To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Should Amazon Just Take Over?

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BY FROMA HARROP It’s the darnedest thing. Only a select few sites grace the bookmark bar topping my Web browser. Amazon.com is one. And Amazon is the only retailer to make the cut. That it lets me buy ant traps online in 40 seconds, gets them to my house in two days and charges a […]

Benghazi: What New Details Reveal About ‘Scandal’ – And Its Promoters

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BY JOE CONASON In the years since the terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, his aide Sean Smith and CIA officers Tyrone Smith and Glen Doherty in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, President Barack Obama’s congressional critics have complained long and loudly about his failure to immediately apprehend the perpetrators. Republican experts like […]

The New Eric Cantor

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH How’s this for a punch line? You stage a rebellion to get rid of Eric Cantor, who is on his worst day [to critics on the right] a very conservative guy who relishes hardball tactics, and he gets replaced by a pragmatic moderate from California. You call this victory? Rep. Kevin McCarthy […]

Use Your Hands

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BY FROMA HARROP Have you stopped using your hands? Do your fingers struggle to sign your name? Is chopping an onion with a knife hard work? Must you call someone to fix a cabinet door off the hinges? Is it agony to sew on a button? For many, computers and laziness have sapped our manual […]

What Job Creation Numbers Don’t Tell Us

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Have you noticed “the powers that be” employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job market than they use for the stock market? They’re currently telling us that, “The job market is improving.” What do they mean? Simply that the economy is generating an increase in the number […]