This is the grave of George Halas. Born in 1895 to Bohemian immigrants in Chicago, Halas was a sports phenom, playing baseball, football, and basketball at the University of Illinois and was MVP of th
Roger Stone has a truly dreadful memory: One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet
Republicans have an innovative idea to appeal to voters: The last time Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature enacted a law making it harder for some of the state’s residents to vote, a feder
This is the grave of Fred Rogers. Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, easily the best thing to ever come out of that town and that VERY MUCH includes Rolling Rock, he went to Dartmouth in 1946 and
This is the grave of Terence Powderly. Born in 1849 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the 11th child of Irish parents, Powderly lived the childhood of the Irish-American poor. He got sick as a kid, contrac
One argument you still hear a lot about the 2016 presidential election, usually from leftier than thou types, (see this comment thread for illustrations) is that you can’t blame X for the outcom
Steve King is an unapologetic white supremacist and Republicans don’t care: But when Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, retweeted a Nazi sympathizer this week, the House Republican l
Well this sounds awesome. Werner Herzog is coming to television as the director and executive producer of “Fordlandia,” a new series set in the 1920s and based on Henry Ford’s attempt to built a