mccarthyism
One of the stupidest little games Republicans like to play is to refer to the Democrats as the "Democrat Party" rather than the "Democratic Party." Seems like especially around 2009-11,.
On March 14, 1954, the great labor film Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized version of a 1950 Mine, Mill strike in the zinc mines of southwestern New Mexico, premiered.
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.
Appropriately enough, Andrew McCarthy. In related news, it's amusing to see Glenn Reynolds "forgetting" about the right-wing smear campaign against lawyers who defended Gitmo detainees. I actually don't agree with.