A few labor items of note. 1. Hilda Solis is resigning as Secretary of Labor. Hard to blame her given the isolation of the Department of Labor during the Obama Administration. Obama's statement included the following: Over the last four years, Secretary Solis has been...
Author: Erik Loomis
Rhode Island and Oregon are two of the most reliable states for Democrats each election cycle. If anything, Rhode Island is even more a sure thing than Oregon. But the.
Since all the important people are now in love with Chris Christie for attacking his own party, let's not forget that the man is the purveyor of awful, awful policies..
Yeah, I'm sure the United States having its hottest recorded year in history in 2012 by a full degree and Australia's Bureau of Meterology having to come up with new colors for its temperature maps because of the hottest temperatures in the history of the...
The NRA argues that if only the good guys all had guns, they would shoot the bad guys and magically we wouldn't have any gun violence. Or something strange like.
Michael Bloomberg for a) comparing teachers unions to the NRA and b) fabricating the idea that like the NRA, members of teachers unions don't agree with the leadership. I'm sure.
Having never actually been to a museum dedicated to the Confederacy before, I had to go to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum in New Orleans while attending the American Historical Association meeting last weekend. What can one say about such a place? The building was...
Alec MacGillis' profile of the recently deceased union activist Jerry Tucker has led to a lot of discussion in labor circles over the last week. Tucker was an activist for.
It's useful that the bipartisan patina Michelle Rhee gave Students First has worn off and her organization is increasingly being shown for what is is--an anti-union Republican front group with.
This is certainly an interesting way for an individual to protest the absurdity that a corporation is a person. When Jonathan Frieman of San Rafael, Calif., was pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane, he argued to the officer that, actually, he did...
I know the central mission of the Republican Party is to have a membership made up entirely of old rural white people. But you have to be impressed by the.
I was on David Shuster's show last week talking about the late unpleasantness. Shuster named me "Activist of the Week," so that was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I really managed to.