As a white male, being attacked by the hate-spewing mouthbreathers of the internet gun lobby was horrible. Were I a black woman like Zerlina Maxwell who rejected the ludicrous notion that women should be responsible for preventing their own rapes by carrying a gun, the...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Ten Commandments of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, submitted to The Carpenter by John Quinn of Local 714 in Queens, 1915. 1. Thou shalt be a union carpenter, a.
Gross. What's more, the new nouveau riche are openly comparing today's Singapore to the Gilded Age: But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels.
The Venezuelans are giving Chavez the full Lenin treatment: embalming, display, the whole kit and caboodle. Very exciting.
Couple of thoughts about Rand Paul's marathon filibuster. First, it should go without saying that Rand Paul is not on the side of progressives for any reason. Even on drones.
The coverage of Hugo Chavez's death has been almost universally terrible. But this piece from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson takes the cake: Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into.
Last week I talked about that awful Mother Jones article blaming AFSCME for keeping prisons open in Illinois. I focused on the problems with the terminology. AFSCME strikes back against the article's inaccuracies about its own position. Once again, Mother Jones generally is not good...
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very.
Who wants to feel less terrible about the environmental problems we face? Who wants to hear some happy stories? I know I do. Being a scholar of the natural world.
I was really struck by this photo of Venus through Saturn's rings: Venus is the dot. It reminded me of a time, not too long ago I guess, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the sight of our planet from space put...
Jeb Bush flip-flopping on immigration, now saying he doesn't support a path toward citizenship for undocumented Americans, is a sign that leading Republicans can be serious about winning the 2016.
On March 4, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied.