The Hightower Report

Global Game That Never Ends; and A New Name for Occupation

"...Global Game That Never Ends..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Point Austin: About Us

A reminder of just how bad things have gotten

"...Perhaps while we're all busy this week prematurely celebrating the end of the..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Why Doesn't Wright Promote My Conspiracy Theories?

"...1], author of the forthcoming book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, I feel doubtful as..."

Aug. 15, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two: Flip It and Reverse It

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

"...week I blew the lead on "Page Two" and actually didn't articulate the point of the column anywhere clearly..."

July 7, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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The Rise of the Imperial Presidency; and What Color is Your Steak?

"...THE RISE OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY Let's measure how far we've gone down the..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Republicans Given Credit They Don't Deserve

"...to put to rest the myth about Republicans and national security? Democratic presidents led us successfully through World War..."

March 6, 2006 Postmarks

Black Not a Coward But Still an Addict, Hypocrite, Liar, Moral Incompetent!

"...Dear Mr. Black, In your Feb. 10, “Page Two”: Name-Calling, Part II, you reveal your “addiction to language rather..."

Feb. 13, 2006 Postmarks

Naked City

The true source of terror is our own ill-begotten war

"...– "June Report Led Britain to Lower Its Terror Alert" – as was the emphasis of the report, that..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Page Two

Here in filmtown, 'Slacker' is on DVD (finally) and 'Louisiana Boys' is on 'SXSW Presents.' Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.

"...Any significant cultural evolution almost always represents many unidentified, underappreciated, and/or barely..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Lowdown

George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."

"...innocent foreigners in the path of his wars, but also killing U.S. soldiers. It would be one thing if..."

July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers talk back.

"...[advertisement, p.27, July 18]. I loved the use of nonfactual data presented in a factual kind of manner. I..."

July 25, 2003 Column

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"...A Child Shall Lead Us..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

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"...of TxDOT asserts that residents of Wilshire Wood/Delwood 1 "really hate" him ["Born to Be Reviled," Sept. 20"]...."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

Texas and the Congressional Suicide Caucus

Lone Star GOP on the losing side of shutdown fight

"...The passage of most Congressional House Resolutions goes blissfully ignored: Not when House Resolution..."

Oct. 17, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: March 4

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Lech Walesa puts his foot in his mouth, Jodie Foster refuses..."

March 4, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

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Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks for the article on Melinda Ballard vs. Farmers Insurance about Ballard's moldy mansion ["The 'Mold..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Mr. Texas

Lawrence Wright’s newest novel isn’t just Mr. Smith Goes to Austin

"...Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart as a naive, idealistic, greenhorn politician who tries to navigate the endemic corruption..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...announced list of authors for the 2016 Texas Book Festival. With 280 authors on board – among them Don..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Unpleasant Truth

"...Dear Editor, While I enjoyed Louis Black's editorial ["Page Two: All or Nothing Is No Way Forward,"..."

June 21, 2016 Postmarks

Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki's distinctive blend of deadpan humor and quotidian melodrama comes through in this new film.

"...of Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish director whose films have always been marked by their distinctive blend of deadpan humor..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: An Extraordinary Silence

Oddly, American progressives don't protest Obama's war in Pakistan

"...Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson: "A hundred pounds of highly enriched uranium..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire

Obama's expansion of the war leads nowhere

"...was the war to wreak vengeance upon and destroy al Qaeda, the murderers of 9/11. So it's a bit..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Baader Meinhof Complex

This gripping lesson in the recent history of terrorism is an electrifying, morally complex story of the evil that true believers do in the name of the greater good.

"...by: Uli Edel. Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Johanna Wokalek and Bruno Ganz. At once a gripping recent-history lesson,..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Torture and History

Revelations of the Bush torture programs are only the first step

"...assassination of President Ken­nedy, still others (with a good deal more reason) to the Vietnam War, through which we..."

April 24, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

If you're looking for escape, then the fourth installment in the beloved cliff-hanging archaeological-adventure franchise should fit the bill.

"...Spielberg. Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent. What more..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.

"...his FX TV show 30 Days and now given geopolitical heft with Where in the World Is Osama bin..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Army Chaplain at Guantánamo to Speak

First permanent Muslim chaplain accessible to detainees to speak at UT

"...former U.S. Army chaplain James Yee should be the idealized end result. A third-generation Chinese-American and a 1990 West..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Bush Pushes Military Commitment to Iraq; and The Howl of the Wolf

"...government is steadily taking charge and that this will allow America's military role to shrink there...."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Jewish Book Fair

Nov. 3-11

"...3, 8pm A.J. Jacobs (see "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature

More Crap From Vance

"...war crime perpetrated by the Islamist barbarians, it is especially despicable. He is hopelessly credulous and irrational. The Iraqi..."

Sept. 17, 2007 Postmarks

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