The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.
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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [Read more]
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The Bureacratic Shoeshine Blues
Time again to award the M.M.B.B. -- Hightower Radio's highly-uncoveted "Demerit for Muddled and Meddlesome Bureaucratic Behavior."
Today's "Double M/Double B" goes to Mr. Leslie M. Shenkler of Hackensack, New Jersey. Mr. Shenkler . . . this Bureaucratic Boo... [read more]
No Tax Funding For Elitist Schools
Then there's the true story of the mother who wrote a note to her daughter's teacher, saying: "Please excuse Mary for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot."
A little extreme, perhaps, but no more so than... [read more]
Stop Corporate Extortion Of State & Local Government
When Al Capone was running booze in Chicago during Prohibition, he said, "When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called, "hospitality."
Sometimes, crime is a matter of... [read more]
Downsizing America
President Calvin Coolidge once said: "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." Now, I know Coolidge was never considered a very bright light, but surely someone was fooling with his dimmer switch when he said... [read more]
Washington's NAFTA Circus
I'm telling you, if Washington gets any sillier, it'll have to be licensed by Barnum & Bailey.
The spreading public opposition to Bill Clinton's North American Free Trade Agreement is driving the Washington establishment crazy. Of course, that's a pretty... [read more]
Sheep, Coyotes, Llamas And You
In the parts of our country where they raise sheep -- everywhere from Oregon to Virginia -- they recite a little different version of the old nursery rhyme: "Mary had a little lamb/ It's fleece was white as snow/ And... [read more]