To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Observercast

The Dilemma: Angry At Obamacare, Angrier Without It

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BY FROMA HARROP ObamaCare supporters are praying that the Supreme Court won’t chop down a main pillar of the Affordable Care Act – but not so fervently, one suspects, as the politicians who’ve been demanding the law’s demise. That’s because come the next election, Republicans will have to face the voters they’ve made angry over […]

E-Mail Trails

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Campaign 2016 Update: Hillary Clinton Used Personal E-mail Account. I thought it was a joke. This is the best the Republicans can do? Their moment in the sunshine, the focus on America’s problems, local Republicans riven by fear that they could end up with Mitt Romney … But how could they resist? […]

Is This A Scandal – Or A ‘Scandal’?

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BY JOE CONASON To someone who has watched many “scandals” surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton evaporate into the Washington mist – even when Pulitzer Prize-winning pundits predicted that she would end up in prison! – the current furor over her e-mails hardly seems earthshaking. It isn’t unreasonable to require public officials to conduct all public business […]

Lower Fares No Substitute For Higher Wages

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BY FROMA HARROP The idea of helping low-income people by subsidizing their fares on public transportation sounds noble. It truly does. But as a means of confronting the national problem of meager paychecks, it’s rather misdirected. All eyes are now on Seattle, which has started offering discount fares to riders whose household income does not […]

The GOP Gang Of Supremes Goes After ObamaCare

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Look out – the Supreme Court’s black-robed gang of far-right ideologues are rampaging again! The five-man clan is firing potshots at ObamaCare – and their political recklessness endangers justice, the Court’s own integrity, and the health of millions of innocent bystanders. In an attempt to override the law, these so-called “justices” have […]