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ECONOMISTS WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD

July 2010

The good news is that America’s economy continues to grow. The bad news is that most people’s personal economies continue... Read more...

BP'S CALLOUS CULTURE OF CARELESSNESS

July 2010

The Brits are mad at us. Why? Because we’re so mad at BP. Lord Tebbit, for example, has thrown a... Read more...

PAYING THE PRICE OF THE AFGHANISTAN WAR

July 2010

The good news is that the U.S. Senate and House are at last uniting in a truly bipartisan push to... Read more...

STOMPING ON AMERICA'S WORKERS

July 2010

Republican congress critters have once again stomped on the fingers of out-of-work Americans who’re clinging to unemployment aid to keep... Read more...

OBAMA'S POINTLESS AFGHANISTAN WAR

July 2010

General Stanley McChrystal is the lucky one. Having been booted from his Afghanistan command for a combination of insubordination and... Read more...

FRANKEN V. ROBERTS

July 2010

Way to go, Al! At last, there’s a Democrat in the Senate who’s acting like a real Democrat in the... Read more...

SOCCER SOCIALISM

July 2010

You know what’s wrong with America? I’ll tell you what’s wrong: Soccer. Yes, soccer – or, as the rest of... Read more...

LOOK OUT, BP'S DOING IT AGAIN!

July 2010

Okay people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds, and other wildlife should... Read more...

DEMS CAVE IN TO CORPORATE POLITICAL POWER

June 2010

Should bank robbery be legal, as long as the robbers wear name tags? Such an absurd concept is at the... Read more...

"BP" STANDS FOR BANNING THE PRESS

June 2010

One bit of good news to come from BP’s gushing oil disaster in the Gulf is that it might save... Read more...

THE GOP'S GENETIC LINK TO BIG OIL

June 2010

If scientists were to examine the DNA of oil corporations and of Republican congress critters, I’ll bet they’d learn that... Read more...

CHEVROLET CRASHES CHEVY

June 2010

Good news, people. General Motors has turned a profit! However, there’s bad news, too: GM’s top executives are insane. By... Read more...

BP'S STEADY FLOW OF BS

June 2010

Urgent memo to the shareholders of the oil corporation formerly known as British Petroleum: Cap that gusher! Some of the... Read more...

A GOLDEN WAY OUT OF AFGHANISTAN

June 2010

Here’s some free advice: Never buy shares in a gold mine from a guy operating out of a house trailer.... Read more...

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S KUMBAYA MOMENT

June 2010

In the category of “Big news that has gotten little coverage,” consider this stunner: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has... Read more...

BIG OIL TURNS AGAINST ONE OF ITS OWN

June 2010

The brotherhood gathered at the table, vowing fealty to the cause and to each other. “One for all and all... Read more...

ASSUAGING THE PAIN OF MULTIMILLIONAIRES

June 2010

Jon Kyl is a bleeding-heart conservative. Does he bleed for the downtrodden? Or – as Jesus said – for “the... Read more...

UNITING TO FIGHT CITIZENS UNITED

June 2010

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

CORPORATE MURDER?

June 2010

A mass murder has taken place in another American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so... Read more...

HOW TO MAKE CHILDBIRTH MORE PAINFUL

June 2010

Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making... Read more...

TIME TO KICK TONY'S KEISTER

June 2010

He’s done it again! Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, has spewed another gusher of nonsense out of his mouth, which... Read more...

THE GOOFIEST STATE OF ALL

June 2010

Wherever you live in our Land of the Free, you can count your lucky stars for Texas. That’s because year-in... Read more...

BP'S GUSHER OF PR

June 2010

I hate to ask a rude question in the midst of a national disaster, but here goes: How much money... Read more...

RIGGING THE RULES AGAINST UNIONS

June 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...

BP'S OIL-SOAKED RAP SHEET

June 2010

Gosh, how quickly things turn – one day you’re a strutting peacock, the next day you’re just another gasping, oil-covered... Read more...