Will GOP lawmakers say "yes" to any Obama proposal? March 2016In a stunning development, President Barack Obama has had to cancel today’s scheduled trip to Capitol Hill, where he intended...
Transforming humans into billboards March 2016Billboards must to be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages...
What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common? March 2016Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in...
Who is behind Obama's push for TPP? March 2016A recent article about Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership opened with this sunny headline: “Trade Pact Would Lift US Incomes, Study...
The small idea of a tall wall March 2016Billions of our tax dollars have already been wasted on the fantasy that America can wall itself off from the...
Bernie battles Clinton… and the corporate media March 2016A political contagion is sweeping across our land, spread by America’s corporate media outlets. Its name is “media bias,” and...
How to make billboards uglier March 2016Okay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic –...
What did we learn from Antonin Scalia’s death? March 2016How curious that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in, of all places, an exclusive, West Texas hunting lodge. Curioser...
Going down the Republican rabbit hole March 2016Help! We political wordsmiths are in urgent need of help from lexicologists! The Republican presidential primary has gone so far...
What happened to America’s train system? March 2016Why are we Americans stuck with an out-of-date railroad system, while nations with a small fraction of our resources are...
Why the GOP’s fence fantasy is a farce March 2016A proper wall, we’re told, makes good neighbors, But an 18-foot high, 2000-mile long wall goes way beyond proper, antagonizes...
Where does the GOP’s right-wing grouchiness come from? March 2016I’ve found it! I’ve discovered the original document framing the tea party’s political creed. Tea-infused Republicans are the “anti” party...
Texas workers discover a corporate giant’s shriveled ethical heart March 2016The “human resources” departments of huge corporations are known for issuing helpful bulletins to employees, such as this one: “The...
Who should pay Mitch McConnell’s salary? February 2016Why should you and I have to keep paying Mitch McConnell’s salary? He’s the Senate Majority Leader, but he doesn’t...
Why would anyone celebrate the "joy" of war? February 2016War is hell. Unless, of course, you happen to be a global corporate peddler of rockets, drones, bombs, and all...
Why doesn’t Congress do what the people want and need? February 2016If you wonder why congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do – while doing things that...
How Big Pharma is trying to improve its image February 2016Big news, people! Especially for those of you upset by the skyrocketing prices of the essential prescription medicines you take...
Who’s really responsible for poisoning Flint’s water? February 2016By gollies, Congress wants answers! Who’s responsible for the shocking scandal of lead-poisoned drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the lawmakers...
Mitch McConnell's squirrelly effort to rewrite our Constitution February 2016Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But he can’t...
How corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America February 2016The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers who want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership deal...
Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe? February 2016I would trust a pack of coyotes to guard my little herd of lambs before I’d trust a pack of...
Who is behind Obama's push for TPP? February 2016A recent article about Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership opened with this sunny headline: “Trade Pact Would Lift US Incomes, Study...
America swallowed WTO's billion-dollar toad February 2016They say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to...
Where inequality comes from February 2016Last spring, President Obama got downright crabby toward Sen. Elizabeth Warren and muckrakers like me. He was irked that we...
What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common? February 2016Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in...
