| Jun 14, 2010 | Environment / HealthThe great question of the day is: Who is to blame for the BP oil disaster that’s dominating the news? There are many answers. Texas Governor Rick Perry, known as the conservative’s conservative, provided my favorite. He thinks God did it. At least he...
| | Economy / BusinessFor the super-rich hoity-toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is unpleasant, messy, and…well, so common. Instead of that, they sniff, America should be ruled by an “ism” of their invention: plutonomism. Yes,...
| | Economy / BusinessBanks emitA friendly tone;At least untilYou want a loan. I have here in my hand, as Sen. Joe McCarthy used to say about alleged communist evidence, a bona-fide “Delivery Authorization” from Wachovia Bank (“a Wells Fargo Company”). They’ve...
| Jun 7, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyA recent poll found that nearly four out of five Americans don’t trust the government. The survey, done by the Pew Research Center, reported that 78 percent of the people have little or no faith in the government’s ability to solve the problems that beset...
| | Peace / SecurityHow grand it was in Washington for Hamid Karzai. The corrupt, inept president of Afghanistan–whose regime is being propped up by 87,000 of our troops and a $7-billion-a-month bill from us taxpayers–got the red-carpet treatment in our nation’s capital...
