To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Observercast

The Democrats’ Chronic Depression

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BY FROMA HARROP “Smiles at the gas pump,” my local headline reads. The price of gasoline has fallen below $3 a gallon. When the national average rose last year to $3.51, Rep. Roger Williams, R-TX, complained that “the liberal anti-free market policies of the Obama Administration discourage the exploration of American sources of energy and […]

Fix Decaying Pipelines First For Jobs, Health And Safety

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BY JOE CONASON With the Keystone XL pipeline stalled again, now perhaps we can look ahead and consider more promising ways to rebuild our energy system, creating many more jobs than that controversial project ever would. No matter where we look, the far larger issue that still confronts Americans is decaying infrastructure – which emphatically […]

Amazon Is Crushing Main Street And Threatening The Vitality Of Our Communities

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It’s that time of year – Thanksgiving holiday will be here soon, and we’ll gorge ourselves on turkey. And then we’ll get to celebrate black Friday [the frenzy-filled shopping Friday right after Thanksgiving, which has actually encroached on Thanksgiving in recent years] and cyber Monday [the Monday after Thanksgiving when retail marketers […]

End The Game On Immigration Reform

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BY FROMA HARROP President Obama’s plan to bypass Congress in shielding millions of immigrants from deportation is not the best way to do immigration reform. But if confrontation is what it takes to get House Republicans off their rear ends and deal with the problem, so be it. They don’t even have to work too […]

Immigration, Impeachment And Insanity On The Republican Right

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BY JOE CONASON Obstructing, denouncing and demonizing Barack Obama are so central to the existence of the Republican Party today that its leaders simply ignore the real purposes of the president’s proposed immigration orders. So someone should point out that his imminent decision will advance priorities to which the Republican right offers routine lip service: […]