To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Observercast

Far From A Loser, The Post Office Is A Money-Making Operation

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line […]

Blue vs. Blue Does Not Equal Red

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BY FROMA HARROP They are all Democrats, blue and blue. But like Republicans, they have opposing visions duking it out in the primaries. One side sees urgency in reforming public-employee benefits now eating state and local budgets alive. This group includes Democratic governors Jerry Brown in California, Andrew Cuomo in New York and Pat Quinn […]

From Clinton To Obama: Why GOP Impeachment Fever Is Now So Predictable

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BY JOE CONASON Making predictions is a perilous practice for any political journalist. Too often, the would-be seers turn out to be dead wrong — as can be attested to by George Will, Michael Barone, Larry Kudlow and the humiliated boy genius of Fox News, all of whom projected a big victory for Mitt Romney […]

Doing Well By Doing Good – But Better By Doing Bad

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BY FROMA HARROP How curious to watch 60 Minutes, the famously hard-hitting TV newsmagazine, bless JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon with prime-time beatification for hiring some interns from poor backgrounds. The segment’s headline is “Jobs program benefits Fortune 500 and underprivileged youth.” “Many of the country’s most powerful CEOs are finding that they can do […]

Do-Nothing Congress Takes A Vacation

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Gosh, has it already been three weeks since Congress took a vacation? Those poor stiffs must be pooped from trying to catch up on all the heavy lifting that piled up while they were away from their lawmaking duties. And – gosh, again – in just a few days, Congress will go […]