"Gov. Supercuts" for president? August 2011GOP-Land is all a twitter, now that Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that he’s ready to ascend to the...
Dim bulbs in Congress August 2011Our problem in Washington is this: we have too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. Any doubt about this...
Bankers keep running with illegal foreclosures August 2011Two-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down...
Obama to jobless Americans: Mañana August 2011Having just been rolled by tea party Republicans in the debt ceiling circus, Barack Obama now says that his priority...
Grabbing earmarks while slashing spending August 2011In last year’s congressional elections, the loudest war cry of the Republican tea party contingent was: “Remember the Earmarks!” But,...
Obama says he'll really fight for the people … next time August 2011Sheesh. In his big battle over the debt ceiling, Barack Obama waved his white hankie of surrender, allowing the loopiest...
Mass marketing goes platinum August 2011In today’s fast-moving world of consumer styles, when you’re out, you’re out. Not just out-of-style, but so far out that...
Breaking corporate control of politics August 2011Imagine if a couple of national leaders dared to stand up to the corporate powers that have taken control of...
Stop coddling banker thieves August 2011Stealing is wrong, right? “If you do the crime,” the old slogan says, “you do the time.” But… does everyone?...
Airline pickpockets strike again August 2011Score another Bold Face Demerit for the corporate lickspittles in Congress. This time they’ve delivered a slap to workers, while...
America's real "job creators" are broke August 2011As narrators used to say in Western movies: “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…” Our policy makers in Washington have totally...
A right wing jobs program for America July 2011Attention jobless Americans! If you’re among the millions of longterm unemployed people searching in vain for a job, here’s a...
Shoving America back to the Great Recession – or worse July 2011The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real...
Corporate thieves fear public disclosure July 2011Poor Halliburton. Poor ExxonMobil, Blackwater, Microsoft, and other huge corporations that get billions of dollars each year in lucrative contracts...
America's shameful leadership July 2011As Bob Dylan famously wrote “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Especially when the...
PITY THE POOR JUDGES July 2011There’s a growing pay gap in our country that is alarming both national and state officials, who say it raises...
THE GOOD SHIP GOLDMAN SETS SAIL FOR SINGAPORE July 2011Goldman Sachs is making news again, though it’s doing its damndest to keep it quiet and to suppress any outbreak...
MUST WE EAT THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS? July 2011Economists and politicians keep their fingers on the pulse of the Dow Jones Average, feeling every tick in this narrow...
CEOS TRY TO HIDE GROSS PAYCHECK INEQUALITY July 2011Top executives of such corporate giants as American Airlines, IBM, General Mills, Lowe’s and McDonald’s have a secret, and –...
CUTTING BACK THE MIDDLE CLASS TO SUBSIDIZE YACHT OWNERS July 2011With a tsunami of economic pain swamping America’s working families, our stalwart national leaders are rushing to provide aid and...
MICHIGAN LOCALS FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY July 2011If Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is...
MASSEY ENERGY'S MAN-MADE HELL HOLE July 2011West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year,...
A LYING HYPOCRITE FOR PRESIDENT July 2011If you find it necessary to declare on national television that “I am a serious person,” you’re probably not. Meet...
THE GOP'S ASSAULT ON MEDICARE July 2011Remember the hoorahs from Republicans just 4 months ago, when House budget chairman Paul Ryan issued the GOP’s “bold” plan...
DEBT CEILING HYPOCRISY July 2011“No,” shout Republican leaders at President Obama, like pouty two-year olds. “We won’t raise the government’s statutory debt limit in...
