BY JOE CONASON Popular disgust over the fat premiums that financial executives bestow upon themselves is burgeoning, and rightly so. Those Wall Street piggy banks are filling up with billions upon billions of government-subsidized dollars. But anyone infuriated by the grossly inflated compensation of the masters of finance should check out the incredible earnings of […]

BY FROMA HARROP The Ken Burns series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea got me thinking about one of America’s worst ideas, the war on drugs. Particularly ill-conceived is the crusade against marijuana. That bad idea is now threatening the good idea, as Mexican drug cartels – hampered by a tighter border – swarm over […]

BY JAMES NIMMO I'm always amazed at the Oklahoma GOP's use of bold-faced lies and hypocrisy which they throw around like a herd of diarrhea-infected...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Where are those lawsuit abuse groups when you really need them? Chance are that you’ve seen ads, letters-to-the-editor, op-ed pieces and other materials put out by outfits with such civic-sounding names on Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. By whatever name, the message is always the same, usually delivered in a sort of urgent, […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH As it turns out, it was no secret that Richard and Mayumi Heene were very bad parents. Their associates knew it. Television producers witnessed it. Their willingness to put their children in danger to get attention was nothing new. They chased storms with their children. They used them to become “stars” of […]