Jim Hightower

Not only is war hell, it is hellishly stupid. Wars tend to be run by smart people who do stupid things.

Take the gross stupidity of cluster bombs, which America’s political... [read more]

America might be mired in a Gulf War, but it’s golf that seems to be on the minds of the Bushites. Here's the three-part story.

First comes George W himself. A... [read more]

George W keeps telling us that America is at war. But if were at war, he
wouldn’t need to tell us, for we’d be fully engaged in the national effort.

In... [read more]

When it comes to his war in Iraq, George W keeps telling us that failure is not an option.

However, when it comes to the privatized army of Halliburtons,... [read more]

Want the U.S. out of Iraq before year's end? Or maybe next year? Or even four years from now?

If George W and his backers have their way, you can forget... [read more]

The “willing” are waning.

Remember George W’s assertion in 2003 that he was not rushing off to war in Iraq on his own whim? No, no, he cried, lookie here, I’ve... [read more]

Heads up, folks! The neo-cons are in heat again. The same gang of right-wing ideological maddogs who got George W to launch his disastrous Iraq attack is now beating the war drums in an effort... [read more]

According to the "Dick and George Show," broadcast daily from the White House, things are really looking up in Iraq.

Hmmm. They might want to ask the Iraqi people about that.... [read more]

Butch Hancock is a wonderful singer-songwriter who was raised in the Lubbock area, out in West Texas. Butch once told me about growing up in the sometimes confusing fundamentalist Christian ethic of that bastion... [read more]