Jim Hightower

When the EPA revoked a permit for decapitating West Virginia’s mountains, some politicians decided the sky was falling.

Thanks to a pair of insistent Texans, a radioactive waste dump is being opened to 36 more states.

Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, truly is a rarity.

The congresswoman invents fables about the founders as well as her own personal history.

Without the hype, presidents and generals wouldn’t be able to lure sane young men and women into the voracious maw of deathly chaos and unimaginable horror.

Instead of stopping to render aid to the man he’d just hit, the money man sped away in his Mercedes Benz.

Appealing alternatives exist all across America.

Jay Leno has suggested that DHS should include plaid into its color scheme, for at least that would tell us that our country is under attack by Scotland.

Reprobate politicos like Tom DeLay have turned the People’s House into a shameful pay-to-play parlor.

The $400-billion-a-year retail behemoth, with two million employees laboring in 8,500 stores spread around the globe, is putting on a “local” mask.

Summers’ sorry tenure shows that having a PhD doesn’t mean you can do the J.O.B.

Americans pay far more attention to the World Series than to the ongoing carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Boneheaded executives and greed-headed investors might be draining the fresh water supplies where you live.

The theory is that somehow this escalation of military testosterone in the explosive Middle East might produce harmony some day.

The general public doesn’t want to balance the federal budget by putting Social Security on the chopping block.

A nonprofit doctor’s group recently got a blast of corporate wrath when it produced a TV commercial that dared to take on mighty McDonald’s.

Our troops are defending a country that routinely fuels America’s narcotics problem.

These pampered people say being taxed like us commoners would amount to persecution.

Here’s the perfect cure for lawmakers’ job grievances: Become coal miners for a while.

If you can think of a better, more apt term, please let this columnist know.