If you still believe big business is, as novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand famously described it, "America's Persecuted Minority," then you must be on the same amphetamines she was taking. Conservatives have a nasty habit of being sympathetic to corporations, viewing them as a bulwark ...
Stop me if you"ve heard this one before: There are some jobs Americans won"t do. Therefore, we need Third World labor to come pick up the slack. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that line parroted in the press, I"d cover the yearly salary of all the migrant strawberry pickers ...
Speaking before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the embattled ex-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, defended his choice to increase the price of an HIV-fighting drug the best way he knew how: by invoking his Fifth Amendment right to stay silent, beguiling his ...
Who would have thought the best presidential ad of the cycle would come from a self-identified socialist? Senator Bernie Sanders" latest campaign video is not full of demagoguery or puerile cracks about personal appearance. There is no fearmongering. It doesn"t even feature the candidate ...
Elizabeth Warren is a no-good, stinkin" fraud. Yes, we"re all familiar with her embellishing her family bloodline by claiming to be a descendant of Native Americans to get favorable treatment as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. But let's not focus on her red-skinned ...
2015 may be the last year when Americans think of Washington, D.C., as a safe city. Last June, a video of a brutal beating between two black men on the city's Metro line went viral. One month later, on July 4, a young black man named Jasper Spires stabbed an American University graduate nearly 40 ...
After decades of bitterly partisan acrimony, a consensus has been forged. Americans on all sides of the political compass finally agree on something: Donald Trump is a "fascist." And they say our country is too divided politically to see eye to eye on anything. Liberals, who are more apt ...
To the average observer, the ongoing fight for the Republican presidential nomination is enough to make you hurl. Outside of Donald Trump's common-sense-laced rants, little wisdom is found in the GOP's televised pissing matches. There was one exception, however, in a recent debate when Florida ...
The U.S. Department of Education just ruled that an Illinois school district violated the rights of a transgender student by not letting him use the girls" locker room. The student identifies as a female but still has the schlong God gifted him with at birth. In a more sensible time he would be ...
