The Highroad

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

Any remake of the 1950s movie The Bad Seed should cast Monsanto in the title role...

The Koch boys live in their own special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth...

Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...

America has the wrong approach for dealing with thieves. Rather than “looking backwards” at their misdeeds and “punishing” them, we merely need to ask that they not misbehave in the future, then monitor their behavior...

At last, our embarrassment is over! We Texans have long endured the shame of having our goober of a governor, Rick Perry, declaimed as the goofiest public official in the land. But now, we can point to another state’s embarrassment, for a newly elected senator has ...

What did you do in the war, Daddy? “I was on the front lines, stringing bands of concertina wire along the border.” Concertina? Were you in...

Prostitutes are amateurs compared to Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, whose going rate is $20,000 a pop. At least that’s what he was paid last year by Waste Control Specialists...

With corporations socking away massive profits, and with the labor market fairly tight, why are worker’s wages still stuck at miserly and even poverty...

War is hell...

Some are born with good luck. But I was 30 years old before Lady Luck smiled on me with full radiance, arriving in the...

It’s odd that Washington Republicans are so loudly crowing about their passage of the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax law. Odd because the people outside of Washington...