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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Observercast

A Health Care Greeting: Welcome To Wal-Mart

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BY FROMA HARROP Americans agree on health care. Ask them, “Who should pay for it,” and they all answer, “Not me.” But follow up with, “Who, then?” and you have a fight on your hands. Wal-Mart has greatly improved the quality of the conversation with its newfound support for requiring employers to help pay for […]

A Celebration Of Agitation

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Are you an agitator? You know, one of those people who won’t leave well enough alone, who’s always questioning authority and trying to stir things up. If so, the Powers That Be detest you – you … you … “agitator!” They spit the term out as a pejorative to brand anyone who […]

Thriller

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? Is my state going to run out of money tomorrow, and start printing IOUs? Can the crazy North Koreans really attack Hawaii? Was there a coup in Honduras? Do we care? The short answer to all the above questions is – who […]

For Straying Pols, It’s The Hurt That Matters

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BY FROMA HARROP An open-minded individual, I am willing to support an adulterer for elective office. But my ability to look past marital infidelity depends on how much humiliation was heaped on the wife. The details matter. And measuring their importance is hard to do. The unfaithful rarely conduct their affairs in a clean, compartmentalized […]

Don’t Cry For Me

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don’t expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don’t want to hear about your agony. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission that he spent the last five days crying in Argentina provided us with one of those […]