Who says that Republican congress critters don’t care about minorities in our society? Why, at this very moment, they are pushing hard to pass a $372 billion federal program to lift the economic fortunes of just one minority group – a far more g…

It’s a testament to the political security of Orrin Hatch, and the relative political cowardice of Harry Reid, that it’s the conservative Utah Republican who has been willing to stand …Read Full Post

The great state of Georgia is famous for its peanuts, but I still say that my state of Texas produces the most extraordinary goobers of them all.
As proof, I submit Joe Driver, a Republican state representative from the Dallas area. You can’t…

As any family court judge can tell you, divorce cases can be explosive. But for powerful courtroom confrontations, human divorces have nothing over the legal conflagrations that erupt when one corporation has been wronged by another.
Take the…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused on some fairly serious charges this morning–rape and molestation–and that puts those of us who are concerned about multiple human rights issues in a …Read Full Post

For the super-rich hoity toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is unpleasant, messy, and… well, so common. Instead of that, they sniff, America should be ruled by an “ism” of their invention: plutonomis…

There’s one direct, grassroots way that workaday folks can create more fairness in our country’s plutocratic, corporate-controlled economy: unite in unions. Indeed, some 60 million workers say they’d join a union today if they could.
Well… …

Oh, please, Santa Clause, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich.
The Newt says he is planning to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012, and all I can say is: “YES!” The corrupt former-speaker of…