The Highroad
Has America turned right-wing? Or nuts?
Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride.
Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that)....
How bad public policy happens
If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence —...
Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid the needy!
Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress?
Regular folks in our country say...
When will Wall Street quit being stupid?
The self-described “Geniuses of Wall Street” are being stupid. Again.
In 2007, their stupid schemes and frauds crashed our economy, destroying middle-class jobs, wealth and...
Donald Trump’s strange bromance with Rodrigo Duterte
We’ve had a great relationship,” exulted a giddy Donald Trump, following his two-day schmoozefest in Manila with the thuggish Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte, who...
Why would you let Jeff Bezos inside your home?
Would you give your house key to a complete stranger, letting that person (whose name you don’t even know) walk right into your home...
Robot farmers — bull, bull, bull, bull!
How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen... Angus?
Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle, but Angus, the 1,000-pound “farmer...
Koch industries doesn’t just lobby government, it’s becoming the government
The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns over the majority will of the people has always been...
Cowboys for Liberty
What’s in a name? By definition, the name of a person, place or thing is its personal designation... a distinct way of being known...
What kind of country punishes Good Samaritans?
Let us now contemplate the morality tale of the Good Samaritan. Not the one in the New Testament, but the one out in the...
Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington
It’s odd that Washington Republicans are so loudly crowing about their passage of the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax law. Odd because the people outside of Washington...
The unnatural disasters pushing farmers off the land
As a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but you have to start with a large fortune.”
Farmers tend...
