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RIGGING THE RULES AGAINST UNIONS

August 2010

There’s one direct, grassroots way that workaday folks can create more fairness in our country’s plutocratic, corporate-controlled economy: unite in... Read more...

SEE NEWT RUN

August 2010

Oh, please, Santa Clause, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich. The Newt says he... Read more...

SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR SUGAR!

August 2010

Okay, children, homework time. Let’s see if we can handle this little lesson in logic: One, America has a rather... Read more...

BIG OIL'S GUSHER OF SUBSIDIES

August 2010

That Deepwater Horizon oil rig that went down in the Gulf, causing such massive destruction? Thank you for that. “You”... Read more...

UNITING TO FIGHT CITIZENS UNITED

August 2010

The problem with being pious in politics is that piety has a way of backfiring – and causing people to... Read more...

YET ANOTHER BP OUTRAGE

August 2010

With BP’s well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that the BP horror story is... Read more...

OH JOY, CHRISTMAS IN THE SUMMER!

August 2010

The summer doldrums are upon us, bringing searing heat and energy-sapping humidity. So, naturally, people all across our sweltering nation... Read more...

KISSING BANKERS' BUTTS

August 2010

Oh them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just... Read more...

BP'S ETHICAL CURVEBALL

August 2010

Not to worry, insists BP in its ongoing PR push to buff up its polluted image, we’re going to make... Read more...

A BITTER TASTE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

August 2010

I don’t know how the corn crop is doing this year, but Washington is producing a bumper crop of irony... Read more...

GIVE US A REAL CONSUMER ADVOCATE

August 2010

Who do we want? Elizabeth Warren! When do we want her? Now! What we want is for President Obama to... Read more...

GOP GOES "GRASSROOTS," WASHINGTON-STYLE

July 2010

Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no... Read more...

WALL STREET'S "MOM & POP" BANKERS

July 2010

Don’t cry for Jamie Dimon, America. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope... Read more...

GOLDMAN'S GOLDEN DEAL

July 2010

That’ll teach ’em, won’t it? The SEC, Wall Street’s top regulator, has whacked the mighty Goldman Sachs with one of... Read more...

ONCE AGAIN OBAMA ABANDONS HIS FRIENDS

July 2010

The Shirley Sherrod Story started as a beautiful anecdote of redemption and personal growth, which she recently related at a... Read more...

WHY ARE WALL STREET BANKERS GRINNING?

July 2010

Banker greed is like ugly on a toad – it can’t simply be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory... Read more...

SAVE THE CONGRESSIONAL MILLIONAIRES

July 2010

Let’s hear a cheer for a much maligned group of American workers, for they have stood up and done the... Read more...

FIGHTING THE SUPERBUGS OF ARGRIBUSINESS

July 2010

Not so long ago, the “miracle cure” of antibiotics prompted doctors to prescribe them for illnesses as minor as colds... Read more...

WIMPY LEADERS IGNORE A STRONG PEOPLE

July 2010

Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the... Read more...

DELL'S DECEPTIVE "GENIUS"

July 2010

Let us now sing the praises of Dell Incorporated. The computer giant offers an object lesson for the laissez-faire ideologues... Read more...

SURPRISE! THE PEOPLE SPEAK

July 2010

Michael Duke is the Big Wally of Walmart. As CEO of the low-wage behemoth, he siphons some $19 million a... Read more...

AVERTING AMERICA'S "LONG DEPRESSION"

July 2010

The most moronic oxymoron I’ve ever heard is the one being cheerfully bandied about by economists as they tell us... Read more...

RETURN OF THE KATRINA TRAILERS

July 2010

They’re baaaack. The Creepy Creatures from Hurricane Katrina are reappearing on the Gulf Coast, having been raised from the dead.... Read more...

SPENDING ON THE RICH, CUTTING BACK ON THE REST OF US

July 2010

Deficit hawks are on the fly in Washington, madly screeching that America can no longer afford… well, the American people.... Read more...

THE CORPORATE REALITY OF CARLY AND MEG

July 2010

Big news in California politics: The Golden State’s GOP has nominated a pair of golden gals to try to take... Read more...