Month: July 2013
I'll have more to say about Radley Balko's excellent new book imminently, but this excerpt is must-reading: Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum.
In our latest podcast, I interview George Lovell, author of the fantastic new book This Is Not Civil Rights. In addition to his new book, which examines the letters ordinary.
Jeff Guo has a good piece at The New Republic on how Michelle Rhee's StudentsLast First organization has centered on Tennessee to push its anti-teacher union agenda. Yet despite the.
In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their.
Not even SEK can claim something like this, what with incredibly lame wingnut attempts at parody now including me as a central figure in their posts: We're having a giant.
In 1939, the reprehensible Martin Dies, chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee, invited one Leon Trotsky to testify before his committee on the evils of Joseph Stalin (PDF in.
This is some pretty gruesome stuff: Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent.
via the place I steal all my content... I feel like we should have a caption contest for this wingnut doodle, but I'm afraid it's too incomprehensible for that sort.