The United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary hosted a forum entitled, "Head and Other Injuries in Youth, High School, College and Professional Football" Monday, February 1, 2010, in Houston, Texas. Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, partic ...

Career Democrats (not just "outsider" liberal critics) are beginning to criticize President Obama's senior staff. The Hill, for example, reports that liberal and moderate Democrats in Congress blame Rahm Emanuel for the Obama administration's poor performance on healthcare reform.Although both sides ...

KURT SCHLICHTER: Get Over It: Birtherism Is Not Journalism. Nope, it’s as if somebody who called himself a journalist developed a sick fascination with Sarah Palin’s uterus. And nobody wants to think about what that would represent. Then again, “According to a new book by John ...

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James Joyner plays dumb for some reason over Sarah Palin's Hand-gate: [T]his seems much ado about nothing. If Sarah Palin likes to write buzz words on her hand, so what? The problem is Joyner knows why it became political fodder. Look at his comment in the same thread: [. . .] Obama's tele ...

Thanks to Mary Sarah Bilder for pointing out this great story from the Boston Globe on a recent decision preserving easements on Martha's Vineyard (or perhaps as my Massachusettes relatives would pronounce it, Marthar's Vineyard). The story begins: Every Veterans...

Go New Orleans! The Little Engine That Could! WaPo: At the moment the Saints won the Super Bowl and New Orleans would never be the same, they spilled through the doors of Sidney's Saloon at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and St. Claude. They jumped and they danced and they hugged and they shou ...

We'll be looking at her hand forever. She caught us in that hand. Your assignment today is to practice the expressions in English that use the word "hand" and to make all the snarky comments about Sarah Palin's hand.Or here, maybe you can do something with this "Seinfeld" dialogue:Jerry: I know, you ...

Sarah Palin -- who only recently believed that living a stone's throw from Russia gave her foreign policy experience -- has threatened to run for president in 2012. She did not call it a threat, but it sure feels like one. Before conservative feminists for Palin accuse me of being part of a lefti ...

By Sarah Fendrick -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has extended the time for public comment for two recent Office initiatives and has extended the period of effectiveness for a third Office initiative. Extension of Period for Comments on Enhancement in the Quality of Patents In December 2009, ...