The Republican War on Women, Texas Edition, is having the precise effects Rick Perry and the gang hoped: In the Rio Grande Valley, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller told msnbc, doctors are struggling to care for women who have complications from self-induced abortions....
Author: Erik Loomis
Although urban planners and environmentalists worry about these issues constantly, the blind faith by which most people involved with western development have assumed that water supplies would be found is.
A sweet and uplifting message from the Cold War for your Sunday morning.
Perhaps the blackest mark on the Obama Administration has been the significantly harsher enforcement of American immigration law and the subsequent deportation of people, breaking up families. Twelve-year-old Jason Penate spent the holidays hanging close by his father. They picked out a Christmas tree and...
One of the laziest and morally bankrupt arguments people make about apparel workers and the working conditions is that they have governments and those governments need to step in if.
A rundown of animals officially declared extinct in 2013 and how they reached their end.
David Brooks is very concerned that adults might be smoking marijuana. Please make note of it. Also note that David Brooks claims to have smoked marijuana in the past. Judge for yourself whether you think that's likely or not.
On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened to process the millions of immigrants entering New York. Although certainly not only entry point for immigrants, it was the primary location where.
Is there an industry as profoundly immoral as the apparel industry, where rich people in rich countries can create a production process where poor people in poor countries die and.
I'm not too big on the idea of hero, but there is something about the person persecuted for making others' lives better that gets to me. One of the greats passed away yesterday. Dr. Kenneth Edelin, absurdly convicted in 1975 of manslaughter for conducting an...
In yesterday's post on the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Joe B in comments pointed us out to the official MSHA statistics on mine deaths between 1900 and.
Even if we agree that Irish whiskey is not the equivalent of that made in Scotland or Kentucky, it's still usually worth drinking and you are probably consuming more than.