To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Observercast

Suddenly, Retribution Changes Sides

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The Harris-Walz campaign radiates sunshine and good times to come. Donald Trump, on the other hand, spreads gloom through his lame insults and crazy delusions. What’s happening is that Trump’s nastiness now bounces like a pink Spalding ball off the Democrats’ reinforced concrete of jubilation. The superior crowd sizes and tightening poll numbers are clearly […]

Will Walz Keep Nebraska’s Blue Dot Blue?

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The 2024 presidential election, we are told, will be decided in a handful of battleground states. The race is so tight that a single Electoral College vote could determine the outcome. And that explains the great focus on Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, which often votes Democrat but not always. Nebraska is one of only two […]

Military Service, Partisan Smears And The Parody Of Patriotism

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The Trump campaign’s attack on the military record of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – who served honorably as a volunteer in the National Guard for 24 years – invites us to remember the military service of former President Donald J. Trump. Except there isn’t anything to remember concerning Trump’s military service since he never served. […]

Silicon Valley’s Fake Hillbilly

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Who is J.D. Vance, you might ask? Well, which J.D.? He keeps flipping his bio, politics and persona, trying to advance his fortunes. A decade ago, he was posing as a Kentucky hillbilly spokesman – only, he’s not from Kentucky and expresses disdain for actual hillbillies. Still, he did go from a hardscrabble childhood to […]

‘Donald Being Donald’

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In her 2019 memoir, Kamala Harris wrote, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters. She knew her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women.” As she did, when she dismissed Donald Trump’s […]