To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 19, 2024

Observercast

Vice Presidents?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conventional wisdom, at least until about four years ago, was that vice presidential selections, even the very good and the very bad, don’t end up mattering very much by November. Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle are perhaps the two best examples, the former with poll numbers through the roof [especially after […]

Helen Gurley Brown’s Mixed Legacy

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BY FROMA HARROP It took a poor girl from the Ozarks to look upon the candy store of sex and money that was postwar urban America and rearrange the shelves. Helen Gurley Brown was she, the brains behind the racy Cosmopolitan magazine empire and author of the 1962 sensation Sex and the Single Girl. Was […]

Ryan’s Hope

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BY JOE CONASON By naming Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has endorsed what used to be known as “voodoo economics” – and restored that special brand of Republican superstition to the center of national debate. To take Ryan seriously, as all too many pundits and politicians insist we must, requires […]

Karl Fleming

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH If you read the obituaries of Karl Fleming, who died last weekend [and I hope you do], you will find a story worthy of the man who lived it. Born into dire poverty and raised in an orphanage because his mother, after the death of Karl’s father and then of his stepfather, […]

Black Liquor Moonshine

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Question: If you mix a cocktail of “black liquor,” biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies – then have it shaken vigorously by a U.S. senator and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists – what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers Moonshine. Black liquor is the key […]