Kausfiles comments on Brian Williams of NBC calling the Supreme Court’s ruling on age bias “a big win for millions of workers over 40″:
“NBC’s hardly the first to buy into the facile plaintiff’s lawyer’s notion that a “win” in a particular lawsuit for a particular group of people means a “win” in the larger sense–as […]

It is hard to believe that in the post 9/11 world there are still IRA apologists and supporters in the United States. The Irish Republican Army is both a terrorist organization and a criminal gang. There can be no debate on these characterizations. Just in the past six months the IRA committed the largest heist […]

Johnny Cochran played to the lowest common denominator and is aptly best known for his base use of the “race card” in the OJ Simpson trial. His crowning moment was keeping a double murderer on the street. By many accounts, OJ was ready to confess (and reportedly had already done to Rev. Rosie Greer) and […]

The Wall Street Journal reports (note: pay site) that the State of New York wants your tax revenue, even if you live in Tennessee:
“A telecommuter who lives out of state while working by computer for a New York employer must pay New York tax on his full income, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday in […]

Two news items that are off our main topic, but feed our obsession with online privacy:
1) Michelle Malkin blogs about how people are accidentally sharing more than their mp3s — using LimeWire, “within a few minutes, I had access to scores of tax returns that included names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers.” […]

The New York Daily News reports that it doesn’t take much to hold on to a $59k teaching job in New York city:
A Bronx teacher who repeatedly flunked his state certification exam paid a formerly homeless man with a developmental disorder $2 to take the test for him, authorities said yesterday.
The illegal stand-in - who […]

For all of the talk about how underpaid that California’s teachers are (and many are), they have a few perks not available to most of us. Top of that list is the lifetime tenure policy that teachers enjoy after just a short time on the job. Tenure protects all teachers, both good and bad.
Because of […]

One of the few benefits of soaring crude oil prices has been the negative effect it is having on the sales of (unnecessarily) large SUVs. There is simply no reason for the number of Tahoes, Suburbans, Expeditions, Hummers, etc. crowding on our roads and into parking lots (especially “compact” spaces) and other places not designed […]

On Sunday the Los Angeles Times published a graphic showing “women earned 80¢ for every dollar men made.” The editorial, written by Swati Pandey, pretends to offer balance by quoting ’skeptics’ saying that the cause is that “men take higher-paying jobs in math, science, or fields that pose daily physical danger.” They then attack that […]

Since its founding and receiving its special legal status, Major League Baseball has lived in its own little world believing all of the hype about being the national pastime and even having its own anti-trust exemption. The most recent example of baseball’s playing by its own rules is how MLB has handled steroid abuse by […]

Rachel Corrie was a misguided activist who thought that she could bring peace to the world by standing in front of a Israel Defense Forces bulldozer. It goes without saying that Ms. Corrie could have done more for world peace trying to stop suicide bombers and terrorists and her death should have been the sad […]

Does CBS’s CSI affect how juries deliberate? Evidently so, or at least they do enough that prosecutors and defense attorneys are starting to ask potential jurors whether or not they regularly watch the program. Could watching CSI really affect the outcome of a trial? After casually watching the Robert Blake murder trial, I think so.
For […]

I’m sure the teachers unions are bristling at the thought of Bill Gates telling them about what’s wrong with American education. After all, what has he done with his life to talk down to them? Heck, he didn’t even graduate college.
That said, I guess being the world’s richest man tends to get his views heard. […]

As we see every election, organized labor is for the most part connected to the ideological left (whether its members like it or not). Other than the natural conflict that comes with the fact that many union workers are ideological conservatives, left-leaning union leadership means that union dues are often working against the economic interests […]

It might be a little too early to announce the most baseless and gratuitous lawsuit of the 21st century but we at Independent Sources would like to nominate the newly filed lawsuit against the Thai government, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its Tsunami Warning Center, and the French hotel group Sofitel. […]