MASSEY ENERGY'S MAN-MADE HELL HOLE July 2011West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year,...
A LYING HYPOCRITE FOR PRESIDENT July 2011If you find it necessary to declare on national television that “I am a serious person,” you’re probably not. Meet...
THE GOP'S ASSAULT ON MEDICARE July 2011Remember the hoorahs from Republicans just 4 months ago, when House budget chairman Paul Ryan issued the GOP’s “bold” plan...
DEBT CEILING HYPOCRISY July 2011“No,” shout Republican leaders at President Obama, like pouty two-year olds. “We won’t raise the government’s statutory debt limit in...
CORPORATE HOGGISHNESS RUN AMUCK July 2011They’re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington – like hogs...
NO MORE AMERICANS SHOULD DIE FOR KARZAI July 2011One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from...
THE UNANSWERED QUESTION IS, WHY? July 2011America’s long, long war in Afghanistan has drained more than 1,500 precious lives and about a half trillion dollars from...
THE WAR IS OVER, SO BRING OUR TROOPS HOME July 2011At long last, America’s overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun. “The tide of war is receding,” declared President Obama as...
MASSEY ENERGY'S MURDEROUS LIES July 2011In March of last year, Massey Energy Corporation’s official record book for reporting unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch...
SCHICK GETS SCENTS-ITIVE July 2011There has been some rude talk that American corporations just don’t have the right stuff anymore, having become lazy oligarchs...
BILLIONAIRES HIDING BEHIND THE HEDGE June 2011If your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime...
THE FRIGHTENED RICH June 2011It turns out that the rich are not so different from you and me, for we’re all filled with anxiety....
STATES BUDGETING FOR IGNORANCE June 2011Will Rogers said that when Congress comes into session, the public gets the same panicky feeling as “when the baby...
A FED UP VOTER'S GROUP STANDS UP June 2011Seventeenth century play wright William Congreve must have been a seer, for he wrote that even in hell, there is...
PERRY IS PEDDLING TEXAS SNAKE OIL June 2011Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and get your ticket to see “Rick the Wonder Worker!” Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
A LITTLE LESS CORPORATE POLITICAL CORRUPTION June 2011Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing...
OBAMA GOES A-COURTING June 2011Ah, love – a time of intimate talks, long phone calls, romantic dinners, and nonstop wooing. We can see these...
KOCH CLASSINESS June 2011David Koch, the right-wing multibillionaire, likes to pose as a class act. He’s thrown around several million bucks, for example,...
PERRY'S PRAYER-A-PALOOZA June 2011When Texas became a republic in 1836, its constitution banned “ministers of the gospel” from holding any political office. Our...
NEWT THREATENS AMERICA WITH "THE TEXAS MIRACLE" June 2011You’ve gotta love Newt Gingrich, if only for his entertainment value. He is so full of himself that essence of...
BIG COAL BUYS ACCESS TO 4TH GRADERS June 2011If some predator was stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get...
PRIVATIZATION: THE ROAD TO HELL June 2011A recent article in The Onion, the satirical newsweekly, disclosed that President Obama had come up with a surefire plan...
VERMONT: FIRST IN THE NATION June 2011“We have a problem, we need to solve it.” This comment by House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont reflects a...
NOTHING MERRY ABOUT OLD KING COAL June 2011Even the Brothers Grimm could not have come up with a fairy tale as fanciful – or as grim –...
TWO TEA PARTY GOOBERS IN CONGRESS June 2011It’s time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles-an-hour,...
