The Highroad

Let’s cheer for NFL cheerleaders

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Give me an “N” — Nnnnnn...

The selling of the Obama inauguration

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He did it. Unfortunately. Sadly. Disappointingly...

How dare D.C. demand fair wages from Walmart?

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Want to see pure altruism in action? Go to Washington, D.C. — not to the marbled buildings of the federal government, but to the real city, where ordinary folks live...

Amazon buys out Whole Foods: What’s it to us?

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Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buy-out of Whole Foods Market is not only a win-win for both of them —...

Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections

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It’s our civic duty to vote, right? Well that depends on who you are. The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don’t want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their ...

Why the Bernie revolution will continue

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The reason that I believe Bernie Sanders’ political rebellion will persevere is that it’s organic. Rather than being an artificial marketing creation sprouted in...

It’s greed that fuels this CEO’s ‘grit’

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Heather Bresch regards herself as a self-made corporate success story — a woman who came out of hard-scrabble West Virginia and scrambled to the...

A little less corporate political corruption

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Come on, Obama, do it!  Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...

Another Koch-funded stealth campaign

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Millions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a nice above-board civic group promoting such salt-of-the-earth virtues as integrity and veracity, but quite the opposite...

Trump versus the wisdom of Robert E. Lee

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While our present president’s moral character seems stuck somewhere between boorish and brutish, it’s only fair to note that he also has an aesthetic...

Ag biz gags on its own gag law

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Amy Meyer was curious. Then she was appalled. Then she was charged with the “crime” of using a cell phone to video what appalled her...

Parsing the PR lies of Goldman Sachs

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CorporateSpeak is an inane language that conveys seriousness without any sincerity. Consider this example from Goldman Sachs: “We are pleased to put these legacy matters...