To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, April 29, 2024

Observercast

Crying Fire In A Crowded Theater

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Perhaps the most famous quote about the First Amendment – one that is often garbled and is sure to be dissected in the impeachment trial – comes from former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a […]

Why Billionaires Are Detested

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Bob Wills, the renowned leader of a classic Western swing band, would joyously call out mid-song, “Take it away, Leon!” bringing on a crowd-pleasing instrumental solo by steel guitar maestro Leon McAuliffe. But now comes another Leon who’s such an off-key, screechy Wall Street billionaire that crowds are shouting, “Go away, Leon!” He is hedge […]

Trump’s Criminal State Of Mind

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For the senators who will sit in judgment of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, a crucial question will be his state of mind on his day of rage, Jan. 6, and his days of rage leading up to the attack on the Capitol. Trump’s defense cherry-picks a few of his words that day, pointing […]

The New Federalism

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The U.S. COVID response has been called “federalism at its best” – treating the states as “laboratories of change,” as former Justice Louis Brandeis once said, rather than concentrating all decision-making in the federal government. Frankly, it feels like federalism at its worst. At a time when we needed a national policy to fight a […]

The Proud Boys Return To Neverland

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So, the Proud Boys now judge Donald Trump “a total failure” and “extraordinarily weak.” The members of the far-right group understood at last that when the former president denounced them for doing what he incited them to do, they looked ridiculous. How to save face? They couldn’t concede that posting pictures of themselves engaged in […]