Being a Librarian, I have been following all this for a while.

While it may not have been proven, the fact is that 3 of the Publishers have already settled so it means they chose not to contest the case.

It is unclear as to how any of this affects author royalties - which are usually pretty low to start with.

What I think is really going on is that as the publishing industry transforms into e-publishing, the traditional strengths that publishers have in terms of creating hard cover books and getting them distributed go away. There have been numerous examples of self-published or small independent publishers books hitting the top of the ebook charts without any of the traditional support promotions.  This strikes terror in the hearts of the publishing company executives.

Agency pricing is popular with publishing executives because it pays for them.

I really think it was a matter of timing - when every other not-Romney imploded, he was the last one left when Iowa arrived. Then Newt got a second chance by winning South Carolina, imploded again, and Rick was able to hang onto the not-Romney banner.

But he would have been a horrendous candidate in the General Election. After the MSM got done with him, moderates would have been streaming to the ballot box in November to vote against him as a religious fanatic. He simply could not win and it was high time he left.

And while I am concerned for his daughter's health, I think this has been in the works since last week when he and his staff took the weekend off.

Since when? If Argentina had won the Falklands War back in the 80's, I don't think anyone on the left would be condemning them for adding to their territory. After all, the territory we are talking about was captured by the British when they won the Battle of Megiddo in 1918.

Every square inch on the planet was conquered by someone at some point - even if they gave or sold it to someone else later.

My father has been a Florida Gators fan his entire life and it rubbed off on me even though I didn't attend Florida.

I still remember hearing about this kid from Jacksonville who was running up big numbers in high school and thinking about attending UF. 

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The first thing I look for in a Republican field is experience as a Governor and experience outside of Washington. Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts and therefore has executive experience. He has never been in Washington.

Running the 2002 Winter Olympics and serving as Governor shows that he has ability in taking on complex problems at the state and local level. I think this bodes well for his abilities as President.

Most of his experience comes from outside government and academia. He has actually made decisions about whether something was going to thrive or fail without the benefit of a government safety net.

He supports Israel and the traditional foreign policy of goals of the United States. He recognizes that how we move forward with China is going to be on the fundamental issues of this century. His views on immigration ("self-deportation") is the most practical solution I have heard.

His healthcare plan in Massachusetts was clearly a mistake but he has articulated clearly that every state should have the opportunity to find what works and a single system imposed by Washington is never going to be the answer.

46 thanks to growing up in a small town in the South (where I still live)

"In the New Deal era, the Court held that a single farmer, growing wheat for his own use on his own farm was influencing interstate commerce by absenting himself from the market."

The farmer was doing something - growing wheat. The Individual Mandate is very different: It would give the government the power to force the farmer to grow wheat.

"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill

"What really was going on was that the crowd reaction to Sherrod’s comments caught on the tape was very damaging to the NAACP and those who attacked the Tea Party movement as racist.  The crowd cheered when Sherrod recounted her long-ago hostility to the white farmer, and that crowd reaction was the real story. Focusing the debate on the editing of the tape was a convenient distraction." - http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/saturday-night-card-game-repeat-after-me-the-shirley-sherrod-tape-was-not-misleading/ via http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/138292/

You would think Gregory would have known better after what Newt did to John King. But even after Newt gave him multiple opportunities to change the subject, he just couldn't do it.

The DS9 follow-up episode with the 3 Captains was http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Blood_Oath_(episode).

I loved when Rob complained about the TOS abbreviation... that people have been using ever since TNG was launched a quarter century ago.

I think everyone is missing the point on whether the video was edited or not. It was the crowd reaction to what she said that was the key issue, because they didn't know she what she was going to say later. Cheryl Cook and the Obama Administration were responsible for Sherrod's resignation, not Andrew. http://www.nowpublic.com/world/usdas-cheryl-cook-asked-shirley-sherrod-pull-over-and-resign-2642433.html

It's funny how many articles written shortly after the election like Obama—who won 78% of Jewish vote—faces global disarray, Mideast challenges and Syria-Israel negotiations: reality and prospects and Obamamania in Damascus were all about how that once Obama was in the White House and not that cowboy that Syria, Israel and the United States were surely going to be the best of friends.

If Santorum secures the nomination because the UAW and the other unions cajoled enough Democrats to cross over and vote for him in Michigan, I think it will be a dark day. But I actually don't think that is going to happen. 

"Color Splash" - because everyone should have the enthusiasm of David Bromstad

"The Voice" - because no one can guarantee that everyone will succeed equally and talent does matter

"American Chopper" - the importance of cottage industry

Ryan and Rubio have no executive experience..Mitch Daniels was W's Budget Director. Bush is a Bush.

I don't see why any of them would be popular with people who had already rejected the current candidates.

And I was born in 1966, so while I remember the 1980 Primaries to some extent ("I'm paying for this microphone"), I don't remember the 1976 Conventions at all.

Just got done watching my first UK - on my Plasma Television through my Google TV. It was a great conversation and sad that Barbra Streisand is probably going to miss out.