To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Democrats Must Fix Health Care Alone
BY FROMA HARROP Early on as New York mayor, Ed Koch went to battle against entrenched interests that were bankrupting the city. The yelling and screaming was such that reporters asked him whether he was interested in having a second term. Koch responded that he didn’t care about a second term, which was why he […]
Un-American Activities
The Right-Wing Express: Loop-The-Loop
BY JIM HIGHTOWER If you get a thrill from taking a white-knuckle ride on a loop-the-loop, you don’t have to wait for the state fair – just hop onto the right-wing express, which is plunging into ludicrous levels of loopiness in an effort to kill Barack Obama’s health care reform plan. You’ll shriek with astonishment […]
The Prince
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I discovered Bob Novak when I was in college. My political science teacher assigned us Rowland Evans and Robert Novak’s classic tomes Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power [1966] and Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power [1971]. It was like giving the Bible on baseball to a kid […]