To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Finding Grace
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I opened the garage to back my car out on Saturday morning and silently cursed at the car blocking part of my driveway, making a difficult task [backing out onto a busy street, something I never thought about when I rented this house while renovating mine] so much harder. I eased out […]
The Truth About The U.S. Postal Service
BY JIM HIGHTOWER What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change. Each day, six days a week, letter carriers traverse 4 million miles toting an […]
Paul Ryan’s Plan For American Decline
BY JOE CONASON If the foreign adversaries and competitors of the United States imagined a future that would fulfill their most ambitious objectives, it might begin with a government crippled by the House Republican leadership’s “Ryan budget” released on Tuesday. Followed to its absurd conclusion, this document would lead America toward a withered state, approaching […]
Sky Not Falling With Japanese Birth Rates
BY FROMA HARROP There’s one complaint visitors to Tokyo rarely make, and that is “not enough people.” With a population of 36 million, the Tokyo metropolitan area stuffs an average 6,800 people in each square mile. By contrast, the New York metro area, with 19 million residents, has a density of 2,800 people per square […]
Banker Hubris Knows No Bounds
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this really is a shocker: Bonus payments are down. Yes, the exorbitant bonus checks pocketed each year by the Goldman Sachers, Citigropers and other financial tinkerers have been cut by about 25% this […]