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8 Aug 2011, 8:21 am by Stephen Presser
Most elite legal academic opinion treats the argument that the individual mandate is constitutionally flawed with something approaching the contempt displayed by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, whose response to doubters about the Act’s Constitutionality was simply to say “Are you serious? [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 10:43 am by Tiffany Chiao
Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2011 by Christopher Kutz http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kutz-dsk-20110520,0,1568348.story The trivialization of his past thuggish behavior as “seduction” and “loving women” marks the dirty if open secret of French politics: an elite tolerance for corruption and misbehavior that is nearly as much an outlier among developed nations as the American taste for prison farms as social [...] [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 8:11 am by Lovechilde
Nicknamed “golden rice,” this untested, highly controversial GE crop threatens biodiversity across the region and risks bringing economic and ecological disaster to Asia’s farms. [read post]
30 May 2011, 7:44 am by David Rossmiller
  He was born to farmers, he farmed before he went to war, and he came back home to farm. [read post]
22 May 2011, 8:12 pm by Frank Pasquale
In Shirky's defense, it's pretty hard to do elite work in internet studies & consulting without boarding the cyberutopian bandwagon. [read post]
22 May 2011, 12:37 pm by Frank Pasquale
In Shirky’s defense, it’s pretty hard to do elite work in internet studies & consulting without boarding the cyberutopian bandwagon. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 5:37 am by VMaryAbraham
  The Lawyer.com points to their transatlantic elite “Sweet Sixteen. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 5:55 pm by Mary Whisner
For aspiring journalists, they link to sources of story ideas that would use public records.The blog links to interesting articles that use public documents to report a story -- for instance, The Making of Manhattan's Elite Welfare Farmers, New York Press, June 15, 2010 (some farm subsidies might go to ma and pa on the farm, but millions of dollars go to corporations and rich individuals).This week, Davis comments on one of his "pet peeves in FOI…the way… [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
The nation faces huge deficits not only because tax rates on the wealthy are lower than they need to be, but also because the deficit reflects eight years of taxes that should have been collected but that were forgiven by a Congress anxious to reward the economic elite and ballooning interest payments on the debt undertaken to finance the deficits generated by trying to finance a war while cutting taxes. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 11:29 am by LindaMBeale
"lacking  fancy educations and professions" and not members of the elite propertied class] might appear to be ancestors of Sarah Palin’s “real Americans”– they hunt, fish, build, farm; they keep and bear arms (and serve in militias); they’re political newcomers — Palin would brand them socialists. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 7:22 am by Chip Merlin
Mecherle, the founder of State Farm Automobile Insurance Company, was reported to have a management contract with Sate Farm. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 10:15 pm by Reproductive Rights
The Atlantic: Abortion, Adoption, and the 'Right' Kind of Kids, by Jamelle Bouie: A lot of excellent commentary has come out of Ross Douthat's quasi-attempt to justify the use of poor women as baby farms for infertile elites. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 3:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Yes, we are proud that we have changed the attitude, lifestyle, and demography of the state, made it “green”, and have the highest paid public employee and the most generous welfare system—and do not have to soil our hands with nasty things like farming, oil production, or nuclear power. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 3:51 pm by AdamSmith1776
A few days ago LegalWeek wrote about whether the "global law model helps or hinders the top-level adviser:"  In other words, whether the more commercially minded we all become as lawyers and as firms, the less room there is for the classic strategic business counsel sitting at the board table. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 10:09 am by Guest Blogger Jed Purdy
The IPCC strategy, and much of the elite climate conversation, has belonged to another strand of environmental imagination: that of the engineers and managers. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 3:54 pm by Glenn Reynolds
What’s exceptional is the blame coming from Washington, which only deepens the divide between the elite and Main Street. [read post]