BY JIM HIGHTOWER I’ve found it! I’ve discovered the original document from which today’s Tea Party pontificators have drawn their political creed. Tea-infused Republicans are the “anti” party – anti-science, anti-public, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-Obama … anti-anti-anti. Where does all this unrelenting bombastic negativity come from? It turns out that their sour philosophy is rooted in […]

BY FROMA HARROP Belgians planning to “march against fear” Sunday were told to stay home out of fear for more violence. Americans in Europe, meanwhile, are being advised to “exercise vigilance.” What about Americans in America? Over here, there’s a bizarre split screen of an intelligent response to a serious terrorist threat and a major […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Agnotology means the deliberate spread of ignorance. Robert Proctor coined the word when he discovered that tobacco company executives were deliberately casting...

BY JOE CONASON Recoiling from the terrorist carnage in Brussels, Americans may be attracted to the “tough” posturing of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The casino mogul wants to bring back torture, while the Texas senator hopes to bomb indiscriminately until the desert glows. Trump would bar any Muslim from entering the United States, while […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN According to a Mar. 24 article in the Oklahoman, Preston Doerflinger, Gov. Fallin’s Secretary of Finance and chief budget planner, said the...