To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 26, 2024

Observercast

Big Lies, Little Lies And The Punishment Of Brian Williams

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BY JOE CONASON The harshest penalties usually tend to be brutal, vengeful and excessive – even when the offender is a celebrity journalist like Brian Williams. Suspended without pay from his post as the NBC Nightly News anchor for six months, Williams may be facing the end of his career in television news, which would […]

Should Economic Policy Include A Senior Discount?

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BY FROMA HARROP We’ve seen senior discounts for buses. We’ve seen senior discounts at movie theaters. We’ve seen senior discounts in supermarkets. Most make some sense, helping businesses attract older customers at slow times when others are working. What makes no sense whatsoever is applying senior discounts to economic policy. Older Americans vote, and nowadays […]

Aetna Lifts The National Standard For ‘Competitive Wages’

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Business schools and Wall Street banks preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEO’s must be idiots. By that I mean the original Greek word “idiotes,” which applied to people who care only about themselves and the prosperity of their immediate family, rejecting any responsibility to […]

What Makes Rand Paul Strange

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BY FROMA HARROP Sen. Rand Paul believes that vaccinating children should be up to the parents, an increasingly unpopular view after recent outbreaks of measles, mumps and other diseases. And throwing a newt’s eye of quack science into the vat, the Kentucky Republican promotes the myth that these shots put children at risk. The political […]

On Gas Tax Increase, Obama Is Wrong – And [Some] Republicans Are Right

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BY JOE CONASON It doesn’t happen often, but Washington is now debating an important issue on which the United States Chamber of Commerce, Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer, and a growing posse of assorted right-wingers are right – and President Barack Obama is wrong. Those voices on the right, along with […]