What 8 years of BushCheney have done to the world
Wow, has it really been five years since "Mission Accomplished?" It seems like only yesterday that our Glorious Leader was strutting around in a top-gun outfit, cockadoodling about American prominence in the world and wallowing in job-approval ratings of 28%.
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. [



THE HOMES OF HENRY KRAVIS
Let’s take another peek [Lifestyles theme] into the “Lifestyles of the Rich and Cranky.”
The old rich pride themselves in … well, in having some pride. For example, they tend to... [read more]
AUTOCRACY IN ACTION
Is it 1984 already?
Even George Orwell would not have imagined George W, who keeps pushing a post-Orwellian, autocratic America in which a supreme executive can operate in secrecy, beyond the... [read more]
BIG OIL ROLLS ON
Who says these are hard times? Indeed, George W recently dismissed those who are saying that America is in a recession, claiming that signs of good times are breaking out.
And,... [read more]
SUPPORT OUR VETERANS
Politicians should not be allowed to utter the phrase "Support Our Troops" – unless they actually do.
None have shouted this phrase more insistently than the Bushites, yet they've been caught... [read more]
BUSH’S RECESSION
George W’s mouth just can’t seem to say the R-word. Rrr…rrr…rrr, he begins, but the word “recession” simply will not escape his lips. One wonders if it’s even in his vocabulary.
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GOD AND OIL PRICES
At Exxon headquarters in Houston, management refers to the executive suite as “The god pod.” But while the honchos of the world’s biggest and richest oil corporation might think of themselves as holy omnipotents, most... [read more]