To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, February 17, 2025

Observercast

A Perfect Storm Of Idiocy

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BY JOE CONASON The wild furor over President Obama’s speech to the nation’s schoolchildren raises many questions, but there is only one that really matters. How did America surrender its political discourse – not to mention the news cycle – to the most unreasonable and unstable elements of the far right? Not so many years ago, nobody would have imagined that a bland presidential address to young students, urging them to remain in school, study […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.