National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, December 1,2011

What’s on your plate?

As you recover from Thanksgiving excess, make this a season to celebrate our country’s food rebels!Yes, rebels. People who dare to challenge the conventional wisdom and try to find a better way

National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 23,2011

Bank of America: Always thinking of you

By Jim Hightower

One way you can tell that a bank is in trouble is that it suddenly starts buying full-page ads in newspapers across the country that tell us what great shape it’s in and what a fine job it’

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, November 17,2011

Don’t just salute veterans, rally with them

By Jim Hightower

Here’s a surprise that the power elites really hate to see: Many members of the 1 percent are joining the “We are the 99 percent” movement in various Occupy Wall Street protests. I d

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, November 10,2011

The disuniting of America

By Jim Hightower

In the Bible, Paul doesn’t say that money is the root of all evil – rather, it is the love of money that he warns against. In recent years, the insidious love of mammon (in the form of gre

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, October 27,2011

Wall Street is dazed and confused

By Jim Hightower

Astonishingly, some Wall Streeters continue to be clueless about what the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting. Yoo-hoo, Streeters: Note that the movement’s name has the term “Wall St

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, October 20,2011

Playing Washington’s inside game

By Jim Hightower

And then there were 12. When the 435 House members and 100 senators failed in July to agree on a long-term deficit reduction plan, congressional leaders did what they often do when they don&rsqu

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, October 13,2011

Something big is happening: Occupy Together

By Jim Hightower

To paraphrase one of Bob Dylan’s songs of youthful protest, “Something’s happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you Ms. Bellafante?” A New York Times writer, G

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, October 6,2011

The GOP Congress hates (except when it loves) federal spending

By Jim Hightower

“You saw the House act,” Rep. Eric Cantor snapped to a reporter. Yeah, act like a petulant 4-year-old! The majority leader of the GOP-controlled House has long been a whiney ideological br

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 29,2011

These Perry Tales may keep you awake all night

By Jim Hightower

It’s bedtime, children, so put on your jammies, scootch under the covers and I’ll tell you another “Perry Tale.” Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president i

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 15,2011

Perry Tales: Rick is not who he says he is

By Jim Hightower

Presidential wannabe Rick Perry is flitting all around the country – hither, thither and yon – spreading little “Perry Tales” about himself and the many wonders he has worked a