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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, August 6,2009
Look out! The circus has come to town
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
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
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
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
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
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