It’s frightening to watch the Texas legislature in action, but it can also be entertaining–in the same way a freak show... Read more...
Right-wing groups receiving major grants from the Koch Family Foundations (Charles Koch, David Koch, and Claude Lambe Foundations) Amounts granted... Read more...
To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the... Read more...
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television’s yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas,... Read more...
The fanciful notion that a corporation is a “person” and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from–get this–a mistake.... Read more...
At his 2005 hearing to be confirmed as chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts had to convince some skeptical... Read more...
Sorry to interrupt the Obama celebration even before the man gets settled into the Oval Office, but–what the hell is he... Read more...
“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies, not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but at... Read more...
Here they come–America’s Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons... Read more...
The nasty fellow whose attack-dog, smear-tactic, lie-and-distort brand of politics lifted George W into the White House twice has quietly slipped back... Read more...
Harry Truman said, “No man should be allowed to be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That’s never been more true... Read more...
IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTING — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high... Read more...
LOOK OUT–HERE THEY COME AGAIN! Bush & Buckshot are riding their little stick horses, waving the bloody flag of 9/11, demonizing... Read more...
WHERE IS CONGRESS? It’s way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being... Read more...
DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into... Read more...
In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but... Read more...
When he was a U.S. senator many years ago, Oklahoma’s Bob Kerr would occasionally express amazement at some bit of... Read more...