Mary Sue McClurkin, a state rep from the fine state of Alabama: Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R) is pushing legislation that would impose restrictions on abortion clinics -- a move that she argues is necessary because the procedure is a major surgery that...
Author: Erik Loomis
When I think of Presidents' Day, the one thing that comes to mind is how stupid it is to blast the faces of presidents onto South Dakota mountains. I once.
I've long been skeptical of biofuels as a meaningful way out of our energy crisis, especially considering that turning corn into fuel causes a whole lot of environmental problems of.
Yale has a very exciting new deal with the Department of Defense: As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The center’s primary goal would be to coach U.S. Special Forces on interviewing tactics designed to...
As always, Roy Edroso ventures deep into crazyland to get the latest writings from rightbloggers. And they were very happy about Obama's proposed minimum wage hike, as you can imagine:.
The president of Emory University evidently lacks people to make sure he doesn't say insane, horrible things. During a Homecoming program in September, a panel of eminent law school alumni.
To build upon my piece on cod (was going to write "cod piece" but was like, wait that's something else) from last week, see this letter to the editor of the Providence Journal from a fisherman/PhD student which I think really gets at the desperation...
As some of you know, I have a pretty complex and ambivalent view of the history of the Pacific Northwest, largely because I grew up in a timber-supported household when.
You know who had the worst Valentine's Day in history? Theodore Roosevelt. The second worst Valentine's Day might go to the entire Bolivian nation.
So I found this Doug Fine piece on keeping cannabis production out of corporate hands a little frustrating. Fine's basic argument is that with the increased likelihood of legalized marijuana production, we have to keep pot farming out of corporate hands. Now, you might agree...
On February 13, 1865, the Sons of Vulcan, the first American union in iron and steel, ended its strike, leading to the first union contract in American history. The Sons.
Not sure how many of you are on Twitter, but the progressive Twittersphere exploded in hilarity when Marco Rubio took a drink of water during his response to the State.