Tom Paine: What a Guy!
The greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was none other than Tom Paine. In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not George Washington or Thomas Jefferson … 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.
Icarus: Solution to Climate Change?
Proposed techno-money schemes are like Icarus and his wings of wax and feathers, who flew too close to the sun. Although the sun is an essential life force, … Read more
How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer a Train Wreck
Corporate lobbyists are great at championing reform while killing it. “Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) are just corporate lobbyists who have patented a formula allowing … Read more
Abortion Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women
Two tyrannical Texas politicians responsible for the most draconian abortion ban in the country want to revive a slave-law concept. Here’s our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. … Read more
What Is a Banker’s Promise Worth?
Banking giants do a backflip on their promise to do the right thing for humanity on climate change. Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people … Read more
The Right Wing’s Program to Solve Childhood Obesity
Iowa governor asserts food program “does nothing to promote nutrition” and could contribute to childhood obesity! This plotline could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about … Read more
Just What We Need – Another Border Wall!
Republicans concoct a whole new xenophobic bugaboo to goose up their anti-immigrant demagoguery — another border wall. In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants … Read more
Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs Is Corporate BS
CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — are nightmarish creatures of industrial agribusiness. A decade ago, Oklahoma’s countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs — Concentrated … Read more
When Private Enterprise Fails, Public Enterprise Must Step Up
In cities all across America, private enterprise is driving poor and middle-class families out of their own towns. In cities all across America, an infiltration of private enterprise … Read more
Let’s Send All Billionaires to Mars!
Why not just send our “genius” billionaires to Mars, and let them report back? Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet … Read more
