To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Observercast

Washington Saved Our Economic Hide

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BY FROMA HARROP Clarence the angel has a tough job in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” He must show the suicidal George Bailey what terrible things would have happened had he not been born. Two prominent economists are playing Clarence to the multitudes who believe that forceful government intervention during the financial meltdown should never have […]

Corporate America Speaking Out

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama Administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no way,” “forget about it,” “nothing doing,” “we’re-against-it-and-we’ll-kill-it.” This is one reason their job approval rating is lower than that of BP executives. But now, GOP leaders in the House say they are […]

America Enters A New Time

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN I went to get my hair cut the other day in the town of Fortuna and waited 10 minutes when the elderly barber finished buzz-cutting a young Mexican-American. After the young man had exited under his thin skullcap of black stubble, Don the barber sighed and said, “That’s the third boy I’ve […]

Watch Out For Haley Barbour

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Drudge Report headline declaring that “Murdoch Gives $1 Million to Haley Barbour” is not technically accurate. In fact, News Corporation [full disclosure: I’m a contributor to Fox News] gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, of which Barbour is the chair. But the headline caught my attention because if there’s […]

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 […]