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Lateralling the cost of privately-owned sports stadiums to taxpayers

March 2013

While we sports fans regularly lionize the stars of pro baseball, football, basketball, etcetera, it’s time to acknowledge that the... Read more...

In battling corporate greed, tenacity matters

February 2013

Sometimes, the cost of winning is so great that you really lose. This little lesson seems to be dawning on... Read more...

Silicon Valley's latest speculative bubble

February 2013

Get ready for the rapture! Not the religious kind, but a financial rapture being promised to us by the holy... Read more...

The bad seed strikes again

February 2013

Any remake of the 1950s movie “The Bad Seed,” should cast Monsanto in the title role. This biotech behemoth has... Read more...

The GOP's disdain for low-wage workers

February 2013

When President Obama called for raising America’s wage floor to nine bucks an hour, GOP House leader John Boehner attacked... Read more...

Asteroids: New worlds to plunder

February 2013

With all the woes that we humans have inflicted on our weary, old Earth – from the reckless plundering of... Read more...

Just say "No-No" to nanos

February 2013

Have you had your minimum daily requirement of “nanos” today? Nanomaterials, that is – manufactured or natural substances that are... Read more...

The moral poverty of North Carolina's GOP legislature

February 2013

As one who’s been there, I can tell you that being unemployed is punishment enough, without having a pack of... Read more...

Beware of wearing Disney's "Magic Bands"

February 2013

Walt Disney Inc. has announced that its Magic Kingdom will soon be even more magical, thanks to a new technological... Read more...

Do more than the minimum on minimum wage

February 2013

“In the wealthiest nation on Earth,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works... Read more...

Who's feeding the Bush puppy?

February 2013

Guess what? George Bush is back! Not “Poppy” Bush, as George H.W. was known. Nor the George known simply as... Read more...

Monsanto v. Mother Nature: Guess who's winning?

February 2013

If you fool with Mother Nature, she’ll most likely fool with you – usually in very unpleasant ways. Monsanto, the... Read more...

Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?

February 2013

Besides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common? Answer: Hemp. America’s founders... Read more...

Pulling the curtain on Wall Street's inside jokers

February 2013

Wall Street bankers have such fun! I don’t merely mean at their year-end bonus bashes, when each one rakes in... Read more...

Rigging elections to steal the White House

February 2013

Since being thumped hard by voters last November, Republican leaders have gone through a period of reflection, introspection, and contemplation... Read more...

The Interior Secretary's pricey throne

February 2013

Does the name Dirk Kempthorne mean anything to you? He was a little-known Idaho politico before becoming George W. Bush’s... Read more...

Outlawing exposés of factory farm horrors

February 2013

Big Ag has a big problem – but it’s come up with a neat solution. The problem is that the... Read more...

Private equity tax scammers at work

February 2013

Peg CeeCee knows that it’s not enough to work hard in these perilous financial times, but you also have to... Read more...

A common sense crop for America's common good

February 2013

Four year’s ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel to make a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food & farm... Read more...

Good retail jobs would be good for America

February 2013

The Powers That Be say that the bulk of America’s middle-class manufacturing jobs are gone and won’t be coming back.... Read more...

Glenn Beck envisions a DreamWorld for you

February 2013

I’m told that many Americans long to return to the idyllic days of yesteryear, to the small-town wholesomeness of the... Read more...

The joke of "corporate governance"

January 2013

Wall Streeters are all atwitter about the comeuppance of Jamie Dimon, the haughty CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Last year, poor... Read more...

Corporations get tax deductions for wrongdoing

January 2013

Can’t those constantly-complaining consumer advocates ever be satisfied? The government extracted a $10 billion payment from a dozen major mortgage... Read more...

Bonuses for banksters

January 2013

What a satisfying sight it would’ve been for the public to see Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, and other high-rolling Wall... Read more...

Obama's Inaugural Address: Progressive and Presidential

January 2013

Given his own cool reserve and his first-term penchant for pursuing a tepid, middle-right governing agenda, I didn’t expect to... Read more...