BIG OIL'S UN-AMERICAN SELFISHNESS May 2011The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams... Read more...
THE KOCHS TAKE ONE ON THE CHIN May 2011It’s always good to see a corporate bully get popped right in the snout by those it’s bullying – and... Read more...
A MORALLY UNTENABLE CORPORATE SYSTEM May 2011This will seem like a fairytale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to... Read more...
WHO'S BEHIND ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE MICHIGAN PROFESSORS? May 2011Suddenly – from out of the blue – three professors at three different Michigan universities simultaneously received identical freedom-of-information demands... Read more...
A LITTLE LESS CORPORATE POLITICAL CORRUPTION May 2011Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing... Read more...
A CORPORATE LOBBYIST RUNS FOR PRESIDENT May 2011Oh, happy day – The Newt is in! Move over, Donnie Trump, the contest for Goofiest Guy in the GOP... Read more...
AND THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IS: [BLANK] May 2011Nothing personal, my Republican friends, but – Good God! – is this all there is? You’re barely a year away... Read more...
KEEPING SCORE ON EXXON May 2011Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner,... Read more...
BILLIONAIRES HIDING BEHIND THE HEDGE May 2011If your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime... Read more...
RYAN IS PEDDLING A RAW DEAL FOR YOU May 2011If you were being hustled to buy an insurance policy, would you trust a salesman who said, “Let’s go to... Read more...
HELPING THE NEEDIEST AMONG US May 2011To be fair to lawmakers, it’s not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public... Read more...
HOW ABOUT A WALL STREET APOLOGY? May 2011It’s good to know that the FBI, Justice Department, and Federal courts are all over the major crime cases that... Read more...
ENTERGY GOES NUCLEAR OVER VERMONT'S DECISION May 2011The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont. Entergy Corporation, an electric utility giant based in New... Read more...
GOP HOUSE CHOOSES BIG OIL OVER GRANNY May 2011Republican congressional leaders don’t seem to be the quickest bunnies in the litter. Having taken their blunt budget ax to... Read more...
THE ARTFUL DODGERS May 2011Here’s the hot new phrase in Washington: “shared sacrifice.” Sounds nice, but it’s really just code for gouging the middle... Read more...
TRUMP SHOWS WHAT HE'S MADE OF May 2011Who says America lacks innovations to create new industries these days? Why, in just the past few months, a huge... Read more...
RUN, DONNIE, RUN! April 2011This is beyond fabulous. It is exquisite. Donnie Trump – the flaming ego with feral hair – is drumming up... Read more...
PUNISHING THE INNOCENT, ENRICHING THE GUILTY April 2011A recent email to me pretty well sums up the big budget hullaballoo being pushed by tea party Republicans. As... Read more...
TEA PARTY REBELS QUICKLY TAMED April 2011They came they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new... Read more...
OHIO'S HIGH-FLYING BUDGET SLASHER April 2011One morning in March, Ohio’s pious, anti-spending governor, John Kasich, got up, brushed his teeth, and went to the capitol... Read more...
EARTH DAY – A HELL OF A DAY April 2011In case you missed it, America just celebrated its “national day of irony:” April 22. The irony is that this... Read more...
ARE YOU READY FOR A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF FOOD? April 2011    An entomologist has seen the future of food, and – surprise!– it’s not where or what you might think... Read more...
WORKERS DOWN, BOSSES UP: A MORALITY PLAY April 2011Â Â Â Â It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains feel the pain of their underlings, who keep being forced to... Read more...
BEWARE OF THE THREE BUDGETEERS April 2011Â Â Â Â House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan like to portray themselves as “The... Read more...
SHRINKING GOVERNMENT TO SERVE CORPORATIONS April 2011Â Â Â Â In assessing today’s politics and public policy, it’s always helpful to reflect back on previous experiences in our nation’s... Read more...
