(Reuters/Brian Snyder) Tom Jensen of PPP is always very thorough, making sure to explore every political nook and electoral cranny of all the states he polls in. Even the “odds and ends,” as he likes to call them, are often enlightening, especially when he puts them in context. And his recent Arizona survey is particularly [...]

(Eugene Volokh) As I wrote in 2009, the Georgia courts have a headgear policy that expressly allows religious headgear: The Georgia courts have adopted a new policy on head coverings that will take effect in every court in Georgia. At a meeting Wednesday of the Judicial Council of Georgia — the policy-making body of Georgia’s [...]

Foolproof Nest Egg Strategies is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - Its all about Money! 1. Always keep a percent equal to your age safe. Each year, you get a year older. By protecting a percent equal to your age, you ensure that by the time you are set to [...]

Selaginella moellendorffii (Jing-Ke Weng, Salk University). Click to enlarge. In a paper published online in Science Express, a team of researchers from more than 60 institutions, that included the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute’s (DOE JGI) Dan Rokhsar and Igor Grigoriev, the senior authors of this work, reported the genome sequence of Selaginella [...]

Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama On Thursday night, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is said to have “bested” ex-Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, ex-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Texas Congressman Ron Paul and ex-New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson in the Republican’s first debate for the 2012 campaign. Cain, a successful businessman and CEO and co-owner of [...]

Tim Burke worries: On the Bubble « Easily Distracted: Harris’ N+1 essay doesn’t really probe that deeply into why the costs of higher education at its upper end went up so fast for so long, relying instead on cynicism plus Marc Bousquet’s oft-repeated mantra that administrative growth, not faculty growth, explains most of the budgetary [...]

Parabolic Moves are Only Temporary for Silver and Gold Author: Chris Vermeulen (Gold and Oil Guy) Posted: May 4, 2011 The past few weeks we have been seeing the US Dollar slide to new lows at an increasing rate. The strong devaluation of the dollar has sent precious metals like silver and gold rocketing higher [...]

Equities research analysts at Caris & Company Downgraded shares of Aeropostale, Inc. (ARO) to a “Average” rating in a research note released to investors today. Aeropostale, Inc. is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting fourteen to seventeen year-old young women and men. The Company provides customers with a focused selection [...]

Equities research analysts at Caris & Company Downgraded shares of The Gap Inc. (GPS) to a “Above Average” rating in a research note released to investors today. The Gap, Inc. is a global specialty retailer which operates stores selling casual apparel, personal care and other accessories for men, women and children under the Gap, Banana [...]

We can have our cake and eat it too.  Despite an explosion of services and federal spending, individual taxpayers are paying the lower level of taxes as % of income since 1958.  Combined with corporate taxes that are at the lowest level as a % of GDP in generations, it’s good times in America.  I [...]