To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 26, 2024

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Coffee, Tea Or Me?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s what the ads used to say, back in the day when air travel was considered glamorous, stewardesses were required to be young, slim and beautiful, and people actually “dressed” to take a plane. As for me, I thought it was glamorous just to go to the airport, much less get on […]

Republicans Overboard On Yachtsman Kerry

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BY FROMA HARROP I voted for the guy to be president in 2004, but I never much cared for Sen. John Kerry. So to my conservative friends now mocking the Massachusetts liberal for having saved $500,000 in taxes by docking his $7 million yacht in Rhode Island, I say, “Have fun.” But only to a […]

Why Are Gays So Straight When It Comes To Marriage?

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN A gay Republican federal judge of libertarian leanings, Vaughn R. Walker, struck down California’s ban on gay marriage on Wednesday, prompting ecstatic rejoicing among a mostly gay crowd outside the U.S. district courthouse in San Francisco. His ruling was the first in the country to strike down a marriage ban on federal […]

Real Democrats

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Are you really a Democrat?” someone wrote to me recently, after I wrote a column criticizing the president’s decision to go on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard while so many people – especially in the tourist-challenged Gulf – are suffering. What kind of Democrat would begrudge the president his choice of a place […]

Defending The Mosque

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BY JOE CONASON No recent controversy has so plainly revealed the hollow values of the American right than the effort to prevent the construction of a community center in Lower Manhattan because it will include a mosque. Arguments in opposition range from a professed concern for the sensitivities of the Sept. 11 victims’ families to […]