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Time to ground airline gouging 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
With its merger taking off, American Airline's swashbuckling PR slogan proclaimed: "Two great airlines, one great future." That wasn't about its present attempt to merge with US Airways, but about it...
Police destroy "The Garden of Eden" 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The Bible tells us that the Garden of Eden was heaven on Earth – until Adam ate that apple. Then all hell broke loose. Recently, hell erupted in the garden again – this time in Arlington, Texas, on a...
Militarizing America's police forces 23 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Attention citizens: I have received inside information revealing that global terrorists are targeting us again. Their target is not Washington, New York City, or even Disneyland. Rather, it is: Concor...
To understand the news, connect the headlines! 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Headlines for economic news stories tend to conflict and confuse. So let's play [game show theme]: "Connect-The-Headlines!" We'll try to find meaning in three competing headlines from recent news rep...
Making billions by making up the rules 21 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The rich, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "are different from you and me." But had F. Scott known Michael Dell, he would've added this corollary: The superrich are different from the merely rich. Dell,...
What a corporate coup could portend for you 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Suppose we were about to vote in an election that could drastically change American government from a democratic republic to a privately-owned entity run by billionaires (actually, such a plutocratic ...
Corporate powers steamroll Florida voters 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
"The voters, damn them, have got to be subverted." You won't find that autocratic principle taught in any civics class, but it's one that America's corporate powers openly embrace when local democrac...
Ken-The-Sex-Cop for Governor 16 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
As they say, politics makes strange bedfellows. Take Anthony Weiner. Please! But the twisted tweeter of New York City politics is hardly alone in the strange world of over-sexed campaigns – and at le...
Monsanto's Wizard-Of-Oz website 15 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Excellent news, consumers: Biotech giants that've been secretly inserting genetically engineered organisms into thousands of food products you buy, have just announced that they're coming clean! Wow,...
A plague of Walker 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
To paraphrase an old bumper sticker: "When the people lead, leaders will follow. Or not." Not when the "leaders" are in the pocket of corporate interests that don't like where the people are leading....
