To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Observercast

The Kindness Of A Stranger

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I was power walking up Broadway in New York City last Tuesday, when something went terribly wrong. The world started spinning. I literally couldn’t see straight. It was a hot day. I’d been on a plane for six hours. Nothing to eat. Five cups of coffee. Not much sleep the night before. […]

Burgeoning Centrist Third Party?

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BY FROMA HARROP They make less of a ruckus than the Tea Party people, but independents in New England are brewing their own revolution. Third-party governors may have been elected elsewhere – Walter Hickel in Alaska [1990] and Jesse Ventura in Minnesota [1998] – but in New England, such candidacies have become almost routine. Independents […]

Rebuilding An American Legacy

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BY JOE CONASON If there is any subject that enrages those who now call themselves conservatives, it is federal spending – and especially the stimulus program enacted by the Democratic administration and Congress last year. The government can do nothing right, they say. The stimulus was pure waste that created no jobs at all. The […]

The Cover-Ups That Exploded

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes. The World Wide Web was transfixed Monday when Wikileaks put up on YouTube a 38-minute video, along with a 17-minute edited […]

The Five Commandments Of Tax Reform

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BY FROMA HARROP The tax code needs fixing to be fairer and less complex. But let’s set some rules for this debate. Here are the Five Commandments of Tax Reform: Thou shall simplify with care: Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, proposes a much simplified income-tax system. Gosh darn, you can do your taxes on […]