To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

The Campaign In The Courts

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Clinton campaign has launched its campaign in the courts, being waged by a veteran of such battles but on a far larger scale. What the Clintons are doing is challenging the new round of regulations on voter identification and proof enacted in a handful of states with a history of discriminatory […]

The Real Scandal In Denny Hastert’s Life

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Washington’s establishment of politicos, lobbyists and media sparklies are shocked – shocked to their very core! – by the scandalous sexual revelations about Dennis Hastert. The portly Republican, who’d been speaker of the House a decade ago, was an affable, non-descript Midwesterner who was popular with his fellow lawmakers. A former high […]

Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi and America’s ‘Family Values’

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BY JOE CONASON Republicans on Capitol Hill keep telling everyone how terribly shocked they are by the tawdry tale of Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House indicted for violations of federal money-laundering statutes in an effort to cover up alleged sexual abuse of a male high-school student many years ago. Long upheld as […]

Malaise

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s “June gloom” in Southern California, that period well known to locals when the sunshine you expect doesn’t show until the end of the day, if at all. This year, the gloom couldn’t wait until June, and so it came in May. That may also be true for the country. Back in […]

Shocking Sloppiness Won’t Doom Health Reforms

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BY FROMA HARROP How many politicians, aides, lobbyists, lawyers, insurance moguls, professional groups and interns – both the political and medical kind – agonized over the details in the Affordable Care Act? The number is big. But despite thousands of hands in the kitchen, the final product included four words that cast doubt on a […]