To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Observercast

Drug Price Gouging A Product Of Our Political System

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BY FROMA HARROP If Hollywood had created Martin Shkreli as the monster from Wall Street, we would have accused it of unfair characterization. But Shkreli – a 32-year-old hedge fund director in T-shirts, dabbler in the punk rock music world – has saved Tinseltown the trouble. Shkreli has also done the American people a service […]

Let’s Admit It: The Supreme Court Is Corrupt. Let’s Fix it!

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When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on Sen. Ted Cruz to issue a moral judgement: If the offender is a Democrat, he pronounces the corruption inexcusably grotesque; if it’s a Republican, he wails that the offender is the victim. For example, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas […]

Why Trump Tweeted A Conspiracy Smear

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BY JOE CONASON When Donald Trump retweeted a malicious fantasy about the apparent suicide of imprisoned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he wasn’t merely entertaining his deluded fans. Trump’s conspiratorial canard – with attendant promotion by Russian bots, American alt-rightists and far-right media – was plainly designed to deflect attention from his own embarrassing associations with Epstein. […]

Stocks Actually Did Better Under Obama

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Trump supporters have been sending me short messages asking, “How is your 401[k] doing?” They are making three assumptions. That the stocks in my retirement account are doing well. 2. That I’m happy about it. 3. And that I have President Donald Trump to thank for my good fortune. Assumptions one and two are correct. […]

Islam, Public Schools, and the Challenge of Teaching About Religions

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BY CHARLES C. HAYNES In recent weeks, fights have erupted in Georgia and Tennessee over how Islam is taught in public schools. Charges of “Islamic indoctrination” are countered by charges of “anti-Muslim bigotry” as people shout past one another at school board meetings and in the media. Not only has anti-Islam rhetoric become politically acceptable […]