To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Cooperatives Over Corporations
BY JIM HIGHTOWER We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society’s economic affairs, […]
Who’s In Charge?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The fight between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum doesn’t just raise questions about each man’s strengths and weaknesses. It also raises, as fundamentally as any battle in recent decades, the question of who, ultimately, is in charge of picking the nominee. Is it the party elite: the elected officials, the strategists and […]
Liberal Elite To Blame For Working Class Woes?
BY FROMA HARROP The white working class is in big trouble, and the liberal elite is largely to blame. So says Charles Murray in his latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. As a scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, and this being an election year, wouldn’t he just. A new […]