The Highroad

Let`s talk chicken. I don’t mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word “chicken” and immediately think: “Dinner!” Some commercial interests in Georgia, however, think: “Money!” So they’ve launched a campaign to put the ...

In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires...

If members of the brand-spanking new, Republican-controlled Congress are at all confused about why We the People consider them just another load of bovine excrement, they should look at their bill called “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens...

Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...

Gosh, the 2016 presidential primaries are a long way off, but look out — for here comes Rick Perry of Texas, riding his state’s taxpayer dollars into the GOP primary...

I went to law school for a week and a half, so I know that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how awful, has a right to be represented by a lawyer. But does everyone have a right to a lobbyist...

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In the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago, unregulated energy hucksters created an array of dummy financial funds so they could evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, the funds were given such names as Chewco and JEDI...

At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So...

Okay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they garishly loom over us,...

Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days — quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America...