To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Observercast

The GOP’s Double Standard On Terror Trials

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BY JOE CONASON Preparing for what they hope will be their return to power in Washington, Republican congressional leaders have revived the fear-mongering and flag-flapping used by Karl Rove to win the 2002 midterm elections. Like the former White House deputy, forever known to his boss as “turd blossom,” the right-wing strategists on Capitol Hill […]

The Wingers Who Cried Wolf

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BY JOE CONASON Listening to right-wing talk radio on the day after Congress passed health care reform, Bill O’Reilly was stunned. To him, the hosts and the callers sounded “crazed” as they shrieked about “the end of the world, we’re socialist now, we have to take the country back.” Maybe the Fox News host hasn’t […]

Who’s Really Behind The Desecration Of Our Capitol?

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What exploded in our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 is an outrage, a desecration of America’s democratic ideals! But I don’t merely mean the ransacking and terrorizing of Congress by violent Trumpeteers who were deluded by the lying, megalomaniacal president into thinking they could throw out the votes of 81 million citizens. Rather, let’s also […]

Let’s Consider The GOP’s Health Care Plan

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Here’s some useful advice from an old country saying: Never try to teach table manners to a pig – it doesn’t work, it’ll wear you out, and it just annoys the pig. The same advice goes for anyone who thinks they can teach even a bit of common sense to the preening […]

Real Scandal Is How Judicial Watch Misleads Gullible Media

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BY JOE CONASON Listening to the national media over the past few weeks, many Americans may now believe that the Clinton Foundation was set up as a “pay to play” scheme for Hillary Clinton to squeeze millions of dollars from wealthy foreigners and rich Americans. According to this theory, popularized by a lavishly funded right-wing […]