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| Get on board, stay on board |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 10:05 am |
| Tags: Columns In Other Papers, Conservative Party, David Cameron |
| Fraser Nelson's piece in this week's Spectator should be a set text for all those Tories who are prone to mutiny. Fraser wonders if, god forbid, David Cameron were to be hit by a bus, who would replace him? The... |
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| Some readers may find this post distressing |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 8:16 am |
| Tags: Columns In Other Papers |
| WARNING: INCOMING POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS. Myron Magnet has written a forceful essay in the summer edition of the City Journal about race relations in the US, by way of the Duke rape affair and Don Imus. Magnet gets down and dirty... |
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| Call for Papers! |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:55 pm |
| Tags: Academics, Anthologies, Call For Papers, Feminism |
| CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Adoption and Mothering Publication Date: Spring 2009 Editor: Frances Latchford read more |
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| It's On, Bitches! K-Fed Files Papers To Take His Boys Away From Britney Before Something Really Bad Happens |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:57 pm |
| Tags: Britney Spears, Custody, Filed Papers, Hawaii, Jayden, K Fed, Kevin Federline, Lawyer, Lynne, Mental State, Sean, Settlement Money, Slapfight, Tmz, Wild Partying |
| lawyer filed some kind of papers in family court today. More than likely, Kevin's finally making legal moves to wrest Sean and Jayden from their mother's sweaty grasp. With her rapidly deteriorating mental state and wild partying, it's really the safest thing for their sons, at least until she agrees to get help again. More information is |
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| And so it begins |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 8:14 am |
| Tags: Boris Johnson, Columns In Other Papers, Conservative Party, Labour Party |
| Max Hastings makes a good point in the Guardian this morning:Ken regards Boris as the only opponent who can beat him. His first hope, therefore, is to cut him off before he wins the Tory nomination. This is fair enough,... |
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| Obama Doesn't Have Any Papers To Lock Up: The Clinton Library has locked up Hillary’s ... |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: Obama Doesn T Have Any Papers To Lock Up, Quicklinks |
| The Clinton Library has locked up Hillary’s “first lady” papers until after the election so nobody finds out she is a liberal who was married to Bill Clinton. [LA Times] |
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| Obama Doesn't Have Any Papers To Lock Up: The Clinton Library has locked up Hillary’s ... |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: Obama Doesn T Have Any Papers To Lock Up, Quicklinks |
| The Clinton Library has locked up Hillary’s “first lady” papers until after the election so nobody finds out she is a liberal who was married to Bill Clinton. [LA Times] |
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| Calls for Papers: Medieval history, Peace Movements in the Cold War, and more |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 9:38 am |
| Tags: Conferences Calls For Papers |
| for Papers: These two conferences are just two examples of what you can find on the Calender page of the American Historical Association website. Hat tip: AHA Blog. 17th Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association. Abstracts of proposed panels or papers on any medieval topic are due by September 1, 2007 for the Texas Medieval |
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| Skim 0.7 update |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Papers, Pdf, Skim |
| Filed under: Freeware, Open SourceSince we last mentioned the Skim PDF reader and annotating application it has grown considerably and the newly released version 0.7 adds bevy of new features. Since that early release back in April they've added considerably to the markup and searching tools (including live search of the document with context in |
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| Call for Papers: The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 1:22 am |
| Tags: Conferences Calls For Papers, Race |
| the United States Call For Papers: Spring 2008 Conference Co-Sponsored by Law & Society Review and The Center for Law, Society and Culture at the University Of California, Irvine Conference Theme: The Civil Rights Movement reinvigorated socio-legal scholarship and raised new questions about the place of law in social, political, economic |
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| Canada E-Commerce Continues to Grow |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 12:10 pm |
| Tags: Press Releases, Online Report, White Papers |
| Courtesy: eMarketer.comSites are popping up in the Great White North.Canadian retail e-commerce just tallied its fifth straight year of double-digit growth, yet online sales still account for less than 1% of the total retail market, according to Statistics Canada's "2006 Survey of Electronic Commerce and Technology."Nearly half of Canadian retail |
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| Why does anyone bother to vote? |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 8:43 am |
| Tags: Columns In Other Papers, Elections |
| Daniel Hannan questions the conventional wisdom about political participation. He argues that we should make voting harder rather than easier so that people value it more. He's obviously one of those Tories who are against weekend voting. While his suggestion... |
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| GULF OF MEXICO: Deep Waters, Drive Innovation and Technology |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 10:32 pm |
| Tags: Energy Papers, Gom, Chevron, Deep Waters, Us Energy Supply, Dwrra, Texas, Gulf Of Mexico |
| Mike L Payne Senior Advisor, BP America The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Call for Papers: Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 10:25 am |
| Tags: Conferences Calls For Papers |
| For junior law & humanities scholars: This conference is a great way to get serious input on your work-in-progress, and to get to know other interesting people in the field. Highly recommended! UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and Georgetown University Law Center |
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| ASLH alert: conference hotel full -- back-up available |
| Published: September 30, 2007, 8:54 am |
| Tags: Conferences Calls For Papers |
| For the upcoming American Society for Legal History Conference in Tempe, Arizona, the conference hotel is full. The ASLH has made back-up arrangements for those still in need of hotel rooms. The details are here. It will be homecoming weekend at Arizona State, so if you are planning to attend and don't have a hotel, it's important to act now. |
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