Airline pickpockets strike again August 2011Score another Bold Face Demerit for the corporate lickspittles in Congress. This time they’ve delivered a slap to workers, while... Read more...
America's real "job creators" are broke August 2011As narrators used to say in Western movies: “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…” Our policy makers in Washington have totally... Read more...
A right wing jobs program for America July 2011Attention jobless Americans! If you’re among the millions of longterm unemployed people searching in vain for a job, here’s a... Read more...
Shoving America back to the Great Recession – or worse July 2011The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real... Read more...
Corporate thieves fear public disclosure July 2011Poor Halliburton. Poor ExxonMobil, Blackwater, Microsoft, and other huge corporations that get billions of dollars each year in lucrative contracts... Read more...
America's shameful leadership July 2011As Bob Dylan famously wrote “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Especially when the... Read more...
PITY THE POOR JUDGES July 2011There’s a growing pay gap in our country that is alarming both national and state officials, who say it raises... Read more...
THE GOOD SHIP GOLDMAN SETS SAIL FOR SINGAPORE July 2011Goldman Sachs is making news again, though it’s doing its damndest to keep it quiet and to suppress any outbreak... Read more...
MUST WE EAT THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS? July 2011Economists and politicians keep their fingers on the pulse of the Dow Jones Average, feeling every tick in this narrow... Read more...
CEOS TRY TO HIDE GROSS PAYCHECK INEQUALITY July 2011Top executives of such corporate giants as American Airlines, IBM, General Mills, Lowe’s and McDonald’s have a secret, and –... Read more...
CUTTING BACK THE MIDDLE CLASS TO SUBSIDIZE YACHT OWNERS July 2011With a tsunami of economic pain swamping America’s working families, our stalwart national leaders are rushing to provide aid and... Read more...
MICHIGAN LOCALS FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY July 2011If Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is... Read more...
MASSEY ENERGY'S MAN-MADE HELL HOLE July 2011West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year,... Read more...
A LYING HYPOCRITE FOR PRESIDENT July 2011If you find it necessary to declare on national television that “I am a serious person,” you’re probably not. Meet... Read more...
THE GOP'S ASSAULT ON MEDICARE July 2011Remember the hoorahs from Republicans just 4 months ago, when House budget chairman Paul Ryan issued the GOP’s “bold” plan... Read more...
DEBT CEILING HYPOCRISY July 2011“No,” shout Republican leaders at President Obama, like pouty two-year olds. “We won’t raise the government’s statutory debt limit in... Read more...
CORPORATE HOGGISHNESS RUN AMUCK July 2011They’re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington – like hogs... Read more...
NO MORE AMERICANS SHOULD DIE FOR KARZAI July 2011One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from... Read more...
THE UNANSWERED QUESTION IS, WHY? July 2011America’s long, long war in Afghanistan has drained more than 1,500 precious lives and about a half trillion dollars from... Read more...
THE WAR IS OVER, SO BRING OUR TROOPS HOME July 2011At long last, America’s overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun. “The tide of war is receding,” declared President Obama as... Read more...
MASSEY ENERGY'S MURDEROUS LIES July 2011In March of last year, Massey Energy Corporation’s official record book for reporting unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch... Read more...
SCHICK GETS SCENTS-ITIVE July 2011There has been some rude talk that American corporations just don’t have the right stuff anymore, having become lazy oligarchs... Read more...
BILLIONAIRES HIDING BEHIND THE HEDGE June 2011If your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime... Read more...
THE FRIGHTENED RICH June 2011It turns out that the rich are not so different from you and me, for we’re all filled with anxiety.... Read more...
STATES BUDGETING FOR IGNORANCE June 2011Will Rogers said that when Congress comes into session, the public gets the same panicky feeling as “when the baby... Read more...
