Month: May 2007

Wal-Mart said Thursday that for its fiscal year ending Jan. 31, it contributed $1.1 billion to its domestic hourly workers through profit-sharing and 401(k) accounts, stock purchase plans and …

Yesterday I highlighted a case of what I suspected to be garden variety hotlinking at The Huffington Post by Max Blumenthal. Max Blumenthal is an employee of Media Matters, …

First, thanks to those who participated in Wednesday's "All To The Good" constructive debate. I do believe we have shown that civil discussion and dialogue is possible, once folks …

Ruth Simmons says she once wrote the best essay in her literature class only to have one of her professors shun her because she was black, or a woman, …

A federal appeals court upheld a mentally ill man's sentence of 25 years-to-life for shoplifting two bottles of liquor from a market, a sentence a dissenting judge called 'barbarous.' …

Unemployment Rates April 1997 - 8.1 - Latinos April 2007 - 5.4 - Latinos April 1997 - 9.8 - blacks April 2007 - 8.2 - blacks April 1997 - …

Don't let the foregoing unemployment rates fool you -- there are places in this country in which vast throngs of people are in dire straights: Affordable housing advocates lambasted …

I will be leaving soon to travel to the 2007 Milblog Conference in Arlington. I am really looking forward to meeting some amazing bloggers I have read for years …

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Sunday. Update: Winners announced. Click …

Don Surber has a must read column about what President Bush did and didn't say aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Link via Lucianne. I have some comments of my …