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Plumbing the depths of right-wing hell

June 2012

If you’ve followed the bouncing political ball through the past 30 years, you know that it has led us straight... Read more...

Listen to the weeds

June 2012

Rather than finding ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in... Read more...

Shrinking the news… and our democracy

June 2012

What’s the No. 1 source of news for most Americans? The internet, you say? Nyet. The New York Times or... Read more...

"Financial uncertainty" good for the poor, not for the rich

June 2012

Outraged Republican lawmakers rise up on their hind legs and howl in protest at any suggestion that Washington should finally... Read more...

Diverting student aid money to big banks

June 2012

There must be some sort of greed gene that prompts compulsive outbreaks of financial graspiness by giant bankers. How else... Read more...

Egalitarian Mormonism v. Mitt's plutocratic narcissism

June 2012

And, lo, Samuel the Lamanite decried the greedy habits of the inhabitants of Zarahemla and proclaimed them doomed: “You are... Read more...

A big bank's big lies

June 2012

In the realm of prevarication, there are deceivers, fibbers, liars… and Bank of America. For weeks, this financial behemoth has... Read more...

Abandoning ALEC

June 2012

Good Grief ­ ALEC is even too icky for Wal-Mart! The American Legislative Exchange Council is the corporate-financed bill mill... Read more...

Dying for a corrupt Afghan oligarchy

June 2012

Our national leaders’ rational for investing so much in that awful 11-year war in Afghanistan was that, by slogging through... Read more...

Who really won Wisconsin?

June 2012

“Scott Walker Wins Wisconsin,” screamed headlines across the country after the labor-bashing incumbent governor hung onto his job in the... Read more...

"Double-S.O.B.s" keep making a killing

June 2012

It’s true that America’s working stiffs are mostly stuck in the muck of depression these days, spinning their economic wheels... Read more...

Big shot banker proves big banks are too big

June 2012

In April, Jamie Dimon – the swaggering chief of JPMorgan Chase – scoffed at critics who warned that his bank’s... Read more...

Wall Street stupidity – redux

June 2012

Not to worry, says one of Wall Street’s biggest bankers, for we know what we’re doing. No need for fussy... Read more...

Who needs Wall Street giants?

June 2012

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and the other Wall Street behemoths that dominate American banking – who needs... Read more...

Koch cronies try to buy Wisconsin

June 2012

Unless you hang out in posh watering holes with America’s far-right billionaires, chances are that you don’t know Diane Hendricks.... Read more...

SuperPAC silliness

June 2012

SuperPACs, the new money beasts of American politics, have already funneled more than $100 million into this year’s presidential election.... Read more...

Cleaning up the stench of Washington lobbyists

May 2012

Even a hog must sometimes gag at the stench of its own sty. Maybe that’s why some corporate lobbyists have... Read more...

Bankers plan "surgical" strike against their "enemies"

May 2012

An activist group has declared: We’re sick and tired of being stomped on by the Powers That Be in Washington,... Read more...

A secret astroturf assault on Obama

May 2012

Look out – here they come! The risible, rooty-toot-tooters of the far-right wing have raised their partisan flag of xenophobic,... Read more...

Worker's taxes siphoned off by their bosses

May 2012

My congratulations to workers in 16 states – from Maine to Georgia, New Jersey to Colorado! Many of you will... Read more...

The 10 worst jobs

May 2012

I’ve concluded that there are two kinds of people in our world: Those willing to believe there are only two... Read more...

Wild about wild chickens

May 2012

Some people complain that their town has gone to the dogs, but Bastrop, Texas, has gone to the chickens –... Read more...

The filet mignon deception

May 2012

If you’re one who enjoys a steak dinner now and again, let me ask this question: do you prefer it... Read more...

Making Dow happy at our expense

May 2012

Thanks to the blessings of nature and good farmers, you and I are able to enjoy such scrumptious delights as... Read more...

Snarling Banker

May 2012

Woody Guthrie wrote a song titled “Jolly Banker,” a perfect-pitch parody of the propensity of Depression-era bankers to feel good... Read more...