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Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
As it stands now, here in the Donald’s Cuckoo Nest, insanity reigns, and the inmates are now officially in charge of the national asylum. Ours is, after all, a nation of laws, right? We value justice … Read moreGetting Trapped in The Donald’s Cuckoo Nest
Article on Bernie Sanders and Our Revolution in the New York Times was indeed NOT “fit to print.” For more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that … Read moreThe New York Times Strikes Out
Illegal immigration is often the result of the abject poverty and violence that people face in their homeland. No wall will fix that, nor stop the influx. The wailing in our country about the “invasion … Read moreA Wall Won’t Fix Immigration
Where is the Democratic Party? The Party of the People is stuck in the status quo — the still-reigning, old-line hierarchy of the Democratic party is unwilling to just be dedicated to, well, to the … Read moreWhat Does the Democratic Party Want?
Trump attacks the Post Office to get back at Bezos Question: If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence… what … Read moreHow Bad Public Policy Happens: eg, Trump’s Attack on the US Post Office
One way to restore some fiscal sanity is a “Wall Street Sin Tax.” The moneyed populace is adroit at getting Congress to shift America’s tax burden to workers, consumers, small businesses — anyone but them. … Read moreA Wall Street Sin Tax
Bands of nouveau corporate royalists are today’s Goons in Gucci In the fierce labor wars of the last century, industrial barons employed Pinkertons and other goons to bloody the heads of laborers or simply gun … Read moreGoons in Gucci
Get ready, America — here we go… to war! This kind of war is an affront to the values that most of us hold dear, and this war is truly nasty and evil: A war … Read moreTrump’s New War
The Koch brothers would love to replace majority rule with a new governing order that empowers the owner class. In 1933, a handful of wealthy Wall Streeters were upset that the newly elected president, Franklin … Read morePatience and Secrecy in the Koch Brothers’ Complex Conspiracy
Yes, there was a real plutocratic coup attempt by the richest men on Wall Street to take over the USA, in 1933. It could happen again. Many Americans are reluctant to accept that coup conspiracies … Read moreA Plutocratic Coup