Despite Andrew Cuomo's admirable push for gay marriage, he is a horrible governor. As a "Democrat," Cuomo has declared war on unions, on the environment, and on everything Democrats theoretically stand for, outside of gay marriage. And again, while his stance on that single issue...
Author: Erik Loomis
I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than.
Those damned Finns--labor radicals in 1911, sex radicals in 2011. What are we to do with them? America is predictably middling in the promiscuity index. Though interestingly a notch above.
Maryland has a surprisingly lame history of prominent politicians. Given its proximity to the nation's capital and its relatively high population for a small state, one might expect more from Maryland. The top 10 list is pretty thin and includes some pretty unsavory characters. Supreme...
Off to Barcelona for a week. Blogging could be reasonably light, though I have some prepared posts to drop on you (including several Most Prominent Politicians posts). If anyone has.
Adam Kader has a nice article on the I.W.W. organizing of Starbucks. That might sound weird. The I.W.W? Didn't it disappear 80 years ago? Well, more or less. It's always.
One of the worst laws of the late 19th century was the 1887 Dawes Act. Allowing the government to gut the Indian reservations by providing small allotments to individual Native Americans and selling the rest of the land to the highest bidder was part of...
John Wayne, John Wayne Gacy, what's really the difference? Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a thing for John Wayne. In an interview yesterday with Newsmax, she said she wants to.
This week, I want to highlight the excellent blog on Latin American affairs, Bloggings by Boz. Boz has provided seminal coverage of Latin American affairs for years. This is a.
Embarrassing. However, at least Douthat is honest here. Anti-abortion crusaders are rarely about the children and often about the encasing of women into idealized and repressive gender roles. Everyone loves winter cycling jacket butter soft flexible feel of a well worn full length leather coat...
I love that Carolyn Maloney and Robert Menendez are reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the Wal-Mart case. I have no idea if.
I'm going to be on the Rick Smith Show tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern to talk about the issues brought up in today's post about radical labor. Feel the charisma.