To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

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 […]

Crying Fire In A Crowded Theater

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Perhaps the most famous quote about the First Amendment – one that is often garbled and is sure to be dissected in the impeachment trial – comes from former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a […]

Why Billionaires Are Detested

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Bob Wills, the renowned leader of a classic Western swing band, would joyously call out mid-song, “Take it away, Leon!” bringing on a crowd-pleasing instrumental solo by steel guitar maestro Leon McAuliffe. But now comes another Leon who’s such an off-key, screechy Wall Street billionaire that crowds are shouting, “Go away, Leon!” He is hedge […]

Trump’s Criminal State Of Mind

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For the senators who will sit in judgment of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, a crucial question will be his state of mind on his day of rage, Jan. 6, and his days of rage leading up to the attack on the Capitol. Trump’s defense cherry-picks a few of his words that day, pointing […]

The New Federalism

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The U.S. COVID response has been called “federalism at its best” – treating the states as “laboratories of change,” as former Justice Louis Brandeis once said, rather than concentrating all decision-making in the federal government. Frankly, it feels like federalism at its worst. At a time when we needed a national policy to fight a […]