I'll Believe Corporations Are People When Texas

Hyperbole Was To Lyndon Johnson What Oxygen Is To Life.

The Corporate Right And The Political Right Declared Class Warfare On Working People A Quarter Of A Century Ago And They've Won. Take The Paradox Of Rush Limbaugh, Ensconced In A Palm Beach Mansion Massaging The Resentments Across The Country Of White-knuckled Wage Earners, Who Are Barely Making Ends Meet In No Small Part Because Of The Corporate And Ideological Forces For Whom Rush Has Been A Hero.

I Believe Democracy Requires A 'sacred Contract' Between Journalists And Those Who Put Their Trust In Us To Tell Them What We Can About How The World Really Works.

I Like What I Do And Keep Thinking The Best Is Yet To Come.

You Only Have To Glance At The Daily News To See How Passions Are Stirred By Claims Of Exclusive Loyalty To One's Own Kin, One's Own Clan, One's Own Country, And One's Own Church. These Ties That Bind Are Vital To Our Communities And Our Lives, But They Can Also Be Twisted Into A Noose.