by Leo Gerard | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
For decades, college football players absorbed some pretty cheap shots from their schools and the NCAA. These athletes knew it wasn’t right that universities rescinded academic scholarships and refused to cover medical treatment for players permanently injured in...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 28, 2014 | Democracy, Economy
Just about everything Americans need to know about the surge of income inequality is contained in the 43-page indictment last week of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. The Republican governor and his wife are accused of a sleazy exchange — taking pricey gifts like a...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
In West Virginia after a cavalier chemical company poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 people, the corporate-hugging, right-wing extremist group Americans for the Prosperous congratulated itself for doling out bottled water one day. “What better way to help people...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 14, 2014 | Making it in America
That giant sucking sound predicted by Ross Perot commenced 20 years ago last week. It is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) vacuuming up U.S. jobs and depositing them in Mexico. Independent presidential candidate Perot was right. NAFTA swept U.S. industry...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy
It was a hard knock life at Christmas in 1933, and it’s a hard knock holiday 80 years later. In the musical “Annie,” set in 1933 during the Great Depression, the cast sings about it: “The children don’t grin; The Santas are thin. . . And all through the land folks are...
