To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Vice Presidents?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conventional wisdom, at least until about four years ago, was that vice presidential selections, even the very good and the very bad, don’t end up mattering very much by November. Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle are perhaps the two best examples, the former with poll numbers through the roof [especially after […]

The Real JetBlue Heroes

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BY FROMA HARROP The JetBlue flight attendant who theatrically quit his job by cursing out a “rude” passenger and exiting via an emergency slide has become a working-class hero to many. But Steven Slater’s story didn’t hold up for long. It now appears that the gash allegedly caused by someone slamming an overhead bin into […]

Trump Is No Navalny, And Biden Is No Putin

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Donald Trump has been outrageously silent about the brutal murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. No, correct that. Silence would have been outrageous. Comparing himself to the slain hero is beyond outrageous. Trump, and his supporters, have had the audacity to compare Trump’s indictment by four grand juries to the imprisonment and death of […]

The Population Boomerang In Iran

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BY FROMA HARROP Iranian students are engaging this week in Round Two of their street-level struggle for reform. Round One took place last June, when young people protested the fixed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. About 30 people died in those huge demonstrations. That was a remarkably low number given the brutal tendencies of the […]

Jesse James Now Wears Guccis

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Today’s train robbers don’t need masks or guns, for they are railroad executives wearing $3,000 suits and robbing us by railroading the political system. With their gangs of lobbyists and hopper cars of campaign cash, they get Congress to do their dirty work, gutting public safety protections and muting railway unions. Thus, rich investors get […]