To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Party Of Perpetual Whining
BY JOE CONASON Listening to Republicans in Washington [and Texas and Arizona] scream about the “crisis” of migrant children arriving from Central America on our southern border, it is puzzling to realize they don’t actually want to do anything to solve the problem. Nor do these hysterical politicians – led by that down-home diva Rick […]
Walgreens Inversion Perversion Another Corporate Tax Loophole
BY JIM HIGHTOWER How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his part of the taxes that make them available? And what if this neighbor also said […]
Strangling Democracy
BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Koch boys, Charles and David, live in their own little world. It’s a special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth. Thus, the two brothers have always felt very special, and they also expect those of us in the down-to-Earth […]
A Message For Patriots Of All Persuasions
BY JOE CONASON When the flags fly proudly on the Fourth of July, I remember what my late father taught me about love of country. Much as he despised the scoundrels and pretenders he liked to call “jelly-bellied flag flappers,” after a line in a favorite Rudyard Kipling story, he was deeply patriotic. It is […]
The Militarization Of ‘Officer Friendly’
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Let’s check our weaponry: 93,000 machine guns – check! – 533 planes and helicopters – check! 180,000 magazine cartridges – check! 44,000 night-vision goggles – check! 432 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles – check! OK, let’s roll! Only, this is not the U.S. military getting ready to head into battle in a foreign land. […]
