THE RISE OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY March 2006Let’s measure how far we’ve gone down the road to imperial government under the reign of King George the W....
AMERICA'S ENERGY EMBARRASSMENT March 2006Being president can be embarrassing. Just ask George W. With energy prices squeezing American families and with public anger growing...
RECKLESS WAR SPENDING March 2006How much is enough? How about $439 billion. That’s how much the Pentagon wants to take out of our pockets...
MONEY TRUMPS SECURITY March 2006Three blind mice. George, John, and Michael. See how they run. George is, of course, George W, and he tells...
KEEPING ARIZONA ELECTIONS CLEAN March 2006If you don’t think campaign finance reform will ever work, check out State Representative David Burnell Smith of Arizona. Actually,...
OLD FRIENDS March 2006They say that nobody loves you when you are down and out – but this is ridiculous. Poor Jack Abramoff....
TOO MANY LEAKS OR TOO MUCH SECRECY? March 2006Poor ol’ Porter Goss. He’s our nation’s chief spook, but he’s got no sense of timing. Goss, head of the...
ANOTHER WINDFALL FOR BIG OIL March 2006The only thing deeper than those deep-water oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico is the depth of greed...
THE PRICE OF CHENEY'S QUAIL HUNT February 2006The national media swarmed all over the story of “Dead-Eye Dick” Cheney bagging a Texas lawyer on a quail hunt....
BUSH BACKS HORSEMEAT FACTORIES February 2006I hope you haven’t just eaten, because we need to talk about horsemeat. It’s not widely known, but there are...
JERRY LEWIS, THE CLOWN February 2006You’ve probably heard of Jerry Lewis, the comedian, but you’ve probably not heard of Jerry Lewis, the congressional clown –...
CONSERVATIVES CHASTISE BUSH February 2006George W insists that he has supreme power as commander-in-chief to spy on American citizens, without following any stinking due...
EXXPOSE EXXON February 2006Shhhhh. Exxon Mobil doesn’t want any attention paid to its latest profit report. How big was their profit last year?...
"SUNTAN JOHNNY" BOEHNER February 2006John Boehner, the newly elected house majority leader, says he’s a reformer – so we can rest easy, now, knowing...
WHERE'S THE PRESIDENT? February 2006When George W finally got to New Orleans last September after Hurricane Katrina hit, he stood in Jackson Square to...
SPYIN' AND LYIN' February 2006As we’ve seen in his botched handling of everything from the Iraqi occupation to the Katrina disaster, George W is...
BUSH'S "DECENT SOCIETY" February 2006Ah, the glowing rhetoric of a presidential “state of the union” speech can be so uplifting, can’t it? Take George...
LOBBYISTS REJECT RESTRICTIONS February 2006Both political parties, squirming under the spreading scandals of supersleaze lobbyist Jack Abramoff, suddenly began posing as reformers, saying it’s...
PRESIDENT PINOCCHIO SPEAKS TO THE NATION February 2006Gosh, so much muck to rake, so little time. I speak, of course, about George W’s recent “State of the...
THE LATEST "CREEP" OF ADVERTISING February 2006Get ready. They’re coming. They’ve got you right where they want you, and they’re convinced that you can’t escape this...
CONGRESS SPINNING ITS WHEELS ON REFORM February 2006Here’s my wise adage for the day: Never mistake motion for progress. For example, if your car gets stuck in...
BUSH'S IRS GOES AFTER POOR FOLKS February 2006You’ve gotta love the consistency of the Bushites. When they ram through their multibillion-dollar tax giveaways, it’s the superrich and...
FIRING THE WRONG AUTO WORKERS February 2006Wow, it’s open season on auto workers, isn’t it? In December, General Motors said it was eliminating 30,000 of its...
MICHAEL EISNER'S "INVENTIVENESS" February 2006Who says television is a wasteland? If you’re sick of getting 500 channels and still finding nothing to watch, get...
EQUIP THE GRUNTS! February 2006There’s an old bumpersticker that says: “It’ll be a great day when our schools get all the money that they...
