The Highroad

Don´t cry for Jamie Dimon, America. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall ...

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In my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men...

It’s a scary world out there, with global terrorists plotting to kill us...

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal last year, and in short order he has turned it into a tongue-clucking sympathizer with and proselytizer for the biggest of big businesses — not only on its editorial pages, but also in its news stories...

Washington’s gossip mill is spinning furiously over the recent revelations about Dennis Hastert’s long hidden sexual molestation scandal. But what about the filthy, backroom affair he’s been openly conducting with corporate lobbyists for nearly two decades...

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...

It was my privilege to go to Des Moines, Iowa, recently for a World Food Prize extravaganza recognizing Monsanto’s work against global hunger. But wait, Monsanto is not a hunger fighter, it’s a predatory proliferator of proprietary GMO seeds...

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

Not only have crowds been streaming into arenas all around the country to hear Bernie Sanders’ fact-studded speeches, but ordinary Americans have also been...