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

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.

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.

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

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

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