"Oh my, oh my," chittered the chicken littles of Wall Street when the public demanded cuts in their obscene pay packages. " April 2010The golden goose is flying high! That’s not some sort of nonsensical code used by spies, but an exultation by...
LET'S LET WALL STREET EXECUTIVES GO April 2010“Oh my, oh my,” chittered the chicken littles of Wall Street when the public demanded cuts in their obscene pay...
A POWERHOUSE BANKER SPEAKS THE TRUTH April 2010While Washington hems and haws over weak and meek Wall Street reforms, a gutsy, populist-minded reform has popped out of...
ADVANCING OUR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY April 2010One thing that gives me good cheer is the periodic eruption of legal common sense that provides a little more...
RIDING INTO THE FUTURE April 2010All aboard! Let’s take a ride. We’ll travel 328 miles, about the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco. By...
AGRIBUSINESS PROFITS, MUTANT GERMS… AND US April 2010America is under assault. From coast to coast, we are being invaded by horrific, body-consuming mutants that are already destroying...
A PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHO STANDS FOR US! April 2010The first thing you need to know about Elizabeth Warren is that the big shots of Wall Street despise her....
EPA TAKES A BOLD STEP FORWARD April 2010Guess what? We won one! In a big victory for America’s environment and the hard-hit people of Appalachia, Barack Obama’s...
HELP FIGHT THE STUPIDITY April 2010DFAS is one of the many obscure government agencies you never hear anything about – unless and until the officials...
A COMMUNITY'S ACTION SAVES BANKERS FORM THEMSELVES April 2010How refreshing – a glimmer of light from the dark and depressed housing sector! This glimmer comes not from some...
THE REBELLION SPREADS TO WALL STREET ITSELF April 2010An odd brotherhood is joining the populist push to rein in the narcissistic greed of Wall Street giants: Wall Streeters...
LIMBAUGH LOVES UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE! March 2010Keep talking, Rush – we love ya man! Rush Limbaugh, that is, the radio rattlebrain who led the right-wing’s air...
OPENING UP THE FED'S SECRET WALL STREET BAILOUT March 2010In the bipartisan bailout of Wall Street banksters, our own government not only failed to stand up for us taxpayers,...
WAL-MART'S MECHANICAL INHUMANITY March 2010The Supreme Court has decreed that a corporation is a “person,” but apparently the justices never met Mr. Wal-Mart. If...
THE OXYMORON OF "TEXAS EDUCATION" March 2010I love nuts. Pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios – I love them all. But my favorite nuts by far are those...
DROWNING DEMOCRACY IN AN OCEAN OF CORPORATE MONEY March 2010Can five votes make a difference in America’s democratic elections? You betcha, as Sarah Palin might say. Especially when those...
WHO'S WATCHING OUR WALL STREET WATCHDOG? March 2010Wall Street executives are howling that there’s no need for big bad government to tighten regulations over their financial dealings....
THE CONTINUING EMBARRASSMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS March 2010“Never try to teach manners to a pig,” advises an old country saying – “it wastes your time, and it...
JUSTICE ROBERTS IS A WUSS March 2010Little Johnnie Roberts is PO’d, and he’s now stamping his tiny feet in a Constitutional tantrum. Roberts, Chief Justice of...
WHEN TOM SPEAKS, PEOPLE GIGGLE March 2010O, let us rejoice, for he’s back! Tom DeLay, I mean – the corrupt ego maniac who rose to power...
BOEING'S "VIRTUAL FENCE" COMES A CROPPER March 2010It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the US-Mexico...
ANOTHER CORPORATE PATH FOR BUYING OUR GOVERNMENT March 2010Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t...
DOWN ON THE GOP's FARM March 2010I have to ask: Does the Republican Party have a secret “Stupid Farm” where it breeds and raises senators? How...
CONGRESS FLUBS THE JOB ON JOBS BILL March 2010Great news, Americans – our economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February! Well, yes, that’s still a loss, but economists,...
MAYBE WE COULD FORM A BEER PARTY March 2010Would you have tea with me? I’m talking to you authentic tea bag folks – those who are not corporate-funded,...
