On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time. Full text here. This began the last great period of union growth in American history to the present. Public sector workers...
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If you live a city named Centralia, I recommend moving with all due speed before something terrible happens. Exhibit A: Centralia, Washington, home of the Centralia Massacre of 1919. Exhibit.
Naughty, naughty -- apparently the most egregious sports overhype since Charlie Weis turns out to have a deceased girlfriend from Canada. I guess that ends the suspense over who the.
Back many, many years ago in my undergraduate days, my intramural floor hockey team won a lopsided victory. Since the other team was called "Conrad Bain," however, I felt they were the real winners. R.I.P.
Like the vast majority of people living in the United States, after reading the handy WSJ infographic I have absolutely no idea. To borrow a line from Lindsay Beyerstein, I.
Note #1: An article written in a major American publication asserts that "[w]omen no longer need to be beautiful in order to express their talent. Lena Dunham and Adele and.
Paul Waldman wants the NRA's head on a pike thinks the arguments being advanced by the NRA are ludicrously illogical in an instructive way: What an elitist, that Barack Obama, thinking he's somehow above ordinary people, like he has some particularly critical job or something,...
Nagisa Oshima, legendary Japanese director, RIP. Sorry that comments were closed for this post earlier, I actually just had to delete that post and start again. Or maybe I am.
Who says that right-to-work laws doesn't create new jobs? Look at Michigan for instance: Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is hiring an attorney to enforce the new right-to-work law who will.
President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It's very impressive and it'll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will be atest of Green Lanterism. All the necessary conditions are set. Obama is fully behind...
MoDo strikes again.
Sandy Hook edition. I suppose it's not shocking that people who can convince themselves about non-existent federal conspiracies to eliminate gun ownership would take things to the next step.