Most people think the Red Scare began on February 9, 1950, when Joseph McCarthy produced a piece of paper before the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, and proclaimed...
Around 8 o'clock in the morning on July 5, 1934, shop owners in the mission district of San Francisco were opening for business. Bankers and stock brokers were already at work in the financial district. Construction workers were busy building the new Oakland Bay Bridge.
Two weeks and 73 years ago, the German war machine seemed indestructible.
Nazi tanks were advancing through southern Russia and chewing up the Soviet army. Rommell had crossed the Egyptian border and the British army appeared to be defeated. U-Boats were sinking allies ships in the Atlantic at a furious rate.
Today's Beastiable is Carly Fiorina. In a recent interview, she talked about paid family leave as a competitive benefit for companies, not a right for women. I thought this was one of the things she has said that was beastly enough that she has earned her turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon every Friday afternoon/evening here at caucus99%. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
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Currently some one thousand people are locked away in a football stadium on the Greek island of Kos. They have no food, and very little water. Maybe there are sanitation facilities. Accounts differ. Some say two toilets. Some say six. Some say none.
Black activists and immigration groups have banded together in a coalition called #Rights4AllInDR to protest the Dominican Republic's policy to make people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic stateless.
Because Americans have come to prefer political echo chambers, it's important to looks at the polls in order to see what Americans truly care about.
It's just as important, after looking at the polls, to understand why.
This will be short.
There are a couple of diaries up on DK about another police shooting of a young black man in Ferguson, with the obligatory leaving him bleeding out while they... I don't know. Check the donuts at the 7-11?
The cops of course are claiming they were fired upon (although according to both diaries that seems plausible in this case). And of course they did the obvious thing; fire blindly while civilians were all around.
One year ago yesterday President Obama ordered the bombing of ISIL.
That's enough time to take stock of what we have and haven't accomplished.
There's been 5,946 coalition airstrikes, almost all of them American, nearly evenly divided between Iraq and Syria.
Wow! There's a good idea. It's one proposed by Jeff Rubin, economist who wrote the book "The Carbon Bubble."
Agriculture, not Energy, Will Fuel Canada’s Economy in Coming Decades: Experts
