Obama has called for a (pretty low-level) jobs program that would essentially provide preferential hiring for veterans through tax breaks for businesses. Normally I am opposed to the fetishization of the military. No, just because you are in the military does not make you a...
Author: Erik Loomis
A great piece on the wonderful Robert Ryan, one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood history. I was actually thinking of writing a series of posts on Ryan myself,.
During this long move, I've passed some of the time by listening to baseball games on the radio. On Sunday, during the longest portion of the drive, I was motoring.
That would totally blow Glenn Beck's mind.
I have a piece at Alternet on the new proposal issued by the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and the United Steelworkers. Entitled "A Vision for Economic.
So I've spent the last few days moving to Providence. It'll be a few more before blogging is back to normal. As I presently have internet access, I need some.
North Carolina has probably underperformed in producing politicians of stature more than any other state. The South is full of powerful senators, representatives, and cabinet members. Not North Carolina. As best as I can figure out, it has never produced a president, VP, Secretary of...
The White House and the major automakers have come to a deal that would raise auto efficiency requirements to as high as 54 mpg by 2025. The automakers were not.
In case we needed a reminder of domestic, right-wing "Christian" terrorism, a wacko tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney. Texas yesterday. In other news, the.
Where will Senator Geary sit on the list of Nevada's Most Prominent Politicians?
Timothy Burke wonders if Obama isn't the next James Buchanan: The basic error was that Buchanan approached American politics in procedural or legal terms at a moment when the reigning.
In the comments to the post on moving American politics to the left, a number of people have talked about the value of 3rd parties in turning the main 2.