The Highroad

The Powers That Be constantly try to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but sometimes the wool blinders are so itchy that people rip them off and clearly see the scam...

Good news, people...

Ted’s recent announcement of his presidential candidacy was a real Cruz-a-palooza! It was part Ronald Reagan, part Elmer Gantry, part John Lennon and part Jerry Falwell — yet it was totally Ted Cruz — full of blather, bloat and BS...

Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...

We know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash... but where did all those houses go? It turns...

What did you do in the war, Daddy? “I was on the front lines, stringing bands of concertina wire along the border.” Concertina? Were you in...

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

How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...

This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...

Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...

Well, I didn’t expect this! The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be more than a...

The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of our essential middle class...