ALEC'S LEGISLATIVE BAWDY HOUSE June 2011Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC...
OBAMA'S KARMATIC PRETZEL June 2011Sometimes, political karma can be so right, even when it applies to something so wrong. Thus it was that Barack...
SNEAKING THE PLUTOCRATIC AGENDA INTO STATE LAW June 2011Michigan’s working families are mighty hard hit these days, but the state’s new governor, Rick Snyder, has reached out with...
GOP SHUCKING AND JIVING ON MEDICARE June 2011In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: “Washington has not been honest with you.” Gosh, Paul, that possibility...
THE SERIOUS SIDE OF DONNIE TRUMP June 2011Newt’s in, Mitch is out. Haley got out before anyone knew he’d gotten in. But Tim is definitely in, running...
OFFSHORE CORPORATE HAVENS COME ONSHORE June 2011From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple...
"THE SIXTIES MADE ME DO IT" June 2011I try to avoid religious commentary, but – Good God! – what is it about confession that the Catholic hierarchy...
CHARLES KOCH'S CRY FOR FREEDOM May 2011And you thought you had it bad. Sure, Bucko, your income might’ve been knocked down, while your outgo keeps going...
THREE WRONGS DON'T MAKE BIG OIL RIGHT May 2011Reaping extravagant profits from $4-a-gallon gasoline, Big Oil has been pumping out the company line in an effort to deflect...
NUTTY LAWMAKERS, ARMED AND DANGEROUS May 2011After a stint in Texas in 1866, U.S. General Phillip Sheridan declared, “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would...
WHAT'S INSIDE BIG OIL'S HEAD? May 2011As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM FOR SALE CHEAP! May 2011Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than...
FROM REGULATING COMCAST TO JOINING IT May 2011Meredith Baker is hardly a household name, but if you have cable television, her work might soon be entering your...
BIG OIL'S UN-AMERICAN SELFISHNESS May 2011The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams...
THE KOCHS TAKE ONE ON THE CHIN May 2011It’s always good to see a corporate bully get popped right in the snout by those it’s bullying – and...
A MORALLY UNTENABLE CORPORATE SYSTEM May 2011This will seem like a fairytale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to...
WHO'S BEHIND ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE MICHIGAN PROFESSORS? May 2011Suddenly – from out of the blue – three professors at three different Michigan universities simultaneously received identical freedom-of-information demands...
A LITTLE LESS CORPORATE POLITICAL CORRUPTION May 2011Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing...
A CORPORATE LOBBYIST RUNS FOR PRESIDENT May 2011Oh, happy day – The Newt is in! Move over, Donnie Trump, the contest for Goofiest Guy in the GOP...
AND THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IS: [BLANK] May 2011Nothing personal, my Republican friends, but – Good God! – is this all there is? You’re barely a year away...
KEEPING SCORE ON EXXON May 2011Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner,...
BILLIONAIRES HIDING BEHIND THE HEDGE May 2011If your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime...
RYAN IS PEDDLING A RAW DEAL FOR YOU May 2011If you were being hustled to buy an insurance policy, would you trust a salesman who said, “Let’s go to...
HELPING THE NEEDIEST AMONG US May 2011To be fair to lawmakers, it’s not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public...
HOW ABOUT A WALL STREET APOLOGY? May 2011It’s good to know that the FBI, Justice Department, and Federal courts are all over the major crime cases that...
