To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
See You At Thanksgiving
BY SUSAN ESTRICH And so another class of high school graduates left home this fall, or said goodbye to their friends who left. Thanksgiving is the first time everyone sees each other after having gone their separate ways for three months. Ask any adult who left home for college, and they’ll probably be able to […]
A Bitter Woman
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad’s ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush’s case, as her eldest son has just disclosed on national TV, the fetus she miscarried, put in a mason jar and then handed to the teenage George Jr., to take […]
On Earmarks
BY JOE CONASON It isn’t the earmarks, stupid. Bullying Republican Senate leaders into a “voluntary” ban on earmarks may represent a political triumph for the Tea Party movement, but as a measure to reduce the federal deficit it is a meaningless substitute for real action. The facts about earmarks – and the deficit, for that […]
Corporate Flimflammers In Our Communities And Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable.” Good! The phrase suggests great quality, strong environmental stewardship and a commitment to keeping our food dollars in the local economy. If you support the local-economies movement, as I do, no doubt you’ll be […]
Liberals Have Much To Like In Deficit Reduction Plan
BY FROMA HARROP Many liberals went bananas over the new plan to reduce deficits. The ideas put forth by the chairmen of President Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission ignore their priorities, they lament. Liberals are entitled to be crabby because they’ve been doing the hard budget compromising since the Clinton era. And what business is it […]
