How odd that it is Michael Jordan leading the hard-line NBA owners group demanding draconian reductions in players' share of revenue. In 1998, as a player himself, Jordan pointedly told owners that if they couldn't make a profit under the current system, they should sell their...
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) who owes 100K in child support yet gets kudos from the Family Research Council for being pro-family!
Of course: Months before MF Global teetered on the brink, federal regulators were seeking to rein in the types of risky trades that contributed to the firm’s collapse. But they.
Amazingly, there's a certain class of wingnut that remains obsessed with Journolist. Because, apparently, the fact that liberal opinion journalists express liberal opinions in emails as well as public (and a libertarian journalist might have unkind if not false things to say about a Republican) proves...
I was on the Rick Smith Show last night talking about general strikes and Occupy Wall Street and other aspects of class warfare in the past and present. Check it.
When Steve Jobs met with President Obama in 2010, Jobs told the president that he would only get one term: You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at.
The 2011 "Say Jesus Hates Fags and Everything is Nice and Legal" Act has passed the Michigan Senate: Yesterday, the Michigan Republican-controlled Senate passed a “license to bully” bill, which not only neglects to protect students based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but creates a special...
Pierce's follow-up to the must-read Taylor Branch article is, of course, outstanding. The first key point is that amateurism is an empty fraud, a transparent mask for exploitation and class.
A Wisconsin-based mining company is using the Central American Free Trade Agreement to sue the government of El Salvador for closing down a mine because of pollution. The Commerce Group.
On to the Volunteer State. I'd say Tennessee has performed about to an expected level in generating prominent politicians. Its 3 presidents make it seem like it would outperform, but relative to other states its size in the South, it has rather underperformed in producing congressional...
The name may change, but the standards of journamalism remain the same...
Next Tuesday, Kentucky State Senate President David Williams is going to lose to incumbent Democrat Steve Beshear by about thirty points. Rather than accept this outcome with honor and dignity,.