This is the grave of Roland Hartley. Born in 1864 in New Brunswick, Hartley was the son of a reverend, but at some point became involved in the timber industry. He moved to Minnesota and started a timber company. In doing so, he rose among...
Author: Erik Loomis
That single Monmouth poll from a few weeks ago sure does mean that Democrats are screwed this fall: President Donald Trump's approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by.
Far too often in our imaginations and in our media, we imagine the working class as a white man, probably with an out of fashion mustache, in a union jacket.
This is the grave of Dixy Lee Ray. One of the weirdest governors in a weird era of American politics, Ray was born Marguerite Ray in 1916 in Tacoma. When she was 1930, only 14 years of age, she changed her name legally to "Dixy...
Donald Trump's evisceration of Bears Ears National Monument already has direct negative impacts. One of the world's richest troves of Triassic-period fossils has been discovered in an area of Bears.
Michelle Malkin, freaking out about citizens using the free market to attack the NRA. Delta and United caving to the mob.Setting a dangerous precedent. https://t.co/dr8gYMRuk9— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 24,.
This is the grave of Junior Wells. Born Amos Blakemore in 1934 in or around Memphis, the boy who became Junior Wells began playing harmonica at the age of 7. When his mother divorced in 1948, they moved to Chicago. Wells, a bit of a...
The Missouri GOP finally knows who to blame for Eric Greitens blackmailing the woman with whom he was having an affair. Here’s our full statement on the recent news re:.
Effluent flowing from an International Paper Company Mill into the Androscroggin River, Maine, 1973 David Zwick, architect of the Clean Water Act of 1972, has.
This is the grave of Susan Komen. There isn't that much to say about Komen herself. She was born in 1943 and died of breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 36, three years after her diagnosis. That is far too young and tremendously...
Walter Johnson is one of our premier historians, period. His work on slavery and capitalism has helped reorient a narrative that for way, way too long argued that slavery was.
Anyone who works for the Niskanen Center, named after one of the worst human beings to pollute this nation, is someone I don't want to say nice things about. But.