To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Size Of State Governments Not Washington’s Business

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BY FROMA HARROP We who applaud the boldness of Rep. Dave Camp’s tax reform plan need not like everything in it. The part that would repeal the deduction for state and local taxes is an abomination, to put it mildly. The Michigan Republican, head of the House Ways and Means Committee, largely delivers on his […]

Ryan Cooks The Books – Again

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BY JOE CONASON For the sake of America’s poor, a sincere conservative effort to improve the programs that serve them is very desirable – especially so long as Republicans control the House of Representatives, where they habitually yearn to cut or defund those same programs. For months, Washington has eagerly awaited the latest version of […]

A Financial Transaction Tax On High Frequency Traders

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Have you heard about High Frequency Trading? Get ready to be dazzled! HFT is sweeping, purely speculative financial transactions that have been made possible by huge leaps in technology. Done by super-fast computers, using mathematical algorithms, HFT searches millions of prices at lightning speeds and places bets automatically. Transaction times are measured […]

So Much For The New Russia

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH It didn’t take very long for the smiling sports fan cheering in the Olympic stands to revert to his true nature. I’m referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former KGB leader whose idea of diplomacy is sending in the troops. The Olympics ended, and the war began. It resembles nothing so […]

To Defeat GOP’s Restrictive Voting Laws, Debunk ‘Voter Fraud’

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BY JOE CONASON Growing up in Jim Crow Arkansas, Bill Clinton saw how the state’s dominant political and racial elite maintained power by suppressing the rights of minority voters who threatened its authority – and as a young activist, worked to bring down that illegitimate power structure. So when Clinton says, “There is no greater […]