To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Can These Guys Even Spell ‘Outrageous’?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER I’d like nothing more than to give the bailout scandal a rest – but the bankers won’t let me! They just keep coming at us with ever-more-clever inventions of greed and deceit. Their latest bit of hocus-pocus, accompanied by big puffs of smoke, is a dazzling show of profits. Yes, Goldman Sachs, […]
RIP To A GOP
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Republicans don’t want him. The Democrats do. They would have booted him out. We’ll do everything we can to support his re-election. It’s a tough day when you leave your party, but being a hero certainly beats being reviled. The truth is that by the time he left the Republican Party, […]
Throwing Out Stereotypes
BY FROMA HARROP SALT LAKE CITY – American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parking outside. Utahans were gathering last week for the funeral of Bill Orton, a Democrat who had represented an especially conservative congressional district in this […]
Reagan, Nixon Greeted Despots, Too
BY JOE CONASON Few aspects of American politics are as ridiculous and dangerous as the right-wing urge to substitute macho posturing for foreign policy. That irrepressible habit surfaces constantly now that President Obama is in the Oval Office, most recently when he shook hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, […]
Hounded And Stressed
BY FROMA HARROP Consider Cary Grant in “North by Northwest.” Sinister forces may be chasing him for reasons he can’t comprehend, but this is 1959, and neither the BlackBerry nor the Global Positioning System chip that goes inside it has been invented. And so the mysterious crop-duster has no way to pinpoint which cornstalks he’s […]