To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Who’s In Charge?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The fight between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum doesn’t just raise questions about each man’s strengths and weaknesses. It also raises, as fundamentally as any battle in recent decades, the question of who, ultimately, is in charge of picking the nominee. Is it the party elite: the elected officials, the strategists and […]

Liberal Elite To Blame For Working Class Woes?

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BY FROMA HARROP The white working class is in big trouble, and the liberal elite is largely to blame. So says Charles Murray in his latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. As a scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, and this being an election year, wouldn’t he just. A new […]

Will Catholic Bishops And The Religious Right Save Obama?

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BY JOE CONASON What is most striking about the showdown over contraceptive freedom is not the political victory that President Obama earned by standing up for women’s reproductive rights, although his Republican adversaries are certainly helping him to make the most of it. Those adversaries don’t seem to realize they have fallen into a trap, […]

Missiles Aimed At Social Security And Medicare

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BY FROMA HARROP Missiles are pointed at Social Security and Medicare, the broad-based programs for older Americans. Some are stealth missiles. Some are misguided missiles. But both parties are pointing them. Democrats and Republicans insist that their monkeying around won’t put either popular program in jeopardy. They only talk of fairness and helping those of […]

It’s Official: Money Now Governs America

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich. For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy entire presidential campaigns. Take Sheldon Adelson, the moneybags who’s pumped $11 million so far into Newt […]