To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Non-Organic Organic Food
BY JIM HIGHTOWER When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, oddly spongy cheeselike stuff known as Velveeta. As an adult, I even have been irresponsible enough […]
Lessons Not Learned In Boston Bombing
BY FROMA HARROP Airport gift shops throughout New England are piling “Boston Strong” T-shirts in vivid colors. “Boston Strong” became a rallying cry of solidarity after the terrorist bombing last year at the Boston Marathon. As the anniversary of the attack – and the next race on April 21 – approaches, emotional coverage of the […]
Dittoheads In Denial
BY JOE CONASON Hoping to re-brand their declining party, a group of prominent Republicans recently launched a national “listening tour,” presumably as an exercise in market research. They would like to know why voters – and especially younger voters – increasingly reject the GOP. They want to “ask the American people what their hopes and […]
Nancy Pelosi, Superhero
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Really, what did you expect? The first woman speaker of the House, a tough, smart, rich and attractive pro, the most powerful woman in the world, helps get a Democrat elected president and then helps that Democratic president get his ambitious agenda through amid very difficult economic times and two wars. Did […]
The Generations Rock On
BY FROMA HARROP The baby boomers are not dead yet. Someday they will be dead, as will be Generation X, the millennials and all the above’s great-great-grandchildren – barring, of course, a medical cure for mortality. But you’d think the large cohort born between 1946 and 1964 were already consigned to American memory, given many […]
