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December 13, 2006
We are fast, too fast, approaching the 3,000th American combat death in
Iraq.
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December 7, 2006
It's getting close to New Year's and time for annual awards. And in the 2006 Sweepstakes of Greed, the winners are...
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November 28, 2006
As US Air seeks to create a mega-airline by gobbling up Delta, the
evidence mounts that a free market in the sky just doesn't work.
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November 15, 2006
In cities across America, reporters are being laid off, TV stations are
cutting back coverage and the newspaper industry is crumbling to dust.
When it all shakes out, will Wikipedia be as good as it gets?
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October 31, 2006
College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
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October 23, 2006
Why did America's so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush's Iraq disaster? You won't find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.
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October 14, 2006
Bring back Saddam. Spring him from the slammer and put the old dictator back to work. Otherwise, we're never gonna get out of Iraq.
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October 3, 2006
Will Democrats lose 50,000 votes every time the price of gasoline drops?
If they do, don't blame the GOP (they don't have that much power). Blame instead
the greed of US consumers.
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September 26, 2006
Every person on this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people is a billionaire, who collectively possess about $1.25 trillion. Imagine how many Congressmen that will buy.
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September 6, 2006
If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and running the funds.
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August 30, 2006
As the generation of power brokers over 40 continues to blow off
global warming, our dependence on a waning supply of oil will create
a miserable future for their children and grandchilden.
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August 22, 2006
As the world grows short of oil, nations in search of a viable energy
policy should take a lesson from Cuba, which turned to sustainable
agriculture to offset its own oil crisis.
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August 15, 2006
If we are to survive and prosper in an oil-short world, we must not only
think outside the box--we must get rid of the box. We must abandon the
long-held idea that growth is the path to achieve every national goal.
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July 21, 2006
Why go to a real college? Enroll in Donald Trump's virtual university
and you'll learn all you need to know for $29 or your money back!
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July 20, 2006
The targeting of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon summons the image of Picasso's wrenching mural that memorialized innocents
caught in the crossfire.
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July 10, 2006
What Warren Buffett's gift of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lacks in imagination, it makes up for in safety. If only they had the guts to tackle the real problems.
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June 27, 2006
Back in Washington's day, Congress printed money to fight the Revolutionary War without collecting taxes to back it up--and paid the price in inflation: History repeats itself today.
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June 20, 2006
The United States has made no headway quelling the insurgency or rebuilding Iraq, but one secret project is on target: construction of a palatial US
Embassy inside the Green Zone. What kind of exit strategy is this?
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June 12, 2006
Exhausted and overused American forces could become so unglued that staying in Iraq may well
become impossible. Then what?
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June 5, 2006
When a group of international journalists visited a small town in Maine, they made it clear that America's aggression in Iraq, its greed and the advance of pop culture are leading onetime allies to desert us.
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May 30, 2006
Declining birthrates in Mexico give the lie to American fears of an influx of immigrants. As birthrates plummet around the world, America's real problem may be a shortage, not a surfeit, of guest workers.
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May 22, 2006
It's outrageous enough that the NSA is secretly monitoring Americans' calling
patterns. But has anyone considered what would happen if incompetent or unscrupulous monitors sold that information to the highest bidder?
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May 15, 2006
Soccer fans in Germany struck a blow against US corporate blandness by turning up their noses at the notion that Budweiser is the official beer of the games.
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April 28, 2006
As oil profits soar, Americans are getting hosed at the gas pump, and Congress can't decide whether to raise taxes, lower them or throw money at the voters.
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April 24, 2006
It's helpful that six retired generals are calling for Rumsfeld's head.
But it would be easier to dislodge him if more Democrats in Congress
joined the fray.
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April 18, 2006
If the Bush Administration is serious about dropping an atomic bomb on
Iran, it's really going to have to work on selling the concept.
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April 10, 2006
Time-honored traditions of Christianity are being challenged by
scientists and scholars questioning the motives of Jesus, Judas and the
power of prayer.
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April 3, 2006
What happens when liberals lose their sex drive? American culture moves further away from secular individualism and closer to religious fundamentalism.
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March 28, 2006
Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding
grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off
his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic get any crazier?
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March 22, 2006
A flood of reader mail responding to last week's column on the impact
of rising levels of student debt shows what happens
when your banker takes charge of your life.
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March 13, 2006
As Congress jacks up the rates students and their parents are paying for college loans, the consequences are already being felt by young people whose ability to have a child or own a house is limited by debt.
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March 8, 2006
Bush is using inflation to pay off the deficits incurred by his Administration, leaving future generations with more problems than just debt.
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February 27, 2006
The uproar over the Dubai Ports deal ignores the obvious consequences of the free trade that American politicians of both parties have pushed for decades. Like it or not, we have to deal with it.
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February 21, 2006
When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
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February 14, 2006
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and
their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.
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February 8, 2006
The stampede is on in corporate America to freeze or pare back pension
benefits. And that will leave most of us out in the cold.
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January 31, 2006
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is suing Kellogg and Viacom for using cartoon characters to brainwash kids into consuming mass amounts of junk food.
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January 23, 2006
The toxic food industry is fueling a preventable epidemic of diabetes. Most
vulnerable are poor children, barraged with ads urging them
to eat the sugar and grease-laden food that will eventually kill them.
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January 17, 2006
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
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January 6, 2006
There ought to be a law about bribery in America, but there isn't--not a real one. Bribery is so central to our political culture that it's virtually impossible that any politician ensnared in the Abramoff scandal will actually be convicted of the corruption that makes Washington work.
