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.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

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.

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.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'