POLITICAL CORRUPTION

McCain opens the spigots

September 2008

“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies, not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but at... Read more...

Why the McCain drill-more-oil campaign is pure flim flam

September 2008

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...

Rise of the Rovians

August 2008

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...

Heartless Phil and “honorable lobbyists” would run McCain’s White House

August 2008

The political media establishment is enrapturedby John McCain. Mainline media sparklies, as well as the blatherers on the Fox channel, routinely buff... Read more...

What Obama calls “old politics”

July 2008

Old Congress critters never die, they just go to K Street. Take Dennis Hastert. Actually, he’s already taken. The longtime Republican lawmaker... Read more...

Who are the big-money givers behind the candidates?

June 2008

Dallas Oilman H.L. Hunt was a billionaire in a time when such massive wealth was unusual, back in the 1950s and... Read more...

Immigrants come here because globalization took their jobs back there

January 2008

THE WAILING IN OUR COUNTRY ABOUT the “invasion of immigrants” has been long and loud. As one complainant put it, “Few... Read more...

America to D.C. — Democrats included: We’re mad as hell and you’re not listening!

December 2007

IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTING — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high... Read more...

The presidency is taking over the courts and Congress

October 2007

WHERE IS CONGRESS? It’s way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being... Read more...

This is the Marx Brothers, bumbling around Animal Farm!

September 2007

A FRIEND OF MINE TELLS A STORY about the political demise in the 1950s of an entrenched Oklahoma state representative,... Read more...

Where Bush’s arrogance has taken us

August 2007

DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into... Read more...

Politicians are selling our bridges rather than building them

July 2007

WILL ROGERS SOMETIMES TUCKED little moral messages into his one-liners. For example: “I’d rather be the man who bought the... Read more...

The Bushites have outsourced our government to their pals

June 2007

THE SPRAWLING $43 BILLION HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat... Read more...

It’s time for people’s housing, people’s transit, and PEOPLE FIRST!

October 2005

By the fifth day — with New Orleans under 20 feet of toxic water, with federal help still nowhere to... Read more...

All politicians who support a war should be drafted

September 2005

George W was hardly the first draft-age man of means who used family connections to duck going to war (even... Read more...

Will this judge rule for the powerful—and against The People?

August 2005

In 1981, when blowhard televangelist Jerry Falwell exclaimed that Sandra Day O’Connor was not right wing enough for him, and... Read more...

More brand names behind the Bush agenda

February 2005

Did you catch George W’s pep rally just before Christmas? The White House solemnly billed it as a two-day “summit”... Read more...

The homeland rebels against the security act

January 2003

Alberto Fujimori is the disgraced former president of Peru who claims that, from 1990 to 2000, he smashed two revolutionary... Read more...

The bush gang’s plan to rule the world

October 2002

Hoo-boy. Look out, world, here comes King George the W, all saddled up on his war pony, decked out in... Read more...

A bunkered government behind an iron veil

August 2002

In Mexican-American communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, there’s an old adage, or dicho: “El camarón que se duerme se... Read more...

Looting the treasury

February 2002

Not even our sagacious friend Obey could have imagined how many big mistakes would be pushed through Congress by selfish... Read more...

Millions of Americans are kept from voting

August 2001

When he was a U.S. senator many years ago, Oklahoma’s Bob Kerr would occasionally express amazement at some bit of... Read more...

Uncovering a cover-up of chemical killers

June 2001

Bruce King, the former governor of New Mexico, once said with alarm: “We don’t want to open a box of... Read more...

Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped

August 2000

To get a job these days, chances are you’ll have to pee in a bottle. Your intimate medical history can... Read more...

Crime in the suites

March 2000

There’s a crime wave underway in America, but the Powers That Be are getting sore necks from looking the other... Read more...