BIG BANKS GOUGE CUSTOMERS FOR FUN & PROFIT

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Thu., 9/2/10

High-Low is a poker game that I've played in the past, but America's biggest banks have twisted it into a flimflam in which the deck is deliberately stacked against their own customers.

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BLEEDING HEART REPUBLICANS

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Wed., 9/1/10

Who says that Republican congress critters don't care about minorities in our society? Why, at this very moment, they are pushing hard to pass a $372 billion federal program to lift the economic fortunes of... [read more]

WALL STREET'S CONNECTED LOBBYISTS

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Tue., 8/31/10

Old Congress critters never die, they just fade away. Into lobbying firms, that is.

Take former House speaker Dennis Hastert, former House majority leaders Dick Armey and Dick Gephardt, and former... [read more]

MOTT'S WORKERS STAND UP FOR AMERICA

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Mon., 8/30/10

Who'll take a stand for America's founding ethic of the common good? You won't get such leadership from Washington – and damned sure not from those in the corporate suites who're ruthlessly pushing an ethic... [read more]

A GREAT BIG TEXAS GOOBER

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Fri., 8/27/10

The great state of Georgia is famous for its peanuts, but I still say that my state of Texas produces the most extraordinary goobers of them all.

As proof, I submit... [read more]