BY JIM HIGHTOWER Bankers gone wild! Let’s tally some of their crimes: JPMorgan Chase engaged in massive, systematic fraud to foreclose without cause or due process on innocent homeowners, tossing thousands of families into the streets. Goldman Sachs profited by marketing an investment package that was designed to fail, collecting fat fees on each sale […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH In a hearing earlier this week, the judge presiding over the trial in Colorado of accused mass murderer James Holmes deferred deciding whether Fox News reporter Jana Winter should be forced into the “Hobson’s choice” of revealing her confidential sources or going to jail for six months. This is not a case […]

BY JAMES NIMMO The Oklahoma Legislature is just so slap-happy. That is, happy to keep slapping Oklahoma's minority gay and lesbian voters and tax payers...

BY FROMA HARROP In honoring Margaret Thatcher, some of her greatest fans complain, “They don’t make conservatives like that any more.” But they do. Problem is, the Republican right wing now running the party primaries would chew a Thatcher-type politician into unelectable shards. It takes a brave conservative to engage in detail-oriented fights over what […]

BY FROMA HARROP I’m shopping for a sweater online, and as so often happens, up pops a “tell us what you think” box. Or I’m on social media, and another social media company hijacks the screen, trying to sell me another product. Then there’s: “How did you like the app?” “Tweet about us.” “Leave a […]