THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF LOBBYING REFORM September 2008Wow, the two political conventions really socked it to the special interests didn’t they?! The air was so thick with...
MCCAIN SHOWS US HIS CHARACTER September 2008Maybe you’re concerned about the collapse of America’s housing market, the disappearance of middle-class wages, the bloody mess in Iraq,...
DEAD EXECUTIVES September 2008Corporate CEOs are the Golden Ones of our economy. Each of them is paid a goldmine during their privileged tenure,...
FDA GIVES IN TO FOOD TORTURERS September 2008Why do food manufactures hate food? I’m not talking about farmers, food artisans, or local food enterprises – but about...
PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF OUR VOTES September 2008The medical profession has a useful rule: First, do no harm. Congress has no such rule. Thus, wanting to look...
AMERICA’S MIDDLE-CLASS REALITY September 2008Among the media and political elites, there has been an anguished outcry against Sen. Barack Obama’s call for ending the...
WHAT MCCAIN’S VP CHOICE SAYS ABOUT HIM September 2008John McCain might love America, in the abstract, but he clearly has little regard for us Americans, in the here...
CONSUMERS LOSE HOMES, BANKS LIVE RICHLY September 2008Housing debt has become a financial cluster bomb. At first – Boom! – it hit those low-income folks who had...
STIFFING VOTERS September 2008From schooldays forward, we Americans are taught that voting is not merely a sacred privilege in our democracy, it is...
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION September 2008Let’s play “Guilt By Association,” the fun-filled, down-and-dirty political game that is so popular with right-wing politicos! This year, the...
THE PRICE OF AUTOCRATIC ARROGANCE September 2008To your list of reasons not to support a police state in America, add this one: It’s expensive. I’m not...
PROFESSOR BUSH ECONOMIC NOSTRUM September 2008On this Labor day, when families all across America are struggling, it’s fitting for us to reflect on the profound...
NAME THAT DRUG! August 2008What does the word Prozac say to you? Or Viagra? Yes, they’re brand names for widely used prescription drugs, but...
CUT-RATE LABOR FOR ANY JOB August 2008Just when you think that, surely, the offshoring craze has peaked, here come more stories of “Globalization Gone Wild.” McClatchy...
CASHING IN ON PAYDAY LOANS August 2008The Bible tells us that Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the temple (for charging less, by the way, than...
A CEO PERK FOR CEO PERKS August 2008You know what really PO’s me? Having to pay taxes on the free personal trips that I take on my...
THE PRICE OF IMPORTED SHRIMP August 2008“Giant shrimp” is said to be an oxymoron, but it’s also moronic that we’ve let shrimp become a giant problem...
NEWSVERTISEMENTS August 2008Perhaps you thought that television news programs couldn’t possibly get any cheesier, more corporate, or more driven by the big...
MIGHTY MONSANTO GIVES UP August 2008Every now and then, reason, outrage, determination, and citizen activism combine to defeat the forces of avarice and arrogance. This...
BIG OIL’S NEW DARLING August 2008John McCain built his maverick image in part by being a Republican senator who’s willing to go against Big Oil....
THE MESSAGE OF DOHA August 2008Most Americans never heard of the Doha Round, and if they did catch the name they might assume that it’s...
FOR REPUBLICAN LEADER, PRINCIPAL TRUMPS PRINCIPLE August 2008Time for another Gooberhead Award, presented periodically to people in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles per hour…...
STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT BRIDGES… AND POLITICIANS August 2008As we Texans have learned from experience, it doesn’t take an IQ much higher than room temperature to be governor...
THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY SCAM August 2008Acting like a four-year-old, George W has squeezed his eyes tight and put his fingers in his ears, claiming that...
STOP CLOWNING AROUND WITH OUR ECONOMY August 2008Here’s my no-cost economic reform plan for America: all politicians and economists who keep blathering that things are really in...
