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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 9,2012
A Wall Street devil gets religion... and an apt epitaph
Hallelujah and Holy Smokes! Wall Street has had a “come to Jesus” moment – the biggest sinner on the Street has repented! He is Sandy Weill, the once-lionized dealmaker who turned ou
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 2,2012
Protecting insiders from our First Amendment
Ah, it’s August – time for another quadrennial flowering of America’s glorious democratic process, otherwise known as the presidential nominating conventions! This grand testimonial
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 26,2012
Let’s consider the GOP’s health care plan
Here’s some useful advice from an old country saying: Never try to teach table manners to a pig – it doesn’t work, it’ll wear you out, and it just annoys the pig. The same advi
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 19,2012
Beware of the tomato tamperers
Some people are too smart for your own good. Food geneticists, for example. These technicians have the smarts to tinker with the inner workings of Momma Nature’s own good foods – but not t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 12,2012
Supreme Court vs. The People in Montana
“Two wrongs don’t make a right,” as my old Texas momma used to instruct my brothers and me. But apparently, five of the justices on our Supreme Court didn’t have mommas with su
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 5,2012
Hey Congress, what about the ‘Doug Jones Average’?
To report on how our economy is doing, media outlets keep a constant eye on the Dow Jones Average. But they’re like cats watching the wrong mousehole, for the great majority of Americans have be
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 28,2012
Super PACs and secret money destroying America’s democrac
Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct metaphor: “Our elections have replaced horse racing as
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 21,2012
Wall Street’s mutant greed gene marches on
In the realm of prevarication, there are deceivers, fibbers, liars, politicians ... and Bank of America. For weeks, this financial behemoth has been running a nationwide PR blitz, portraying its
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 14,2012
What’s new in food?
Attention foodies: Let’s chow down! Forget organic, locavore, omega3, umami, artisanal and all the other signposts of the healthy, ethical and refined “good food” movement. There are
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 7,2012
Who needs Wall Street giants?
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the handful of other behemoths of Wall Street that dominate American banking – who needs them? After enduring years of insatiable greed by the
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