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By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.
OUR LEADER SPEAKS
Monday, March 10, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
It would be nice to think that your president is in touch with reality – or at least in shouting distance of the real world where the rest of us reside.
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A REAL STIMULUS PROGRAM
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Get ready, get set… stimulate!
Washington is about to mail $600 checks to you, me, and nearly everyone else (unless you're poor – then you only get half that). The checks... [read more]
A LITTLE PAPER DIGS OUT BIG STORIES
Friday, February 29, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
To learn what’s really going on in our mixed up world, it helps to have such indefatigable and trusted diggers for truth as those who write for The Texas Observer. In the past, this... [read more]
THE STRANGE SCIENCE OF PSYCHONOMICS
Friday, January 18, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beaniecap Breakdown] – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues going 100 miles per hour… but forgot to put their brains in gear.
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VIDEO: Reagan on Rushmore
By I must admit that the seven-year reign of Bush & Company makes me yearn for the years of Ronald Reagan, when the term "conservative" merely meant right wing, rather than full-tilt, bull-goose loopy.
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THE FBI’S NEW ID SYSTEM
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
You can stop worrying that the forces of autocracy in America are going to require all of us to carry national identification cards. That’s so old school. Instead of issuing cards, the FBI intends to... [read more]
FORECLOSING ON RENTERS
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Ponzi schemes are illegal – unless they’re being run by Wall Street bankers and delivering fat profits to some of the world’s richest speculators. Then, such scams are legal, unregulated, and have respectable banker monikers... [read more]
TAKING CARE OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Thursday, January 3, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Our national attic is caving in.
“America’s attic” is the unofficial name of the venerable Smithsonian Institution. This is the 150-year-old complex of museums on the National Mall that houses an... [read more]
REIN IN THE FCC
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
You’ve got to love the oh-so-soothing language that government and corporations use when they join hands to run roughshod over the public interest.
Take the recent decision by the Federal Communications... [read more]
GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC REALITY
Economists have this to say to those of you who see your family’s economic fortunes on the decline: “Don’t be so glum, chum!”
In a recent poll, only 19 percent of... [read more]