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...

Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...

As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...

How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...

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Excellent news, people. Let me put it to you as a number: 8.7 million...

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

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

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...

Could it be? Dare we think it? Is it possible that the Environmental Protection Agency might finally be getting serious about providing some protection for Appalachia's environment and people...

Perhaps you thought that, surely, partisan posturing by far-right congress critters couldn’t get any nuttier. But now comes the GOP’s claim that all the talk about impeaching President Barack Obama is being led by — guess who? — Barack Obama...