BP'S STEADY FLOW OF BS June 2010Urgent memo to the shareholders of the oil corporation formerly known as British Petroleum: Cap that gusher! Some of the...
A GOLDEN WAY OUT OF AFGHANISTAN June 2010Here’s some free advice: Never buy shares in a gold mine from a guy operating out of a house trailer....
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S KUMBAYA MOMENT June 2010In the category of “Big news that has gotten little coverage,” consider this stunner: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has...
BIG OIL TURNS AGAINST ONE OF ITS OWN June 2010The brotherhood gathered at the table, vowing fealty to the cause and to each other. “One for all and all...
ASSUAGING THE PAIN OF MULTIMILLIONAIRES June 2010Jon Kyl is a bleeding-heart conservative. Does he bleed for the downtrodden? Or – as Jesus said – for “the...
UNITING TO FIGHT CITIZENS UNITED June 2010The problem with being pious in politics is that piety has a way of backfiring – and causing people to...
CORPORATE MURDER? June 2010A mass murder has taken place in another American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so...
HOW TO MAKE CHILDBIRTH MORE PAINFUL June 2010Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making...
TIME TO KICK TONY'S KEISTER June 2010He’s done it again! Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, has spewed another gusher of nonsense out of his mouth, which...
THE GOOFIEST STATE OF ALL June 2010Wherever you live in our Land of the Free, you can count your lucky stars for Texas. That’s because year-in...
BP'S GUSHER OF PR June 2010I hate to ask a rude question in the midst of a national disaster, but here goes: How much money...
RIGGING THE RULES AGAINST UNIONS June 2010There’s one direct, grassroots way that workaday folks can create more fairness in our country’s plutocratic, corporate-controlled economy: unite in...
BP'S OIL-SOAKED RAP SHEET June 2010Gosh, how quickly things turn – one day you’re a strutting peacock, the next day you’re just another gasping, oil-covered...
BEYOND BP: SEND A MESSAGE TO TONY HAYWARD June 2010“Tony Two-step” is too much, isn’t he? Tony Hayward, I mean, the slick CEO of BP who keeps trying to...
PLUTONOMISM June 2010For the super-rich hoity toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is unpleasant, messy, and…...
THE ECONOMY IS UP! OR IS IT DOWN? June 2010Good news, people! The economy is roaring like a tiger again, so we shoppers are now willing and able to...
OUR STATE OFFICIALS ARE GOOFIER THAN YOURS June 2010Not so fast, Arizona! You might try to convince the American public that you’ve got the goofiest, right-wingiest state officials...
DON'T REGULATE WALL STREET, RESTRUCTURE IT June 2010Boy, Obama and the Democratic senate really socked it to Wall Street with their financial reform bill, didn’t they? The...
WHINING ABOUT KAGAN May 2010Poor Elena Kagan. Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court is getting raked over the coals by Republican politicos – not...
FEISTY GRANNIES STAND UP FOR PEACE May 2010How grand it was in Washington for Hamid Karzai. The corrupt, inept President of Afghanistan – whose regime is being...
ADVANCING OUR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY May 2010One thing that gives me good cheer is the periodic eruption of legal common sense that provides a little more...
DISCLOSING THE MEEKNESS OF THE "DISCLOSE" BILL May 2010At last – after weeks of detailed analyzing, careful deliberation, and creative crafting – Democratic leaders in Washington have unveiled...
ATTACK THE DEFORMERS May 2010Wall Street reform. How hard could it be for the US Senate to do this job? After all, terms like...
ANOTHER GUSHER IN THE GULF May 2010It doesn’t seem possible that there could be a corporate honcho anywhere on this globe who’s more clueless and self-absorbed...
SAVE THE CONGRESSIONAL MILLIONAIRES May 2010Let’s hear a cheer for a much maligned group of American workers, for they have stood up and done the...
