The U.S.Supreme court will hear arguments Tuesday on a challenge to the so-called Millionaires Amendment, lawyers said.Jack Davis, an industrial ceramics mogul who is running for a congressional seat in western New York, says the amendment to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act is skewed.Congress inserted the amendment, Section 319, into the McCain-Feingold Act to counter a 1976 Supreme ...http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

June 2007 Atlantic MonthlyWith Rumsfeld and Powell gone, and Cheney’s power diminished, this is Condoleezza Rice’s moment. Can she salvage America’s standing in the Middle Eastâ€"and defuse the threat of a nuclear Iran? Behind the curtain in Washington and Jerusalem with the secretary of state by David Samuels GRAND ILLLUSIONS .... Unlike Donald Rumsfeld’s finger- wagging, Rat Packâ€"era version of realpolitik, or Dick Cheney’s paranoia about mushroom clouds and sleeper cells, Rice’s views arehttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2008/04/wh...

We've lost a major force for good in health care. Dr. Jerome Grossman, once CEO of Tufts-New England Medical Center, passed away yesterday. He was only 68, an example of another good-man-dying-too-young. Dr. Grossman's ideas made big impacts on American...http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_healt...

As someone with Irish ancestry (way, way back), I’ve written a bit before about Irish immigration to Argentina. A great resource for this topic is the wonderful Irish Migration Studies in Latin America (IMSLA). The latest issue of IMSLA, Sporting Traditions in Latin America and Ireland, focuses largely on Argentina. In his introduction to the issue, guest editor John Kennedy explains As the articles in this journal demonstrate, the contribution of the Irish and subsequently Irish-Argentineshttp://baires.elsur.org/archives/irish-spo...