To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Observercast

Thieves In The Suites

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Today’s captains of corporate capitalism like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s genius “innovators.” Sounds positive … until you ask the key question: Innovation for what purpose? After all, some of society’s most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzi-schemers, gamers and embezzlers. Sure enough, an inordinate amount […]

Ginsburg v. Trump

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in The New York Times this week. Trump responded in his usual unpresidential way, tweeting: “Justice Ginsburg has embarrassed all by making very […]

A Wall Won’t Fix Immigration

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER The wailing in our country about the “invasion of immigrants” has been long and loud. As one complainant put it, “Few of their children in the country learn English … The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages … Unless the stream of the importation could be turned they will […]

Political Grief On Top Of Fear, Depression And Economic Loss

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COVID-19 is not at all over and shows every sign of staging a return. We’ve been through a lot of fear, depression, and losses of income and loved ones. Much can’t be changed, but the leadership can, from sloppy governors to President Donald Trump at the top of the heap. Trump seems not just incapable […]

‘Nothing’s As Bad As The Ninth Circuit’

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Nothing’s as bad as the Ninth Circuit”: That is the president of the United States talking to the nation’s governors on Monday about the United States Court of Appeals for much of the western United States, including California. Nothing is worse than a court that disagrees with you? I can think of many things […]