Food Rules…An New Old Way To Eat
It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I
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Education In Texas – Ruled by Conservative Ideology, It’s Failing The Nation
This is getting to be a familiar scenario: The Texas Board of Education, preparing to adopt new curriculum standards, makes our schoolchildren’s textbooks a matter of highly partisan wrangling. When
Continue readingAnd Now…A Special Comment
Keith Olberman has his say on the Supreme Court ruling… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Transcript… Olbermann: U.S. government for sale With
Continue readingDecision 2000…The Decision That Keeps On Giving
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend
Continue readingSo Who Is A Real Farmer?
I am not a real farmer, my neighbors say, because I don’t do it for money. That’s almost funny because the economists are saying that nobody’s farming for money this
Continue readingAnd The Deregulation Gifts Just Keep Right On Giving…
The role of speculators in the world’s oil markets has been widely blamed for bringing consumers $4 gasoline last summer — and rightly so. A recently completed study by two
Continue readingAre We About To Witness Judicial Activism From The Right?
THERE ARE MANY complicated aspects of the campaign-finance case the Supreme Court is poised to hear Wednesday, but the issue boils down to this: Will the justices let corporations spend
Continue readingA Reply From The Senator…And My Thoughts
If you read my post a while back about Senator Cornyn’s response to the White House’s request that people forward the emails they received with disinformation…You may be interested in
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