WHAT’S BEHIND THE MADOFF MADNESS? January 2009Whenever a serial killer is arrested at home and hauled off to jail, interviews with neighbors usually produce comments like:...
THE BUSH LEGACY PROJECT January 2009George W – what a guy! Just ask him, he’ll tell you. The two-termer who spent much of his tenure...
SPECULATORS AND OUR FOOD: EIEIO! January 2009Oh, this is just dandy! Hedge fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators – the very characters who brought us the...
ONE MOTHER MAKES A DIFFERENCE January 2009Ordinary Americans can make a big difference, even against great odds, when they dare to stand up and challenge The...
LET’S BUST WALL STREET BANK ROBBERS December 2008On September 19, Ryan Mueller was sentenced in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to six years in prison for stealing $20 from a...
AIRLINES OUTSOURCING OUR SAFETY AND JOBS December 2008Airlines have been cutting everything from pillows to staff – but what about cutting corners on the structural safety of...
BARONS OF MASS MEDIA IGNORE THE MASSES December 2008The MBAs and corporate bean counters who run America’s newspapers these days blame the internet, fickle advertisers, America’s education system,...
BAN CLUSTER BOMBS December 2008Not only is war hell, it is hellishly stupid. Wars tend to be run by smart people who do stupid...
CHRISTMAS: DADDY'S PHILOSOPHY December 2008This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...
HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR A BETTER AMERICA December 2008It’s better to give than to receive, they say, so I’ve come up with my own sleighful of holiday goodies...
A SENATORIAL HISSY FIT OVER THE BAILOUT December 2008From the South and West they came, fearless U.S. senators on a mission: Stop the bailout! At long last, here...
BUSHS FAILED VICTORY LAP IN IRAQ December 2008In 2003, just before the Bushites invaded and occupied Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney assured our wary nation that the...
DIMINISHING THE STENCH IN CONGRESS December 2008Perhaps you are as excited as I am that, at long last, our Congress critters have delivered for us! Health...
PIRATE ETHICS December 2008The difference between pirate captains of old and modern-day corporate bosses is that pirates had ethics. They fairly shared their...
JOHN THAIN’S BLUE CHRISTMAS December 2008As Elvis sang in a mournful song, it’s going to be “a blue, blue, blue Christmas” for some of the...
HOW TO BANKRUPT A MEDIA COMPANY… AND SURVIVE December 2008Sam Zell is a media baron – even though he knows less about the news business than a hog knows...
GOOD WAGES ARE GOOD FOR AMERICA December 2008Some U.S. Senators are real corkers. Take Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee. Please. He’s on the committee overseeing the...
EDIBLE JUSTICE December 2008“The arc of the moral universe is long,” declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior, “but it bends toward justice.” It...
THE DOWNTURN HITS HIGH-DOLLAR SPORTS December 2008Times are hard. How hard? So hard that Tiger Woods just lost a $7.5 million sponsorship contract he had with...
BUSH OKS ENVIRONMENTAL GROTESQUERIE December 2008Let’s say you are CEO of a coal corporation, and you want to get at the black gold deep inside...
LOBBYIST CHANGE THEIR STRIPES December 2008One word defines the 2008 political year: Change! People are demanding real change, and Barack Obama rode their demand right...
SIGN OF THE TIMES December 2008Economists, myopically poring over reams of data, have finally noticed that our economy is in a recession. If only they’d...
THE ARMY EXPERIENCE CENTER December 2008From football to beach volleyball, competitive games can get your juices going. But the ultimate game, the one that’ll give...
FROM UGLY POLITICAL ADS TO THE BEAUTY OF RETURN DAY December 2008Now that the long election season is behind us, surely people of all political stripes can agree on one thing:...
STEALTH PRICE INCREASES ON CONSUMER PRODUCTS December 2008Good grief! Whole industries are downsizing, paychecks are shrinking, home values are dwindling, and our 401Ks are deflating to 1Ks....
