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Fracking Liars

October 2012

As they drill for quick corporate profits deep inside our Earth, such natural gas frackers as ExxonMobil and Halliburton are... Read more...

Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates

October 2012

National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper. First, they’re frantically... Read more...

How "special" are those on the Forbes list?

October 2012

It’s out! This year’s list of American success stories has just been published, and, according to its compiler, it “instills... Read more...

The GOP rejects, then embraces, and now is stuck with Todd Akin

October 2012

Hail, hail the GOP gang’s all here – so let us now welcome Rep. Todd Akin back into the fold!... Read more...

Tim Pawlenty finally reveals who he really is

October 2012

Ah, Timmy Boy, we hardly knew ye. Tim Pawlenty, that is, the rather moderate former-governor of Minnesota. He had made... Read more...

A right to know what's in your dinner

October 2012

One of the most important elections being held on November 6 doesn’t even have a Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or... Read more...

The GOP's "Ballot Integrity" ruse

October 2012

Shouldn’t we be encouraging people to vote, including making the process much easier and accessible than it is now? After... Read more...

Mitt supports what he opposed – and vise-versa

October 2012

Geez – does Mitt Romney’s brain-bone even connect to his tongue-bone? He went haywire again in a recent TV interview,... Read more...

A tsunami of political slime

September 2012

Mark Hanna, the Karl Rove of the old Robber Baron era, explained a century ago that, “There are two things... Read more...

Romney takes the gold in 2002 Olympic

September 2012

One of the curiosities of life in these curious times is that millions of Americans are enjoying the benefits of... Read more...

The ugliness of coal company hogs

September 2012

You can put earrings on a hog… but it won’t hide the ugliness. A huge coal conglomerate learned this lesson... Read more...

Life is beautiful in MittWorld

September 2012

Recently, I was astonished by a letter to the New York Times that expressed the writer’s astonishment that Mitt Romney... Read more...

Millionaire Tax Dodgers

September 2012

It’s always refreshing to hear a multimillionaire tax dodger smugly disparage poor people who “pay no income tax.” Mitt Romney... Read more...

The price of a movie at Regal theaters

September 2012

Gosh, I feel so much safer now that teenage ticket takers at the Regal chain of movie theaters have been... Read more...

What's in our food? Fight for the right to know

September 2012

Food fight, everyone – let’s all join the fun! Actually, this is neither fun nor a fight that America’s consumers... Read more...

Top-paid CEOs to taxpayers: thanks a million!

September 2012

Some statements by corporate chieftains tickle my funny bone – but more often they torture my cynical bone. Take the... Read more...

Who wants our brave new robotic future?

September 2012

A message from our corporate-governmental-media establishment: Your future is on Mars. They’re referring to “Curiosity,” NASA’s lovable robot that’s now... Read more...

A banker's plaintive plea

September 2012

At last, someone has stood up for America’s downtrodden. I mean, of course, the downtrodden Wall Street banks. This defender... Read more...

Ryan runs into his inner truth

September 2012

In Lyndon Johnson’s colorful barnyard phrase, “You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken sh[bleep].” But Paul Ryan, the GOP’s... Read more...

Counter ALEC with ALICE

September 2012

Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this... Read more...

Romney's Hamm-handed energy policy

September 2012

Dick Cheney is known to snarl more than he smiles, but the former VP and ex-oil executive must be grinning... Read more...

Shouldn't we fix our nation's leaky roof?

September 2012

Congress’ boneheaded right-wing leaders keep insisting that our growing national needs must be sacrificed to their god of budgetary-whacking wackiness.... Read more...