Jim Hightower
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Infesting the Court System
When corporate executives needed a political favor, they always went running to Congress. Now they can also run to the courthouse. Over the years, [...] Full Story -
EPA Revokes a Permit for Decapitating Mountains
Wrap-up – The Brand New Texas Observer Rabble Rouser! The 10th annual Rabble Rouser Round-Up and Fat Cat Schmoozefest shook the halls of the [...] Full Story -
Health Care, Guns and Congress Critters
Isn’t it nice to know that whenever America faces a big issue, Americans can count on members of Congress to be there? For themselves. [...] Full Story -
New Congress Critters Act Like Old Pros
One thing is clear from November’s election results: Those new, tea-infused Republican lawmakers are going to end business-as-usual in Congress. As incoming Sen. Rand [...] Full Story -
The Redistribution of America’s Wealth To The Few
America’s unemployed and downsized workers are furious that corporate profits, stock prices and CEO pay are up while hiring and wages are stagnant. But [...] 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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