To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

Mystery Of The Missing Millionaires

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BY FROMA HARROP A daffy Wall Street Journal editorial about the “vanishing millionaires” of Oregon lit a spark in a fairly humorless week. It offers the usual boilerplate about the rich fleeing to tax-friendlier provinces because their state raised taxes, but this time with a great visual: “One-quarter of the rich tax filers seem to […]

Honor The WikiLeakers

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN When it comes to journalistic achievements in 2010, the elephant in the room is WikiLeaks. I’ve seen many put-downs of the materials as containing “no smoking guns,” or as being essentially trivial communications to the State Department from U.S. diplomats and kindred government agents around the world. Now, it’s true that the […]

Death Penalty Debacle

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH California has more prisoners on death row than any other state. Last year, according to the Los Angeles Times, it added 28 more, for a total of 717, contrary to trends elsewhere. Meanwhile, there hasn’t been an execution in five years because they can’t get the right combination of the three drugs […]

New Soldiers In Fight Against Drug War

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BY FROMA HARROP Profound thanks are due televangelist Pat Robertson for stating so clearly what many of us have been screaming in the wilderness for years – that the criminalization of marijuana is a plague on young people. May he lend courage to politicians who know better but won’t do the right thing for fear […]

Dumb A.S.S. Texans

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Good grief, it’s spreading! Another Texas politician has come down with the tragic disease known as “Amazing Stupidity Syndrome.” A.S.S. attacks the lobe of the brain that controls one’s ethical behavior, apparently causing the moral synapses in that region to go on the fritz, thus allowing the stupidity hormone to seep in […]