The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.
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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [Read more]
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An Afghanistan high
After 11 years of war, $664 billion expended so far, 2,210 Americans dead, more than 35,000 of our troops maimed and shattered, and our good reputation spent – what have we built in Afghanistan?
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George W's $250-million can of whitewash
Big doings in Big D – the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Museum & Institute has opened with elaborate fanfare!
And what a piece of work it is: a $250-million,... [read more]
Scrooge lives!
Ebenezer Scrooge, the Dickens character, perfectly personified the nasty rich. For example, when asked to make a charitable donation for people trapped in poverty, Scrooge curled his lip in contempt and snarled: "Are there no... [read more]
Gagging on ag-gag laws
Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run, concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, and other food animals.
Held in corporate confinement, these creatures of nature are denied... [read more]
Sen. Sanders makes sense on Social Security
So your heart doctor says to you: "We need to do a little open-heart surgery to make a minor tweak in your blood flow."
Whoa! Time for a second opinion!
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Exxon covered in praise as it covers Mayflower in oil
I like the word "Gobsmacked," because it sounds like what it means: Something completely astonishing, so unbelievable that it smacks you.
For example, on... [read more]