A number of press reports today, including this one, indicate that the Obama Administration will announce on Wednesday that it was revising its policies and will no longer threaten to prosecute families that pay ransoms to terrorists in an effort…
Two austere ostriches, Osgood and Osbad, who lived near an old gum tree somewhere in the Australian outback, ran a successful business buying cattle prods made by Cow Poke, Inc., located in Kankakee, Illinois, and selling them to cattle farmers…
Popular local website group Gothamist (which is also responsible for DCist, LAist, Chicagoist, and others) ran on its websites today the intriguingly titled: “How To Go To Cuba Right Now: A Travel Primer.” You can guess what I think of…
After the uproar generated by the proposed amendments to the Export Administration Regulations to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement’s rules controlling “intrusion software,” the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) tried to calm things down by issuing some FAQs on the…
Those of us who live in the District of Columbia are used to, if not content with, the routine indignities imposed on us as residents of that tiny square of reclaimed swamp land sandwiched in between Virginia and Maryland. …