I wish everyone a happy Clown Show Day. The Iowa caucuses have as strong a predictive power for the Republican nomination as I do in the LGM bowl pool. Notable Iowa winners like Mike Huckabee and surprise competitors like Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan have...
Author: Erik Loomis
While the border wall does virtually nothing to halt human activity on the border and absolutely nothing to limit the drug trade, it does have massive negative impacts on many.
I was fortunate enough to visit the reopened New York Historical Society just before the holidays. It's pretty impressive. I've visited twice before, once when the old building was partially.
"The earthquake and fire in San Francisco was a terrible blow, but the menace of tyrannical organized labor is a blight and curse from which the city is now staggering and reeling like a drunken man." The Timberman, July 1907. Very classy. Note--The Timberman was...
On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. NAFTA intended to bring down trade barriers between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. After a long.
Last year was a tough year for my Death List. Only Andy Rooney died. I've replaced him with Phyllis Diller. The rest are the same: 1. Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of.
Here's another menu from the New York Public Library historical menu collection. This is from the Third Panel Sheriff's Jury of New York County dinner, February 20, 1900. I don't know which soup to choose, the green turtle or the essence of grouse. The rest...
Another good piece on the worthlessness of the border fence. The fence itself just forces people desperate to cross into more dangerous and life-threatening situations. Undocumented immigration has declined the.
On December 30, 1905, former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg walked home after a snowstorm in Caldwell, Idaho. When he arrived he pulled open his outside gate, triggering a bomb that.
I love historical menus. The New York Public Library has a fantastic selection up, asking for people to check the transcriptions. This might mean there are some check marks over menu items, but you can click those off and get a sense of what restaurants...
Thus is the title of Elizabeth Kolbert's excoriation of the Obama Administration for fighting European attempts to regulate airline emissions. Rather than support European leadership on the issue, the Obama.
Excellent Peter Birkenhead piece at Alternet on the exclusion of slavery on private plantation home tours in the South. Slave cabins are being turned into spas and restaurants rather than.