Where Does the GOP’s Right-Wing Grouchiness Come From?
The tea party may seem new, but it’s the same ol’ GOP party of ‘no.’ I’ve found it! I’ve discovered the original document from which today’s tea party … Read more
Jim Hightower’s Column
Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
How to Make Billboards Uglier
OK, people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. Billboards must be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting … Read more
To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions
No soak-the-rich-idea, but common sense: We should tax financial transactions. The financial transactions tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. … Read more
Why Should You and I Have to Keep Paying Mitch McConnell’s Salary?
Scalia is dead, but Mitch McConnell is brain dead Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right-wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But he can’t … Read more
How Big Pharma is Trying to Improve its Image
Big Pharma tries to deal with the pesky matter of public anger at price gouging. Big news, people! Especially for those of you upset by the skyrocketing prices … Read more
TPP: How Corporate Bamboozlers Intend to Widen Inequality in America
The TPP is written specifically to sanction and increase the robbery of the many by the world’s moneyed few. The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers … Read more
What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint
An undemocratic, unelected “emergency manager” and the governor’s cost-cutting austerity mania doomed Flint residents. The mantra of every Koch-headed, right-wing politico is that government should be run like … Read more
Take the Movement to the White House
“We need a movement which tells Wall Street that when a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders At … Read more
Bernie Sanders: Something Is Happening
The driving force of “Bernie Sanders for President” is coming from encouraging sources. When I crossed paths with a Democratic Party campaign consultant in Austin last March, I … Read more
Why the GOP’s Fence Fantasy is a Farce
These days, Republicans don’t have to be qualified — much less sane — to run for the highest office in the land. All they need is the backing … Read more
