The Highroad
Audio: Jim Hightower on Colorado’s shackling bill
Jim Hightower comments on Colorado's shackling bill.
Jim Hightower on Colorado Shackling Bill by boulderweekly
Rabbits, endangered rhinos and the Dallas Safari Club
Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...
Where’s the ethical balance of America’s scales of justice?
Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan — but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America’s legal system...
The mobsters of Wall Street
Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...
Gouging consumers with high-flying fees
Why do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies...
A people’s victory in Montana
Let’s hear it for American Tradition Partnership! It’s an organization that stands up for the politically dispossessed in our land. It goes to the highest courts to assert the fundamental rights of a minority that’s been denied its full voice in America’s political ...
Being a bankster means never saying, ‘I’m sorry’
The funny thing about Wall Street banksters is that they make a killing by defrauding millions of homeowners, customers, investors and taxpayers — then, when caught, they wonder why we don’t love them...
The dirty little secret of private equity profits
Executives in private equity firms — such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts — tend to be peacocks who think quite highly of themselves...
GOP ‘mad as a hatter’ about EPA mercury regs
Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies...
Finding the money to fund higher education for all
Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions-of-dollars each year...
Spreading weapons in the name of peace
Hey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others...
Big political donors buying elections… and public policies
Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...
