Reprinted from Alternet. Want to explain to your friends and relatives how the Tea Party is corporately-financed and “grassroots” right-wing activity is not spontaneous? Here’s a graphic to get you started. This infographic on the Koch brothers’ long history of ultra-conservative activity and financial support for the most extreme of right-wing activity comes to…
Cross-posted from the Roosevelt Institute’s New Deal 2.0 blog. by Harvey Kaye Bizarre revisions of American history are disturbing enough — but the violence in the ‘joking’ should be condemned. Keeping an eye on conservatives as I do, I was intrigued by a popular new title, “365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy” from…
Dale Kasler, writing in today’s Washington Post, quotes Grass Valley’s recent mayor Lisa Swarthout on the sensible objection to opening an old gold mine in the center of town: In Grass Valley, for instance, a thriving high-tech industry has sprouted in a community where the high school sports teams are called the Miners. Emotions are…
Here’s the latest in John Boswell’s unique and beautiful Symphony of Science series. This short three-minute video is called “The Big Beginning,” and raps — you might say — on some of the basic facts of the Big Bang. Since the Renaissance, but especially since the Industrial Revolution, we in the West live in a world…
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 14, 2011, 2:46 p.m. 5:28 p.m.: This post has been corrected. Congress isn’t going to regulate hydraulic fracturing any time soon. But the Department of Interior might. For starters, Interior is mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to frack wells drilled on…