To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Observercast

Mediocre Candidates And Corporate Cash Storm Iowa

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER And away we go! Not just into a new year, but – zap! – suddenly we find ourselves catapulted en masse into the turbulent Twilight Zone of the 2012 presidential election. On day three of the year, while most of us were still woozy from our New Year’s Eve celebration, Iowa voted. […]

A Second Look At The Death Penalty

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I still remember back in 1988 sitting in a Chinese restaurant when then-Gov. Bill Clinton took a napkin and listed on one side the Democratic governors who were against the death penalty and, on the other, those who were for it. In its time, the issue was the third rail in American […]

Give A Gift That Matters

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It wasn’t that long ago that the act of “gift giving” didn’t require a maddening trip to Walmart or a desperate online search for this season’s must-have toy. Rather, a gift implied something from within, a little piece of yourself, no matter how small, showing you care. Could that old-fashioned concept possibly […]

Reality Bites

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Gingrich balloon is leaking air. He is beginning to look more and more like Howard Dean. The latest Rasmussen caucus poll shows him dropping three points behind Mitt Romney [23 to 20] after leading him by 13 points [32-19] just a month ago. I won’t say I told you so, but […]

New Year’s Resolutions

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH For the first few decades of my life, I always knew what my New Year’s resolution would be: Lose weight. Get to the number on my license. After my son was born and I was really fat for the first time [which came as a shock when I finally figured it out […]