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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 | Wednesday, December 17,2008
Congress coddles bankers while bashing union autoworkers
Sen. Bob Corker is ... well, a real corker.
The Tennessee Republican is on the Senate banking committee that’s overseeing the bailout of America’s Big Three automakers, and,
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 3,2008
Giving thanks to America’s good food movement
The thing that I was most thankful for on Turkey Day has not the abundance of
food at my family’s table, but the rebels who produced it.
No, not Butterball. And not Wal-Mart, General F
National - Jim Hightower | Tuesday, November 25,2008
Leaders duck and hide while Wall Street steals from us
They came. They saw. They ran away.
The recent big global finance summit session was a far cry from the “veni, vidi, vici” of Julius Caesar. Rather than conquering the spreading problem
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 19,2008
Spreading the wealth is a good thing
One of John McCain’s goofier political moves came in the last couple of weeks of the campaign when — with eyes darting, arms pumping frenetically and lips sneering — he assailed Bara
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 12,2008
The change must come from within us
Now is our time!
I don’t mean a time to gloat about Barack Obama’s sweeping electoral triumph, or a time to savor the demise of the Bush
ideologues, as sweet as that is. No, no —
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 5,2008
Hank Paulson’s bailout scandal
"You don't tell deliberate lies,"
explained Britain's right-wing political icon Margaret Thatcher,
"but sometimes you have to be evasive."
If only such honest dishonesty were practiced on
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 29,2008
John McCain’s voter fraud
Maybe it was a full moon that prompted the
overwrought howls of outrage being directed at ACORN by John McCain and a
pack of his right-wing cohorts. Either that or just raw partisan nuttines
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 22,2008
Stop voter-suppression drives
Vote! Editorialists remind us that it's our
privilege and patriotic duty to vote. Candidates of all stripes plead with
us to vote. But not everyone is in the civic spirit. Rather than urging
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 15,2008
The real Mavericks are from Texas
If you watched the television coverage of John
McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, you
might have noticed a delegate brandishing a hand-lettered sign proclaimin
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 8,2008
Gagging on Wall Street’s bailout
Whoa! The Wall Street bailout bill was so nasty that
even Congress gagged before finally passing it. But this doesn't
obscure the fact that the bailout is a disgusting glob of corporate
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