To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer A Train Wreck

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“Corporate crises consultants” [yes, there are such creatures] have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while simultaneously killing it. A classic case is now unfolding around last year’s derailment of a 2-mile-long Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, OH. The community’s air, soil, water and people suffered a massive spill […]

Trump Is No Navalny, And Biden Is No Putin

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Donald Trump has been outrageously silent about the brutal murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. No, correct that. Silence would have been outrageous. Comparing himself to the slain hero is beyond outrageous. Trump, and his supporters, have had the audacity to compare Trump’s indictment by four grand juries to the imprisonment and death of […]

Over Congressional Republicans, Putin Casts His Dark Shadow

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If you believed that the Republicans in Congress couldn’t sink any lower, recent events have proved you sadly mistaken. House Speaker Mike Johnson, in his latest displays of subservience to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, has made his most wretched predecessors seem like statesmen and patriots. For the first time ever in America, a branch […]

Clickbait Fuels Obsession On Biden’s Age

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The special counsel report claiming that Joe Biden’s memory had seriously declined stinks to high political heaven. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw “nauseating similarities” to the agency’s investigation of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. To recap, 11 days before the 2016 election, then-FBI director James Comey said that the investigation of Clinton’s handling of […]

A Supreme Compromise

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If there was one lesson to be learned from Bush v. Gore, and its impact on the Supreme Court’s credibility, it is that the court should not decide presidential elections. That job belongs to the people: in the case of Donald Trump, to voters and juries. What that means in practice is that the court […]