Reverse the perverse corporate ethic of fat CEO pay

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Tue., 6/4/13

Isn't it interesting that the ethics of corporate pay shift 180 degrees as you take the elevator from the work floor to the executive suites? Interesting… and infuriating.

Down below,... [read more]

Political fronts posing as charities

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Mon., 6/3/13

I think of a “social welfare charity” being like The Little Sisters of the Poor – not The Little Koch Brothers of the Plutocracy.

Yet, the brothers have created their very... [read more]

The GOP, corporate money, and sticky blood platelets

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Fri., 5/31/13

Perhaps I've been too harsh on congressional Republicans.

I had assumed that their vitriolic attacks on even the meekest of proposals to restrict the tsunami of secret corporate cash slamming into our elections stemmed... [read more]

A new home for poverty in America

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Thu., 5/30/13

It's been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation's political agenda – and it's time to move it up again.

Even as those at the top of our society... [read more]

Walmart goes to the Devil

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Wed., 5/29/13

Blending classical literature with the computer technology of subterranean imaging, scientists have made an astonishing discovery – namely, there is a tenth level of Hell!

In the 14th century, Dante,... [read more]