| Mar 31, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyBeing a Congress critter isn’t the cushy job many people assume. After all, they must draft laws, organize hearings, write speeches, round up votes, and do all sorts of other things. Oh, wait… my mistake. Members have staff to do all that, including telling the...
| Mar 24, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyRepresentative Steve Scalise might not be for sale, but he is available for long-term lease. The lease is straightforward: Lobbyists pony up millions of corporate dollars to “keep and expand our [Republican] majority in Congress,” as Scalise puts it. Then...
| Dec 22, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyDo you — or does anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing to do your job ethically? If you’re a Congress critter, apparently so. For that’s what newly elected lawmakers have just received. Nearly all those newcomers rode to victory...
| Jun 25, 2012 | Economy / BusinessThe stock market keeps going up and down like a yo-yo. I thought you’d like to know why. It’s Greece. Oh, not totally — there are other miscreants involved — but pretty much everyone agrees the Greeks are the first and foremost cause. This is...
| | Peace / SecurityOur national leaders’ rationale for investing so much money and so many boots on the ground in that awful war in Afghanistan was that we’d leave behind a stable, popular government to assure peace and prosperity for all. That was 11 years ago. Now that...
