How sweet it is to be a corporate criminal these days! I don’t mean common price gougers, polluters and such, but full-fledged, executive-suite mobsters. They run huge corporate syndicates, treating fraud and even murder as necessary business tools. For example, Boeing Incorporated. In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet suddenly nose-dived into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board. A freak accident, declared top bosses of the multi-billion-dollar giant, disavowing any responsibility. […]

Let me tell you the story of the star-crossed Republican Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans can’t cross the president and can’t compromise with Democrats. They are utterly useless as lawmakers, precariously perched on slim majorities. The Trump Republican plan for the people is etched in black and white on a 1,000-page death warrant for the federal government, except for the five-sided fortress across the Potomac River. This is on top of the 100,000-plus skilled […]

When I hear about immigrants showing up to their legally scheduled appointments only to be taken into custody and deported, I have to ask the president’s supporters if they think this is okay. If so, is there no difference between legal and illegal? When cancer and Alzheimer’s research is stopped in the middle of trials, does this make sense to anyone? If so, can someone explain it to me without relying on conspiracy theories? If […]

The hot-selling book “Abundance” is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn’t build as easily as it used to. But it’s those liberals in expensive cities, the authors insist, who are callously driving less-than-rich families to move elsewhere. Klein and Thompson argue that Democrat-run “superstar” cities have failed to provide enough […]

The right-wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.” But look out! Here come those same politicians, putting on MAGA hard hats and firing up their political bulldozers to push one of the most arrogant and intrusive social schemes imaginable. They intend to re-engineer the American family! These “pronatalists” want families to conform to a Christian Nationalist family structure – specifically, a dominant man married to a subservient stay-at-home woman, having beaucoup children. […]