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Hurricane Donnie hurls GOP debris

Elites tend to be ... well, elite. As in, “clueless” about what your everyday working stiff is thinking.Cluelessness about the masses can become a major occupational hazard for political eli

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Thursday, April 7, 2016 12:00 am

Where does the GOP’s right-wing grouchiness come from?

By Jim Hightower

I’ve found it! I’ve discovered the original document from which today’s tea party pontificators have drawn their political creed.Tea-infused Republicans are the “anti” party – anti-science

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Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:00 am

Who are our rescuers? Us!

By Jim Hightower

Six years after the Supreme Court’s malignant Citizens United ruling, nearly every American plainly sees how our nation’s historic, political ethic of citizen equality – “one person one

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Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:00 am

Airline fee fleecing

By Jim Hightower

If you take the word f-r-e-e and rip the “r” out of it, what do you get? Two things, actually: One, instead of “free” you get “fee” – and then you get mad.This is happening to mill

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Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:00 am

How to make billboards uglier

By Jim Hightower

OK people, we need to discuss billboardsBillboards must be living creatures for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages at us – and even

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Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:00 am

In favor of the financial transaction tax

By Jim Hightower

The financial transaction tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in t

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Thursday, March 3, 2016 12:00 am

‘Do Nothing’ Mitch’s squirrelly stall tactic

By Jim Hightower

Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right-wingers on the Supreme Court is dead.But he can’t be any more brain dead than Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Sena

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Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 12:00 am

How Big Pharma is trying to improve its image

By Jim Hightower

Big news, people! Especially for those of you upset by the skyrocketing prices of the essential prescription medicines you take – including thousands of patients who were hit last year with a 5,000

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 12:00 am

Corporate cons and widening inequality

By Jim Hightower

The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers that want you and me to swallow their Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is that they can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure.But

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 12:00 am

What really poisoned the water in Flint?

By Jim Hightower

The mantra of every Koch-headed, right-wing politico is that government should be run like a business, always focused on cutting costs.Welcome to Flint, Mich. This impoverished, mostly African-America