To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Tea Party Enigma
Pardon Me
Oklahoma’s Folly: Challenging Health Reform
Wall Street Profits, Subsidies And Lobbyists
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Wall Street bankers are strutting around like little banty roosters these days, crowing about the phenomenal profits their banks are raking in. Citigroup has just announced that its profits for just the first three months of this year totaled an incredible $4.4 billion, Goldman Sachs’ haul was $3.5 billion, JPMorgan Chase grabbed […]
Smaller Government, Anyone?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Maybe not this week. With the oil spilling in the Gulf, it’s hard to find too many people calling for less government and more reliance on the private sector. Drill, Baby, Drill? Maybe not so fast. BP, to its credit, is taking responsibility for the spill, promising to do everything it can […]