The Highroad

Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy, because...

Good news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine and are beginning to act like... well, like Democrats! In...

We Americans believe everyone has a right to have their day in court. Right? But what if the court is turned into a loony bin,...

Bring those jobs back home, Donald Trump bellowed to those greedheaded corporate executives who’ve hauled our middle-class jobs out of country, or I’ll slap...

It’s been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares? What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining...

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

Coal mining is a filthy business. Literally. Miners not only get covered in the soot of their trade, but also suffer the suffocating death called...

I don’t think so, but Cargill Inc. is doing its damndest to get away with its version of the old admonition that eating your cake today means not having it tomorrow. Cargill, the $2.3 billion-a-year food conglomerate, is a huge producer and user of food ingredients ...

Big story from that razzle-dazzle place called “El Casino Grande” — otherwise known as Wall Street...

A proper wall, we’re told, makes good neighbors, but an 18-foot-high, 2000-mile-long wall goes way beyond proper, antagonizes your neighbor and shows your own...

The best political party in America is not the Dems or the Repubs, but a real party named “Fighting Bob Fest.” It’s a daylong, outdoor...

Mothers everywhere warn children not to put any food in their mouths unless they know where it came from. The same should apply to putting information in our heads...