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 2012. It's remarkable. In 1907, 3,242 people died in coal mine accidents. That doesn't include...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
Since science is the province of hippies and queers, Republicans have decided evolution is a hoax against Jesus or something. Over the last four years, the percentage of Democrats who.
The plastisphere, a new ecological regime of the oceans defined by humans dumping plastic into the oceans, has the potential to dramatically remake water life. About 245 million tons of plastic is produced annually around the world, according to industry estimates. That represents 70 pounds...
On December 30, 1969, Richard Nixon signed the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act into law. The first comprehensive legislation in American history to protect the lives of coal.
Chip Kelly is pretty much my favorite coach in football history. This is his essence in 5 seconds. Incidentally, 5 seconds was also the average time of possession in an.
123 years ago today, on December 29, 1890, the United States Army massacred between 150 and 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, effectively ending the active military engagements of the wars of American conquest. We might not even call Wounded Knee a military engagement...
Jamie Dimon's Christmas card basically sums up the New Gilded Age. You'd also think for all that money Dimon could at least afford the proper number of buttons on his.
Can this be part of the Obamacare fix?
Finally we are getting our lazy welfare recipients away from their t-bones and out of their Cadillacs. This will teach them: An emergency federal program that acts as a lifeline for 1.3 million jobless workers will end on Saturday, drastically curtailing government support for the...
As a historian, I don't really have an opportunity to sell out by using my professional positions to provide expert testimony for Wall Street. But I wonder what that would.
If evangelical grifter John Hagee doesn't love our country and its freedom of religion, he should leave it and find a country that would deport atheists. I recommend Afghanistan circa.