To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

The Election Deniers

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In an important survey, The Washington Post found that a majority of Republican nominees on the ballot for Senate, House and key statewide offices deny the results of the 2020 election. That’s some 299 candidates in all; and of those, 173 are running for safe seats, and another 52 are in close races. This isn’t […]

The Saudi Gambit To Elect Republicans

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Only suckers believe that President Joe Biden is responsible for the price of gasoline, but then we all know that a sucker is born every minute, which explains a lot about our politics. The propaganda about oil prices now emanating from the Republican Party, which blames Biden for energy costs, is designed to conceal a […]

The Virginia Model

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One particularly noisy piece of the GOP’s current “culture war” bunkum is “critical race theory.” For 60 years, critical race theory has been a little-known field of study by academics, examining racism’s central role in shaping our society. In the last few years though, a covey of right-wing operatives has seized the phrase, shrieking that critical […]

Trump’s Latest Legal Blunder

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By now, it has become clear that President Donald Trump’s hopes that the appointment of a special master would derail the Justice Department’s investigation of him have proven to be short-lived. The Mar-a-Lago nightmare continues for the former president, and nothing about the appointment of the Special Master will derail it. The president clearly wasn’t […]

There Is No Polio Emergency. Stop Saying There Is

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No, polio is not a threat to the vast majority of Americans. That’s because the vast majority has received a very effective polio vaccine. And that’s also why public officials should stop turning a concern centered on a few under-vaxxed communities into everyone’s problem. But Gov. Kathy Hochul did just that when she declared a […]