This is the grave of Rev. Joseph Lowery. Born in 1921 in Huntsville, Alabama, Lowery grew up in the Black middle class of that city. His father owned a business and his mother was a teacher. But of course none of that would get in...
Author: Erik Loomis
Somehow, according to all the records I can search on LGM, I have never posted the amazing audio clip of Lyndon Johnson ordering pants from the head of Haggar. Many.
Of all the many ludicrous claims Donald Trump has made in his political career, this is the most ridiculous. "I am much better looking than her" -- Trump is still.
This is the grave of Gil Hodges. Born in 1924 in Princeton, Indiana, Hodges grew up in the working class, the son of a coal miner. The family moved to Petersburg, Indiana when Hodges was a kid and he became a star athlete, in many...
JD Vance doubling down on anti-Irish immigration by referencing Scorsese, man, how is this guy not the most popular VP candidate ever. Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Gangs of.
The entire labor movement is furious at that thuggish idiot, Teamsters head Sean O'Brien, for slobbering all over Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. I've talked to people in.
As Biden transitions out of the presidency, expect a good part of his later legacy to be signing executive orders creating national monuments, which is something that Clinton and Obama also did late in their presidencies. I follow this stuff pretty closely and will be...
MOBILE, AL- AUGUST 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after his rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on August 21, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama. The Trump campaign moved tonight's rally.
On August 16, 1937, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to National Federation of Federal Employees head Luther Steward of his ambivalence over public sector unionism. Conservatives have often cited that.
One thing that strikes me about the Biden deadenders is the clear trauma they feel about the Democratic Party screwing things up, assuming they would again. This is a very real trauma, clearly, but I am wondering why. What are some good examples of Democrats...
I haven't blogged much lately because I was finishing a book, then had a big family vacation thing, and am now trying to finish the other book I am hopelessly.
This is the grave of Laurence Tisch. Born in 1923 in Brooklyn, Tisch grew up in a Jewish family. By this time, it was his grandparents who had migrated; his.