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How Did ‘Don’t Mess with the Money’ Become the NSA’s Motto?
Imagine we had a brazen and powerful gang stealing trillions of dollars from the American people. Then imagine that our law enforcement folks knew the identities of every one of that gang's ringleaders. Wouldn't it be great if the government of the United States had...
The NRA’s Accidental Brush with Sanity
Whoa, that was close. The National Rifle Association nearly shot itself in the foot recently with a common-sense editorial it posted online. The group of rootin'-tootin,' bullet-spittin,' doctrinaire, guns-everywhere extremists finally saw something involving firearms...
Jilting My Sugar
A cartoon drawn by Marty Bucella going around Facebook these days depicts an overweight man on a scale with his doctor. "No, it's not water," the doctor says. "You seem to be retaining food." That was me. Yes, it's true, I write about food. And I generally do eat a...
Hamster-Wheel Economics 101
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew comes across as somewhat optimistic about the rather lackluster national economy. "Evidence continues to mount that our economy is gaining traction," Lew recently said. "Nevertheless, we cannot escape the fact that millions of Americans...
Crushing Cantor by Dissing Wall Street
Let’s Measure the Job Market the Way We Gauge Stock Market Health
Have you noticed that the Powers that Be employ a different standard for measuring the health of America's job market than they use for the stock market? They're currently telling us that the job market is "improving." What do they mean? Simply that the economy is...
This Week in OtherWords: June 11, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower marvels at a British hedge fund titan's luxury chicken coop and Jill Richardson praises the EU's robust regulations for keeping its food safer to eat than ours. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
A Field Day for Fracking
U.S. and EU negotiators recently began a new round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement. Because the talks are happening behind closed doors, the public is left largely in the dark about the nature of the discussions over a deal also known as the...
Restoring the Right to Vote
Last year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement's crowning achievements. Now, it's time for Congress to pick up the pieces, put it back together and make our laws strong enough to protect our most important right: our vote. Many folks who lived...
2,300 Deaths Are Enough
President Barack Obama's recent attempt to define foreign policy failed to accurately reflect how Washington intends to end one of the biggest quagmires of our time: Afghanistan. "You are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in Iraq...
