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Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!

If you think the GOP’s Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us — you haven’t...

18.04.2024 3

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What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians?

“Somebody better investigate soon.” That’s a lyric in Bob Dylan’s Oxford Town , a 1962 song deploring the relentless murdering of Black...

10.04.2024 3

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Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don’t

Free market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their assertion of special tax breaks and corporate greed over...

04.04.2024 5

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Should We Be Polite as the GOP Stomps on Our Democratic Rights?

When a fox attacks a hen house, is it uncivil for the hens to raise a ruckus? Two Supreme Court justices say it is. Elevating collegiality above...

31.03.2024 5

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The End Of Anti-Woke Politics? – OpEd

Well, well, well — look who’s waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. Woke! We so-called “woke” people have been the target of far-right...

25.03.2024 10

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Sen. Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party's operatives to do the GOP's televised response to...

24.03.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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Senator Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim

Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama. She was set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised response to Joe Biden’s...

21.03.2024 6

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Tom Paine: What a Guy!

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17.03.2024 4

El Dorado News Times

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Tom Paine: What a Guy!

In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not George Washington or Thomas Jefferson — nor, technically, he wasn’t even an...

14.03.2024 4

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Is 'Icarus' the Solution to Climate Change?

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach...

10.03.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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Icarus: Solution to Climate Change?

Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach umbrella? Check. Tinted...

07.03.2024 20

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How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer a Train Wreck

BY JIM HIGHTOWER "Corporate crises consultants" (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion...

03.03.2024 4

El Dorado News Times

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How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer a Train Wreck

“Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) are just corporate lobbyists who have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing...

02.03.2024 10

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Where Did Our Local Newspapers Go? – OpEd

I no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus the news part —...

01.03.2024 5

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GOP's Anti-Abortion Big Brother Not Just Watching You. They're Stalking You

Going full-tilt totalitarian, the Texas Republican posse has demanded that out-of-state-care groups hand over the names and addresses of Texas women...

24.02.2024 10

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Abortion Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women

Here’s our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce...

23.02.2024 4

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What Is a Banker’s Promise Worth?

Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people with his convoluted use of words. Like the time he vetoed a loan shark bill he’d...

15.02.2024 4

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The Right Wing’s Program to Solve Childhood Obesity

This plotline could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for...

11.02.2024 4

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Turning Down Food Assistance For Poor Children Is Shockingly Callous – OpEd

This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for...

09.02.2024 10

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Just What We Need -- Another Border Wall!

BY JIM HIGHTOWER In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to...

04.02.2024 6

El Dorado News Times

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Just What We Need – Another Border Wall!

In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So,...

02.02.2024 6

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Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs Is Corporate BS

BY JIM HIGHTOWER A decade ago, Oklahoma's countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs -- Concentrated Animal Feeding...

28.01.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs Is Corporate BS

A decade ago, Oklahoma’s countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. These are...

26.01.2024 20

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When Private Enterprise Fails, Public Enterprise Must Step Up

BY JIM HIGHTOWER In cities all across America, an infiltration of wealthy investors, developers and bankers is driving poor and middle-class families...

21.01.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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When Private Enterprise Fails, Public Enterprise Must Step Up

In cities all across America, an infiltration of private enterprise wealthy investors, developers and bankers is driving poor and middle-class...

17.01.2024 6

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Let’s Send All Billionaires to Mars!

Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet Earth, we have trashed the place. Climate change,...

15.01.2024 8

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Let's Send All Billionaires to Mars!

14.01.2024 7

El Dorado News Times

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A New Road to Farm, Food and Climate Progress

“Arkansas Traveler” is an old-time song of folk humor that tells of a well-heeled dandy who gets lost while traveling across the Ozark Mountains....

09.01.2024 10

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A New Road to Farm, Food and Climate Progress

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07.01.2024 9

El Dorado News Times

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Want Environmental Progress? Follow the Kids

“OK, boomer.” That’s a snarky phrase currently some use to mock 60- and-70-year-olds they consider to be cluelessly out of touch. Recently,...

29.12.2023 3

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Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant

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17.12.2023 6

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Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant

In a song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie noted that, “Some’ll rob with a six-gun / Some with a fountain pen.” Indeed, the big-money thievery in...

14.12.2023 4

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Corporate Giants Say You Don’t Mind Their Price Gouging. Do You?

According to an old saying, “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.” True. But that raises this question: Who would even try squeezing blood...

07.12.2023 20

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Here's a Wild Idea That's Taking Root

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Growing up, I absorbed a lot of values from my Ol' Texas Daddy: a strong commitment to the common good, a healthy work ethic and a...

03.12.2023 9

El Dorado News Times

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Here’s a Wild Idea That’s Taking Root

Growing up, I absorbed a lot of values from my Ol’ Texas Daddy: a strong commitment to the common good, a healthy work ethic and a lively sense of...

03.12.2023 10

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Why 'Supreme Court Ethics' Is an Oxymoron

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Let me be blunt: The problem with today's Supreme Court is that it consists of too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets....

27.11.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

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Why ‘Supreme Court Ethics’ Is an Oxymoron

Let me be blunt: The problem with today’s Supreme Court is that it consists of too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. While most of the...

23.11.2023 8

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Mike Johnson’s Revolving Door – OpEd

Hear it? What’s that sound? “Whoop-whoop-whoop.” It’s Washington’s revolving door, allowing corporate interests to come directly inside...

14.11.2023 3

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The Billionaires Behind School Privatization

The ultra-rich love to enact their extremist right-wing policy, including with school privatization. If you’re trying to enact an extremist...

08.11.2023 3

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A Supreme Court of Ethical Weasels

Wow! A couple of Supreme Court weasels — excuse me, justices — say they’re now starting to think that maybe the court should sorta start...

01.11.2023 3

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Chap Ambrose Versus Elon Musk – I’m Betting on Chap

A neighbor and former Musk admirer, Chap Ambrose, rallies local opposition. There is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest...

30.10.2023 3

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Chap Ambrose versus Elon Musk -- I'm betting on Chap

By Jim Hightower There is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest of all is the richest -- Elon Musk. This self-entitled...

29.10.2023 3

El Dorado News Times

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Elon Musk Messes With Texas – OpEd

There is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest of all is the richest — Elon Musk.

27.10.2023 8

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Trucking industry wails about its labor shortage -- Here's a solution

By Jim Hightower Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them -- our nation's dire shortage of...

22.10.2023 5

El Dorado News Times

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The Glaringly Obvious Answer To America’s Truck Driver Shortage – OpEd

Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them. Our nation’s dire shortage of long-haul truck...

22.10.2023 7

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Trucking Industry Wails About Its Labor Shortage: Here’s a Solution

Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them — the trucking industry and its dire shortage of...

21.10.2023 7

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Corporate Thievery In America’s Mobile Home Parks – OpEd

Over time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. “Gentle,” for example. Originally meaning good natured and...

16.10.2023 3

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The Contemptible Thievery of Gentrification

Over time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. “Gentle,” for example, which has devolved into...

14.10.2023 4

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Look Who’s Behind the Know-Nothing ‘No Labels Party’

In the mid-1800s, a new political party flared up in American politics, posing as an alternative to both the Democratic and Republican parties....

05.10.2023 4

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Let’s Get Real: Billionaires Are Nuts!

When megalomanic, multibillionaire barons of industry suddenly announce that they are boundless geniuses who must remake society, government and...

29.09.2023 2

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