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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, July 9,2009
July is for celebration of agitation
Are you an agitator? You know, one of those people who won’t leave well enough alone, who’s always questioning authority and trying to stir things up.
If so, the Powers
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 2,2009
Today’s perpetrators of gas pump thievery
Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising
higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we’re assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 25,2009
Pockets of influence in Washington
What do shoplifters and members of Congress have in common? Tailor-made
clothing.
Like a shoplifter’s long coat, the suits of many lawmakers come with an astonishing array of
insi
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 18,2009
Have you driven a Han lately?
If you want to be seen as a flag-flying, macho American, you’ve got to have the right ride — and nothing says swaggering hedonism and outta-my-way arrogance quite like a
Hummer
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, June 10,2009
Stopping the desecration of mountaintop removal
Obama spaketh, and it was good: “We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply
blowing the tops off mountains,” he proclaimed.
And, yea, in the mounta
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, June 3,2009
Eliminating the threat of ‘death by pie’
Out in Arizona, an old tombstone bears an epitaph for a young gunslinger: “I was expecting this/But not so soon.”
Gunslinging, of course, is a high-risk business. But today, some of us c
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, May 27,2009
You can always bank on the greed of Wall Street bankers
No doubt you’re going to feel terrible about this. Top executives of Goldman Sachs, the Wall
Street powerhouse, are in a pout about how they’re being treated by you and me — i.e., t
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, May 20,2009
Look who’s begging for regulation
“Regulate the health insurance giants,” chanted the reformers.
“Stop denying coverage to sick people,” they demanded. “Stop jacking up premiums,” they cried
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, May 20,2009
Look who’s begging for regulation
“Regulate the health insurance giants,” chanted the reformers.
“Stop denying coverage to sick people,” they demanded. “Stop jacking up premiums,” they cried
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, May 13,2009
Senate stomps Durbin’s bill to help strapped homeowners
Sam Rayburn, a longtime speaker of the U.S. House, once said, “Every now and then, a politician ought to do something just because it’s right.”
Last week, 45 U.S. senators dodged a
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