To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 26, 2024

Observercast

The Year Of The Woman

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’ve been through enough “year[s] of the woman” to be more than a little skeptical when someone tries to sell me the story that this is really it. Whenever there are more women running [or, as in 1984, woman singular], we hear about “the year of the woman.” For my money, it […]

Speaking Truth About Power

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those rare citizens willing to risk their personal well-being by standing up to speak truth about power. Meet Lt. Col. Danny Davis, a 48-year-old career Army man who fought […]

The Real Problem With On-Line Anonymity

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BY FROMA HARROP Who is writing that brilliant, stupid, nasty, brave and/or dishonest online comment? We haven’t a clue, because the author hasn’t shared his or her name, hometown, gender, age and/or nationality. Or even worse, the author pretends to be another real person. Scammers, misfits, crooks, creeps, criminals and nice people all venture through […]

Romney’s Republican Death March

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN In the end, Mormon money and organization has stopped crusading papism in its tracks. In the crucial state of Ohio, millionaire Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum. In the nine other Super Tuesday races, Romney won in Massachusetts, Idaho, Alabama, Virginia and Vermont; Santorum in Oklahoma, Tennessee and North Dakota. Newt Gingrich swept […]

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH In the wake of conservative activist, author and publisher Andrew Breitbart’s death, the news media reported on the sharp division of “opinion” reflected on Twitter and other social media outlets. Half and half. Half what you might expect when someone dies at 43 leaving a wife and four children under 13. The […]