The Highroad

First came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the “Antonin Scalia School Of Law.” Yes,...

Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...

Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions-of-dollars each year...

Sallie Mae is not one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is filled with sugar, but it comes from you and me, thanks to a longtime sweetheart deal she has from the federal government...

Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals...

Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes...

When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate election in 1966, he said: “The people have spoken. The bastards.”     ...

Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up. The sorry saga of...

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 ...

Donnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton...

The uber-rich like to collect trophies as proof of their unsurpassed uberness...

Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...