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GOP nightmare reveals secret corporate donors

Some people have a myriad of recurring nightmares about being publicly embarrassed, such as rising to give a speech and realizing you know nothing about the topic – then realizing you’re naked.You

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Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 12:00 am

Wall Street walls off young farmers

By Jim Hightower

We know from the childhood song that Old McDonald had a farm – but e-i-e-i-o – look who’s got his farm now!It’s groups like American Farmland and Farmland Partners. These aren’t dirt f

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Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 12:00 am

The darker side of Amazon.com

‘Cheap’ comes at a very hefty price

By Jim Hightower

In his classic 1936 comedy, Modern Times, silent filmmaker Charlie Chaplin depicts the trials and tribulations of a harried factory worker trying to cope with the sprockets, cogs, conveyor belts

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Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 12:00 am

America’s natural politics

By Jim Hightower

My father, W.F. “High” Hightower, was a populist. Only, he didn’t know it. Didn’t know the word, much less the history or anything about populism’s democratic ethos. My father was not philos

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Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 12:00 am

Help wash formaldehyde out of baby’s hair

By Jim Hightower

In the U.S. alone, the cosmetics industry pulls in some $70 billion a year in sales of what’s commonly called “makeup.” But lipstick, blush, mascara, etc. are not the only kind of makeup t

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Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 12:00 am

Sound advice to the Billionaire’s Club

By Jim Hightower

I’ve noticed several CEOs, political pundits and so-called economic experts saying they’re confused as to why Americans are so down. Consumers should be out buying stuff, they say, for the economy

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Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 12:00 am

Rick Perry’s clown show

By Jim Hightower

Trial lawyers will tell you that any good prosecutor could convince a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.Well, meet that ham sandwich! Here in my burg of Austin, Texas, the grand jury has just

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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 12:00 am

What we’ve paid for war

By Jim Hightower

War is hell.Major General Harold Greene could certainly tell you all about that – but, sadly, he’s dead. On Aug. 5, General Green became the highest-ranking American soldier to die in our unfathom

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Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 12:00 am

GOP’s ‘hell no’ faction

By Jim Hightower

Ah, August – that time of year when the going gets tough ... and Congress gets going.On vacation that is. And, to be fair, maybe Congress needs a vacation. All the stress of not passing laws a

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Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 12:00 am

Post office is a money-making operation

By Jim Hightower

One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us.Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “pu