I suppose it's fine to try and carve out positions that explicitly appeal to white male voters, but not if it means watering down the core values of the Democratic Party. If fighting for a higher minimum wage attracts white males, great. But if Democrats...
Author: Erik Loomis
This post is a special request from Anna in PDX to help her work out some thorny issues she faces in her local. If this series can be of use.
Although I probably like Her better overall, 12 Years a Slave is an excellent choice for Best Picture. It's also worth noting that it the first major Hollywood production to.
Night and Fog has a claim as the best documentary of all time.
There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to.
Poor Ross. He reads liberals comparing the recent spate of anti-gay bills to segregation and he can't understand it. After all, he already considered the ability for an individual to.
The thing about being a historian is that you think you know a lot about the past and then you read the obituary of a truly amazing fighter for social justice that you've never heard of.
This Tennessee politician who wants to ban union picketing as a "preemptive measure" against the growth of organized labor in his state will probably be representing mainstream Republican doctrine by.
We have a very generous welfare state in this country. Amanda Marcotte: After three decades of stasis, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is getting.
In a world where we are all going to be armed, Boise State biology professor Greg Hampikian asks a key question in the face of an Idaho bill to allow students to bring guns on campus: When may I shoot a student? I assume that...
Been too busy to really post today, but I can at least say this. You should be listening to Wussy. Also:
2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man.