Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those people are now in rebellion. It's not just poor people they are holding down but the middle class, as well. I have a favorite bumper sticker I saw on a pickup truck last year in Austin. It said, "Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

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

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.