More fun for the kids in Texas - yesterday it was homelessness, today it’s fight clubs for the institutionalized. Not long ago it was physical and sexual abuse in Texas Youth Commission jails. It’s about time some one in this state took a hard look at protections for our kids. Legislatio...

New statistics from the Class War this morning show that victims number 12.5 million. The unemployment numbers grow, the numbers that represent wounded and out of action in our economy. There are growing numbers of the economically wounded, and those numbers represent losses to the whole ‘real...

The decision by the Supreme Court on Wyeth v. Levine contained several surprising elements. It was a setback for the previous maladministration’s attempts to end medical lawsuits by invocation of the ‘preemption doctrine’ which put state laws in abeyance when they conflict with fed...

The number of jobs being lost is an astonishing number, especially because what it represents is households faced with sudden, alarming, economic disasters. Each job lost represents a tilt into desperation. When a household makes a decision to buy something, a car or a house, or even the inevitable ...

Happy 37th to Atrios. And no, that has nothing to do with the job market. What does, is that it’s very scary out there. Shall I fight back the urge to say that ‘These are the times that try men’s soles’? Of course, I didn’t, and let’s mention that women are a good...

The SEC just filed against Stanford bank here in Texas for … wait for it … $8BN fraud in certificates of deposit. DEVELOPING SEC Charges Stanford Financial in $8B Fraud The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Texas businessman R. Allen Stanford and the financial firms he contr...

Over the past week, without use of a computer, I did a lot of watching the action in D.C., and that has a somewhat predictable effect in that I am dismayed and alarmed by the poseurs on all sides, but am unable to see that our media makes any attempt to get it straight. At least the constant reports...

Good for you, Dems. Seems that instead of hunkering down and making cuts to the stimulus/recovery funds, Democrats are reacting to winger negativism by adding real benefits to the public. It was evident over eight years of carrying out right wing economics that they don’t work. The mogul horde...

The record breaking profits of oil companies are continuing in the worst of times. Having created a system that relies on their product partly by undermining competition from mass transportation projects like D.C.’s trolley system, the oil companies have a stranglehold on the U.S. The worst as...

Something I have believed for some time now, that U.S. businesses sending wages abroad should not have the privilege to sell to U.S. salaried consumers, is part of a post by WaPo’s Harold Meyerson today. He has discovered that the businesses that have globalized their businesses are using thos...