FINDING SUCCESS IN FEDERAL STIMULUS SPENDING April 2009Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles-per-hour, but...
SUMMERS IS BAILING OUT HIS FINANCIAL CRONIES April 2009Obama and his financial team keep telling us that their Wall Street bailout is all about Main Street – not...
JPMORGAN CREATES JOBS WITH BAILOUT MONEY April 2009For us populist commentators, the Wall Street bailout is a gift that won’t stop giving. I’d really like to give...
WALL STREET AND WASHINGTON: HERE WE GO AGAIN April 2009One thing we’ve learned from the Wall Street manipulators is that they are about as trustworthy as a wolf’s smile....
EXCESSES OF THE WEALTHY ARE STILL ALIVE April 2009With the recent downturn in the fortunes of Wall Street barons, you might think it’s all doom and gloom within...
REACTIVATING THE CCC FOR NATIONAL RECOVERY April 2009The report cards have come out, and I’m afraid we’re just not making the grade. I’m talking about the “Infrastructure...
POTHOLE ADVERTISING April 2009Just when you think the corporate branding of public spaces couldn’t get any more crass – along comes KFC, the...
LET’S PUT A SMALL DOG IN CHARGE OF THE BAILOUT April 2009Sometimes, the big dogs don’t have any bark, much less bite. That’s certainly the case with those overseeing Washington’s bailout...
TWO IRAQ VETS STAND UP TO CORPORATE GIANT April 2009The awarding of contracts for local road projects does not usually immerse county commissioners in discussions about how U.S. troops...
WATCHING YOU WATCH ADS April 2009From national surveillance of our emails to local street cameras monitoring our movements, we’ve learned that Big Brother definitely is...
HOPE FOR APPALACHIAN RENEWAL April 2009Springtime in Appalachia is always a time of sublime beauty, for the ancient mountains and forests come alive with flowers,...
AIG’S SCANDALOUS PAYMENTS April 2009AIG has now entered the Hall Of Corporate Infamy. The global insurance behemoth gained entry the old-fashioned way: It earned...
OBAMA’S THIRD SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN March 2009Apparently, springtime is surge time in Afghanistan. President Obama is launching a new, expanded American adventure to “stabilize” this historically...
BANKERS IN THE KNOW March 2009The former geniuses who crashed Wall Street are now pushing a line to excuse them from any and all responsibility....
A BAILED OUT BANK BAILS OUT ITS BANKERS March 2009At least one Wall Street investment house is stepping up to help some of the people who’ve been squeezed by...
OBAMA & CONGRESS CAN END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL March 2009If you live near a stream, should you be allowed to dump waste in it? I don’t mean a garbage...
“PIGGY BANK,” REDEFINED March 2009Like me, you might have had a piggy bank when you were a child. Putting pennies in the little fat...
PUT THE “PUBLIC” BACK IN PUBLIC SAFETY March 2009The report came from the official inspector in March 2008, and its conclusion was unequivocal: “The overall food safety level...
THE “SANCTITY” OF CORPORATE CONTRACTS March 2009You know what really gets my goat about AIG shelling out 165 million of our tax dollars to the top...
THE MILKMAN DELIVERS March 2009The most amazing thing to me about Robert Holding, a milkman in Lancashire, England, is not that he was delivering...
STIFFING WORKERS AND SPREADING CORPORATE WELFARE March 2009Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues going 100 miles...
THE RIDICULOUS CLASS BIAS IN AMERICA'S TAX CODE March 2009The rich truly are different from you and me, for they are treated differently. I’m not talking about the merely...
MICROCHIPPING AMERICA WITH A NATIONAL ID CARD March 2009Should the government require us to carry a national ID card embedded with what amounts to a bar code containing...
THE RIGHT WING WEEPS FOR THE RICH March 2009Politicos and pundits on the right have resurrected an old bugaboo to hurl at Barack Obama’s economic recovery efforts: Class...
DEATH, TAXES… AND DEBT COLLECTORS March 2009These are hard times for debt collectors. After all, who can pay their bills these days? Not Wall Street, Detroit,...
