While Rick Perry discovers just what the hell the department he is going to run actually does and while Ben Carson examines his own stool in wondrous awe, Betsy DeVos utterly embarrasses herself in a hearing that LAMAR! rigged for...
Author: Erik Loomis
Above: A Dignified Arizona Republican legislator I guess I wouldn't think Arizona Republicans would table their bill to ban the teaching of any course they think smacks of racial justice.
Zeroing out the National Endowment for the Humanities affects me personally as it makes my future research significantly more difficult, but really, there's nothing in the Trump budget that would.
Dr. Lemieux, earlier: Trump could nominate a barrel of cow shit with a Confederate Flag stuck into it to a cabinet post and get 52 yea votes. Meet your new Secretary of Agriculture, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue: Trump's Secretary of Agriculture pick, Sonny Perdue,...
North Dakota Republicans have developed a quite rational response to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests: Republican lawmakers in North Dakota are taking aim at protesters with a handful of bills.
Did you know there were still Shakers? There were 3. Now there are 2. Sister Frances was a member of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine who.
The yellow dog contract was common in early 20th century work. These entailed employers forcing workers to sign a contract that explicitly stated they could not join a union as a condition of employment. In the 1915 case of Coppage v. Kansas, the Gilded Age...
Betsy DeVos is a devotee of Milton Friedman and will be bringing his ideas about education into the Department of Education. Milton Friedman, patron saint of the free market, died.
This is a good sign that even the Cabinet of Deplorables is subject to left-wing pressure. President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be labor secretary has voiced second thoughts in recent.
Color me shocked that Betsy DeVos also also funds organizations that openly advocate for child labor: In addition to being a donor, DeVos has served on Acton’s Board of Directors for 10 years. The Institute is a non-profit research organization “dedicated to the study of...
Today is our annual reminder that the conservative cooptation of Martin Luther King continues in its grotesque march forward away from the truth into a fascist candyland of "colorblindness" to.
I see Nosferatu is interested in higher office. Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and outspoken Donald Trump supporter, is considering a 2018 bid for California governor, according to three.