A new escalation of creepy politics October 2012America has always had political campaigns that dig into the muck of their opponents’ personal lives, then fling any nasty...
Ryan & Romney's dream for America October 2012Poor Mitt Romney. To dodge the tax payments he owes to America, the multimillionaire has for years stashed piles of...
At last, the GOP finds an actual case of voter fraud! October 2012At my age, I thought I’d seen pretty much everything – and I’ve been to the carny sideshow at the...
The curious shyness of Wall Street journal op-ed writers October 2012As I trekked to my gate at the Orange County Airport in California not long ago, I stopped briefly at...
The real voter fraud in America October 2012Republican officials are having a major problem in their efforts to “ensure the integrity of the electoral process” by passing...
Fixing American Airlines October 2012Hoo-boy, the startling revelation that American Airlines has had some of its passenger seats come loose during flights gives new...
Romney's "Farmer" October 2012Old Mitt Romney went to a farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on that farm he came a cropper, e-i-e-i-o! At the time,...
Happy hour for craft brews October 2012And now, for some happy talk – by which I mean a non-corporate, “little-d” democratic, and altogether-pleasurable economic development that’s...
America’s Pusillanimous Press October 2012Let us now assess the state of the free press in this land of… well, of press freedom. The assessment?...
Fortune's "cry of justice" for the 1% October 2012We should not be surprised that a magazine named Fortune would be empathetic to the feelings of the 1%, but...
It's the media that's, inept not the Post Office October 2012As we know, the government can’t do anything right. We know this not only because a menagerie of right-wing media...
Plutocrats on welfare October 2012In Mitt Romney’s videoed “Boca Moment” in a Boca Raton mansion, he candidly revealed his nasty little inner-millionaire. Glibly disparaging...
Perry happens. Again. October 2012My job as a free-range commentator and political yackety-yacker requires very little heavy lifting. But – as a Texan –...
Fracking Liars October 2012As they drill for quick corporate profits deep inside our Earth, such natural gas frackers as ExxonMobil and Halliburton are...
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates October 2012National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper. First, they’re frantically...
How "special" are those on the Forbes list? October 2012It’s out! This year’s list of American success stories has just been published, and, according to its compiler, it “instills...
The GOP rejects, then embraces, and now is stuck with Todd Akin October 2012Hail, hail the GOP gang’s all here – so let us now welcome Rep. Todd Akin back into the fold!...
Tim Pawlenty finally reveals who he really is October 2012Ah, Timmy Boy, we hardly knew ye. Tim Pawlenty, that is, the rather moderate former-governor of Minnesota. He had made...
A right to know what's in your dinner October 2012One of the most important elections being held on November 6 doesn’t even have a Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or...
The GOP's "Ballot Integrity" ruse October 2012Shouldn’t we be encouraging people to vote, including making the process much easier and accessible than it is now? After...
Mitt supports what he opposed – and vise-versa October 2012Geez – does Mitt Romney’s brain-bone even connect to his tongue-bone? He went haywire again in a recent TV interview,...
A tsunami of political slime September 2012Mark Hanna, the Karl Rove of the old Robber Baron era, explained a century ago that, “There are two things...
Romney takes the gold in 2002 Olympic September 2012One of the curiosities of life in these curious times is that millions of Americans are enjoying the benefits of...
The ugliness of coal company hogs September 2012You can put earrings on a hog… but it won’t hide the ugliness. A huge coal conglomerate learned this lesson...
Life is beautiful in MittWorld September 2012Recently, I was astonished by a letter to the New York Times that expressed the writer’s astonishment that Mitt Romney...
