Too close to call is a better sign than I expected. Though I imagine enough votes will come out of Waukesha County, 1948 LBJ victory-style, to push the election to Walker. ....Well, MSNBC has called it for Walker. Probably true. We'll be parsing this one...
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I was OK with Joe Nocera's column coming to realize that, hey, maybe unions do have value in American society! After all, as a long-time member of the Beltway class,.
Richey Piiparinen at Rust Wire has a really interesting article about reverse gentrification in Cleveland. Basically, in the Rust Belt resident patterns are flipping normal patterns. With a declining population.
I know everyone is focused on Wisconsin today, and rightfully so. But there's a race I care deeply about in New Mexico. Martin Heinrich, who currently represents the 1st Congressional District (Albuquerque basically) is running to replace Jeff Bingaman in the Senate. So the primary...
In 1941, Pittsburgh passed a smoke control ordinance. Retronaut has a good collection of photographs suggesting why it was needed. Of course, this is also the Republican vision for our.
Principled limited government conservatives like Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas couldn't have possibly intended that Citizens United would destroy long-standing state regulations on corporate influence over politics, such as they.
Josh Eidelson's latest column on the Walker recall election gets at a very important issue: “Unions had their place,” a woman named Jerri told me soon after I arrived in Wisconsin last week. “They did their part back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and then...
The fact that a young sportswriter named Brent Musberger called Tommie Smith and John Carlos "a pair of black skinned stormtroopers" after they raised the black power fist at the.
Tom Tomorrow updates Schoolhouse Rock for Obama's extrajudicial targeted assassination era.
Who else was clamoring for a painting of Andrew Breitbart as a Nordic knight? Yours for as little as $49.95!!
The first recording of Doc Watson, back in 1941 at a fiddlers' festival in North Carolina.
This just irritates me. Sirota reports on Obama's Memorial Day speech: "You were often blamed for a war you didn't start, when you should have been commended for serving your.