To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

Why Biden’s Approval Will Rise Again

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When President Joe Biden announced his new plan to mandate vaccinations and additional strong measures to curtail the spreading coronavirus, he was refreshingly brisk and blunt. It was a speech that marked an important step toward restoration of American political sanity. “My message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for? […]

Who Wants To Move To Texas?

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Texas has low taxes, which is nice. Its mild winter weather appeals to many in the snowbound north. And the cost of living there is certainly lower than that of the elite coastal cities. Also nice. On the other hand, it has a political culture that launches serial attacks on voting rights and obsesses over […]

Roe Roe Roe Your Boat …

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It was almost 50 years ago that the United States Supreme Court gave women control over their bodies prior to viability. Within the next two years, they will take it away. By a vote of 5-4, minutes before midnight, a very different Court refused – for the first time in 50 years – to say […]

What’s The “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing?

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As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story or otherwise make the kind of progress I want on the piece I’m writing. Over the years, though, I’ve learned when to quit tying myself into mental knots over sentence construction and instead step back and rethink […]

The Menace Of A Different McCarthyism

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Of all the Republican politicians who have ascended to leadership in Congress during the past few decades, none is a duller and more obvious hack than Rep. Kevin McCarthy. The House minority leader possesses none of the villainous charisma of Newt Gingrich or the ruthless greed of Tom DeLay, the ideological fervor of Paul Ryan […]