LINK UP WITH THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE December 2008If the sweeping vote for change on Election Day is really to bear fruit, We The People must be the...
REPAIRING BUSH’S REGULATORY WRECKAGE December 2008You don’t hear it outside the Beltway, but there’s a constant roar inside Washington these days. With time running out...
CREDIT CARDHOLDERS' BILL OF RIGHTS November 2008It’s hard to feel much love for bankers, but they’re sure not helping themselves right now. Even as they’ve been...
AMERICA’S GOOD FOOD MOVEMENT November 2008What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels! I’m talking about the growing movement of small farmers,...
CITIGROUP BAILS OUT ON EMPLOYEES November 2008“We are a bank,” Vikram Pandit recently told employees of Citigroup, the Wall Street banking conglomerate that Pandit heads. Perhaps...
GROUP OF 20’S GLOBAL FINANCE SHOW November 2008Were you as impressed with George W’s Glorious Global Finance Gala as I was? What a show! The leaders of...
WE’VE MADE PROGRESS – KEEP PUSHING November 2008After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, “I feel good about voting for him.” Ms. Jones,...
DON'T BE GLUM – GO SHOPPING! November 2008Yes, these are tough economic times, but when the going gets tough, the tough get going… to Neiman Marcus. Hoping...
MONSANTO'S LATEST BIOTECH MIRICLE November 2008Once again, here comes the Monsanto Medicine Show! The corporate flimflammer is hawking yet another brand of pricey biotech snake...
SPREAD THE WEALTH, REBUILD AMERICA November 2008When Barack Obama said, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” John McCain and his...
BECOME A BANK HOLDING COMPANY November 2008Hi, I’m a bank holding company. I used to be just another guy trying to make a go of it,...
THE BIGGEST BANK ROBBERY EVER November 2008Maybe you – like most of the media and most Congress Critters – think that the Bushites’ bailout of their...
PRICING FANS OUT OF THE GAME November 2008Generations of Americans have enjoyed whiling away an afternoon or evening with friends and family at the ballpark, joining in...
HELP STOP MOUNTAINTOP MINING MADNESS November 2008Industrial polluters are very skilled at perverting our language when they want to eliminate regulations that protect us and our...
BIG OIL’S CHARM OFFENSIVE November 2008Exxon Mobil wants you to know that it cares about poor African children. Several are featured in a recent TV...
PUBLIC WORKS, WORK November 2008Here’s an idea: Instead of wasting our tax money on Wall Street slicks who don’t use it to help anyone...
REAL CHANGE DEPENDS ON US November 2008Obama elected! Job done, right? Uh… not quite. If last week’s sweeping vote for change is to mean anything substantive,...
USDA IS PERVERTING THE MEANING OF "ORGANIC" November 2008Since I grew up eating such nutritionally-challenged foods as fried Spam sandwiches, I do not even pretend to be a...
ONE MOTHER MAKES A DIFFERENCE November 2008Ordinary Americans can make a big difference, even against great odds, when they dare to stand up and challenge The...
WHAT WE COULD DO WITH $700 BILLION November 2008With his usual keen insight, George W recently offered this comment about the Wall Street collapse: “Anyone who makes bad...
BLOOMBERG THUMBS NOSE AT PUBLIC November 2008Some politicians grow in office. Others merely bloat. You can mark down Michael Bloomberg as a bloater. He’s the billionaire...
WALL STREET BAILOUT GOES FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL November 2008Bailing out Wall Street billionaires is not exactly popular with voters, so Hank Paulson, George W’s treasury secretary, came up...
WANTED: A COMPETENT GOVERNMENT November 2008As we traipse merrily into our voting booths, let’s revisit the quaint notion that a government ought to be minimally...
REAL AMERICANS October 2008It hurts me deeply to say this, but here goes: I’m not a real American. Oh, I’m proud to live...
WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT EXTRAVAGANT EXECUTIVE PAY? October 2008Well, isn’t this special? Despite Washington’s assurance to us angry commoners that its Wall Street bailout scheme would, by gollies,...
