ ...

A clip from The Daily Show involving Glenn Beck and gold has been making its rounds on the Internet lately. In the clip, Jon Stewart shows that Glenn Beck has been inciting fear and pushing gold investment on his Fox News show, while not disclosing that he is also a paid spokesman for Goldline. As J ...