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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Observercast

Flying The Un-Friendly Skies

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It can be amusing to read the business section of newspapers, because corporate coverage tends to be carefully couched in phrases that either obfuscate what’s really going on or are outright Orwellian. For example, a recent New York Times article on rising airline fares and fees did a rhetorical tiptoe around the […]

Justice Thomas And His Wife

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BY FROMA HARROP I’m not going to waste everyone’s time treating Virginia Thomas’ message on Anita Hill’s office voice mail as a genuine request for an apology. Hill had famously accused Ginni’s husband, Clarence Thomas, of sexual harassment at his confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice. That was 19 years ago. No, Ginni Thomas has […]

Thugs On The Right

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BY JOE CONASON What do the Tea Party ideologues mean when they speak of liberty and freedom and the Constitution that they supposedly revere? Sometimes they are described as libertarians, but the behavior of their leading candidates betrays an authoritarian streak just beneath all the sonorous rhetoric. The latest example is Joe Miller, the Republican […]

Politically Correct Radio

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery – then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at the PUSH convention in 1993. “[W]hen I get on […]

What Was Wrong With The Auto Bailout?

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BY FROMA HARROP Among the mysteries of public opinion, this one most strains the brain: Why do so many Americans think the government rescue of Detroit automakers was a bad – nay, an evil – thing? The bailout has been a rousing success, and that’s the business press talking. The Economist magazine opposed the bailout. […]