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December 2014

December 19, 2014
Not the surveillance-state aspect that everyone's talking about.(You know, the fact that, according to the...
December 19, 2014
My middle son's birthday is December 17th, and we (my husband and I) are the...
December 18, 2014
The newspaper headlines this morning, and the online news reported yesterday, were pretty dreary:  a...
December 17, 2014
Jeb Bush may have been a spectacular governor; I don't really know.  So far as...
December 17, 2014
If you're Catholic, and maybe even if you aren't, you've probably been told that St....
December 16, 2014
"Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes" - or, Pegida (Germans like acronyms every bit...
December 15, 2014
For a consulting actuary, I don't travel much -- I generally work with my clients...
December 15, 2014
According to today's Tribune, Starwood Hotels has piloted a new program that allows its guest...
December 14, 2014
Really.Of course, Borders and Barnes & Noble drove out the smaller bookstores, though I was...
December 14, 2014
From today's Tribune, a "human interest"-type article on a local store in a trendy Chicago...
December 12, 2014
Boehner just pushed through the "CRomnibus" -- an omnibus spending bill to the end of...
December 11, 2014
You're an HR specialist.  Your company just had its annual Christmas Party over the weekend....
December 10, 2014
Quite some time ago, there was a report making the rounds about an adjunct French...
December 09, 2014
Here's a link to The Gateway Pundit on the direction the protests have taken at...
December 08, 2014
Back last week, in commenting on the current case at the Supreme Court on accomodations...
December 08, 2014
which was passed by the legislature last week, looks, on balance, to be a good...
December 05, 2014
(Second of two hasty posts on the policing controversies.)What do the Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner,...
December 05, 2014
Once upon a time, "civil disobedience" referred to refusing to obey unjust laws, either by...
December 04, 2014
From the Wall Street Journal.  (The link, if I did this right, goes directly to...
December 03, 2014
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 says quite clearly:  employers must treat pregnant women exactly...
December 02, 2014
Courtesy instapundit.com, a link to a story in USA Today, "Rams, police differ on apology...
December 01, 2014
I had written before, in the post-election postmorteming that everyone was doing, that the Republicans...
December 01, 2014
So says the "Buttonwood" columnist at the Economist, which everyone is now tweeting.  This is...
December 01, 2014
From Friday's Tribune, "Minimum wage poses predicament for service agencies": As Democratic lawmakers renew their...
December 01, 2014
Remember VoucherCare?  No -- not the pejorative label used by Democrats to criticize the Paul...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
Once again, a few impressions of Detroit after our visit there over Thanksgiving. Growing up,...
November 29, 2014
Just an observation from our travels in The Mitten:At a Kohl's, at Noodles & Company,...
November 27, 2014
That's the title of a CNN piece about the state of racism and race relations...
November 27, 2014
You know, as family visits go, this falls in the category of "OK." Our first...
November 25, 2014
From today's Chicago Tribune:By the time she sits for the Illinois state bar exam in...
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