Along with former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, I attended a reception last evening for Jay Nordlinger and his new book, ?Peace, They Say,? a history of the most famous (and, it argues, controversial) Nobel prize. It?s a great subject, everybody seems to agree. A review of the recipients since the first in 1901 shows ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 17:26

Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have finally seemed to have caught up to him, and that people are outraged by his callous, gross comments. So what do you do next? You do the one thing that ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 07:05

Congress hasn?t passed a proper Transportation bill since 2009, relying instead on temporary stopgaps that make it impossible for states to make long-term plans. ??As Ezra Klein of the Post reports, the Senate has passed a bipartisan funding bill, which ????only lasts for two years ? the House wants a five-year bill, as does the ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

hasn?t answered all the questions asked of it on Feb. 15 by the House Committee on and Commerce about how its app developers handle the privacy of iPhone users. In a letter today, Henry Waxman (D-California) and G.K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina) had this to say about???s reply, specifically about its failure to address new questions, ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 22:55

The House and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers ??? including , Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram ??? asking how their social apps collect user information. The letters can be found here. It?s all part of an investigation into iPhone privacy that was initiated after Path, a social networking ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:06

Conmed recently delivered better than expected fourth quarter results, and management raised its guidance for 2012.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 18:54

There's still value in the shares despite the new highs. In addition to a P/S ratio under 1.0, which usually means a company is undervalued, Conn's has a forward P/E of 14.8. I use 15x as a cut-off for value stocks so Conn's sneaks in just under the wire. It also has a cheap price-to-book ratio of 1.5.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 22:25

The online firestorm that erupted over the consideration of SOPA and PIPA ? the federal ant-piracy bills ? effectively killed the legislation for 2012. Yet it?s imperative that the push for serious legislation addressing online piracy continue. ? ? But, likewise, the bill?s staunchest critics had to recognize that illegal ?rogue? websites undermine American intellectual ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:57

These stocks have been moving lower over the last six months, but analysts and investors keep making bullish predictions. If the underperformance continues, and the bullish investors change their minds on these stocks, you might see a sudden outflow of money.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 15:55

Judgment Day. Two words which conjure up a great sense of uncertainty. Just like being in court. One of the most memorable moments in my career came when I was standing in front of a federal judge in a trademark and copyright infringement case.?? This was a feud. Like Romney versus Gingrich.?? Like lots of ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 19:52