WAL-MART'S MECHANICAL INHUMANITY March 2010The Supreme Court has decreed that a corporation is a “person,” but apparently the justices never met Mr. Wal-Mart. If... Read more...
THE OXYMORON OF "TEXAS EDUCATION" March 2010I love nuts. Pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios – I love them all. But my favorite nuts by far are those... Read more...
DROWNING DEMOCRACY IN AN OCEAN OF CORPORATE MONEY March 2010Can five votes make a difference in America’s democratic elections? You betcha, as Sarah Palin might say. Especially when those... Read more...
WHO'S WATCHING OUR WALL STREET WATCHDOG? March 2010Wall Street executives are howling that there’s no need for big bad government to tighten regulations over their financial dealings.... Read more...
THE CONTINUING EMBARRASSMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS March 2010“Never try to teach manners to a pig,” advises an old country saying – “it wastes your time, and it... Read more...
JUSTICE ROBERTS IS A WUSS March 2010Little Johnnie Roberts is PO’d, and he’s now stamping his tiny feet in a Constitutional tantrum. Roberts, Chief Justice of... Read more...
WHEN TOM SPEAKS, PEOPLE GIGGLE March 2010O, let us rejoice, for he’s back! Tom DeLay, I mean – the corrupt ego maniac who rose to power... Read more...
BOEING'S "VIRTUAL FENCE" COMES A CROPPER March 2010It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the US-Mexico... Read more...
ANOTHER CORPORATE PATH FOR BUYING OUR GOVERNMENT March 2010Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t... Read more...
DOWN ON THE GOP's FARM March 2010I have to ask: Does the Republican Party have a secret “Stupid Farm” where it breeds and raises senators? How... Read more...
CONGRESS FLUBS THE JOB ON JOBS BILL March 2010Great news, Americans – our economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February! Well, yes, that’s still a loss, but economists,... Read more...
MAYBE WE COULD FORM A BEER PARTY March 2010Would you have tea with me? I’m talking to you authentic tea bag folks – those who are not corporate-funded,... Read more...
RESPECTING CHICKENS, OR CHICKEN PROFITS? March 2010Let’s talk chicken. I don’t mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word... Read more...
WHAT DOES WALL STREET ACTUALLY PRODUCE? March 2010Goldman Sachs recently announced that the work of its investment bankers in the past year was so fabulous that they... Read more...
HELP CONGRESS GROW A SPINE March 2010In January, a cabal of five Supreme Court corporatists arrogantly overruled the founding fathers, congressional law, a century of court... Read more...
A GOOD BANKING REFORM HAS GONE BAD March 2010They roll into Washington from the West, the North, the South – good ideas to make our national policies better,... Read more...
BUYING AMERICA – WITH OUR DOLLARS March 2010Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers? Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth... Read more...
THE KARZAI-IZATION OF AFGHANISTAN March 2010Isn’t it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We’re standing side... Read more...
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS IN OUR ELECTIONS? March 2010Having decreed that Corporations have a free speech “right ” to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to... Read more...
NEEDED: VIAGRA FOR BACKBONES March 2010What the White House needs is a good alchemist. Not a magician who can turn lead into gold, but a... Read more...
TOYOTA'S FRIENDS March 2010Poor Toyota. Because of an explosion of deadly safety glitches in its cars, the Japanese auto giant is getting pounded... Read more...
THE SUPREME COURT’S CORPORATE WONDERLAND February 2010As you’ve probably heard, corporations are now “people.” While these inanimate paper constructs have no brain, heart, or soul, five... Read more...
LAWMAKERS DANCE WITH THE DEVIL February 2010If you choose to dance with the devil, never flatter yourself that you’re in the the lead. This is a... Read more...
BIG PHARMA DIVORCES BILLY TAUZIN February 2010Some marriages are made in heaven, some in hell. The matrimony of Billy Tauzin and Big Pharma was definitely hellish... Read more...
GREEDHEAD TROPHY UP FOR GRABS February 2010America’s sports writers had all but ceded the coveted “Corporate Greedhead Trophy” to the Wall Street Barons this year but... Read more...
