"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Gun$ and Money continues his excellent series on Labor History today with a look at the first convention of the People’s Party in  Omaha, Nebraska, in 1892. During the late 1880s, Farmers’ Alliance members began reaching…
Short version titled 5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics via the Supreme Court. Through the past decade, there has been a radical shift in the “by any means necessary” rules of political combat, as I describe. Previous conservative…
SSA Marine, which is 51% owned by Goldman Sachs, has applied for federal and state permits  to build facilities at Cherry Point to ship coal from the Rocky Mountains to China, thereby making the Pacific Northwest the largest coal exporting region in…
The TSA keeps on keeping on. Between May 4th and 10th, 2012, here’s what they found on the roughly 10 million air passengers* in US airports during that period. Firearms:Â 30 -Â 29Â loaded;Â 1Â unloaded 1Â artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints TSA’s homepage…
This isolated museum, which sits on 5,300 acres located in Washington State’s Columbia River Gorge about two hours east of Portland, derives some of its annual income from leases for the 15 wind turbines that have been installed on its grounds,…
Charles Pierce, as usual, has nailed it. The man is a national treasure. If we cheer for big money simply as big money, we’re simply never going to get right again. If we pretend to be vicariously rich in order…