| Feb 14, 2011 | Environment / HealthWhen corporate executives needed a political favor, they used to run to Congress. Now they can also run to the courthouse. Over the years, corporate chieftains and their political henchmen have steadily ensconced reliable laissez-faire ideologues in hundreds of...
| | Economy / BusinessToday, war and taxes remain our nation’s two most tragic issues. While we haven’t quite finished losing those pointless shooting wars, we’ve surely lost the tax war. Yes, President Barack Obama has surrendered. You saw it on TV. He said right out in...
| Feb 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe N-word is perhaps the most powerful word in the English language. It carries 400 years of brutal American history that can strike with the force of a lash. Nice people don’t say it. F-bombs are soggy firecrackers compared to the explosive power...
| | Economy / BusinessWhen you dance with the devil, never fool yourself into thinking that you’re leading. That would be my 50-cents-worth of advice to President Barack Obama as he remakes his presidency into a Clintonesque corporate enterprise. Following last fall’s...
| | Rights / DemocracyElections keep Our land afloat; But all’s not equal When we vote. You may believe that on Election Day all of officialdom momentarily unites in urging us to vote. Leaders–rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, business and labor–want us to do our...
