WHAT'S BEHIND THE EGG RECALL?

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Tue., 9/7/10

To make an omelet, you've gotta break some eggs – and half a billion eggs would make a mighty big omelet!

That's how many the Food and Drug Administration has recalled... [read more]

LABOR DAY, AND THE WORK WE HAVE TO DO

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Mon., 9/6/10

Let's see where we are: 14.6 million people are officially out of work – 7.3 million of them for more than half a year. In the past two years, 55 percent of Americans have... [read more]

LABOR DAY: ORGANIZE!

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Fri., 9/3/10

America's corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they're doing all they can to create millions more of them.

They're knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high-tech, reducing... [read more]

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]