To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Plans To Just Reopen Are Idiotic

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Let us examine the Great Barrington Declaration with the respect it deserves, which is very little. The advocates, who include Dr. Scott Atlas, President Donald Trump’s preferred pandemic expert, argue that all these shutdowns are causing economic and psychological havoc that’s worse than the disease. Better to let the coronavirus infect the young and healthy, […]

What Are Republicans So Afraid Of?

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The pandemic required every state in the nation to decide how it would revise voting procedures to allow everyone to vote safely. In every state, Democrats argued for rules that would make it easier to vote absentee and more certain that your vote would count. The fights, which are now continuing in the courts, are […]

Some Countries Beat Back the Virus; Not Ours

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern forced a shutdown so strict that no one was allowed to go fishing or golfing, easy pursuits for social distancing. But her super-tough “go hard, go early” policy has virtually stamped out the coronavirus in this country of five million. Not only can New Zealanders again fish and golf […]

Driving While Black

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There are bad cops. No doubt. We have seen them on television, as well we should. If most cops were bad, it would be easier: Clean house and hire replacements. Instead, you have men and women trying to do a dangerous job and hoping to get to go home and see their families at the […]

Odd Couples Of Political Convenience

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The New Yorker magazine asked a typical New Yorker magazine question: “Should progressives trust” The Lincoln Project? Founded by Republican operatives who detest Donald Trump, the Project is running a swashbuckling campaign to see the president defeated – and humiliated. Brilliant, funny and viciously effective, their mission is to move people who voted for Trump […]