SENSIBLE PRIORITIES December 2006Trying to bring common sense to Washington, DC, is about as hard as delivering a tray of ice cubes to...
POPPIES UP, BUSH DOWN December 2006Here’s some big news on the agricultural front – this year’s crop has reached the highest level ever, with an...
FIRE DETROIT'S AUTO BOSSES December 2006Guess who’s rising like a rocket toward the Number One spot in U.S. auto sales? Toyota! The Japanese car maker...
CHRISTMAS: DADDY'S PHILOSOPHY December 2006This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...
MAKING AN HONEST DIP December 2006Whether eating alone or having a party, one simple dish that can bring a zestful joy to your table and...
BUSH DOES FOREIGN POLICY December 2006At last, George W is getting the hang of foreign policy. Yes, he badly botched Afghanistan and has made a...
THE INSPIRING POWER OF KIDS December 2006Anyone looking for the true spirit of the American people should not look at the corporate and political elites… but...
MY GIFT FOR GEORGE W December 2006For weeks, I’ve been grappling with the question of what gift I should send to George W for Christmas. Then,...
WAR PROFITEERS December 2006War is hell – unless you’re the CEO of a corporation that profiteers on the hell of war. In that...
CAMP WELLSTONE WINNERS December 2006Democracy doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when grassroots agitation melds with good organization. One group that is doing a...
WASHINGTON'S OTHER WAR December 2006Behind closed doors, a top-level planning group is meeting in Washington, assessing the harsh realities of the war’s changed landscape,...
BANNING "HUNGER" December 2006The U.S. agriculture department has exciting news for you: hunger no longer exists in America! Are they saying that the...
MUSICAL CHAIRS ON K-STREET December 2006Tramp, tramp, tramp they come – marching like a conquering army into our Nation’s Capitol. This is not the newly-elected...
DEMOCRATS WOBBLE ON ETHICS REFORM December 2006First, the good news: in response to voter disgust with the corrupt, money-soaked ties between lobbyists and lawmakers, speaker-to-be Nancy...
THE INVADERS FROM AFAR December 2006Like something from a 1950s horror movie [eerie music], they came from afar, wriggling into our waterways, endangering our very...
MASS KILLERS STRIKE AGAIN December 2006If terrorists and drug pushers had lobbyists and made campaign contributions, Washington probably would coddle them. For an example of...
A CITIZEN CHALLENGES THE IMPERIOUS REGIME December 2006Let’s hear it for Steven Howards – who is refusing to be bullied by the imperious Bush-Cheney regime. Howards, 54,...
SHUTTING THE DOORS TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE December 2006Once again, libraries are under attack. At the behest of the chemical boys, oil giants, and other polluters, George W’s...
PRISSY POLITICOS December 2006We know what average Americans think of politicians – but what do politicians think of us, the hoi poloi? One...
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS December 2006We’re Americans, so we like to be Number One, right? Not only do we like to be – we expect...
THE MEDIA PUSH BEHIND WAL-MART'S SCAM November 2006Wow, did you see the great consumer news that the media recently spread all across the country? “Wal-Mart to sell...
THE DRUG-PRICE PUDDING November 2006One of the key kitchen-table issues that was raised very successfully by many of the newly-elected, populist-minded Democrats this year...
REBELS IN THE NEWSROOMS November 2006Voltaire said, “It’s dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Dean Baquet and Jeffrey...
POLITICAL NASTINESS, 2006 November 2006Be careful… it’s nasty out there. This year’s record of $2 billion spent on political ads brought a fetid stream...
THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR GREED November 2006What a scream John Tierney is! I howled with laughter when I read this New York Times columnist’s recent comic...
