The Grey Wolf

This drawing of a grey wolf in snow reminds us that wolves are being hunted mercilessly in states like Montana and Idaho, after Congress has eliminated them from the endangered lists. It is the intention in some states to eradicate them. SIGN HERE: https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2437 to raise your voice, which of course, counts.

How Corporations Became People

I am honored to have participated in the current Citizens United package in Mother Jones by the very dogged and pains-taking Andy Kroll.  This issue lays out clearly and importantly the trajectory of campaign finace reform; abuses leading up to the series of regulations, now flattened by the disasterous Citizens United ruling by our highly … Read more

Contented Cow

    This Independence Day we can celebrate a revolution in our thinking about food.  The happy beef cow above is a vision of the way things could be.  In last Sunday’s Washington Post piece on what agribusiness has turned into (and what it is turning US into), Traci McMillan, to paraphrase, submits facts to … Read more

INCOMING

Sarah Palin, nailed again as Liar in Chief.  As Truman said about Nixon: “Even if he caught himself telling the truth, he would quickly tell a lie just to keep his hand in.” When you find a liar, bag that rascal!!! Sarah Palin, ‘Death Panels’ and ‘Obamacare’ Posted by Glenn Kessler at 04:23 PM ET, 06/27/2012 (J. Scott … Read more