Jim Hightower from CaglePost.com Columns by Jim Hightower from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Jim+Hightower Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ GOP Leaders Turn Opposition Into Obstinancy "No" can be a very good word. Whether dealing with children or Congress, a firm "uh-uh" can set useful borders for acceptable behavior. And, for such a short word, "no" can also carry a world of principle - America would be a lot better off today, fo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d89872b0-c8dc-4265-b0e6-fc8ba96d2c8b.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Escalate First, Think Later Excuse me for being impolitic, but why the -- is America "surging" so unquestioningly into Afghanistan? Not for nothing is that country called "the burial ground of empires," "a guerilla's paradise" and "the theme park of problems." Yet, President Ob... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f7cb3709-b04b-4f42-a86d-43264ff8b9ce.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Ending The Culture Of Executive Entitlement I don't mind losing when we lose, but I hate losing when we win. One big reason that Barack Obama now occupies the big chair in the Oval Office is that he embraced the public's rising indignation at the blatant greed of Wall Street bankers, striking ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2088ffad-775e-4b31-93e6-e2deeed3ab6e.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Hear The Whine Of Wall Street's Latest Tune Listen intently, and you can hear the faint music of the band coming from over the hills. Their drums are pounding out a steady cadence, the bagpipes are wheezing mournfully, and the fifes are trilling plaintively. Coming straight at you, it's The Mu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6355f67-2438-4ad4-aef5-367f5f86ccf6.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Stopping Wall Street's Culture Of Excess Bankers have never been much loved, but gollies, this Wall Street bunch seems hell-bent on being loathed. As a consequence of their avaricious grab for outrageous personal enrichment during the past decade, these arrogant titans of financial gimmickr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/122c08d3-f4f1-4b33-924e-122f3c44d033.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Troubling Ethics Of Timothy Geithner In describing a suspicious character who had visited his home, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." Average Americans today might need to be counting their spoons, because President Obama an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0d722a3-80c8-4ea5-bdc4-a7199bc1c629.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bush Speaks "So long," sang Woody Guthrie, "it's been good to know you." I'm humming that tune as George W., rides off into the sunset - just an old cowpoke headed back home to his Texas spread. No, he's not headed to that hokey ranchette in Crawford that Karl R... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c91be3d-d27c-4aa2-a0d5-c90c660247b7.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Put The Bite Back In Our Financial Watchdog After Bernard Madoff confessed in December to looting some $50 billion from investors through a long-running, widespread Ponzi scheme, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., complained that this massive fraud "fell through the cracks of our regulatory system." ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4d5ca228-a343-4261-9a90-759f9056ce6e.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bringing A Bit Of Fairness To The American Workplace This is the frantic argument being pushed by corporate lobbyists who're worried by the recent resurgence in union organizing, political punch and public support. Sure, say these corporatists, unions were needed back in the bad ol' Depression days, wh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/19802a75-9c5c-4625-b9b7-d1f6d40a2c1b.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bullet Points For Assessing The Bush Years As the classic New Year's song asks, "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" Not if our auld acquaintance is the Bush regime. Yes, our country will soon be getting a new beginning, and maybe, just maybe, we can put our country back on the right path. A... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ca60f8d3-6904-4c36-a98d-c3c7d1537def.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Holiday Gifts For A Better America In keeping with the Biblical adage that it's better to give than to receive, I came up with a delightful sleighful of holiday goodies this year to dispense to some of our nation's most special people. It was not easy to shop for these folks. I mean, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/51564914-d62b-4d20-97ee-16161d32a980.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bush Gives Lump Of Coal To People Of Appalachia Let's say that you're CEO of a coal corporation, and you want to get at the deposits of black gold deep inside the beautiful, verdant mountains of Appalachia. You have a choice. You could adopt modern methods that combine industrial ingenuity and env... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5e930f41-85e6-447a-aea7-23c911ad016a.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Congress Coddles Bankers While Bashing Autoworkers Sen. Bob Corker is ... well, a real corker. The Tennessee Republican is on the Senate banking committee that's overseeing the bailout of America's Big Three automakers, and, by gollies, he got his dander up when the three CEOs told the committee last... http://www.caglepost.com/article/99b08bd8-d424-4d16-b281-a2e9c259461b.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT America's Economic "Spread-Ession" Times are hard. How hard, you ask? Well, you'll be glad to know that professional economists have now reached a conclusion: America is technically in a recession. Of course, millions of Americans have known this for months, since they've lost jobs, b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/46f36e00-42ae-4219-a730-dd08278d46a3.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Giving Thanks To America's Good Food Movement The thing that I'm most thankful for on Turkey Day is not the abundance of food at my family's table, but the rebels who produced it. No, not Butterball. And not Wal-Mart, General Foods or any of the other corporate powers that loom large over Americ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fac0118c-7f39-4ff1-bf2b-d2d8d167faf0.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Leaders Duck And Hide While Wall Street Steals From Us They came. They saw. They ran away. Last Saturday's big global finance summit session was a far cry from the "veni, vidi, vici" of Julius Caesar. Rather than conquering the spreading problem of economic collapse, the leaders of the world's 20 most po... http://www.caglepost.com/article/14d2fa9f-0608-437b-868d-fd6142a7736c.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Spread The Wealth One of John McCain's goofier political moves came in the last couple of weeks of the campaign when - with eyes darting, arms pumping frenetically and lips sneering - he assailed Barack Obama for saying, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it'... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd76ea0c-e6d2-4678-b4b3-6a331fde77f9.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Change Must Come From Within Us Now is our time! I don't mean a time to gloat about Barack Obama's sweeping electoral triumph, or a time to savor the demise of the Bush ideologues, as sweet as that is. No, no - this is the time for everyone who holds progressive values (economic fa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b4677445-971d-485b-8198-8b548e5bf391.html Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Hank Paulson's Bailout Scandal "You don't tell deliberate lies," explained Britain's right-wing political icon Margaret Thatcher, "but sometimes you have to be evasive." If only such honest dishonesty were practiced on this side of the pond. Unfortunately, in the Bush regime, the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b3724529-3edf-4ce6-8925-67e0c5e907b9.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT John McCain's Voter Fraud Maybe it was last week's full moon that prompted the overwrought howls of outrage being directed at ACORN by John McCain and a pack of his right-wing cohorts. Either that or just raw partisan nuttiness. ACORN is the feisty and effective grass-roots o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/420fc319-4c54-4871-8cf7-bdeb7a9116ec.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Stop Voter-Suppression Drives Vote! Editorialists remind us that it's our privilege and patriotic duty to vote. Candidates of all stripes plead with us to vote. "Vote," declares a billboard campaign sponsored by McDonald's. Even Tiffany & Co. chimes in with a pricey pin that spel... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cf063c74-15b7-45aa-9294-a3364e7b385e.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain The 'Mavrick' If you watched the television coverage of John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, you might have noticed a delegate brandishing a hand-lettered sign proclaiming McCain to be: "THE MAVRICK." The misspelling was made even... http://www.caglepost.com/article/310c02ed-bb98-4917-afc6-a4aefffe6e8e.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Gagging On Wall Street's Bailout Whoa! The Wall Street bailout bill was so nasty that even Congress gagged. Still, the White House, congressional leaders and banking lobbyists are likely to twist enough arms and add enough artificial sweeteners to make Congress choke it down. But th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5bef0a81-8a62-4293-84d9-4133c104ba56.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Wall Street's Bailout Wizard There was a little news item recently about a man in Sheboygan, Wis., who was sentenced to six years in prison for robbing $20 from a child's piggy bank. Think how much better things would have gone for him if only his name had been Freddie Mac, Bear... http://www.caglepost.com/article/303eaa20-4e59-49a1-992b-c9cad4adfb14.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sarah Palin, Faux Populist "Perfect populist pitch," beamed CBS analyst Jeff Greenfield right after Sarah Palin's big speech at the GOP fawnfest in St. Paul, Minn. "She's a populist," echoed Karl Rove over at Fox TV. Excuse me? Palin is to populism what near beer is to beer, o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/21c339da-9efc-4fbe-9a54-c7350fd919d9.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Breaking The Lobbyists' Stranglehold On Our Democracy Jack Abramoff, the infamous Washington super-lobbyist who slipped on his own sleaze, was sentenced last week to four years in prison for corruption. How appropriate that his denouement came on the very day that John McCain was nominated by Republican... http://www.caglepost.com/article/173f7dd6-1913-44a6-b156-9dbf21bb64ef.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Professor Bush's Economic Nostrum Despite all the speechifying, editorializing, barbequing and general ballyhooing of Labor Day, there really was not all that much to celebrate, for working families across our land are struggling. To help us understand how it came to this, let's refl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9150e139-97cb-4c5b-9b5a-63a5f45d34f5.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let's Get Cracking On America's Infrastructure We Texans are used to having governors whose IQs are not much higher than room temperature. But surely someone was fooling with the incumbent's thermostat when he responded to a recent report about the state of our state's bridges. The Associated Pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2018cee2-7262-418c-8721-b3791d038b48.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Bushites Crude Connection To Georgia Here we go again, tumbling down the rabbit hole with George W. What a hoot to see the Bush Gang, which can't ever seem to shoot straight, railing at Russia's rough-up of the Republic of Georgia. Bush, Condi Rice, Robert Gates and others have wagged t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fc071b37-a30f-4349-b3f8-599c55a63fdb.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Let's Stop Clowning Around With America's Economy Here's my no-cost economic reform plan for America: All politicians and economists who keep blathering at us that things really are in good shape if only people would get over their "mental recession" must henceforth wear clown suits and sit on whoop... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df8b152c-bdd4-4292-a512-49b1de779b4e.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Foreign Banks Recruit U.S. Tax Cheats Business stories can be arcane and boring, but here's one that could've come straight out of a crime thriller about an international bank heist. All of the classic plot elements are present: a Swiss bank, $18 billion in loot, code names, yachts, diam... http://www.caglepost.com/article/544473f7-a4f2-4601-8f38-cf39115abc60.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bush And McCain Are Drilling A Dry Hole George W. and John McCain have formed the Republican drill team. Drill in America's coastal waters! Drill Alaska's wildlife refuge! Drill in our national parks! Heck, drill on the White House lawn, too! When it comes to energy policy, these guys have... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6483399c-637d-4071-a6c6-0b9c83045bff.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Meet McCain's Economic Brain Tell me with whom you walk, goes an ancient adage, and I'll tell you who you are. By this wisdom, John McCain is Phil Gramm, the sour old former Texas senator who leveraged his legislative power to land a lucrative position in 2002 as a Wall Street b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f18e1fce-2be5-46f9-aa80-f4aad9b96a96.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Do The Koreans Know Something We Don't? What is it with those kooky South Koreans? Tens of thousands of them have rushed into the streets to protest - get this - beef. Specifically, beef imported from the United States. Are they nuts? Or, do they know something we don't? South Koreans are ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d207854f-4acb-439b-9bc7-0deb299e4492.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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