Jim Hightower: A populist revival, climate change affecting our beer, and more!

Time for a Populist revival! (text from speech)

By Jim Hightower - Tue., 3/11/14

Thanks for allowing a scruffy Texas populist to join you here at “The Summit” for this uptown, down-to-earth, back-to-basics populist-palooza. It makes me happier than a mosquito at a nudist colony to be looking out at you unabashed, untamed progressives. Thank you for fighting on behalf of America’s workaday majority, who’re being kicked out, knocked down and stomped on by the bosses, bankers, big shots, bastards and bullshitters. www.thenation.com/article/178699/time-populist-revival#

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Spy agents turned into peeping Toms

By Jim Hightower - Tue., 3/11/14

Medical science has long known that the optic nerve runs from the retina of our eyeballs to the visual cortex of our brains, letting us see what's going on around us.
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Pulling the curtain on an anti-minimum wage front group

By Jim Hightower - Mon., 3/10/14

In Frank Baum's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the "wizard' turns out to be a phony – just an old guy sitting behind a curtain, using his booming voice to spew nonsense in a... [read more]

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Climate change, drought, beer, and me

By Jim Hightower - Fri., 3/7/14

Okay, climate-change deniers – you’ve gone too far. You've gone from just being annoying know-nothings to now posing a serious threat to an essential good that embodies humankind's finest collaboration with nature: Beer.
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Congress critters can be lovable for a price

By Jim Hightower - Thu., 3/6/14

A corporate lobbyist recently admitted to the New York Times: "Everybody is embarrassed about it. Although not so embarrassed that they don't do it."
"It" is the scandalous copulation between... [read more]

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Wall Street's secret fraternity of pathetic narcissists

By Jim Hightower - Wed., 3/5/14

Never let it be said that the überrich bankers of Wall Street are too uptight to get down.
A recent article by reporter Kevin Roose reveals that some 200 of the... [read more]

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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. [Read more]