Casting a Spotlight on Frankenfoods

Casting a Spotlight on Frankenfoods

Do you have a right to know how your food is produced? Look at any label on something made for human consumption. Whether it’s a bite-sized candy bar, a box of cereal, or a gallon of pickles, you’ll see lots of information: a list of ingredients, allergen...
Catching Monsanto’s Drift

Catching Monsanto’s Drift

Bob Dylan once sent a two-word lyric to Ben Harper, a talented songwriter he admired. “Well well,” was the lyric, and Dylan challenged Harper to make a song of it. He did! By adding another “well” to the title, Harper wrote “Well, well,...
Egging On North Korea

Egging On North Korea

As our dust-up with North Korea stumbles inexorably onward, the U.S. media is tearing its hair out over how any sovereign nation could possibly act so irrationally. Well, how about looking in the mirror? North Korea’s policies and supreme leader may seem kooky,...
Michele Bachmann Bows Out

Michele Bachmann Bows Out

It looks as though we jackals of the “lamestream media” won’t have Michele Bachmann to kick around anymore. With just a hint of Nixonian rancor in her voice, she announced — via a lengthy YouTube rant in the middle of the night a short while ago —...
The Wealthy’s Free Pass

The Wealthy’s Free Pass

All of a sudden, almost everybody — in Congress at least — seems to want to talk about the IRS. Fine. We need a good debate about taxes. But let’s have a debate that zooms in on the core issues. Like who’s paying taxes in America today and who...