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Repeal the patriot act

June 2013

It’s back. The Patriot Act – a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors – has... Read more...

The biggest shock of NSA's secret domestic spying

June 2013

It’s good to know that our friendly, über-secret National Security Agency is out there every day, protecting our freedom. By... Read more...

She'll be gone, but her spirit will linger

June 2013

Let the church bells peal somberly, for we progressives have suffered an unexpected and tragic loss that leaves an awful... Read more...

Monsanto Frankenwheat crops-up in Oregon

June 2013

Bob Dylan once sent a two-word lyric to Ben Harper, a talented songwriter he admired. “Well well,” was the lyric,... Read more...

The facades of Enniskillen

June 2013

These are hard times in Northern Ireland, where unemployment is rampant and Prime Minister David Cameron’s corrosive austerity medicine is... Read more...

A rebellion inside the corporate structure

June 2013

Corporate shareholders are revolting! In the very best sense of that term. More and more investor groups today are rebelling... Read more...

Seeing things at the Jersey Shore

June 2013

If you see things that really are not there – are you crazy? Maybe not. Maybe the ones who put... Read more...

The hopping hypocrite of Frog Jump

June 2013

I’ll bet that Mark Twain, who wrote “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” would’ve loved a current saga that... Read more...

Biotech runs amuck. Again

June 2013

When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world... Read more...

Reverse the perverse corporate ethic of fat CEO pay

June 2013

Isn’t it interesting that the ethics of corporate pay shift 180 degrees as you take the elevator from the work... Read more...

Political fronts posing as charities

June 2013

I think of a “social welfare charity” being like The Little Sisters of the Poor – not The Little Koch... Read more...

The GOP, corporate money, and sticky blood platelets

May 2013

Perhaps I’ve been too harsh on congressional Republicans. I had assumed that their vitriolic attacks on even the meekest of... Read more...

A new home for poverty in America

May 2013

It’s been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda – and... Read more...

Walmart goes to the Devil

May 2013

Blending classical literature with the computer technology of subterranean imaging, scientists have made an astonishing discovery – namely, there is... Read more...

Corporate kleptocrats are the real radicals

May 2013

“Outside radical groups,” squawked Rep. Scott Garrett at a recent Republican inquisition into a citizens’ petition that’s been submitted to... Read more...

The high-tech sledgehammering of our middle-class future

May 2013

Sometimes, the collusion between big corporations and “our” government is so ridiculous, so rancid that is makes you laugh, cry,... Read more...

Global beer giant dances the can-can

May 2013

Anyone who says that America has lost its innovative edge in technology and manufacturing has not chugged a can of... Read more...

Let's join the Army!

May 2013

Imagine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea – namely, converting communities to total renewable energy,... Read more...

Homeless and hungry in Houston

May 2013

Whenever one of our cities gets a star turn as host of some super-sparklie event such as a national political... Read more...

The chilling reality of America's jobs crisis

May 2013

“Stock Market Soars,” exulted a typical headline in early May, when the Dow Jones Average topped 15,000. But this index... Read more...

Cantor's con would steal workers' overtime pay

May 2013

Little Eric Cantor, the prancing political prissy who serves as the GOP’s House majority leader, apparently thinks he’s too slick... Read more...

World-class political nincompoopism

May 2013

My state of Texas seems to have an inordinate share of nincompoops in public office. But it’s only fair that... Read more...

Turning people who report corporate crime into criminals

May 2013

In most state legislatures today, bizarre is not unusual, and off-the-wall has become the political center. Still, it seems strange... Read more...

On-call shifts: The latest corporate shame

May 2013

Step right up, folks, and take your chances in the Amazing New American Workplace. Constantly high unemployment! Low wages always!... Read more...

Putting happy-face stickers on America's middle-class pain

May 2013

At last, some excellent economic news for folks long-mired in the stagnant labor market! “Jobs Spring Back,” exclaimed a typical... Read more...