May it Please the Senate: An Empirical Analysis of the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings of Supreme Court Nominees, 1939-2009, Lori A. Ringhand, University of Georgia School of Law and Paul M. Collins Jr., University of North Texas, June 25, 2010. UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-12 “This paper examines the questions asked and answers… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Tax Foundation: Report Shows Substantial Mobility of Taxpayers Across Income Spectrum
News release: “A new Tax Foundation report shows significant movement of American households up and down the income spectrum over time, challenging claims of income inequality based on snapshot analyses of income distribution. Nearly 60 percent of taxpayers who were in the bottom-earning 20 percent in 1999 (earning less than $13,000) were in a higher… Continue Reading
Blue Fin Tuna – warm blooded, environmentally threatened species
New York Times – Tunas End, by Paul Greenberg: “Global seafood consumption has increased consistently to the point where we now remove more wild fish and shellfish from the oceans every year than the weight of the human population of China. This latest surge has taken us past the Age of Cod and landed us… Continue Reading
Pew Report: Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010
Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010: “One-in-four U.S. households now have no landline telephone, considerably more than in the early 1960s when telephone surveys were considered infeasible because so many households were unreachable by telephone. Unlike the 1960s, however, most of those without a landline today do have telephone service, in… Continue Reading
ACLU Report on Nomination of Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Follow up to previous postings on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan, see the Report of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Nomination of Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 “The simple truth is that there is much that we do not know about Kagans views on… Continue Reading
UK – Central Government Websites 2009-10 Progress Report on Public Accounts Committee Recommendations
UK Central Office of Information released audit results on June 24, 2010: “The Central Office of Information (COI) has delivered the standards and guidance requested and the report should be read in conjunction with them: Measuring website costs Measuring website usage Measuring website quality Delivering inclusive websites The 2009/10 report covers websites run by ministerial… Continue Reading
Google Announces Encrypted Search URL Has Changed
Follow up to Google Launches Encrypted Search in Beta, via the Official Google Enterprise Blog, the announcement that the company moved encrypted search from https://www.google.com to https://encrypted.google.com. “The site functions in the same way. However, if school network administrators decide to block encrypted searches on https://encrypted.google.com, the blocking will no longer affect Google authenticated services… Continue Reading
Legislating Consumer Privacy Online & Off
Legislating Consumer Privacy Online & Off: Last month, Congressmen Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns, respectively Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, released a discussion draft of legislation “to assure the privacy of information about individuals both on the Internet and offline.” This is the most significant movement… Continue Reading
Grassley Releases Medical Ghostwriting Report, Recommends NIH Promote Transparency
News release: “Senator Chuck Grassley released a staff report of the Committee on Finance on the practice of medical ghostwriting and is urging the National Institutes of Health to incorporate its findings in new, final disclosure guidelines. The committee staff report is based on a two-year review of the role that pharmaceutical and medical device… Continue Reading
OMB: New Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies
OMB Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies, June 25, 2010, M-10-22 “As the Internet continues to evolve, the Federal Government has new opportunities to promote these commitments by engaging with citizens, explaining what Federal agencies are doing, seeking public comments, and improving the delivery of services. In the private sector, it… Continue Reading
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: “President Obama has identified cybersecurity as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government or as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Shortly after taking office, the President therefore ordered a thorough review of… Continue Reading
White House: The National Security Strategy
“The National Security Strategy, released May 27, 2010, lays out a strategic approach for advancing American interests, including the security of the American people, a growing U.S. economy, support for our values, and an international order that can address 21st century challenges.” Continue Reading
