To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

What Clintons Do Is ‘Scandalous,’ What Republicans Do Is Ignored

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BY JOE CONASON Whenever a transgression against transparency is charged against the Clintons, whether real, alleged or invented, America’s political media rise up in sustained outrage. From the offices of The New York Times Washington bureau to the Manhattan studio of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, journalists bitterly protest Hillary Clinton’s erased emails and her family foundation’s […]

A Letter Carrier’s Special Delivery To Congress

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Neither rain nor sleet nor snow – nor even the likelihood that he’d be killed en route – could stop this letter carrier from making his appointed rounds. Doug Hughes is one gutsy and creative mailman. In April, this rural letter carrier from Florida stunned the Secret Service, eluded federal aviation authorities, […]

Why Do So Many Eggs Come From Iowa?

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BY FROMA HARROP An outbreak of bird flu has forced American farmers to kill millions of egg-laying chickens, 32 million in Iowa alone – hence the rise in egg prices. But why so many? Because our eggs are now produced by a handful of gigantic farms. When one of their birds gets sick, the farmers […]

Who Are These Outlaw Bikers?

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BY FROMA HARROP Count me among those mystified over the biker gang melee in Waco, TX – a shootout that left nine dead. Why are these guys committing grown-up violence over the seemingly adolescent concern of who belongs to their group and who doesn’t? Who are they? For answers, I consulted James F. Quinn, a […]

The Graduates

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH It must be very difficult to be a college graduate these days. I read through the clips of the various famous speakers, and many are quite wonderful, humble and inspirational, such as Madeleine Albright at Tufts, or downright hysterical, which you’d expect from Stephen Colbert. If there’s a common theme, or a […]