To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, April 29, 2024

Observercast

Hope Up, Guard Down As Pandemic Starts To Weaken?

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Are we at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Let’s call it the middle. The COVID-19 numbers are going decisively lower, both infections and deaths. Millions, meanwhile, are getting the vaccine and becoming mostly immune to the disease. Still, the seven-day average of American deaths from this virus continues in […]

Rural Does Not Equal Red

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To say that President Joe Biden lost the rural vote is to sugarcoat the dire situation Democrats face out beyond the suburbs. Why? Well, scoff too many lazy politicos and pundits, rural America is indelibly red, filled with white rubes and racists, so Dems should write them off and concentrate resources where the big numbers […]

They Fear Trump More Than They Love America

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Despite the compelling facts and arguments mustered by the House impeachment managers during their presentation to the Senate, it is depressingly clear that Donald Trump almost certainly will escape conviction for encouraging, inciting, allowing and then praising his mob’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. A courageous handful of Republican senators will vote to hold him […]

The Minimum Wage Can Be Tricky

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There are studies – oh, there are studies – on how hiking the minimum wage affects employment. And good studies contradict other good studies. The problem is that the mechanics linking wages to jobs have a lot of moving parts. The details matter. Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour sits high on […]

Is Marjorie Taylor Greene A Conservative?

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With their cowardly refusal to discipline Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House Republicans’ retreat from integrity is now complete. Only under the threat of sanctions against Greene by House Democrats did House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, even pretend to address the Georgia representative’s many offenses against decency, comity and sanity. And when the Republican caucus […]