To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Observercast

Looking For Light In The Dark

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WASHINGTON – The days get shorter, darker, colder. This solstice season the descent feels more real. Then there’s 2024 to brace for. It’s all there in the midnight clear here in the heartbeat of the free world. We’re lighting menorah candles and Christmas trees, but without much incandescent spirit. Our holiday rituals are heavy with […]

Voters Reject Illiberal Bigotry Of Moms For Liberty

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In one of their satirical songs, the Austin Lounge Lizards lampooned the ridiculous bigotry of some Christian factions, singing: “Jesus loves me. But he can’t stand you.” That could be the bellicose anthem of a quasi-religious Republican front group with a very sweet-sounding name: “Moms for Liberty.” Far from sweet, however, these moms are funded […]

Haley Best To Vie vs. Trump – And Biden

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Nikki Haley is the dark horse in the Republican presidential race that Democrats should watch closely as she gains ground by the day, hair flying with the wind. Brace for a “Hail Nikki” surge while former President Donald Trump’s troubles with the law mount and his grip on reality loosens and leads to more demagogic […]

Woody Guthrie’s Anthem Mocking Rightwing Republicanism

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What it is about today’s vituperative, foam-at-the-mouth Republican Party? No longer disguising their desire to repress women, workers, immigrants, the poor and all others who differ with [or are different from] their own partisan clan, the party has turned to a politics of hatred and division, openly seeking to punish opponents they now brand as […]

What Happens If Anti-Vaxxers Just Face The Consequences?

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“Medical Freedom” crusaders are trying to end vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. Places where they succeed, epidemiologists warn, will, for starters, become overrun with measles, a disease that was virtually eliminated thanks to vaccines. Measles used to kill up to 500 people a year, while polio left more than 15,000 paralyzed. Parts of America that stop […]