National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, February 25,2009

Ending the culture of executive entitlement

I don’t mind losing when we lose, but I hate losing when we win. One big reason that Barack Obama now occupies the big chair in the Oval Office is that he embraced the public

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, February 18,2009

Hear the whine of Wall Street’s latest tune

By Jim Hightower

Listen intently, and you can hear the faint music of the band coming from over the hills. Their drums are pounding out a steady cadence, the bagpipes are wheezing mournfully and the fifes

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, February 11,2009

Stopping Wall Street’s culture of excess

By Jim Hightower

Bankers have never been much loved, but gollies, this Wall Street bunch seems hell-bent on being loathed. As a consequence of their avaricious grab for outrageous personal enrichme

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, February 4,2009

The troubling ethics of Timothy Geithner

By Jim Hightower

In describing a suspicious character who had visited his home, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Average Americ

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, January 28,2009

Some Bushisms for the record, lest we forget

By Jim Hightower

“So long,” sang Woody Guthrie, “it’s been good to know you.” I’m humming that tune as George W. rides off into the sunset — just an old cowpoke he

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, January 21,2009

Put the bite back in our financial watchdog

By Jim Hightower

After Bernard Madoff confessed in December to looting some $50 billion from investors through a long-running, widespread Ponzi scheme, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., complained that this mas

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, January 14,2009

Bringing fairness to the workplace

By Jim Hightower

Unions. Who needs ’em? They’re so 1930s. This is the frantic argument being pushed by corporate lobbyists who’re worried by the recent resurgence in union organizing, pol

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, January 7,2009

Bullet points for assessing the Bush years

By Jim Hightower

As the classic New Year’s song asks, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?” Not if our auld acquaintance is the Bush regime. Yes, our country will soon be getting a new

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 31,2008

Holiday gifts for a better America

By Jim Hightower

In keeping with the biblical adage that it’s better to give than to receive, I came up with a delightful sleighful of holiday goodies this year to dispense to some of our nation&rsqu

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 24,2008

Bush gives lump of coal to Appalachia

By Jim Hightower

Let’s say that you’re CEO of a coal corporation, and you want to get at the deposits of black gold deep inside the beautiful, verdant mountains of Appalachia. You have a choice.