To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, May 3, 2024

Observercast

A Note On Health Care Reform

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BY JOE CONASON Overstating the importance of a midterm election is understandably tempting for politicians and pundits, especially when the partisan turnover reaches historic proportions, as it indisputably did on Nov. 2. It is a temptation to which Republicans and conservatives seem particularly vulnerable. When their party won the first George W. Bush midterm in […]

Cheese Subsidies Are Full Of Holes

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BY FROMA HARROP How interesting that one arm of the Agriculture Department is promoting sales of cheese as another urges the public to eat less of it for health reasons. Your tax dollars at work fighting other tax dollars. Dairy Management is a marketing company partly funded by the department. It has done things like […]

Soft Landing For Bankers, Hard Times For Everyone Else

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER I’ve seen some truly amazing feats of magic, but here’s one that beats them all. Right before your eyes, this thing rises into the air on its own, with no wires or mechanical devices giving it lift. And it hovers there effortlessly. But it’s not magic, for magic is an illusion, and […]

Those Ten Pounds

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Ten pounds separate me from most of the clothes in my closet. They are the cause of regular disaster in dressing rooms. The truth is, I’ve never quite “gotten” what I look like. It is a syndrome one is likely to develop after a childhood spent in overcrowded dressing rooms being told […]

Obama In Indonesia

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BY FROMA HARROP Barack Hussein Obama, the mixed-race president born in Hawaii, partly educated in Indonesia – defender of a controversial Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan – is tentatively scheduled to visit Jakarta’s Masjid Istiqlal, the largest mosque in Southeast Asia. Mercifully, the American elections are over. The timing lets Obama pursue U.S. […]