To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 26, 2024

Observercast

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 […]

Arms Dealers Discover Your Town … And Tax Dollars

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It can be tough policing the mean streets in these days of desperation, when drug cartels and other hardened criminals are out there … somewhere … you really can’t know where, until they strike, and another civilian is marked with a V – for Victim. But the good people of Orange Country, […]

ObamaCare And The Middle Class

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BY FROMA HARROP Few truly appreciate the enormous economic benefits the Affordable Care Act will deliver to the American people over time, the middle class included. But you’d expect New York’s seasoned Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, to “get it” rather than belittle the 2010 federal health care law as a political inconvenience for his party. […]