To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Observercast

The Stench Of Bentonville Spreads To Mexico — And Back

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER WalMart has long boasted of its “Always Low Prices,” but now it has confirmed that it also has “Always low morals.” The bottom line has always been THE line for WalMart executives, and sinking to the ethical bottom to enhance that line has not only been tolerated, but legitimized as a proven […]

Wishing The Worst For John Edwards

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BY FROMA HARROP John Edwards allegedly misused campaign money to cover a tawdry affair while posing lovey-dovey with his dying wife for the cameras. All this happened in 2008, as the former Democratic senator from North Carolina was running for president. Accused of six felony counts for violating federal election laws, Edwards faces up to […]

Newt’s Great Adventure

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Every four years, there is one presidential campaign that is much more fun to watch than the rest, even if it has no realistic chance of success. I loved watching Mike Huckabee four years ago. It was far better than watching John McCain going from the Straight Talk Express [fun four years […]

Immigration Becomes A New Story

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BY FROMA HARROP Those who saw mass migration from Mexico as a threat and those who did not all agreed on one thing: It was unstoppable without dramatic action by the federal authorities. They turned out to be wrong about that. The title of a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center, “Net Migration From […]

The Inequity Of Private-Equity Hustlers

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER What are these phantasmagoric money machines that they call “private-equity firms?” They’re much in the news these days, because a fellow who was a private-equity magnate is presently running for president. Mitt Romney piled up a quarter-billion-dollar personal fortune through his Wall Street equity outfit, Bain Capital, and he now claims that, […]