To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Manifest Selfishness
An Asinine Attack
The Quran At Fahrenheit 451
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN By the end of this week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to toss those Qurans in the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them […]
Why Barack Is Behind
BY JOE CONASON Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election – and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November – is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years after the multiple disasters of the Bush Administration. They know that the years of Republican dominance in Washington […]