For conservatives, Paul Ryan's one possible weakness is that he's not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don't let this fool anyone. There's a particular kind of union Ryan likes: a corrupt building...
Author: Erik Loomis
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake moves the mainstreaming of overturning the 17th Amendment another step forward. Yes, an increasing number of right-wingers want to repeal the constitutional amendment allowing for the.
I suppose that maybe this was a misspoken statement, but it certainly seems to fit with the rest of the Republican response to Obama to blame the national drought on.
This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources in the West, and the nation more broadly. Water is the #1 issue in western...
Who else is just ecstatic at the possibility of Catfood Commission Erskine Bowles as Secretary of the Treasury? I know I can't wait for the Obama Administration to start negotiations.
It's really hard to see how Adam Davidson's tenure at NPR can continue after this powerful report linking his "journalism" to his real job as a paid shill for the.
For this week's Forestry Friday post I want to follow up on last week's discussion of drug cartels destroying the forests of Mexico by bringing this story into the forests of California. A team of scientists at UC-Davis conducted a study about recent deaths in...
Color me less than shocked that people are gaming the carbon credit system, creating unintended consequences that actually hurts the environment.
I've read a lot of writing by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Propaganda, songs, pamphlets, newspapers, posters, etc. The I.W.W. may have been completely ineffective at actual.
I watched Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank the other night. It was a pretty excellent film, even if the plot twist was predictable. Essentially, a very confused, messed-up, and angry 15 year old causes problems and gets into fights, yet shows great tenderness in other cases....
Of course any post on the top 10 films in history is basically trolling for comments. But they were interesting comments. And here's a few additional thoughts based upon them:.
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.