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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 29,2010
Killing the competition
Golly, whatever happened to America’s good ol’, bold-and-brassy, can-do competitive drive? To see a troubling sign for our nation’s famed, free-enterprise frontier spirit, sneak a pe
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 22,2010
King Coal says, ‘Live free or die!’
By gollies, one group in our country has what it takes! One group has done more than just strut around at teabag rallies, barking loudly about nullification, secession, militias and other big-talk thr
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 15,2010
An inside outsider takes on Wall Street
Wall Street banksters – who could possibly love them? OK, presumably their mommas do, and possibly their pet dogs, but that’s it. The general public loathes them and would be delighted to
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 8,2010
The inhuman essence of a corporate ‘person’
I’m curious about those five Supreme Court justices who recently decreed that a corporation is a “person” with human rights: Do you think they ever met Mr. Walmart? If they had, they
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 1,2010
Turning ‘Texas Education’ into an oxymoron
In the good-and-good-for-you department, food scientists are now touting the health benefits of enjoying a handful of nuts every day. I, for one, am glad, because I love nuts – pecans, hazelnuts
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 25,2010
Heartbeat of the Democratic reform movement
It read like just another obituary written about someone who’d lived a very long time: “Doris Haddock died peacefully in her family home,” it began. “Born in 1910, she lived th
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 18,2010
Stiffening the backbones of Democrats
You know what we need to juice up the performance of our weak economy? Viagra. Yes, America needs a new Viagra, specifically targeted to stiffen backbones — in particular, the limp backbones of
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 11,2010
Goldman Sachs authors a Greek tragedy
Another Greek-based cargo ship and its crew were recently hijacked by Somalian pirates, costing the Greek owners an undisclosed amount in ransom. Such ongoing acts of brazen piracy off the coast of So
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 4,2010
Fighting subversion of people’s sovereignty
As you’ve probably heard, corporations are now “people” — humanoids that are equivalent to you and me. This miraculous metamorphosis happened on Jan. 21. Accompanied by a blind
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 25,2010
Greed trophy up for grabs
By gollies, the top executives of health insurance corporations are not giving up without a fight! To paraphrase every high school football coach who ever lived, “When the going gets ugly, the u
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