To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

Summer In The City

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH What is a major league baseball game without any fans there to cheer? No one selling hot dogs, no one hawking programs, no need for any ushers. Welcome to Baltimore, where the first two games of a three-game series were postponed and the third is to be played with no people, lest […]

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 […]