To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Observercast

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. […]

In Ferguson, As Elsewhere, Voting Is What Matters

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BY FROMA HARROP In covering the violence engulfing Ferguson, MO, media routinely cite the following numbers to explain the frustration of the minority community there: Ferguson’s population is two-thirds African-American, yet the mayor, five of the six City Council members and nearly the entire police force are white. But there are other numbers. In the […]

Thanksgiving: From The White House To Walmart

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Thanksgiving – a time of grace and family sharing – will start with an extra-graceful act from the White House this year. Just as every president since Lincoln has done, Barack Obama will grant clemency to two turkeys that otherwise could’ve become the main entree for the First Family’s holiday dinner. This […]