Governor Sarah Palin took to the stage at the National Tea Party Convention on Saturday night and hit it out of the park. She hit all the notes perfectly. She threw in some great lines. But above all else, she proved herself authentic, sincere, and in touch with conservatives and independents. Y ...

In a long, interesting, and valuable article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Peter Schmidt reviews what he describes as the “increased nuance and complexity” of a “new wave of research on campus diversity.” The new research, he writes, holds the promise of improving how colleges serve students ...

Cover via AmazonThe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld a trial court's dismissal of a defamation suit against best-selling legal thriller author John Grisham arising from his novel, The Innocent Man.In Peterson v. Grisham (Case No. 08-7100), the appellate court sided with ...

Douglas Rivlin has an excellent column on News Junkie Post on the problems of the Republican National Committee seeking to stake out a "purity pledge" on issues, which they named after modern conservative hero Ronald Reagan,by candidates seeking RNC support....

Geoff recently highlighted AAG Christine Varneys closing remarks at the Horizontal Merger Guidelines workshop and was fairly critical.   Thom intervened to suggest that we at TOTM, while fairly critical of the agencies from time to time, also give credit where it is due highlighting AAG Varneys RPM ...

In Texas, a US district court judge has refused to dismiss a class action securities fraud claim against Cushing MLP Total Return Fund CEO Jerry V. Swank and CFO Mark Fordyce. The Texas securities fraud claim accuses the defendants of misrepresentations and omissions related to the fund’s deferred t ...

So says John K. McIlwain, Senior Resident Fellow and J. Ronald Terwilliger Chair for Housing at the Urban Land Institute. You can find a synopsis of his predictions for the American housing market on the Wall Street Journal's real estate...

Bill Scher at the Campaign for America's Future noticed that Senator Mitch McConnell was touting his proposal for a spending reduction commission on CNN Sunday. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. The fact is the only way to eliminate deficits solely by cutting spending alon[e] is to completely hobble our r ...

In your face Como hace un amigo(*) empezamos el análisis mirando esto:El video es la transmisión oficial del discurso del Estado de la Unión que Barack dio la semana pasada frente al Congreso. Aprovechó para referirse a un fallo de la Corte Suprema. En la primera fila del auditorio, seis jueces del ...

The Bulldog at Yale Gets No Tail (we used to sing that at Columbia), But he can get integrative medicine CME.Yale is offering integrative medicine CME: Yale School of Medicine, Integrative Medicine at Yale Integrative medicine combines treatments from conventional medicine and complementary an ...