To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Defining American Exceptionalism
BY JOE CONASON The Fourth of July is the birthday of American exceptionalism – originally, the idea cherished by the nation’s Revolutionary founders that the practice of liberty, equality and democracy in these United States would kindle hope in a world downtrodden by every form of despotism, hierarchy and oppression. Independence Day marked the determination […]
Back In The USA
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Some of my fondest memories of childhood are of the Fourth of July. In Swampscott, MA, we used to have a parade of kids on bikes that went down Aspen Road and then around the corner to Forest Ave. and then up around Lexington Circle, our bikes decorated with red, white and […]
Supreme Court’s Plutocratic Political Hacks
BY JIM HIGHTOWER “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” as my old Texas momma used to instruct my brothers and me. But apparently, five of the justices on our Supreme Court didn’t have mommas with such ethical sensibilities – or perhaps they’re just ignoring their mommas’ wisdom now in order to impose their extremist political […]
Health Care Politics Go Into Extra Innings
BY FROMA HARROP There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “ObamaCare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in 1790 passed a law ordering ship owners to buy medical insurance for their seamen. Twenty framers of the U.S. Constitution were members, and President George Washington […]
Here’s To The Yankee Doodle Liberal
BY FROMA HARROP In 1940, a Los Angeles jury released testimony linking James Cagney to the Communist Party, or at least to “communist members, sympathizers or heavy contributors.” He had supported something called the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, apparently not knowing that it was a Soviet front. Until old age, Cagney was an unapologetic liberal, who […]
