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Hightower: There's Nothing Conservative About Gov. Walker's Autocratic Power Grab
Commentary, May, 09 2011
Jim Hightower
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Call them what they are--not conservatives, but self-serving plutocrats
Hightower: The Uncounted Majority
Commentary, December, 05 2000
Jim Hightower
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Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on t...
Hightower: Three from Hightower
Commentary, July, 31 2000
Jim Hightower
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"The truth will come out. They are killing me tonight. They are murdering me." These were the final words of Gary Graham, number 135 on the list of death row inmates executed in rapid-fire order on the watch of George W. Bush, who has averaged ...
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Commentary, June, 02 2000
Jim Hightower
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At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Commentary, May, 14 2000
Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...
Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000
Commentary, May, 03 2000
Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...
Hightower: ELECTION 2000: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Commentary, March, 21 2000
Jim Hightower
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The quadrennial presidential horserace is on, and the media establishment has unleashed its multimillion-dollar army of pundits, pollsters, powdered anchors, analysts, chart makers, gossips, make-up artists, set designers and others to drum up the...
Hightower: Four Vignettes
Commentary, January, 09 2000
Jim Hightower
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In a courtroom, an attorney asked the witness, "Sir, What's your IQ?" The fellow responded, "Well, I can see pretty well, I think."
Hightower: Shorts
Commentary, November, 12 1999
Jim Hightower
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In the roiling sea of communications technology that threatens to engulf us--phone calls, email, voice mail, faxes, the internet, laptops, etc.--it's good to seek refuge every now and again in the tranquility of nature, where the chirping you hear...
Hightower: Various Shorts
Commentary, October, 24 1999
Jim Hightower
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It's Goober Time again {Beanie-cap Breakdown} -- time to give the Hightower Radio "Gooberhead Award" to yet another public figure who's got his tongue going 100 miles an hour . . . but forgot to put his brain in gear.
Hightower: Snapshots
Commentary, October, 05 1999
Jim Hightower
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Let's say you're at home one evening, sitting there in your La-Z-Boy, maybe with a cool one in your hand, when suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your chest, your left arm is tingly and sort of numb. Heart attack! Or it least it could be one. You g...
Hightower: The Money Primary
Commentary, June, 30 1999
Jim Hightower
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What-you say the election's not until next year? Yeah, well, technically that's true. The caucuses and primaries don't begin until February of 2000, but there are about 70,000 Americans who get an extra special vote, casting their ballots this yea...
Hightower: Radio Nuggets
Commentary, May, 04 1999
Jim Hightower
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Bill Clinton did not inhale. We're clear on that, right? But, recently, he did swallow.
Hightower: Selected Shorts
Commentary, March, 31 1999
Jim Hightower
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Travel again [space music] into the Far, Far, Far-Out Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower takes you to that far-out cosmic cusp where public purpose and private profiteering overlap.
Hightower: Time Warner Lobbyiest Costs You Money
Commentary, March, 14 1999
Jim Hightower
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When Bill Clinton watched this year's Super Bowl on TV at the presidential retreat at Camp David, one of those kicking back with him was Washington superlobbyist Mike Berman.
