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The heat wave over the past 10 days has been the hottest and most prolonged in recorded history. Today marks our fourth consecutive day with temperatures threatening to soar above 100F. Read more.
By now you’ve probably heard or read some of the incomprehensible reporting on the discovery of the Higgs boson by physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva (CERN). Higgs boson (aka the God particle) was the theoretical missing link that explains (or should explain) the DNA – not just of our universe, but… Read more.
In defending the constitutionality of Obamacare before the Supreme Court in March, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. argued that it could be upheld under Congress’s plenary power to regulate interstate commerce (aka the Commerce Clause). But a clear majority of the justices did not seem persuaded that this clause gives the government the power to… Read more.
I’m on record observing that wildfires are becoming as menacing to Western states as hurricanes have always been to Southern states. Never mind that far too many of these fires are ignited not by Mother Nature, but by human beings. Of course I always feel sympathy for those who lose their homes, to say nothing… Read more.
Just when I thought the banking industry could not fall any lower into disrepute came reports last week that the bad trading loss at JPMorgan Chase could exceed $9 billion. This stands in stark contrast, of course, to the estimate of a $2 billion loss its primping peacock of a president, Jamie Dimon, dismissed in May… Read more.
I am such a big fan of the Summer Olympics that I even tune in to watch competition in such dubious sports as Curling and Archery. So between network and online coverage I will probably watch more of the London Games (July 27 – August 12) than anybody I know. There’s no denying, though, that… Read more.
