The Highroad
Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy
A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney...
Walling them out, or walling us in?
Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...
‘Black Friday’ is spoiling Thanksgiving
Here comes Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas! It’s a month-long season of friends and family, spiritual reflection and time to decompress from our usual helter-skelter lives, right...
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates
National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...
What job creation numbers don’t tell us
Have you noticed that The Powers That Be employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job market than they use for the stock market...
Wild about wild chickens
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...
Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?
Besides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common? Answer: Hemp...
Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly
Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...
Romney takes the gold in 2002 Olympics
One of the curiosities of life in these curious times is that millions of Americans are enjoying the benefits of government — but are either unaware of it or in denial...
Obama’s bizarre sales pitch for TPP
For some bizarre reason, Obama is staking his presidential legacy on a trade scam called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s a corporate wet dream that would let profiteering giants in Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and eight other Pacific nations sue to overturn our ...
Koch industries doesn’t just lobby government, it’s becoming the government
The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns over the majority will of the people has always been...
Workers down, bosses up: a morality play
It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains feel the pain of their underlings, who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett, the media giant that owns 23 television stations and 82 newspapers, including USA Today...
