To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Revolution
What Bill Clinton Might Have Said …
BY SUSAN ESTRICH “I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama Bin Laden – he’s a very smart guy, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about him – and I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town […]
Far From A Loser, The Post Office Is A Money-Making Operation
BY JIM HIGHTOWER One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line […]
Blue vs. Blue Does Not Equal Red
BY FROMA HARROP They are all Democrats, blue and blue. But like Republicans, they have opposing visions duking it out in the primaries. One side sees urgency in reforming public-employee benefits now eating state and local budgets alive. This group includes Democratic governors Jerry Brown in California, Andrew Cuomo in New York and Pat Quinn […]