To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, March 29, 2024

Observercast

The Pain Of Inequality Among Yacht Buyers

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires. Why? Because we now share a common cause: Inequality. You don’t hear much about it, but millionaires are suffering a wealth gap, too, and it’s having a depressing impact on both their level of consumption and their […]

Make Rape Identities Public

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BY FROMA HARROP Jackie’s shocking account of gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house has been growing holes by the day. And it has put Rolling Stone – the magazine that published it without identifying the accuser, the friends she quoted or the alleged rapists – under a harsh light. It only named […]

Are Americans Turning Post-Materialistic?

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BY FROMA HARROP In 1916, Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia sponsored a children’s parade with heralds, a brass band, Jack the Giant Killer, clowns, girls as snowflakes, boys as silver stars and Santa Claus transported by four Eskimos to his throne in the Royal Red Theater – every morning it was open during the Christmas season. […]

The Unfair Scapegoating Of ObamaCare

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BY JILL LAWRENCE Barring a Christmas miracle that saves Sen. Mary Landrieu’s job, the Democratic disappearing act in the South is about to claim another casualty. The Republican tide, expected to net a new senator in Louisiana’s runoff election this weekend, brings to mind Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s rueful remark after he signed the 1964 Civil […]

What Voters Don’t Know – Yet – About Jeb Bush

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BY JOE CONASON Whenever the deep thinkers of the Republican establishment glance at their bulging clown car of presidential hopefuls – with out-there Dr. Ben Carson, exorcist Bobby Jindal, loudmouth Chris Christie and bankruptcy expert Donald Trump jammed against Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, to name a few – they inevitably start chattering about […]