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Author: Erik Loomis

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On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward the plant, Ford's private army, led...

The Mekong

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On May 25, 2013
The decline of wildlife along the Mekong River, and really in all of Southeast Asia, has reached crisis levels. Between widespread development and the Chinese desire to kill every mammal in existence, there isn't much left. On the Mekong, home of many now rare and...

Food Stamp Hypocrisy

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On May 25, 2013

A special day for Republican hypocrisy on food stamps. In the Senate, you have our old friend, Louisiana's David Vitter: Vitter presented the bill as prohibiting “convicted murderers, rapists, and.

Destination Earth

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On May 24, 2013

I love classic capitalist propaganda. Take for example, 1956's "Destination Earth." A cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Institute, it shows that oil + competition=getting rid of that dastardly Stalin.

My Catholic friends, I think it is time to go old-school next Lent. In addition to disease, the European settlers also brought Catholicism with them, and successfully converted a large proportion of the indigenous population. And the native Americans and Canadians loved their beaver meat....

Cocaine Blues

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On May 23, 2013
Roy Hogsed's 1948 version of "Cocaine Blues" Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I will save most of my Johnny Cash rant for now, which in brief is that...
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