House Poor
"Maybe for John McCain, the American dream means seven houses," says Tim Kaine. Not just for John McCain, Tim! Why is this so hard to understand? The political opportunity in McCain's "houses" gaffe isn't in pointing out that he's rich: ...

House and Senate Race Roundup, 8/28
House Races. NJ-05: Stuart Rothenberg is at it again. This time, he's saying that Rabbi Dennis Shulman, running for Congress against GOP Rep. Scott Garrett in New Jersey, is acting "un-rabbi-like" on the campaign trail. ...

Caterpillar Inc. Funds Viterbi 'Print-a-House' Contour Crafting ...
Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the "Contour Crafting" automated construction system that its creator believes will one day be able to build full-scale houses ...

Lake House--Stuntz
Thanks to the kindness of some local friends, Ruth and I have spent most of this week at a lake house in New Hampshire . It's a remarkable place. Staggeringly lovely and (much to my surprise) nearly deserted: I guess the traffic returns ...

Inch, Killeagh, Co. Cork - Detached House
Region €255000 - 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom, Detached House Agent: Hegarty-Properties. Hegarty Properties are excited and delighted to offer for sale this utterly charming 2 bed home, set on 0.5 acre, which comes to the market in tasteful ...

Is The Real World Red Hook House a House?
"Pier 41 may be their home but it is not a house. It is a 'set' in a commercial warehouse. This space hosted the Will Smith movie 'Hitch' in 2004." ["Details on The Real World Red Hook!"]

Bad move to shut down Wright's Dana-Thomas House
The Blagojevich administration has decided to shut down Frank Lloyd Wright's opulent Dana-Thomas House, which was masterfully restored under the leadership of then-Gov. James Thompson in the late 1980s and opened to the public in 1990, ...

Your Dog Does Not Own Your House (by Don Boudreaux)
It is both illogical and factually inaccurate to assume that social order owes its existence ultimately to the state. If the state does nothing more than serve as a specialist in protecting citizens from violence, as well as, perhaps, ...

Older house, lower numbers on the scale
Here's a random-sounding connection: The older your house, the healthier you are. Confused? I know what you're thinking: How does one factor have anything to do with the other? Don't worry; there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. ...

Friday Folly: SWAT Team Honored for Raid on Wrong House
A few days before Christmas, the SWAT team, acting on a tip from an informer, burst into the house looking for a gang member’s guns. The homeowner, Vang Khang, was not a gang member but he was a gun owner, and hearing someone break into ...

House prices down (again)
The UK housing crash keeps on exceeding expectations. It is worse than the worse case scenario. Prices are now down 11.5 percent since the Autumn 2007 peak. We could be looking at the most violent housing crash in UK history. ...

Recent Releases
New arrivals in our warehouse include:. Crisis as Catalyst: Asia’s Dynamic Political Economy, edited by Andrew MacIntyre, TJ Pempel, and John Ravenhill. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic ...

Stephen M. Fallon celebrates Milton’s 400th Anniversary
Hear an interview with Stephen M. Fallon, author of Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England and Milton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority, on LateNightLive (Australia): ...

Stephen M. Fallon celebrates Milton’s 400th Anniversary
A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time. ...