Jim Hightower
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A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption
Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that [...] Full Story -
GOP House Chooses Big Oil Over Granny
Republican congresssional leaders don’t seem to be the quickest bunnies in the litter. Having taken their blunt budget ax to Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, [...] Full Story -
Workers Down, Bosses Up: A Morality Play
It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains feel the pain of their underlings, who keep being forced to do more for less. Take [...] Full Story -
Do Congressional Millionaires Represent You?
Change is not the same as progress. Change can be the exact opposite. It can be regressive, as we’re now learning from—where else?—Congress. A [...] Full Story -
Billionaire Bullies
Not all bullies are in schoolyards these days—quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America. Take Charles and David Koch, [...] Full Story
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Big Tobacco’s Big Whine
Do you hear that long, low, wheezing whine? That’s Big Tobacco, moaning that it’s being picked on by a new law passed this year [...] Full Story -
Online Voter Registration
Ah, progress! I’m not exactly a model citizen for the technologically advanced, Internet-connected world we inhabit. For example, I don’t have a doorbell at [...] Full Story -
A Traitorous Assault on Our Democracy
In opposing Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, Republican senators loudly denounced judicial activists who would use the bench to rewrite the founders’ intent and [...] Full Story -
The Gooberhead Sessions
Time for another Gooberhead Award, presented periodically to those in the news who’ve got their tongues going 100 miles per hour, but forgot to [...] Full Story -
Of Friends and Fruit
Some years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple knocked on my front door. They had noticed I had fig trees in the yard laden with [...] Full Story
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