To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: June 2015
A Reminder To Remember
The Real Scandal In Denny Hastert’s Life
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Washington’s establishment of politicos, lobbyists and media sparklies are shocked – shocked to their very core! – by the scandalous sexual revelations about Dennis Hastert. The portly Republican, who’d been speaker of the House a decade ago, was an affable, non-descript Midwesterner who was popular with his fellow lawmakers. A former high […]
Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi and America’s ‘Family Values’
BY JOE CONASON Republicans on Capitol Hill keep telling everyone how terribly shocked they are by the tawdry tale of Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House indicted for violations of federal money-laundering statutes in an effort to cover up alleged sexual abuse of a male high-school student many years ago. Long upheld as […]