To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: February 2009
They Don’t Care
Escalate First, Think Later?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Excuse me for being impolitic, but why the —- is America “surging” so unquestioningly into Afghanistan? Not for nothing is that country called “the burial ground of empires,” “a guerilla’s paradise” and “the theme park of problems.” Yet, President Obama insists that America must act now to “stabilize” Afghanistan and its dizzyingly […]
The Price Of Paying By The Rules
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The president deserves the high marks he is getting from the public for his first month in office. Most presidents get to spend their first month putting up the draperies. This one had to spend his picking up the pieces of a collapsing economy. When the Republicans decided to just say no, […]
Absence, Noted
Let Bankruptcy Courts Change Mortgages
BY FROMA HARROP Let bankruptcy courts modify the terms of home mortgages, says President Obama and legislation now before Congress. Banks don’t like the idea, but it’s a good one, possibly even for them. We are talking about Chapter 13 bankruptcies, in which troubled borrowers reorganize their debt, not walk away from it [that’s a […]