To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

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Mail Today, Gone Tomorrow

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BY FROMA HARROP VENICE, CA – This beach community is LA’s latest magnet for hip, cool and gentrification. Modest cottages currently sell for an immodest $2 million, even as homeless people, sprawled on nearby lawns, holler for handouts. Not everyone here agrees on what constitutes change for the better, but there’s a certain unity of […]

Congratulations! A New Conspiracy Is Born

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BY JOE CONASON With the happy news that Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky expect their first child later this year, the Clinton family can anticipate warm good wishes from most Americans – and a less uplifting response from all of the usual suspects. The inane, but mostly harmless, speculation from the pundit class already has […]

Ask Not What Your Cat Can Do For You

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BY FROMA HARROP A big-selling book, Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, helps cat lovers understand what is going on in the hearts and brains of their kitties. Sadly, not nearly so much as they thought and hoped. I’m pretty sure what my former cat […]

NSA Spying Is Here To Stay

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER On Monday, April 14, the Washington Post and the Guardian US newspapers received the Pulitzer for Journalism Public Service for their reports on NSA spying. In light of their hard work, let’s recap events of the last year. Embarrassed and irritated by Edward Snowden’s leaks, President Obama charged last year at a […]

ObamaCare, Part II

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH As I walked into the pharmacy, the technician who has kept track of all of my prescriptions for years was on an endless call trying to figure out who is going to deliver her baby and where. The good news: Her new plan, which fully complies with the Affordable Care Act, provides […]