To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, May 13, 2024

Observercast

Obama Inc.

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they’re recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they’ve come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get America moving again. Ready? “Win the future.” Takes your breath away, doesn’t it? If you’re old enough to remember Gerald Ford’s […]

Blame It On Barack

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH You have to hand it to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was the official Tea Party responder to the president’s state of the union address. No phony sincerity from her. No moving mention of her colleague lying in a Texas hospital, whose family celebrated that she could actually watch an hour of television. […]

Deficits As Far As The States Can See

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BY FROMA HARROP Like me, you may be wondering why 96,000 California state workers were given cell phones courtesy of the taxpayers. For, like me, you probably use a cell phone in the course of your work. And we know that if we asked our employers to pay for it, the answer would be N-O. […]

Could A Serbian Heart Have Saved Dick Holbrooke?

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Richard Holbrooke died at age 69 on Dec. 13, thus spared the annoyance of seeing one of his best-known political creations accused of supervising the killing of captives in order to slice out their organs for transplant purposes and financial gain. In the wake of Holbrooke’s sudden death, his memory was swiftly […]

The Law School Game

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH One of the most widely circulated articles in The New York Times of late asks: “Is Law School a Losing Game?” For days, it was the most e-mailed story in the paper, and it is still among the Top 10. The gist is simple enough: It costs well over $40,000 a year […]