The Highroad

Ted’s recent announcement of his presidential candidacy was a real Cruz-a-palooza! It was part Ronald Reagan, part Elmer Gantry, part John Lennon and part Jerry Falwell — yet it was totally Ted Cruz — full of blather, bloat and BS...

Do the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card...

Who´s the most befuddled Wall Streeter of all? The richest guy on the Street...

Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC is the acronym for a secretive, corporate-funded, state policy front group: American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC’s “exchange” is very straightforward — it ...

Time for another edition of the new game that’s sweeping the nation: “Who’s That Right Winger?” An interconnected network of extremely wealthy, far-right-wing individuals are quietly pushing their ideological, corporatist and plutocratic agenda all across America...

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...

Question: what do biotech corporations, national milk processors, and the Ohio state government have in common? Answer: defeat...

There’s a growing army of the working poor in our USofA, and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s...

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, known as the “White Maned Pontificator,” has recently been spewing a fountain of free-market dogma in the debate over health care reform...

Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions of dollars each year...

 The Bible doesn’t say that money is the root of all evil — rather, it condemns the love of money...

Well, I didn’t expect this! The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be more than a...