(Today is Earth Day in America.  The first, 46 years ago, was a big deal.  It was 1970.  We were in the mood to celebrate the earth and to w...

It's been a while, but here I am.  Illnesses and the vagaries of the gypsy life have taken a toll, frazzled my brain, and, if you can be...

The gazillionaire Charles Koch, the Right Wing benefactor whose father was a co-founder of the John Birch Society,  the same Charles Koch wh...

Yesterday the Republicans in the House voted to slash 40 billion dollars in annual food stamp (SNAP) coverage over 10 years, putting some 3...

So it has happened.  Remember the other day when I wrote that Michigan had become a Right-to-Work state ? It's not that I'm prescien...

Last week Michigan's Republican-majority legislature, with no committee meetings, no floor debate, in a rush to get this done before Jan...

Ever since Rick Snyder soft-talked his way into the governorship in Michigan, throwing the doors wide open for his biggest donors, the Macki...

So this is what it’s come to. After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor,...

So after many, many months of glorying in his efforts to break public worker contracts in his great state of Michigan (formerly our great ...

As much as we all sorely wished that the recall effort in Wisconsin would succeed, I don't know many people who were actually shocked wh...

So, all you "Mad as Hell" people who idolize Fox "News" and their partners in crime, the Koch Brothers , the Chamber of...