Tech execs say U.S. is failing them February 2012Last year, during an intimate chat & chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a...
By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people’s property February 2012“Sorry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the...
Essence of Newt February 2012What a sight to watch Newt Gingrich campaign for president. If ego was gas, he’d be the Hindenburg blimp. Most...
Watchdogs with cameras February 2012Anyone who has participated in a public demonstration is used to seeing police with video cameras recording us commoners as...
The Chief Twinkie at Hostess goes Ding Dong February 2012Here’s a case of good news oozing out of bad news, and vice versa. The bad news is that Hostess...
Newt Gingrich: the spawn of Citizens United February 2012In its Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court upended our democratic elections by decreeing that corporations and über-wealthy individuals can...
The Supreme Court, What a joke! February 2012Supreme Court justices don’t strike me as a fun-loving bunch. I mean, would you really want to waste your down-time...
Rick Perry goes from "wow" to "oops" to "ouch" January 2012To the relief of most Texans, our prodigal governor hath returned. Most presidential pretenders envision a come-from-behind campaign ending in...
The Adelson campaign: buying our future January 2012Already, four of the GOP presidential contenders have had to drop out – Michele Bachmann because she was too wacky,...
A tiny bug spreads happiness January 2012Great news, people: a hot spot of nine-spotted ladybugs has been spotted in Amagansett, New York! This uplifting story is...
GOP "mad as a hatter" about EPA mercury regs January 2012Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies? Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn, even considering them “persons”...
Getting stuck on America's economic ladder January 2012One of the hidebound myths in our culture is the Horatio Alger fantasy: you might be born poor, Bucko, but...
An ugly surprise from big oil January 2012The corporatists in Congress barked at Obama that he must approve that Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf...
America's class divide January 2012What planet does presidential wannabe Rick Santorum live on? When it comes to grasping the situation of America’s hard-hit workaday...
Memo to Supremes: Got ethics? January 2012Good grief – how can someone so smart be so stupid? So clueless? So wrong? John Roberts is not just...
Repeal the farce of "Corporate Personhood" January 2012The Powers That Be constantly try to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but sometimes the wool blinders are so...
Shhh, people – Mitt's Trying to think January 2012Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams once offered this advice to rookies: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think...
The poppy war in Afghanistan January 2012Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! For a symbol of how America’s decade-long war...
Join the action against corporate rule January 2012What a great group of groups! They’ve got names like “Winning Our Future,” “Make Us Great Again,” and “Red, White...
How to stimulate consumer spending January 2012Bars can get in legal trouble when they over-serve patrons who then get a DUI citation. But what about retail...
A people's victory in Montana January 2012Let’s hear it for American Tradition Partnership! It’s an organization that stands up for the politically dispossessed in our land....
SuperPACs storm Iowa January 2012In Iowa’s presidential scramble, the biggest players were not the candidates, but an insidious, ever-growing force that voters couldn’t even...
Afghanistan forever. And ever January 2012A bipartisan majority in Washington has been quietly funding a multimillion-dollar educational initiative to lift people up. Great! Except that...
The GOP's menu of mediocrity January 2012And away we go! Not just into a new year, but – zap! – suddenly we find ourselves catapulted into...
Congress' nine percent January 2012Congress: How small-minded is it? How tangled-up in a right-wing ideological knot is it? How subservient to corporate lobbyists is...
