The solutions to income inequality that are not precluded by the Constitution are precluded by a Republican majority in Congress. Politicians don’t prosper by telling their supporters, “Absent a revolution, I can’t help you.”

For my emotional well-being, I gave up on the Redskins in the summer of 2009. Gregg Williams left in January, after Snyder had made a quarterbacks coach with no NFL coordinator experience the head coach of the Redskins; this coach, Jim Zorn, is the only NFL head coach in history to get a play-calling assistant coach…

I guess threatening the scholarships of everyone involved would just be an unfortunate but unrelated happenstance.

Chrysler received $2.4B from the Treasury to survive until it could merge with Fiat in a new company, post-bankruptcy. Since this fine for its bad behavior is a tiny fraction of what the taxpayer spent to save it, Chrysler should act like it owes a duty of care to the consumer beyond “narrowly avoiding prosecution.”…

If Chrysler and GM management are going to screw up or disregard their internal QC, put out defective products on the market and then slow-roll recalls for known issues, they deserve whatever they get from NHTSA because their management is embarrassing the administration that saved their businesses from being sold in…

The fine is a punishment for the company. It works independently of a recall intended to make the consumer whole. Do you argue your parking tickets with the magistrate because you’re not repaying the specific drivers eyeing the parking spot you took without paying for it?

My wife used to represent litigants in child welfare matters. Basically, whenever CPS takes enough of an interest in a child’s well-being to consider taking him out of his parents’ home, everybody including the child is entitled to a lawyer, appointed or retained. This led to contact with some parents who would…

As a finishing touch on a piece about consent, she could release the IP address of everyone who watched her video without their consent.

Maybe Oberyn was a little hypocritical too, when it comes to revenge for children related to him on people outside the family.

Sulla is made for HBO, and my God, would "The Grass Crown" make a great series.

I just read the entire Masters of Rome series six months ago. How sad.

The F-35 will be a deadly adversary to any aircraft that lands near where it's parked on the ramp.

Look, the NCAA's resources are limited. If they're going to stop the really terrible things like players making money from autographs or unionized football programs, they can't get wrapped around the axle over every little rape.

And to think some people believe that the record industry's collapse is a bad thing.

Cousins threw four picks and lost a fumble in his game against the Giants, where they only sacked him twice and hit him four times. I can't explain why the Bucs, with the 29th-ranked pass defense in the NFL, got to Griffin so many more times than the Giants did with Cousins. All I'm saying is that Griffin's problems…

If your quarterback is sacked 6 times, hit 11 times and otherwise hurried goddamn near every time he takes a snap, he's probably not going to have a very good game. Part of that may be that his offensive line despises him, but the outcome is still not exclusively his fault.

What you're asking for, in this increasingly Dickensian world of service-economy labor, is that everybody with the money and say-so accept less of both for the benefit of those who currently have neither.

Voter turnout in Sweden and Germany, models for countries with strong pro-family policies and world-leading…

The first shirt in my squadron 15 years ago began life as a maintainer on B-1s at Ellsworth, where the unofficial nickname for the airplane was the "HAWK." It stood for "Holiday And Weekend Killer." Lighten up, Francis.

We got to see the face of the Others' leader, not to mention the transformation of a living being into an Other. Given the near-total lack of information in the books about the Others and where they come from, this was a good trade in my opinion.

To be fair (and pardon the mansplaining but I'm super-nerdy about this), neither Britain nor the United States officially admitted to the existence of their product (ULTRA) until the mid-1970s. The United States' cryptography arms that broke Japanese ciphers were somewhat more sexually egalitarian as organizations,…