To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Observercast

Barr’s Misconduct Should Not Shield Trump

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In the days since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled his office’s 34-count indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, arguments about the likelihood of conviction have erupted on every cable news program, as the former president spews fusillades of lies and threats. Most of this noise is pointless and hardly worth engaging. The only […]

Donald Trump Is Not Our Type, Believe Me

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The Trump rally promoted by CNN [but paraded as a “town hall”] included the inevitable references to the former president’s piggish remarks about women. Kaitlan Collins dug in on the famous Access Hollywood videotape in which the former president claimed that a rich celebrity could grab a woman by her privates and get away with […]

Trump’s Extremism On Abortion Cannot Be Hid

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Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald Trump’s attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has done in Florida – virtually ban all access to abortion – Trump has come close to doing to the entire country. Trump is just better at playing all […]

Drug Price Gouging A Product Of Our Political System

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BY FROMA HARROP If Hollywood had created Martin Shkreli as the monster from Wall Street, we would have accused it of unfair characterization. But Shkreli – a 32-year-old hedge fund director in T-shirts, dabbler in the punk rock music world – has saved Tinseltown the trouble. Shkreli has also done the American people a service […]

There Will Be No Big Infrastructure Plan

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BY FROMA HARROP Democrats running for president are vowing to bring high-speed internet to rural America. President Donald Trump campaigned on the same promise. It was to be part of his big infrastructure plan. But no, there will be no big infrastructure plan. Responding to the Democratic candidates’ reminder of a broken pledge, Trump’s former […]