To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, May 3, 2024

Observercast

In VA Scandal, Accountability For All – Including Congress

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BY JOE CONASON While Congress eagerly prepares its latest political stunt – a resolution to oust Gen. Eric Shinseki as Veterans Affairs Secretary – individual members might consider their own responsibility for the scandalous inadequacy of veterans’ health care. Unlike most of them, especially on the Republican side, Shinseki opposed the incompetent war plans of […]

Has America Gone Crazy?

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It might appear that the U-S-of-A has gone bonkers. So let me clear up any confusion that you might have: Yes, it has! Yet, it hasn’t. More on that in a moment. First, though – whether looking at the “Tea Party” Congress critters who’ve swerved our nation’s political debate to the hard […]

Koch Brothers Demand More Government Intervention And Taxes

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Hypothetical conundrums can provide some valuable learning experiences for students of corporate management and ethics, so let’s study one. Suppose you’re a corporate chieftain who’s an adamant acolyte of Ayn Randian, free-enterprise fundamentalism, despising government regulation, compulsory taxation and government intervention in the purity of the holy marketplace. But – whoopsie daisy […]

Other Paths To Better Pay

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BY FROMA HARROP Did you read about investors in Chipotle Mexican Grill rejecting the outlandish pay package the fast-food chain’s two CEOs had cooked up for themselves? Stockholders overwhelmingly booed the mega-million payout, which would have come on top of the $300 million the duo have harvested in recent years. By the way, the average […]

Harvest Of Shame: America’s Poisoned Children Need A Hashtag

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BY JOE CONASON More than 50 years ago, CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow revealed to America the awful conditions suffered by migrant farm laborers in “Harvest of Shame,” an angry documentary that would become a classic. While conditions have improved for some of the families whose work provides our cornucopia of affordable food, there remains […]