Texas GOP unleashes political quackery on women’s reproductive rights July 2013In 2007, a Texas school superintendent rejected any need for sex education classes. Noting that many students in his district...
The mean team is winning the jobless game July 2013“Come on team, let’s get mean!” This is not the chant of rabid football fans, egging on their team to...
A "People's Filibuster" in Texas awakens a movement July 2013A few years ago, during consideration of a bill being pushed by a Republican elder in the Texas Senate, first-term...
Flagging the lies of Big Oil's frackers on the 4th of July July 2013Big Oil’s frigging frackers are wrapping their shameless profiteering in our flag. In shale fields across the country, you’ll see...
The chicanery of corporate food manufactures July 2013Mothers the world over have told their children a zillion times: “Stop playing with your food!” I now share their...
Using hokey statistics to abandon jobless Americans July 2013“It goes back to the fundamentals,” intoned a Wall Street analyst, “the economy is improving.” Improving for whom? By “fundamentals,”...
Serve bankers or serve the poor? Congress reinterprets Jesus July 2013Thank God for Congress, right? When things get out of balance in America, we can always count on our legislative...
Our nation's extraordinary housing crisis June 2013We have a serious housing shortage in America these days, and the stress it’s creating for needy families is approaching...
On-call shifts: The latest corporate shame June 2013Step right up, folks, and take your chances in the Amazing New American Workplace. Constantly high unemployment! Low wages always!...
Take a spin with Ted June 2013Let’s go “Cruzing” again! Yes, take another wild and crazy ride with me down the twisted road of Texas Sen....
A new home for poverty in America June 2013It’s been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda – and...
Global beer giant dances the can-can June 2013Anyone who says that America has lost its innovative edge in technology and manufacturing has not chugged a can of...
The class of 2013 seems to "get it." June 2013Harrell’s hardware, located near my home in Austin, Texas, is the opposite of a big-box chain store. It’s an un-chained,...
Repeal the patriot act June 2013It’s back. The Patriot Act – a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors – has...
The biggest shock of NSA's secret domestic spying June 2013It’s good to know that our friendly, über-secret National Security Agency is out there every day, protecting our freedom. By...
She'll be gone, but her spirit will linger June 2013Let the church bells peal somberly, for we progressives have suffered an unexpected and tragic loss that leaves an awful...
Monsanto Frankenwheat crops-up in Oregon June 2013Bob Dylan once sent a two-word lyric to Ben Harper, a talented songwriter he admired. “Well well,” was the lyric,...
The facades of Enniskillen June 2013These are hard times in Northern Ireland, where unemployment is rampant and Prime Minister David Cameron’s corrosive austerity medicine is...
A rebellion inside the corporate structure June 2013Corporate shareholders are revolting! In the very best sense of that term. More and more investor groups today are rebelling...
Seeing things at the Jersey Shore June 2013If you see things that really are not there – are you crazy? Maybe not. Maybe the ones who put...
The hopping hypocrite of Frog Jump June 2013I’ll bet that Mark Twain, who wrote “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” would’ve loved a current saga that...
Biotech runs amuck. Again June 2013When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world...
Reverse the perverse corporate ethic of fat CEO pay June 2013Isn’t it interesting that the ethics of corporate pay shift 180 degrees as you take the elevator from the work...
Political fronts posing as charities June 2013I think of a “social welfare charity” being like The Little Sisters of the Poor – not The Little Koch...
The GOP, corporate money, and sticky blood platelets May 2013Perhaps I’ve been too harsh on congressional Republicans. I had assumed that their vitriolic attacks on even the meekest of...
