To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

Amtrak’s Spectrum Gap

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BY DAVID SIROTA In the public eye, the disaster on the rails last week in Philadelphia was not only tragic but also shocking. As a crowded Amtrak train approached a bend in the track, it was barreling along at more than 100 miles an hour – twice the mandated speed for that section. The resulting […]

Obama’s Ugly Show Of Presidential Petulance

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER When the going got tough, Barack got in a huff, and then he got gruff. President Obama has worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP that he’s lashing out at his progressive friends in Congress. He’s mad because they refuse to be stereotypical lemmings, following him over this political cliff […]

Death Penalty For Tsarnaev Hurts Boston

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BY FROMA HARROP Why was 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to die in a state so generally opposed to capital punishment? A recent Boston Globe poll found that only 19% of Massachusetts residents wanted the Boston Marathon bomber put to death. The state hasn’t seen an execution since 1947. That sentence happened because national politics took […]

If The Numbers Are So Good …

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH How come everyone I know is depressed? I mean the job numbers. And I don’t mean that literally everyone I know is depressed. But you don’t hear too many people humming show tunes in the grocery line. People seem to pull away from the television screen in the elevator, as if the […]

The Left Is So Wrong On Trade

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BY FROMA HARROP The left’s success in denying President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership is ugly to behold. The case put forth by a showboating Sen. Elizabeth Warren – that Obama cannot be trusted to make a deal in the interests of American workers – is almost worse than wrong. It is […]