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National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 8,2008

Gagging on Wall Street’s bailout

By Jim Hightower
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
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, October 1,2008

Wall Street’s bailout wizard

By Jim Hightower
There was a little news item recently about a man in Sheboygan, Wis., who was sentenced to six years in prison for robbing $20 from a child's piggy bank. Think how much better things woul
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, September 24,2008

Sarah Palin, faux populist

By Jim Hightower
"Perfect populist pitch," beamed CBS analyst Jeff Greenfield right after Sarah Palin's big speech at the GOP fawnfest in St. Paul, Minn. "She's a populist," echoed Karl Rove over at Fox
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 18,2008

Breaking lobbyists’ stranglehold on democracy

By Jim Hightower
Jack Abramoff, the infamous Washington super-lobbyist who slipped on his own sleaze, was sentenced recently to four years in prison for corruption. How appropriate that his denouement came o
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, September 10,2008

Professor Bush’s economic nostrum

By Jim Hightower
Working families across our land are struggling. To help us understand how it came to this, let's reflect on the profound insight of that eminent economic theorist, George W. Bush. While
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 4,2008

Bad bridges due to bonehead budget cuts

By Jim Hightower
The Associated Press did a nationwide survey of bridge conditions in 2007, and recently a follow-up piece to assess progress. The first report found that 20 heavily traveled Texas spans were
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, August 27,2008

The crude connection to Georgia

Or how the Bush Doctrine bit its maker on the tush

By Jim Hightower
Here we go again, tumbling down the rabbit hole with George W. What a hoot to see the Bush Gang, which can't ever seem to shoot straight, railing at Russia's rough-up of the Republic
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, August 20,2008

Stop clowning around with the economy

By Jim Hightower
Here's my no-cost economic reform plan for America: All politicians and economists who keep blathering at us that things really are in good shape if only people would get over their "me
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, August 13,2008

What do Koreans know?

Asians aren’t irrational to fear U.S. beef -- we are

By Jim Hightower
What is it with those kooky South Koreans? Thousands of them have rushed into the streets to protest — get this — U.S. beef imports. Are they nuts? Or do they know something we d
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, August 6,2008

A deal is a deal, right?

Squeezed financially, Citigroup reneges on a credit-card promotion

By Jim Hightower
"A deal is a deal." That's the promise made to credit-card customers by Citigroup, the Wall Street financial conglomerate that even used the phrase last year as an advertising slogan to