Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.