| Jun 21, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThere’s one direct, grassroots way that workaday folks can create more fairness in our country’s plutocratic, corporate-controlled economy: unite in unions. Indeed, some 60 million workers say they’d join a union today if they could. Well…why...
| Jun 14, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyTimothy Leary’s famous catchphrase was “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” I didn’t then. I’m not going to now. Way back in the 1960s, I held that my body was “a temple of God.” Thanks to my Christian beliefs, I wouldn’t...
| 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...
| May 7, 2010 | Food / FarmingLow milk prices having been hammering the nation’s dairy farmers, including those in New York’s 24th congressional district, where Republican Candidate Richard Hanna is challenging Democrat Michael Arcuri. According to a May 7 article in the Little Falls,...
| Apr 28, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDr. Rand Paul, son of Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, is a leading candidate to replace Kentucky’s outgoing Republican Senator, Jim Bunning. He’s seizing on the same citizen anger that fuels the tea partiers (Sarah Palin has endorsed him), but as...
