Day: August 5, 2009

A federal jury has found former Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., guilty on 11 of 16 corruption charges against him. There is something wrong with $90,000 in your feezer and a defense that you weren’t selling your vote.

“The Black Swan Theory (in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s version) refers to high-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations.” Like the US financial meltdown last year. I ran across this article while looking for something else and thought some readers here may enjoy it. It relates to…

After seven years as Police Chief of the city of Los Angeles, William Bratton is retiring. Under Bratton, Los Angeles has seen declining crime rates since 2003, and during his tenure he pushed hard to reform the LAPD, increase departmental transparency, increase minority recruitment, and institute community policing. Chief Bratton…

Earlier this week, I wrote about the lobbyist-organized efforts to disrupt town halls and listening sessions being held by Democratic Representatives on their August recess, and I also noted these mobs have hit close to home, disrupting a meeting held by Rep. Steve Kagen. As I’ve been thinking about these…

Harris Kane over at heartland hollar has a question about Scott Walker: Scott Walker quit college. Walker quit the legislature. He quit his church. Quit his campaign for governor. What makes you think he won’t quit on you? Harris Kane raises an excellent point. How can anyone believe that if…