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National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 2,2011
{after 1st article on article listing} Privatization: The road to Hell
Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why, for them, that’s just an eas
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 26,2011
What’s inside Big Oil’s head?
The big five of Big Oil might want to mull over a bit of advice that baseball great Ted Williams once offered to rookies: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.” A
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 19,2011
Helping the neediest among us
To be fair to lawmakers, it’s not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public need and inadequate tax revenues. Legislators in my state of Texas, for example, are
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 12,2011
GOP House chooses big oil over Granny
Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half. Those tallies are from the oil league, and the winner, of course, is the league’s powerhouse, ExxonMobil. Four, as
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 5,2011
Wall Street tames Washington
They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived tha
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 28,2011
A morally untenable corporate system
It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains do feel the pain of their underlings – those hard-hit workers who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 21,2011
Unreasonable women take on the banksters
They’re back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street who devised the Phantasmagoric Money-Fr
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 14,2011
Sacrificing teachers and firefighters to Hoovernomics
America owes a debt of gratitude to such insightful Republican governors as Scott Walker of Wisconsin, John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan and Chris Christie of New Jersey. Were it not for th
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 7,2011
Japan’s earthquake jolts America
The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about eff
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 31,2011
Rich get richer with new Congress
Change is not the same thing as progress. In fact, change can be the exact opposite. It can be regressive, as we’re now learning from – where else? – Congress. A flock of tea party-i
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