| Aug 16, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyBlow that whistle, Sound alarm; You’ll get tagged, For endless harm. Iceland certainly needed a PR boost. It has never received proper credit for its strict and sustainable management of fisheries. Other nations would do well to follow suit. Instead, it’s...
| Aug 9, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDo we really have to say nice things about George Steinbrenner just because he’s…you know…dead? Really? OK, here goes: About a dozen years ago or so, maybe more, Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, was talking with Steinbrenner and happened to...
| | Food / FarmingI don’t know how the corn is doing this year, but Washington is producing a bumper crop of irony for America’s black farmers. In the same week that Shirley Sherrod, a black Department of Agriculture official, was falsely accused of anti-white racism by a...
| | Peace / SecurityExtra profits Come from wars, Let’s alert Our senators. Dwight Eisenhower got it straight all right, but he didn’t know the half of it. He prophetically warned us about the “Military-Industrial Complex,” though Blackwater and KBR hadn’t...
| Aug 2, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWe live in grim times, which is why you have to take your laughs where you can get them. For example, in Washington, where Republican congresspeople keep talking about their concern for their grandchildren as an excuse for voting against…well, practically...
