The Highroad

Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers

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Look out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land...

Paying for Perry-the- Pretender’s presidential run

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My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...

By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people

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Sorry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country as governors and legislators are cutting off funds (and shutting off access) to one of the finest, most popular assets owned by the people of our country...

Classy banks

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Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies to them...

Woody at 100

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Where’s Woody when we need him...

An Army whistleblower speaks truth about power

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A citizen’s willingness to speak truth to power is essential for the well-being of a democracy. Equally essential, though, are citizens willing to risk their personal well-being by standing up to speak truth about power...

Stepping steadily upward on Massey’s corporate ladder

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Every day on the job, hundreds of miners descend deep into the earth. And every time they go down, each of them wonders: “Will I make it back to the top today?” These days, though, miners and their families are wondering if federal prosecutors will make it to the top...

Congress chooses to keep poisoning children

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Yes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and even frivolous federal spending, because, well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous...

The poppy war in Afghanistan

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Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom...

Political con men are shrinking America

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In my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men...

Tech execs say U.S. is failing them

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Last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to ...

Newt Gingrich: the spawn of ‘Citizens United’

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In its Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court upended our democratic elections by decreeing that corporations and über-wealthy individuals can dump unlimited sums of cash into campaigns to elect their favored candidates. Astonishingly, Justice Anthony Kennedy ...