By Holly Sklar | Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Services
Wall Street is doing to America what private equity firms did to Simmons Bedding and many other productive companies. Taking control with borrowed money, stripping assets, slashing jobs and cashing out.

November 9, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Paranoia Strikes Deep
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Last Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we’ve grown accustomed to, including large signs showing piles of bodies at Dachau with the caption “National Socialist Healthcare.” It was grotesque — and it was also ominous. For what we may be seeing is America starting to be Californiafied.

Show will go on without Steven Tyler
!Joe Perry is thinkin’ that Aerosmith leading man Steven Tyler has quit!“Steven quit as far as I can tell.

November 8, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down
By FRANK RICH
FOR all cable news’s efforts to inflate Election 2009 into a cliffhanger as riveting as Balloon Boy, ratings at MSNBC and CNN were flat Tuesday night. But not at Fox News, where the audience nearly doubled its usual prime-time average. That’s what happens when you have a thrilling story to tell, and what could be more thrilling than a revolution playing out in real time?

Tony Dungy thinks Michael Vick may soon be playing in Buffalo.
During the pregame show for Sunday night's Philadelphia-Dallas game, Dungy said the Bills are the "darkhorse" to employ the embattled Eagles quarterback in 2010.