The Highroad

Thanks to the industrializers of American agriculture, we finally know why the chicken crossed the road: To run away from the factory farm...

Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into the back rooms of power to talk softly about payback...

An old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig...

Perhaps you recall from high school civics class that neat flow chart showing the beautiful democratic process for passing a law through Congress...

This new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old ethics-be-damned House run just a few years ago by the convicted money-launderer, Tom DeLay — only more so...

Let us now assess the state of the free press in this land of ... well, of press freedom. The assessment? Pathetic. Not because of some government clampdown, but because of increasing press pusillanimity...

Some people complain that their town has gone to the dogs, but Bastrop, Texas, has gone to the chickens — and Bastropians are proud of it...

If you want to know how the economy is doing, don’t bother checking the Dow Jones Average or tracking the unemployment numbers...

Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked... and spooky. Check out a 72-page “spookinomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic...

You’ll be comforted to know that the rich are concerned about you. Not concerned about your joblessness, lack of health care or anything else about your economic condition. No, no — it’s your psychological state of mind that has them worried. In particular, they are ...

You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...

  Wow, that was an exhilarating election, wasn’t it? Of course, even a car wreck can be exhilarating...