Jack Kingston, Georgia congressman, is basically the perfect Republican for 2013. We last met Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GAH) when he was going on about how he wanted all the poor kids getting subsidized lunches to have to work as janitors in order to teach them...
Author: Erik Loomis
As the political figures of my youth pass away, I realize how few of them I really know much about, even though I'm a pretty political guy obviously. That's especially.
I visited Mount Vernon recently. While some might think George Washington's dentures are the most impressive thing you can see and others might look from Washington's porch and imagine themselves.
This is an excellent set of photographs documenting how atmospheric nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site lit up the night sky in Los Angeles: The light from the tests seems to light up the entire sky, a dull incandescence sharply outlining anything between it...
I now see why the Republicans passed the bill to gut Superfund. It's clearly unnecessary, what with a company actually named Freedom Industries taking care of the good people of.
In my forthcoming book on capital mobility, I'm dedicating a chapter to energy production. It details how we can follow Americans' interest in the costs of energy production based upon.
House Republicans passed a bill yesterday gutting Superfund. Yes, that's right, the Republican Party supports the exposure of Americans to toxic waste. Of course, as we all know there is no meaningful difference between the parties and thus Rand Paul is the only true progressive...
The greatest war in American history turns 50 today. That's the War on Poverty. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, my fellow Americans: I will be.
On January 8, 1811, the largest armed slave uprising in U.S. history took place. The German Coast Uprising in Louisiana had up to 500 participants marching to New Orleans to.
Yesterday, we discussed the serious problems the American West has with its water supply and the very real threats this portends for the region's future. Those who truly believe technology can solve our problems sometimes turn to desalination plants as a cure. Sarah Goodyear sums...
The Department of Labor provided some useful maps in 1933 of the United States' patchwork regulations on child labor. One map. Seems to me that Arkansas was infringing on the.
It's not so much that the beef monopoly is evil. We all know that. It's that the beef monopoly is an evil subsidized directly by taxpayer dollars. That's a problem..