National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 19,2012

GOP presidential contenders’ goofy greed

Even though some are out and some are in, the politicians that are/were in the GOP presidential race still are spreading their goofiness around for all the country to see.Let’s start with my sta

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 12,2012

The cry of Congress: ‘Free Wall Street!’

By Jim Hightower

Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people’s cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this tim

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 5,2012

The truth about the U.S. Postal Service

By Jim Hightower

What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change.Each day, six days a

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 29,2012

Banker hubris knows no bounds

By Jim Hightower

Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this really is a shocker: Bonus payments are down.Yes, the exorbitant bonus checks pocketed

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 22,2012

Speaking truth about power

By Jim Hightower

A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those rare citizens willing to risk their p

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 15,2012

Woody at 100

By Jim Hightower

Where’s Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics – with the money powers thinking that they’re the top dogs and that the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hy

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 8,2012

The Keystone XL flim-flam

By Jim Hightower

For Rep. Allen West, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is not just a policy matter, it’s a personal pocketbook issue. The Florida tea-party Republican (who, of course, blames President Obama fo

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 1,2012

Cooperatives over corporations

By Jim Hightower

We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation.This heav

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 23,2012

It’s official: Money now governs America

By Jim Hightower

The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich.For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy en

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 16,2012

What’s in your iPhone?

By Jim Hightower

Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire: “What would