Here's a handy guide for the playoffs. ...Good to see the Mets make a contribution to the Pirates! ...and on behalf of Yankee-haters rooting for the Bucs everywhere, double thanks to Hal Steinbrenner's profit-taking!
I love the Republican Party's ideological consistency: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) worked with top congressional Democrats behind the scenes to preserve employer contributions for congressional staff's health care plans.
It can be argued, as some commenters have tried to, that favoring Obama's refusal to negotiate over the debt ceiling is in some sense a "heighten-the-contradictions" argument. But at a.
Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city's construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent contractors to avoid labor law. They then place these workers in dangerous situations, take advantage of...
My memory is news-cycle-short, so I can honestly say that I don't know. But apparently now that the government's shut down, whatever-it-is is now legal again, and putting words on.
This post is part of a series. Earlier installments are here and here. The first two posts in this series looked at a school (Iowa) that has dealt with the.
Who else needs an Occupy debit card? Wow. So what the 99% want is a banking structure with the fees made more transparent? There's a revolution for you! Here's a defense of the card. It frames itself as "beyond reform versus revolution." By which we mean...
I have some thoughts on the matter here. They begin thus: The fifth season of "Breaking Bad" is an exercise in aggressive nostalgia. "Ozymandias," lauded by many as one of.
The headline charitably assumes that there is any calculation involved here at all. Just yesterday I read a column or post somewhere (I thought it was Krugman, but I could.
As a commenter noted, Lincoln's Cooper Union address remains all too relevant to current events: Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between...
On October 1, 1910, International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers member James McNamara blew up the Los Angeles Times building because the paper's publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, was.
It's happening, of course. I turn the floor over to Drum: The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service.