To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, March 15, 2025

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The Price Of Everything, The Value Of Nothing

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Only four weeks old, the new Trump presidential power in town knows the price of everything [except eggs] and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde observed of fools and cynics. Let’s add “shameless.” Shame has left the stately building at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The city on the hill feels occupied. Donald Trump, president, and his right-hand maniac, billionaire Elon Musk, are on a mission to tear apart federal agencies as Congress, the courts and […]

Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].