To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, April 29, 2024

Observercast

Gingrich Is Right: Double Medical Research Budget

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BY FROMA HARROP Newt Gingrich recently recalled the bipartisan deal that doubled the budget for the National Institutes of Health – with fondness. This was about 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans under Gingrich had just taken over Congress. Never a member of the Gingrich fan club, I nonetheless join other […]

‘Dr. Evil’ Turns Out To Be ‘Dr. Silly’

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Big Oil, labor exploiters, industrial food factories, frackers and other corporate profiteers have been paying a lot of money to a man that celebrates himself “Dr. Evil” – the scourge of all progressive groups! But Rick Berman is not a doctor, not evil and not a scourge. While he is a wholly […]

Congress Acts

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Has a fever come over Washington? It seems like every time I turned around last week, Congress – or at least some subset of it – was actually doing something. Was it just Thursday that they were agreeing to let the president try to negotiate within the framework of a nuclear deal […]

Fighting Robots With Robots

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BY FROMA HARROP So machines are now able to assess a human’s mood. “Emotion detection software” has put robots one step closer to replacing the humans who work – or used to work – in what we in the olden days called “customer relations.” Assuming that you, dear reader, are a human and not a […]

If Inequality Worries Republicans, Why Do They Keep Making Things Worse?

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BY JOE CONASON You can tell things have gotten very bad when the issue of economic inequality – a serious national problem mostly ignored for more than three decades – is suddenly in political vogue. And you can be sure things have gotten very, very bad when Republicans – who usually insist that inequality is […]