National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 16,2013

Corporate cowards divert shareholder funds into ‘dark money’

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court pretends, they certainly are loudmouths, constantly telling us how great they are and spreading their names everywhere. Amazingly, though, these corpor

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 9,2013

George W’s $250 million can of whitewash

By Jim Hightower

Big doings in Big D – the George W. Bush Presidential Library is open for business! What a piece of work it is: a $250 million, 226,000-square-foot edifice on 23 acres in Dallas. His brick-and-l

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 2,2013

Gagging on ag-gag laws

By Jim Hightower

In most state legislatures today, “off the wall” has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual. Still, it seems strange that legislators in so many states &ndash

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 25,2013

Saving our ravaged planet ... and ourselves

By Jim Hightower

Earth Day cometh – the 43rd year of this national focus on the state of our globe. So, how is Earth doing? Should we be weeping ... or cheering? Both. The first step to any recovery is recogniti

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 18,2013

Where’s the cop on the Wall Street beat?

By Jim Hightower

Bankers gone wild! Let’s tally some of their crimes: JPMorgan Chase engaged in massive, systematic fraud to foreclose without cause or due process on innocent homeowners, tossing thousands of fa

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 11,2013

Wall Street hogs still running wild

By Jim Hightower

Wall Street is a beast. And proud of it! In fact, a pair of animals are the stock market’s longtime symbols: One is a snorting bull, the other is a bear.But I recently received a letter saying t

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 4,2013

Corporate kangaroo courts supplant our Seventh Amendment rights

By Jim Hightower

Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try getting your day in court. Most Americans don’t realize it, but our Seventh Amendment right to a fair jury trial against corporate

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 28,2013

Blanket of PR to make you want to hug a drone

By Jim Hightower

In a recent senatorial dustup, Sen. John McCain called Republican colleague Rand Paul one of “the wacko birds” of Congress. McCain was giving Sen. Paul a tongue-lashing for having mounted

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 21,2013

‘The Dow’ versus ‘The Doug’

By Jim Hightower

“It’s a sign,” exclaims a February Associated Press story – a sign that our economy is “healing.” “It signals that things are getting back to normal,” a

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 14,2013

Let’s adopt these GOP national platform planks

By Jim Hightower

From Rick Perry to Rick Santorum, many Republican sparklies say they reject the science of evolution, favoring instead the “science” of the Bible, including some of its interpreters who cl