To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Observercast

We Can’t Take No For An Answer

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I don’t mean that we are going to punish a grandmother who has reason not to trust government. I do mean that we have to figure out how to change her mind. In California, Blacks and Hispanics are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites or Asians. There are no City of Los […]

Republicans Will Try To Kill Bipartisan Probe

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Despite all the lamentations over the Republican Party – the respectable party that supposedly existed before you-know-who ruined everything – it would be more honest to admit that the Grand Old Party wasn’t so grand even way back when. To take one timely example, Republicans have always resisted investigation of their leadership failures, even when […]

What Was He Thinking?

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It’s stunning to watch powerful men get caught. Everybody always says, “Why did they do it?” but that’s usually the easy part. In one way or another, it all comes back to making themselves look better, richer, smarter, more successful and more sexual than anyone else. My question is why they think they can get […]

What Texas’ Deep Freeze Revealed

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It’s written that Nero, the debauched ancient emperor, fiddled while Rome burned. Whether or not that’s true, it certainly is true that Ted Cruz, the self-indulgent Texas senator, fiddled around while his state froze. While Ted fled Texas for the sunny clime and luxury of the Ritz-Carlton resort in Cancun, Mexico, dozens of his constituents […]

How American Science Returned To Astonish Us All

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French news cameras were in California last week to capture America’s spectacular drive to mass-vaccinate against COVID-19. What were the visuals? An amusement park with cars lined up, their passengers waiting for a jab. “Armies” of volunteers are helping, the French reporter says as attendants in protective gear direct the snaking traffic. Aerial pictures show […]