The GOP: Go back to the future? From Rick Perry to Rick Santorum, many Republican sparklies say they reject the science of evolution, favoring instead the “science” of the Bible, including some of its interpreters who claim the Earth is not 4.5 billion years old, [more...]
Monsanto, a bad actor Remember the 1950s horror movie “The Bad Seed”? Any remake should cast Monsanto in the title role, because whenever something scary is being done to our food, you can usually find Monsanto lurking in the shadows. During the past two decades, [more...]
Minimum wage is a poverty wage “In the wealthiest nation on earth,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” Right! Way to go! Not only does his call to raise America’s [more...]
For nearly four years, President Obama refused to admit a foreign-policy “secret” that was widely known here and throughout the world — namely, that the White House, Pentagon and CIA are engaged in ethically questionable and rapidly escalating drone warfare that’s killing innocent civilians as [more...]
Hemp, hemp, hurray for a crop that could deliver a new economic high for America! Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel and made a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into [more...]
The sad tale of poor Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO If you are sensitive to stories of human suffering and economic hardship, let me warn you that the following report contains material that could be upsetting, so discretion is advised. It’s about a fellow named Jamie. [more...]
President channels FDR in his inaugural address Skies were overcast, and the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees in Washington on Monday when President Barack Obama took the oath of office and began his inaugural address. Given his own cool reserve and his first-term penchant [more...]
Look out, the ‘fixers’ are coming to ‘fix the debt’ Top corporate chieftains and Wall Street gamblers want to tell Washington how to fix our national debt, so they’ve created a front group called “Fix the Debt” to push their agenda. Unfortunately, they’re using “fix” [more...]
Free thinking universities turn to corporate-think The “ivory tower” of academia has become overshadowed by a new edifice on campus that is reaching ridiculous heights: the corporate tower of mammon. As public universities have been driven by budget-whacking lawmakers to seek ever-more private funding, schools [more...]
No doubt you had a lot on you mind in December — the dancing of sugar plum fairies, America stumbling toward the fiscal cliff, the outcome of the classic Beef O’Brady’s Bowl game and whatnot — so you might have missed this bit of big [more...]