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A FED UP VOTER'S GROUP STANDS UP

June 2011

Seventeenth century play wright William Congreve must have been a seer, for he wrote that even in hell, there is... Read more...

PERRY IS PEDDLING TEXAS SNAKE OIL

June 2011

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and get your ticket to see “Rick the Wonder Worker!” Texas Gov. Rick Perry... Read more...

A LITTLE LESS CORPORATE POLITICAL CORRUPTION

June 2011

Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing... Read more...

OBAMA GOES A-COURTING

June 2011

Ah, love – a time of intimate talks, long phone calls, romantic dinners, and nonstop wooing. We can see these... Read more...

KOCH CLASSINESS

June 2011

David Koch, the right-wing multibillionaire, likes to pose as a class act. He’s thrown around several million bucks, for example,... Read more...

PERRY'S PRAYER-A-PALOOZA

June 2011

When Texas became a republic in 1836, its constitution banned “ministers of the gospel” from holding any political office. Our... Read more...

NEWT THREATENS AMERICA WITH "THE TEXAS MIRACLE"

June 2011

You’ve gotta love Newt Gingrich, if only for his entertainment value. He is so full of himself that essence of... Read more...

BIG COAL BUYS ACCESS TO 4TH GRADERS

June 2011

If some predator was stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get... Read more...

PRIVATIZATION: THE ROAD TO HELL

June 2011

A recent article in The Onion, the satirical newsweekly, disclosed that President Obama had come up with a surefire plan... Read more...

VERMONT: FIRST IN THE NATION

June 2011

“We have a problem, we need to solve it.” This comment by House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont reflects a... Read more...

NOTHING MERRY ABOUT OLD KING COAL

June 2011

Even the Brothers Grimm could not have come up with a fairy tale as fanciful – or as grim –... Read more...

TWO TEA PARTY GOOBERS IN CONGRESS

June 2011

It’s time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles-an-hour,... Read more...

ALEC'S LEGISLATIVE BAWDY HOUSE

June 2011

Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC... Read more...

OBAMA'S KARMATIC PRETZEL

June 2011

Sometimes, political karma can be so right, even when it applies to something so wrong. Thus it was that Barack... Read more...

SNEAKING THE PLUTOCRATIC AGENDA INTO STATE LAW

June 2011

Michigan’s working families are mighty hard hit these days, but the state’s new governor, Rick Snyder, has reached out with... Read more...

GOP SHUCKING AND JIVING ON MEDICARE

June 2011

In an astonishing observation, Rep. Paul Ryan recently declared: “Washington has not been honest with you.” Gosh, Paul, that possibility... Read more...

THE SERIOUS SIDE OF DONNIE TRUMP

June 2011

Newt’s in, Mitch is out. Haley got out before anyone knew he’d gotten in. But Tim is definitely in, running... Read more...

OFFSHORE CORPORATE HAVENS COME ONSHORE

June 2011

From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple... Read more...

"THE SIXTIES MADE ME DO IT"

June 2011

I try to avoid religious commentary, but – Good God! – what is it about confession that the Catholic hierarchy... Read more...

CHARLES KOCH'S CRY FOR FREEDOM

May 2011

And you thought you had it bad. Sure, Bucko, your income might’ve been knocked down, while your outgo keeps going... Read more...

THREE WRONGS DON'T MAKE BIG OIL RIGHT

May 2011

Reaping extravagant profits from $4-a-gallon gasoline, Big Oil has been pumping out the company line in an effort to deflect... Read more...

NUTTY LAWMAKERS, ARMED AND DANGEROUS

May 2011

After a stint in Texas in 1866, U.S. General Phillip Sheridan declared, “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would... Read more...

WHAT'S INSIDE BIG OIL'S HEAD?

May 2011

As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to... Read more...

ACADEMIC FREEDOM FOR SALE CHEAP!

May 2011

Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than... Read more...

FROM REGULATING COMCAST TO JOINING IT

May 2011

Meredith Baker is hardly a household name, but if you have cable television, her work might soon be entering your... Read more...