To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Observercast

Democrats Need Straight Talk On Immigration

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BY FROMA HARROP Donald Trump’s roundup of undocumented immigrants is cruel and racist in its execution. His plan to build a wall along the Mexican border would be a massive waste of at least 14 billion taxpayer dollars. But that doesn’t give Democrats a free pass to fudge on the issue of illegal immigration. They […]

The Quran At Fahrenheit 451

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN By the end of this week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to toss those Qurans in the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them […]

Who Cares About The Oscars?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Who cares about the Oscars? Not quite as many people as last year, it turns out, but more than the two years preceding that, at least as measured by the ratings for the ABC telecast. Of course, Twitter was twittering at full speed, there were sizeable bumps in Internet traffic, the red-carpet […]

Bad Old Days: How Lewinsky Deserves To Be Remembered

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BY JOE CONASON Monica Lewinsky must be satisfied to learn that with a few stylish photographs and a few innocuous paragraphs, she can still discombobulate Maureen Dowd, Lynne Cheney and a swarm of demented figures in American politics and media. Few could resist the chance to reminisce about the tapes, the blue dress, the cigars, […]

The New Chelsea Clinton

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton’s debut on NBC’s Nightly News is drawing plenty of attention, as well it should. Since her father’s election nearly 20 years ago, the Clintons set an example of real family values by doing everything they could to keep Chelsea out of the spotlight and allow her to […]