To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

The Rise Of Sewer Money

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BY JOE CONASON In New York, there is a traditional name for the kind of anonymous cash now cascading into the American electoral process. It’s called sewer money. Political observers in the Empire State know that sewer money is generally nonpartisan, but in the national midterm contest, the largest amount by far is going toward […]

What Should Happen In Nevada

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Harry Reid should win. I’m not talking about whether he deserves to win, although I think he does. He did exactly what the majority leader is supposed to do: deliver for his president. He did it with little help from the other side, with a president on a downhill slide in the […]

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 […]