Jim Hightower

One of the best tombstones ever is said to include the last words of a young, out-gunned gunslinger in Arizona: "I was expecting this, but not so soon." Now I learn that our friend Howard Zinn has died, something I was not expecting at all, even though he was 87. Way too soon...

Get ready for yet another assault of crass commercialism – this one way up at 35,000 feet in the friendly skies of airline travel. ...

American politics is a hoot! Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places – and then flaunt itself publicly and shamelessly for all to see? For example, who needs Jay Leno or Conan O'Brian for comic relief, when we've got Andre Bauer? ...

America is under assault. From coast to coast, we are being invaded by horrific, body-consuming mutants that are already destroying 65,000 American lives a year. As a Duke University scientist puts it, "This is a living, breathing problem. It's here...

Those who say that Republican congress critters are just a gaggle of naysaying boneheads with no economic plan of their own – have not been listening to John Linder. This Georgia right-winger is irked that America's food stamp program will grow to more than $60 billion this year. ...

Let us now praise the Supreme Five! I refer to the five Supreme Court justices who looked all around our land to find the one issue of injustice that cried out most for their judicial compassion. And, lo, it was this: Corporations do not have enough power over our government...

Are you feeling sorry for Wall Street bankers yet? Poor babies, everyone is down on them...

You can knock us Americans down, but you can't keep us down. For example, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were crashed to the ground on 9/11...

Want to know why Obama and the Democrats find themselves in a political mess, only a year after they came into power on a political high...

The Obamacans have spent a lot of their political capital during the past year to woo health insurance giants, drug companies, hospital chains, and other corporate chunks of what is called the health care "industry." The White House wanted the industry's support for its health care bill so...

Here we go again. More pounding of the war drums by the White House, more troops being deployed to a very foreign place thousands of miles away, more war whoops by hawks sitting on bar stools and sporting "Support Our Troops" lapel pins. America is going to war! Only... It's not...

Funnyman, Bob Newhart, used to do a comedy bit in which he portrayed a commanding officer addressing his troops on the eve of a big battle. The commander spoke bluntly about the bloody horror the troops would face and the certainty that many of them would not survive...