The Highroad

I would trust a pack of coyotes to guard my little herd of lambs before I’d trust a pack of corporate hucksters to “reform”...

Public education used to be, you know, public, as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all, paid for by all through school taxes...

Imagine a headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill...

In its Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court upended our democratic elections by decreeing that corporations and über-wealthy individuals can dump unlimited sums of cash into campaigns to elect their favored candidates. Astonishingly, Justice Anthony Kennedy ...

When corporate lobbyists and the Congress critters they control attack efforts to raise the minimum wage to at least a bare level of human decency, they always try to cast the issue as an intolerable squeeze on struggling mom & pop stores. But wait what are those ...

When you think of America’s great Constitutional originators, names like Jefferson, Washington and Franklin come to mind. And, of course, Abbott.      ...

Five men suddenly found themselves faced with an all-out attack on their territory. Five men confronted by a hostile power. But these five men looked destiny in the eye — and then they suited up and took care of business...

My father was an early member of a group now known disparagingly as “ultra-lawn people...

By gollies, The Donald delivers! Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to create millions of American jobs....

What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...

Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in banks to capture images...

President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands and...