To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Observercast

A House Divided

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BY SHARON MARTIN “Have you ever seen the country so polarized?” the newswoman asked the historians, one conservative, one liberal. Even historians have to take sides?...

Class Warfare

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BY SHARON MARTIN In 2004, during another debate about taxes and jobs, Gary Burtles, a labor economist with the Brookings Institution, pointed out that total...

Revisionist History, Theocrat-Style

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BY DON NELSON Mom, when she would hear me retort, “Everybody does it,” would not hesitate to ask, “If every body decided to jump off...

God And Guns

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BY KAREN WEBB We have preachers’ wives with so little faith in God that they need a gun for protection. The Second Amendment trumps the Ten...

Uncontrollable: Pentagon, Corporate Contractors Too Big To Audit

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BY RALPH NADER The Reuters report put this colossal dereliction simply: “A law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies –...