To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Highly-Educated Working Poor: Adjunct Professors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER There’s a growing army of the working poor in our U.S. of A., and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s and colleges. Wait a minute. Colleges? That […]
Don’t Blame Obama
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Even I was willing to blame the president, or at least his namesake: ObamaCare. What other explanation was there for the fact that it was taking weeks to get a prescription filled, and I was suffering an acute flare-up of my rheumatoid arthritis? You may have to order the medicine from a […]
The Class War On Drug Users
BY FROMA HARROP Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death at the end of a heroin needle again spotlights the dangers of a poisonous drug. And so did the Vermont governor’s plea last month to confront the “full-blown heroin crisis” plaguing his rural state. His population is far poorer and more isolated than an Oscar-winning actor in New […]
Politics vs. Immigration Reform
BY FROMA HARROP Republicans are again at war with themselves over immigration reform. Ideally, they would agree on the need to legalize millions of illegal immigrants now here and to better control the number of future unskilled foreigners competing with our struggling working class. Unfortunately, neither the Republican Party’s leadership nor its conservative opposition is […]
Congress Critters Can Be Lovable – For A Price
BY JIM HIGHTOWER A counselor recently advised “an informal setting,” adding that it is “an effective way to build a better relationship.” That sounds like advice that a love counselor might offer to couples, but not so. This relationship is not about romance – but money. This particular counselor is a lobbyist for the health […]