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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

Why Millennials Don’t Drive So Much

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BY FROMA HARROP Young Americans are just not into driving the way their elders are or did at their age. They are less likely to own cars or use cars. The drives they do are shorter. Meanwhile, the bus is looking good to them. A new report confirms this trend and offers reasons that millennials […]

The Scariest Thing About Political Fearmongers Is Themselves

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER One thing you can say about Rick Perry is that he sticks to his guns. If one of his policy proposals turns out to be dumb, by gollies, he will double down on dumb. For example, in his current re-run for the GOP presidential nomination, the “Oops” governor has repositioned himself as […]

Castrating Conservative Principles In Iowa

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BY FROMA HARROP There exists a government boondoggle that offends conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, oil refiners, cattle ranchers and taxpayers alike. It’s not easy to get that kind of Kumbaya going, but the corn-based ethanol program has done it. This has put Joni Ernst, the Tea Party favorite for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat, in an […]

What Ebola Can Teach Us

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BY JOE CONASON Even if Africa’s Ebola emergency never mutates into a global catastrophe, those of us who live in the world’s most fortunate country ought to consider what this fearsome virus can teach us. The lessons are quite obvious at this point – and contain implications that are political in the most urgent sense. […]

Ebola And 41 Million Uninsured Americans

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BY FROMA HARROP With the first diagnosed case of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States located in Dallas, Texans are understandably alarmed. The patient just died. Gov. Rick Perry has established a task force to address the Ebola threat. Not a bad idea but still a feeble response coming from a governor who […]