To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Stop Those Checks
BY SUSAN ESTRICH This is the Republicans’ big contribution to our economic recovery: They want to make sure that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes using tax identification numbers don’t get a cent of their tax money back in the refunds enacted by Congress. Oh, yes, and they want rich people to get tax refunds. Anything […]
Hey, Rush: How About Some Cheese With That Whine?
BY JOE CONASON How fortunate for Barack Obama that Rush Limbaugh, big radio personality and leader of the instinctual far right, has yet to retire to a sunny island with his bottles of pills. At a moment when Republicans on Capitol Hill feel they must pretend to negotiate with the popular new president over spending […]
Therapy For Tough Times
BY FROMA HARROP I envy Sports Man. He can rise above his own problems by focusing on the triumphs or setbacks of The Team. Last October, the stock market was tanking and so was Sports Man’s beloved Red Sox. Did Sports Man worry that his dreams of easy living were being dashed on the shoals […]
Geithner’s Troubling Ethics
BY JIM HIGHTOWER In describing a suspicious character who had visited his home, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Average Americans today might need to be counting their spoons, because President Obama and the Congress have visited Timothy Geithner upon us. He’s the new […]
Getting Off The Dog Track
BY FROMA HARROP I know a lot of greyhounds. A greyhound track operates near my house, and many of its retirees end up in the neighborhood. Something you notice about these dogs: Greyhounds are built for speed, but once they move into a comfy home, they’re in no hurry to go anywhere. Let me pay […]