To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
When A City Goes Bankrupt
BY FROMA HARROP CENTRAL FALLS, RI – The stock market plunged over 500 points last Thursday, but no one seemed very perturbed about it in this tiny factory town. Three days before, Central Falls had filed for a Chapter 9 bankruptcy. These working-class folk see bottoms fall out on a regular basis. For people used […]
Why Barack Is Behind
BY JOE CONASON Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election – and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November – is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years after the multiple disasters of the Bush Administration. They know that the years of Republican dominance in Washington […]
Politicizing Crime
BY FROMA HARROP It’s over for Mike Huckabee. His presidential hopes will not survive revelations that as governor of Arkansas he had commuted the long prison term of the now-dead Maurice Clemmons, suspected of gruesomely murdering four police officers in Lakewood, WA. This awful crime was about more than one politician’s dreadful judgment. It may […]
Immigration, ObamaCare Join As Issue
BY FROMA HARROP Two of the hottest topics on the political circuit are illegal immigration and “Obamacare.” They can come together into a third steaming discussion: How the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act of 2010 would hasten America’s journey toward a more orderly immigration program. As a recent article in Health Affairs predicts, once the health […]
The Romneys: Conflicts ‘R’ Us
BY FROMA HARROP Have you been following the career of Mitt Romney’s boy Tagg? As his dad runs for president denouncing “crony capitalism” and “big government,” Tagg has been gathering some of Mitt’s richest friends into a private-equity fund called Solamere – a clever instrument for pursuing government subsidies, contracts and tax breaks should Romney […]
