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
Of course, the “moderate” Republican from Maine is totally fine with her buddy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and his ethnic cleansing program on a scale the nation hasn’t seen si
It’s time for an entirely too long post about music. It’s too long because I didn’t get around to finishing anything while I kept listening to new albums and reading new stories. Wel
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
On June 15, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law. This law was directly targeted at leftist and labor organizations critical of the U.S. entering World War I, a sign of how
Anyone who defends Glenn Greenwald at this point either agrees with his agenda or is completely delusional, thinking it is always 2005 except that Democrats in power is far, far worse than George W. B
Bob Corker is whining again about the Republican Party being unwilling to stand up to Donald Trump. The problem is, among those unwilling to stand up to Donald Trump is Bob Corker. Corker could force
In the hell after 11/8, a date equivalent to 9/11 as a national disaster, my thoughts revolved around a longer time frame, in the sense that I realized that the Obama administration was probably going