To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Observercast

‘Death With Dignity’ Law Is Least Slippery Slope

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BY FROMA HARROP The story of Brittany Maynard has revived the debate over Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. The law lets terminally ill patients end their lives with the aid of a doctor. That Maynard is a pretty 29-year-old newlywed using her personal tragedy to broaden support for such laws provokes and rankles foes of […]

Let Obama And Frieden Do Their Jobs

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BY JOE CONASON If the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then even the possibility of infection with Ebola should do the same – for all of us. Instead, we seem easily distracted by attempts to blame President Barack Obama and to scapegoat the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Republican politicians and media loudmouths […]

Why Millennials Don’t Drive So Much

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BY FROMA HARROP Young Americans are just not into driving the way their elders are or did at their age. They are less likely to own cars or use cars. The drives they do are shorter. Meanwhile, the bus is looking good to them. A new report confirms this trend and offers reasons that millennials […]

The Scariest Thing About Political Fearmongers Is Themselves

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER One thing you can say about Rick Perry is that he sticks to his guns. If one of his policy proposals turns out to be dumb, by gollies, he will double down on dumb. For example, in his current re-run for the GOP presidential nomination, the “Oops” governor has repositioned himself as […]

Castrating Conservative Principles In Iowa

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BY FROMA HARROP There exists a government boondoggle that offends conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, oil refiners, cattle ranchers and taxpayers alike. It’s not easy to get that kind of Kumbaya going, but the corn-based ethanol program has done it. This has put Joni Ernst, the Tea Party favorite for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat, in an […]