To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Care
BY FROMA HARROP Don’t ask, don’t tell – don’t know why we’re still talking about this. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is the rule barring openly gay soldiers from serving in the U.S. military. This relic of the culture wars is so past its prime that even Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh don’t spend much time […]
Julian Assange: Wanted By The Empire, Dead Or Alive
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange’s head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, “Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?” Sarah Palin wants him hunted down and brought to justice, saying: “He is an anti-American […]
The American Dream Is Not All About Money
BY FROMA HARROP We always talk about “The American Dream” – about living it, saving it, wondering what happened to it. Few bother to define it. The stereotype shows a single-family house, with white-picket fence, Mom and Dad, Dick and Jane. A mansion rarely comes to mind, unless obtained by someone born in grinding poverty. […]
‘The Hammer’ Gets Nailed With A New Nickname
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Tom DeLay, a once-upon-a-time Republican powerhouse, has accumulated an unusual assortment of nicknames in his professional life. As a Texas legislator in the 1980s, he was known as “Hot Tub Tommy,” a do-nothing member who preferred partying to lawmaking. When he went to Congress, however, he was a man on a mission. […]
Entrapment
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Defenders of Mohamed Osman Mohamud are already arguing to the press that he was set up and in court that he was entrapped. Every state recognizes a defense that argues a defendant was “entrapped,” but most of them define it narrowly, as do the federal courts. The debate in entrapment law has […]
