National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 10,2009

Holding Wall Street bankers accountable

Don’t you wish that someone in authority, someone with an ounce of chutzpah, someone with his or her head screwed on right, would direct a few obvious, pointed, even rude questions to the Wall S

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 3,2009

Fake rallies on the rise

Grass roots has been taken over by astroturf

By Jim Hightower

Protests are back! All across America, angry demonstrations are popping up like mushrooms on moldy astroturf. Similar to the plastic “grass,” political astroturf is the corporate version o

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 27,2009

Taking us for a ride on health care

By Jim Hightower

If you get a thrill from taking a white-knuckle ride on a loop-the-loop, you don’t have to wait for next year’s state fair — just hop onto the right-wing express, which is plunging i

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 20,2009

The "anti-Starbucks" Starbucks

By Jim Hightower

There’s a joke going around that Starbucks has so saturated the coffee market that it is now opening new Starbucks stores inside its old stores. Well, not quite — not yet — but the c

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 13,2009

Non-organic organic food

By Jim Hightower

When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, o

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 6,2009

Look out! The circus has come to town

By Jim Hightower

Who doesn’t love a parade? And here comes a big one! You can feel the beat of the drums, hear the trumpeting of elephants and the melodious call of the calliope — all of which

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 30,2009

Real competition can stop health insurance gouging

By Jim Hightower

Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama is all for the congressional effort to produce health care reform — as long as the legislation we end up with doesn’t contain any actual reform.

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 23,2009

Free food can be yours for the picking

By Jim Hightower

Years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple who lived nearby knocked on my front door. They had noticed that fig trees in my side yard were laden with ripening fruit. “If you’re

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 16,2009

Big bankers mounting sneak attack on consumers

By Jim Hightower

Have you received your thank-you note? I’m still waiting for mine. More than a year into the Wall Street bailout, I’ve yet to get any sort of “thank you” fro

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 9,2009

July is for celebration of agitation

By Jim Hightower

Are you an agitator? You know, one of those people who won’t leave well enough alone, who’s always questioning authority and trying to stir things up. If so, the Powers