To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Right To Choice vs. No Right To Choice
Cats vs. Dingoes
BY FROMA HARROP The fight goes on. Whether cats are bird-killing machines or soft balls of love [for themselves, anyway] remains a subject of painful debate. The first part is undoubtedly true. Cats in the United States destroy a median of 2.4 billion birds a year. Add to that death toll 2.3 billion mammals, many […]
Without Fear or Favor: The Heresies And Vindications Of Anthony Lewis,...
BY JOE CONASON Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times reporter and columnist who died Monday at the age of 86, shaped the American conscience on a broad range of issues, from civil liberties and civil rights to war and diplomacy, for almost 50 years. During his long career, Lewis won numerous awards and published […]
Taxpayers Bear Cost Of ‘Reforms’
Corporate Kangaroo Courts Supplant Our Seventh Amendment Rights
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try getting your day in court. Most Americans don’t realize it, but our Seventh Amendment right to a fair jury trial against corporate wrongdoers has quietly been stripped from us. Instead, we are now shunted into a stacked-deck game called “Binding Mandatory […]