The Highroad
Tax Dodgers Incorporated
Fats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On...
Debt buyers bury hard-hit consumers in lies
Whenever a corporation issues a statement declaring that it is committed to “treating consumers fairly and with respect,” chances are it’s not...
Really and truly, who needs facts?
Here in America the word “fact” has a straightforward, rather obvious meaning: Truth, reality, something that actually exists.
But we now find ourselves transplanted to...
America’s war
America’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war. Not our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations — but our...
A supreme political fraud to gut Obamacare
While we know that an antigovernment group funded by plutocratic corporate powers is behind the lawsuit intended to terminate Obamacare — who are the four people who’re out front as the actual plaintiffs in the case...
Millionaire lawmakers can rise above their financial handicap
Mark Twain spoke for me when he said: “I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position...
How to lift up America’s middle class
Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...
Daddy’s philosophy
This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves...





