To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Wonders Never Cease
The Bogus Crime Wave
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Nothing more easily elicits roars of assent across a good slice of the political spectrum than the hoarse alarums that wave after wave of brown-skinned illegals continually flood across the border, plunging neighborhoods and whole cities into an inferno of crime, overwhelming cops and prosecutors, clogging the justice system, cramming the prisons. […]
Dr. Beck’s Diagnosis
Americans Can Speak For Themselves On Health Care
BY FROMA HARROP Have you voted on any of the Democratic health care reform plans? Me neither. No such vote was ever taken. But with coordination that the Rockettes would envy, Republicans insist that “the American people have spoken” on the matter, and they want the proposals killed. House Republican Leader John Boehner: “The American […]
Zazi Case Vindicates Justice
BY JOE CONASON Before Najibullah Zazi is finally dispatched to a secure cellblock for good, it is important to remember how the taxi driver-turned-terrorist was brought to justice – and why the critics who jeered his civilian prosecution were dead wrong. By convicting Zazi and pursuing the leads that his capture and interrogation have provided, […]