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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, October 1,2008
Wall Street’s bailout wizard
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, July 30,2008
Throwing our troops to the sharks
Soldiers trapped in debt are deemed a “security risk” by the military
At a time when American field commanders in Iraq and
Afghanistan say they need every single soldier they can get hold of,
thousands of our battle-ready troops are being held back in the Unit
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