With our national election looming, someone should put up “lost dog” signs in every neighborhood saying, “Missing: Republican Party Platform.”
Top regulatory officials in Trump’s government keep chanting the same one-word mantra: “Deregulate… Deregulate… Deregulate…” Day after day, these agency bosses have been “liberating” greedy business interests to do their damnedest to us consumers, workers, the environment… and even to our ch…
Sometimes I don’t know whether to weep uncontrollably, laugh hysterically or just throw up.
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Wartime profiteering has been as common in our country as war itself.
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A s Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: “They can’t make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t.”
This is a make or break year for many migrants seeking to improve their families’ financial conditions. They say they’re being persecuted in their homeland, yet they fear being vilified for crossing the border. What to do?
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The holiday season got me thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves.
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Y ou probably haven’t heard about it, but there’s another mass migration coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. However, these are not Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home — only to be separated, incarcerated, traumatized and demonized by the Trump Gang for seeking …
L ast year, Donald Trump said something stupid.
C ongratulations on that nice pay raise you got last year. A 7 percent hike — wow!
F rom the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but rowdy beer halls.
L et us now contemplate the morality tale of the good Samaritan. Not the one in the Old Testament, but the one out in the high desert region around Marfa, Texas, just 60 miles from the Mexican border.
T he great thing about corporate giants is that they are such amazing business innovators. For example, in the category of “wheel-spinning” innovation — i.e., trying to change a corporation’s course without actually changing anything — it’s hard to top McDonald’s. For several years, the fast…
