To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Do-Nothing Congress Takes A Vacation
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 […]
What Scares Americans About The Child Migrants
BY FROMA HARROP The numbers are small for a large country like this, but the alarm is big over the influx of Central American children coming over the southern border. People are merging this special case involving about 57,000 children with generalized anxiety about a broken immigration system that has resulted in an estimated 11 […]
Kansas Experiment Blows Up Laboratory Of Democracy
BY JOE CONASON When Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932 that a “single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country,” he was suggesting that state innovations might advance reform on the federal level. The progressive Supreme Court […]
The American Way Of Death
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I will readily admit that I have been all over the map when it comes to the death penalty. As a young lawyer and law professor, I was opposed to it. Actually, it was easy to be against it. The evidence that it was being administered arbitrarily and unfairly was so overwhelming […]
Can A $7 Billion Penalty Be A Good Deal?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Media outlets across the country trumpeted the stunning news with headlines like this: “Citigroup Punished.” At last, went the storyline, the Justice Department brought down the hammer on one of the greed-headed Wall Street giants that are guilty of massive mortgage frauds that crashed our economy six years ago. While millions of […]
