PLAYING WITH ECONOMIC DYNAMITE January 2011Wow – profits are up, the stock market is roaring, corporations are awash in cash, CEOs are reaping fabulous paychecks...
GOP GOOBERHEADS IN ACTION January 2011Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100 miles...
EARMARKS, SCHMEARMARKS January 2011In response to Tea Party agitation, the new Republican leaders in the House have been strutting around as reformers, coming...
WHOSE SIDE IS OBAMA ON? January 2011When folks look at the Washington power game to see whose voices are not being heard (much less heeded) in...
BOEHNER'S PEOPLE January 2011Right after Republicans swept last November’s Congressional elections, Rep. John Boehner – the new GOP Speaker of the House –...
A BANKER WHO GETS IT January 2011Populist banker. Now those are two words you rarely see linked together. But Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve...
THE CORPORATE-FUNDED MERRY-GO-ROUND January 2011Headline: AT&T buys 700 copies of Perry book. It’s a story about Rick Perry, the splendidly-coiffed Republican governor of Texas,...
CAN RON REIN IN THE FED? January 2011The teabag-infused Republican takeover of the U.S. house has produced one big change that is already distressing GOP leaders, dismaying...
RE-OPENING THE WALL STREET CASINO January 2011Last year, Democrats claimed that the new financial reform law they passed had finally shut down the Wall Street casinos...
AIRPORTS: SURRENDER ALL LIBERTY, YE WHO ENTER BY ME January 2011Wasn’t it great in the holiday season to enjoy friends, family, good meals… and, of course, being radiated or groped...
THE TECHNO-GIZMO TAKEOVER OF AMERICA December 2010Whether you want it to or not, technology marches on! And on… and on… and on… For example, Kenmore, the...
MEET YOUR NEW NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD MARKET December 2010The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable.” Good! The...
THE RICH VERSUS THE REST OF US December 2010Apparently, you and I owe an apology to the extravagantly-rich in our society. They’re reported to be in a deep...
POP GOES OUR ANTI-POPPY POLICY December 2010Recently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song: “Poppy Fields Forever.” Okay, John Lennon’s lyric was not about poppies,...
OFFSHORING AMERICA'S LEGAL JOBS December 2010Maybe you’re one of the thousands of young lawyers in America working in some low-skill, part-time job because law firms...
SPECIAL GIFTS FOR IMPORTANT PEOPLE December 2010Ho-ho-ho – it’s gift-giving season again! I always like to present special gifts at the end of the year to...
OBAMA TO TOP EXECUTIVES: I FEEL YOUR PAIN December 2010Guess who’s whining the loudest these days, wailing that they’re getting a raw deal from Barack Obama? Not the unemployed...
LET'S FIGHT THE TRAGEDY OF A.S.S. December 2010Good grief, it’s spreading! Another Texas legislator has come down with the tragic disease know as “Amazing Stupidity Syndrome.” A.S.S....
CORPORATIONS TAKE JOBS MONEY… AND RUN December 2010The Federal Reserve, which controls America’s monetary policy, says it is trying to invigorate job creation in our country by...
OBAMA BRINGS CORPORATE POWERS INSIDE December 2010Of all the groups in America that need the President of the U.S. on their side, you’d think the last...
A VICTORY FOR TRUTH-IN-LABELING December 2010Question: what do biotech corporations, national milk processors, and the Ohio state government have in common? Answer: defeat! Such biotech...
DO APPLES REALLY NEED A BIOTECH REMAKE? December 2010Wow! – another astonishing scientific breakthrough has been made! “The benefit is something that can be identified just about by...
AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, CONFUSISTAN December 2010America’s leaders can’t seem to get a grip on “The Stans.” The White House, Congress, the Pentagon, and assorted war...
NEW CONGRESS CRITTERS ACT LIKE OLD PROS December 2010One thing is clear from November’s election results: those new, tea-infused Republican lawmakers are going to end business-as-usual in Congress....
CONCERNED AND CONSCIENTIOUS WALL STREET BANKERS December 2010In an all out effort to help people, top Wall Street bankers have spent the last few months in deep...
