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The dirty little secret of private equity profits

November 2012

Executives in private equity firms – such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts... Read more...

Billionaire kleptocrats crap out

November 2012

They came, they spent… then they limped home, tails between their legs. Okay, they didn’t limp – they were flown... Read more...

GOP thugs blocking democracy

November 2012

Not bothering to vote is deplorable – but preventing others from voting is disgraceful and disgusting. Yet, voter suppression has... Read more...

The biggest loser of 2012

November 2012

You know it’s a good election night when you see Karl Rove have a hissy fit on national television. It... Read more...

Notice to Wall Street: Buy Me!

November 2012

Today, I am notifying the honchos of Bain Capital, Blackstone Group, and other big-time private equity funds that my little... Read more...

Why the chicken crossed the road

November 2012

Thanks to the industrializers of American agriculture, we finally know why the chicken crossed the road: To run away from... Read more...

Don't cry for Lloyd

November 2012

I know that this story might make you tear up, so now would be a good time to reach for... Read more...

Murray shakes down employees for Mitt

November 2012

For a rich example of unbridled boss power in today’s political process, harken back to August when Mitt Romney appeared... Read more...

The mad dogs of Citizens United

November 2012

As feared, our people’s democratic authority has been dogged nearly to death by the hounds of money in this year’s... Read more...

The irritating whine of the upper-crust

November 2012

There’s a musicality to the whine of a highballing freight train on an open stretch of track, just as there... Read more...

Adelson's free-enterprise mirage

November 2012

According to the self-aggrandizing mythology of America’s right-wing rich, Sheldon Adelson is one of society’s “producers,” not one of those... Read more...

Romney's Halloween trick on Ohio voters

October 2012

If you really want to scare people this Halloween, go trick-or-treating dressed as an Ohio voting machine. The “black box”... Read more...

A new escalation of creepy politics

October 2012

America has always had political campaigns that dig into the muck of their opponents’ personal lives, then fling any nasty... Read more...

Ryan & Romney's dream for America

October 2012

Poor Mitt Romney. To dodge the tax payments he owes to America, the multimillionaire has for years stashed piles of... Read more...

At last, the GOP finds an actual case of voter fraud!

October 2012

At my age, I thought I’d seen pretty much everything – and I’ve been to the carny sideshow at the... Read more...

The curious shyness of Wall Street journal op-ed writers

October 2012

As I trekked to my gate at the Orange County Airport in California not long ago, I stopped briefly at... Read more...

The real voter fraud in America

October 2012

Republican officials are having a major problem in their efforts to “ensure the integrity of the electoral process” by passing... Read more...

Fixing American Airlines

October 2012

Hoo-boy, the startling revelation that American Airlines has had some of its passenger seats come loose during flights gives new... Read more...

Romney's "Farmer"

October 2012

Old Mitt Romney went to a farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on that farm he came a cropper, e-i-e-i-o! At the time,... Read more...

Happy hour for craft brews

October 2012

And now, for some happy talk – by which I mean a non-corporate, “little-d” democratic, and altogether-pleasurable economic development that’s... Read more...

America’s Pusillanimous Press

October 2012

Let us now assess the state of the free press in this land of… well, of press freedom. The assessment?... Read more...

Fortune's "cry of justice" for the 1%

October 2012

We should not be surprised that a magazine named Fortune would be empathetic to the feelings of the 1%, but... Read more...

It's the media that's, inept not the Post Office

October 2012

As we know, the government can’t do anything right. We know this not only because a menagerie of right-wing media... Read more...

Plutocrats on welfare

October 2012

In Mitt Romney’s videoed “Boca Moment” in a Boca Raton mansion, he candidly revealed his nasty little inner-millionaire. Glibly disparaging... Read more...

Perry happens. Again.

October 2012

My job as a free-range commentator and political yackety-yacker requires very little heavy lifting. But – as a Texan –... Read more...