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Scaremongering against health legislation is nothing new . . .
You’ve read the health care reform bill, and you didn’t find any creeping socialism in it, nor did you find any little Joe Stalins hiding in Section 34, nor anywhere else. How could people make such...
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Wikipedia loses Sen. Arthur V. Watkins – can you help with the rescue?
Utah Sen. Arthur V. Watkins on the cover of Time Magazine, 1954 (copyright Time, Inc.) Can Wikipedia find enough information here to add to Watkins's biography? Are we really to believe a Time cover...
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Meanwhile, in Appleton, Wisconsin . . .
The world is still safe for fairness. No resurrection of McCarthyism this year. Tip of the old scrub brush to James. Photo of the grave of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, from Appleton, Wisconsin, copyright...
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Historians back Cronon against Wisconsin witch hunt
Just the news, folks. Just the news. The Organization of American Historians Speaks Out on Academic Freedom and Defends OAH Member and University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor William Cronon Home...
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Updates on Wisconsin, the War on Education, the War on Americans in Unions,...
First, be sure to read Zeno’s work over at Halfway There. Zeno’s writing will make your mouth water, your pupils expand, your pulse quicken, your hands go all Galvanic on you, and otherwise get your...
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Bill Moyers warns Rep. West against reviving McCarthyism in 2012
Moyers has better historic video than I could find; Moyers is right on this issue. Rep. Allen West owes all Americans an apology for his rash and wrong remarks. Bill Moyers Essay: The Ghost of...
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Out near Longview: Small district defense of CSCOPE and good lesson plans
The nasty kerfuffle over a Texas lesson-planning aide, a comprehensive program called CSCOPE, may have evaded your radar. Heck, most people in Texas aren’t even aware of this money-wasting teapot...
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