If there's one thing Americans love, it's food faddism. The history of full of weirdness, from John Harvey Kellogg's yogurt enemas that placed yogurt cultures in our mouths and rectums at the exact same time to Sylvester Graham's graham crackers, created so we wouldn't eat...
Author: Erik Loomis
Discovered by @megmantis, this Oklahoma law, enacted in 1919 and amended as late as 1999: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly.
Meet the American Enterprise Institute's hot new hire--Joe Lieberman! [SL]: Nobody could have seen this coming!
Adele Stan with a serious takedown of the obnoxious, overrated, and generally awful David Sirota, who attacked her with a typically aggressive, sloppy, and falsifying column when she questioned progressives who ignored all the terrible things Rand Paul stands for to support his grandstanding and...
I agree with Dean Baker that the 7.7% unemployment rate is likely a blip that will rise right back up with the cascading impact of the sequester and continued decline.
Most of us might not see the direct impact of the sequester on our lives yet. But for those reliant on the federal government, it's already hurting bad. The Post.
As a white male, being attacked by the hate-spewing mouthbreathers of the internet gun lobby was horrible. Were I a black woman like Zerlina Maxwell who rejected the ludicrous notion that women should be responsible for preventing their own rapes by carrying a gun, the...
The Ten Commandments of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, submitted to The Carpenter by John Quinn of Local 714 in Queens, 1915. 1. Thou shalt be a union carpenter, a.
Gross. What's more, the new nouveau riche are openly comparing today's Singapore to the Gilded Age: But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels.
The Venezuelans are giving Chavez the full Lenin treatment: embalming, display, the whole kit and caboodle. Very exciting.
Couple of thoughts about Rand Paul's marathon filibuster. First, it should go without saying that Rand Paul is not on the side of progressives for any reason. Even on drones.
The coverage of Hugo Chavez's death has been almost universally terrible. But this piece from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson takes the cake: Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into.