To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
It’s Time To Call GOP’s Bluff
BY JOE CONASON In their ideological zeal, the new Republicans on Capitol Hill seem eager to gamble everything – the financial reputation of the United States, the international status of the dollar, even the chance of a worldwide depression – on a showdown over the national debt ceiling. What has been mostly a routine if […]
Immigration Reform No Place For Games
BY FROMA HARROP Consider this immigration case from Canada: Three years ago, a Mexican sister and brother moved illegally to Toronto. Brenda Garcia, 30, filed for refugee status, claiming fear of persecution back home for being lesbian. Her brother, 18-year-old Daniel Garcia, enrolled in a Toronto high school. Both said they might be killed upon […]
Playing With Economic Dynamite
BY JIM HIGHTOWER By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, the good ol’ USA is No. 1 in the world in exports! Our corporate leaders, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike in Washington, are now routinely exporting America’s most precious goods – our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities. With unemployment and […]
Uniforms
BY SUSAN ESTRICH My little neighborhood sandwich shop was invaded today by a horde of high school students from a school I’d never heard of. The students were more diverse than the neighborhood. If you’re being as honest as Juan Williams, under such circumstances you might expect to see little signs of concern – those […]
Mystery Of The Missing Millionaires
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 […]