The New York Times says:
“The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”
Perhaps it’s time to rethink the way our prison’s operate:

From the Washington Post and ACHAMP:
“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.” - Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Rally, April 21, 2008.
“It’s indisputable that (autism) is on the rise among children, the […]

The latest issue of Nature had a very interesting discussion over research on the effects of Agent Orange. In the 1980s, researchers were asserting that they were finding little evidence for correlating Agent orange to veterans’ health problems, but the VA countered that a large-scale study would be infeasible. In 1991, however, the National Academies […]

Apparantly, John McCain is being advised by former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Perhaps McCain should choose advisers that don’t drive Fortune 500 companies into the ground. You know, if he wants to assert that he knows the best practices to stimulate the economy…

If you were watching the Democratic Debate hosted by ABC, you may have noticed a reference to a storied part of Michigan history: the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground traces it’s roots back to the University of Michigan’s rich history of student activism in the 1960s, proving too radical for even the Students for a […]

In Slate’s series Fixing It, a 10 part series outlining a series of changes needed to be enacted by the next president, they recently covered the reformation of our tech policy. While these are all good suggestions, I’d like to add a few to the list. An important part of fixing our tech policy is […]

At a time when the American auto companies seem to be closing up shop left and right in Michigan, perhaps then it is the foreign auto company that will keep Michigan’s automotive industry alive. Toyota recently announced the establishment of the Toyota Research Institute of North America, to be based at their existing facilities in […]

He’s back. The Washington Post reports on Ward Connerly’s initiative to end affirmative action in five new states: Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. If these initiatives can pass with overwhelming margins in Michigan and California, there’s little reason to believe that these purple/red states will feel any different. To launch an effective opposition campaign, […]

If you read the New York Times today and saw their report on the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minnesota, you may have been wondering like me exactly what those bends looked like, or for that matter, why did the bridge fail in the first place? For a better explanation than the one given, […]

Slate.com has the scoop on the donors willing to finance a new primary (click to enlarge images):