The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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. [
GOOD WAGES ARE GOOD FOR AMERICA
Some U.S. Senators are real corkers. Take Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee. Please.
He's on the committee overseeing the bailout of America's auto companies and he recently popped... [read more]
EDIBLE JUSTICE
“The arc of the moral universe is long,” declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior, “but it bends toward justice.”
It never occurred to the Rev. King that his inspiring call for... [read more]
Congress Coddles Bankers While Bashing Autoworkers
Sen. Bob Corker is ... well, a real corker.
The Tennessee Republican is on the Senate banking committee that's overseeing the bailout of America's Big Three automakers, and, by gollies, he got his dander up when the three CEOs told the committee last week that they needed a $34 billion loan to survive. No way, popped the corker, unless and until you cut jobs and slash the pay of your union workers. "Before we even contemplate making a loan to these companies," corker lectured, "we need to put in place specific and rigorous measures."
THE DOWNTURN HITS HIGH-DOLLAR SPORTS
Times are hard. How hard? So hard that Tiger Woods just lost a $7.5 million sponsorship contract he had with Buick for 2009.
Of course, the gabillionaire golfer will be all... [read more]
BUSH OKS ENVIRONMENTAL GROTESQUERIE
Let's say you are CEO of a coal corporation, and you want to get at the black gold deep inside the beautiful, verdant mountains of Appalachia. You have a choice.
You... [read more]
LOBBYIST CHANGE THEIR STRIPES
One word defines the 2008 political year: Change!
People are demanding real change, and Barack Obama rode their demand right into the White House. So, no doubt you’ll be delighted to... [read more]