The Highroad

From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make ...

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 ...

Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan — but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America’s legal system...

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 giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague called “consumer confusion” — and these selfless corporate entities are going all out to save you from it...

Jim Hightower comments on Colorado's shackling bill. Jim Hightower on Colorado Shackling Bill by boulderweekly

Let’s hear it for American Tradition Partnership! It’s an organization that stands up for the politically dispossessed in our land. It goes to the highest courts to assert the fundamental rights of a minority that’s been denied its full voice in America’s political ...

Executives in private equity firms — such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts — tend to be peacocks who think quite highly of themselves...

The funny thing about Wall Street banksters is that they make a killing by defrauding millions of homeowners, customers, investors and taxpayers — then, when caught, they wonder why we don’t love them...

Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies...

Hey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others...

Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...