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National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 6,2009

Look out! The circus has come to town

By Jim Hightower
Who doesn’t love a parade? And here comes a big one! You can feel the beat of the drums, hear the trumpeting of elephants and the melodious call of the calliope — all of which
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 30,2009

Real competition can stop health insurance gouging

By Jim Hightower
Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama is all for the congressional effort to produce health care reform — as long as the legislation we end up with doesn’t contain any actual reform.
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 23,2009

Free food can be yours for the picking

By Jim Hightower
Years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple who lived nearby knocked on my front door. They had noticed that fig trees in my side yard were laden with ripening fruit. “If you’re
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 16,2009

Big bankers mounting sneak attack on consumers

By Jim Hightower
Have you received your thank-you note? I’m still waiting for mine. More than a year into the Wall Street bailout, I’ve yet to get any sort of “thank you” fro
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 9,2009

July is for celebration of agitation

By Jim Hightower
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

By Jim Hightower
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

By Jim Hightower
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?

By Jim Hightower
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

By Jim Hightower
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’

By Jim Hightower
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