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Historical Image of the Day
This next set of images will come from social programs of the 20th century welfare state.The first food stamps, 1939
View ArticleDana Rohrabacher, Moron
I've said many times before that intelligence is absolutely not a requirement or even a desired trait to be in Congress. While there are some very smart people in Congress, there's little connection...
View ArticleShort-sighted Fisheries Policy
NOAA has stated that while bluefin tuna populations are declining rapidly, there's no reason right now to place list the fish as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.Perhaps NOAA...
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Why Guestworker Programs Don't Work
A commonly stated solution for the problem of undocumented immigration is to implement a guestworker problem. Immigrant rights activists routinely note the fundamental problem with this--workers have...
View ArticleZelaya's Return
Much to my surprise, former Honduran president Jose Zelaya has returned to his nation, nearly 2 years after Latin America's first coup in 26 years. It seems that President Porfirio Lobo has worked to...
View ArticleEnvironmental Causes to Lower Crime Rates
One of the recession's biggest surprises is the continued drop in violent crime. Via Drum, it seems likely that one major reason is that children no longer suffer from lead poisoning:....There may also...
View ArticlePollitt on French Sexism, Racism, and Hypocrisy
Katha Pollitt unloads on French hypocrisy over Strauss-Kahn's rape of the hotel maid, finding it shockingly depressing that French women are reacting just as awfully as French men.Of course, the French...
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Historical Image of the Day
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935
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Decoration Day
I was going to write a longer post about the origins of Memorial Day, but I have no right to do so when David Blight does it instead: The largest of these events, forgotten until I had some...
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Changes
Starting today, I will be doing a lot of my blogging at Lawyers, Guns, and Money. This site will still remain active. For one, I am keeping the historical images over here. And other things as well....
View ArticleNo Coasting in 2012
Dave Brockington is right to be worried about Obama in 2012.Unemployment is bad. And it is downright terrible among those who do not have college educations. These voters tend to vote Democratic. Plus,...
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Historical Image of the Day
Back to a place where I have time to do the images again.This week's set will be on American religion.Methodist camp meeting, 1839
View Articlecampaign ads
Via Ezra Klein, you can see a Mitt Romney ad.And then watch Ronald Reagan's 30-minute ad for his successful 1966 run for Governor of California.
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Historical Image of the Day
George Whitfield, preacher of the Great Awakening, Brought the movement to America in 1738.
View ArticleReagan by Eugene Jarecki
It's available through Comcast On Demand, as an HBO Documentary.
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Who Made That Butterball For You?
Butterball Turkeys get killed, cleaned and wrapped in plastic for you in a small town near the Arkansas River, not far from Fort Smith. Women in their 60s, who have worked all their lives there, get...
View ArticleNow The Serpent Was More Subtil...
There's truth to the metaphor of politics as professional wrestling. Christopher Hitchens was a heel. He was a bad guy who went out in the public and insulted them and his opponents and he drank too...
View ArticleAll The Power To The Top
It should come as no surprise that when Republicans gain power, as they have in Indiana's and New Hampshire's legislatures, they try to take away make it so that workers have even less say about their...
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