Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Do high taxes on our rich make any sense?

We need to do more than tax high incomes. We need to limit them.

North Dakota plagued by oil spills: 745 in one year

Energy Transfer Partners and its subsidiary Sunoco are behind hundreds of thousands of gallons of spills from pipelines between 2015 and 2016.

The Execution of Nimr Al-Nimr: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance

The killing of Sheikh Al-Nimr should serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance with the Saudi regime, a regime that not only denies human rights to its own people but exports death and destruction abroad.

Arctic waters have been rescued from drilling, but what about the land?

Time is running out for Obama to say no to Big Oil and permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – and the people who depend on it.

Low-life Supremes openly break supreme perfidy records

Without term limits and strong ethics log,/ Our fate mimics that water-boiled frog.

Former Philadelphia judge of elections convicted on bribery charges

Domenick DeMuro received multiple bribes from an unidentified political consultant working on behalf of several candidates in exchange for stuffing the ballot boxes with fraudulent votes.

‘This is horrendous’: US military confirms bayonets were issued to troops responding to George...

"It is difficult for us to imagine a circumstance which could necessitate or justify the deployment of bayonets against American civilians."

Army Corps claims they will not forcibly remove anyone from Standing Rock

The Army Corps is clarifying their statement, stating that they do not have plans to forcibly remove anyone, but that those that do stay are at risk of being ticketed or arrested.

Culture war on

I'm certain there is a way we can meaningfully unite, and not in a war against The Other overseas or south of the border.

Supreme Court will hear Exxon’s effort to crush climate lawsuits

Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.