To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Poor Immigrants: Asset Or Burden?
BY FROMA HARROP America’s fast-growing Latino population is famously hard working. It also has high rates for teenage pregnancy and dropping out of high school, two markers for poverty. Falling education levels should worry any country seeking to compete in the global economy. Are these poor immigrants “an asset or an albatross?” San Antonio Mayor […]
Religious Tolerance Is The Law
Return Of ‘The Contract With America’
BY JOE CONASON The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the “Contract From America” – a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the “Contract With America” used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress. The question immediately raised by this news is […]
Think For Yourself
Masturbating On The Edge Of The Apocalypse
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s the merry laugh on the edge of the abyss. Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the surreal landscape of American politics. In terms of fun, this has been a bleak decade. Not since Monica Lewinsky eagerly confided to friends […]