Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?

Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?

Et tu, Lou? It turns out that Lou Dobbs has employed undocumented workers to toil on his estates and tend to his family’s numerous horses. According to a recent investigative report in The Nation, the poster boy for the anti-immigrant crowd said he was told the...

Washington at Work–for the Wealthy

Scroll through the right-wing blogosphere, or listen in at a tea party rally, and you’ll find angry people ranting about an out-of-control federal government that’s redistributing the nation’s wealth to the undeserving poor. Those rants do have one...

The Faces of Government

I had dinner the other night with one of those villains, a “faceless bureaucrat” working as a wildlife biologist for the Department of the Interior in northern Florida. A college friend of my wife, she had spent many years in research on endangered...
Save the Billionaires’ Tax Loophole

Save the Billionaires’ Tax Loophole

Look out. They’re angry. Foaming-at-the-mouth angry. And they’re lashing out, saying they won’t take it anymore. As one of their leaders angrily cried, “It’s a war.” Indeed–they’re on the move to take their country back....

Trim NASA Down to Size

Spacemen gambol In the sky, Burning taxes As they fly. President Barack Obama is surely on the right track in scratching our return to the moon and in dropping the Space Shuttle program. Ever since the triumphant moon landing, NASA’s manned space program has...