Author: Erik Loomis
Yes, yes, everyone wants to obsess about the Democratic presidential nomination. Right now, it's fun to poke at clown car candidates such as Julian Castro and Tulsi Gabbard; the first.
One of the worst things about modern America are ag-gag laws, passed in many states over the past decade to keep undercover animal rights reporters from finding out and publicizing.
Our national political correspondents have quite the vision for how to solve our political crises: I don’t mean this as snark: The optimal approach might be negotiating directly with the.
This is the grave of James Polk. Born in 1795 in Pineville, North Carolina, Polk was the oldest of 10 children born to middling farmers. They weren't particularly wealthy at.
Twenty years ago today, The Sopranos debuted. Crazy. That's the beginning of the revolution in television and what a reengineering of the genre it has been.
This is the grave of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Born in poverty in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1899, Michael King connected desegregation to the ministry from a.
This is the grave of Dashiell Hammett. Born on a farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland in 1894, Hammett dropped out of school at age 13, worked random jobs, and.
This is the grave of Zachary Taylor. Born in Orange County, Virginia to the Virginia plantation elite, Taylor's father Richard Taylor moved the family when Zachary was young to fresh.