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Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
BLOOMBERG THUMBS NOSE AT PUBLIC
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Some politicians grow in office. Others merely bloat.
You can mark down Michael Bloomberg as a bloater. He’s the billionaire who’s been mayor of New York City for two terms, and... [read more]
WANTED: A COMPETENT GOVERNMENT
Monday, November 3, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
As we traipse merrily into our voting booths, let's revisit the quaint notion that a government ought to be minimally competent.
I know, I know – since Ronnie Reagan, we've been... [read more]
JOHN MCCAIN’S WHITE SUIT
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Never wear a white suit when slinging political mud.
Sen. John McCain seems to have forgotten this, and now he’s getting mud all over his once-proud image as a man of integrity,... [read more]
FIGHT THE SMEARS
Friday, September 19, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
As the old political adage tells us, a lie can be halfway around the world before truth gets its boots on.
The Karl-Rovian, Swift-Boatian school of smear politics relies on this... [read more]
MCCAIN SHOWS US HIS CHARACTER
Monday, September 15, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Maybe you’re concerned about the collapse of America’s housing market, the disappearance of middle-class wages, the bloody mess in Iraq, or any number of other big issues. If so, you’ll be excited to learn that... [read more]
Sarah Palin's Faux Populism
By Originally published on AlterNet.org
It was not my intention to be writing about Sarah Palin, since everyone with a laptop, a No. 2 pencil or a red crayon seems to be covering that beat. But then came the pundits:
"She's a populist," gushed Karl Rove on Fox TV. Weird, since this right-wing political slime and corporate whore loathes, demonizes, mocks, fears and tries to destroy real populists.
WHAT MCCAIN’S VP CHOICE SAYS ABOUT HIM
Monday, September 8, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
John McCain might love America, in the abstract, but he clearly has little regard for us Americans, in the here and now.
That’s the message that he sent with his choice... [read more]
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Let’s play “Guilt By Association,” the fun-filled, down-and-dirty political game that is so popular with right-wing politicos!
This year, the chief gamester is an outfit calling itself the American Issues Project
... [read more]
BUYING AMERICA – WITH OUR DOLLARS
Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers?
Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth is that they are owned by you and me – the millions of mom & pop investors, pension-fund retirees, and people... [read more]