It wasn’t because of our culture, it was because of our leadership. By Paul Krugman Read at New York Times When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international…
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus…
Monticello is shrine enough for a man who wrote that “all men are created equal” and yet never did much to make those words come true. By Lucian K. Truscott IV Read at New York Times…
BY TIMOTHY E. WIRTH AND TOM ROGERS It is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood,…
The grandchildren of Nazis don’t drive cars with swastika bumper stickers or fly it in their yards. Yet in the US all the Confederate symbols still abound. Why? Because America never honestly faced our past…
By David Smith in Washington Read at The Guardian The president has had a difficult period and is trailing his rival by double digits. But he has time to fight back – and fight dirty It…
The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment. By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz Read at New York Times WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military…
Being a moral person who cares about America means removing hundreds of boogaloo accounts for ‘promoting violence’ in coordinated takedown, BEFORE you lose hundreds of millions in ad revenue. You fool no one. San Francisco supervisor…
Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is an evangelical. She is lying for Trump. Therefore McEnany is lying for Russia when she denies Trump’s betrayal of our troops by doing nothing about Putin putting a bounty…
Please watch and share this video and learn how Donald Trump’s Magical Thinking is affecting you, your life, your family, and your country! How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation?…
I began my life in a right-wing evangelical fundamentalist cult, started by my famous evangelical father, Francis Schaeffer. When I say, ‘a cult,’ I mean something outside of the religious mainstream that became a personality…
By Jesselyn Cook and Nick Robins-Early Read at HuffPost Around the time news broke on Monday afternoon that the New York City Police Department would disband plainclothes anti-crime units that had been tied to several…
By Nicholas Kristof Read at New York Times What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille? Coquille is a sleepy logging community of 3,800 people, almost…
By Editorial Board THE VENOM of American racism is as toxic in major cities as in rural areas, in the North as in the South. African Americans are murdered and brutalized for no good reason; more…
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Read at Washington Post George Floyd’s brutal killing brought home to a large majority of Americans the deadly endurance of institutionalized racism. May the memorial services in his honor bring home another…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, several states have begun preparations for vote-by-mail options in the 2020 election. (Blair Guild/The Washington Post) By Editorial Board AFTER A shambolic election two years ago — and several examples of…
By Dana Milbank Police in Buffalo shove a 75-year-old man to the ground and blood pours from his ear. Police in Brooklyn knock down a young woman and call her a “bitch” because she asked why she had to leave…
By Rod Dreher Erick Erickson, the RedState founder and conservative talk show host, speaks a difficult truth to fellow conservative Christians. Excerpt: Others will stand with Trump because he is the only candidate who isn’t aligned…
Want real change? Then the left not just the right needs to change its mind. For the left it’s easy to go after pro-cop Republicans but be silent about Democrat Party political leaders and union…
In city after city, officers are openly flouting any attempt at democratic restraint in an effort to assert authoritarian power. By Zach Carter Read At HuffPost American schoolchildren learn at an early age that the…
By GARRETT M. GRAFF Read at Politico The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement. Few sights from the nation’s protests in…
A tweet by Liberty University’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has sparked an angry protest in the evangelical college’s community and a rare apology from Mr. Falwell. By Elizabeth Williamson WASHINGTON — The racial strife roiling the…
After years of an actual terrorist in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
William Barr is an (oddly) Catholic liar. He lies about America’s “Christian past.” He lies about ordering the violence of federal officers against peaceful demonstrators to give Trump a photo-op. I use that uncomfortable phrase…
By Ruth Marcus Every day — every night, to be more precise — more bad apples roll before our eyes. The video is horrifying; the camera unflinching. So, more Americans — white Americans, even Republican Americans,…
By 89 former Defense officials President Trump continues to use inflammatory language as many Americans protest the unlawful death of George Floyd and the unjust treatment of black Americans by our justice system. As the protests…
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Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions By Sam Levine and Anna Massoglia Read at The Guardian A powerful new conservative organization fighting to…
including handfuls of $100 bills – because she was a ‘symbol anti-abortion movement could not afford to lose’ Evangelical anti-abortionists ‘cut checks’ and ‘stuffed hundred-dollar bills’ into ‘Jane Roe,’ Norma McCorvey’s hands, even though they…
For frail seniors Trump has made sure through his lies and ineptitude there simply is no safe haven. Trump’s trade-off in forcing reopening the churches and economy without safeguards is that the lives of our…
The next generation’s terrible trio, and two we’ll leave alone. By Gail Collins Read at New York Times Hey, what do you think the Trump kids are up to? Been a long time since we…
By —Daniel Bush By —Lisa Desjardins Read at PBS Over his decades-long career in the Senate, former Vice President Joe Biden was known as a demanding but fair and family-oriented boss, devoted to his home…
Since 2017, so many events in U.S. politics that were previously unthinkable have come to pass. Don’t believe me? A few days ago, the president of the United States baselessly accused a cable television host…
The attorney general is turning the Justice Department into a political weapon for the president. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…
By David Von Drehle If ever a person should have a good B.S. detector, one might think it would be Arthur Conan Doyle. His deathless creation, Sherlock Holmes, is perhaps the most compelling rationalist ever born….
American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals – some with extremist links By Jason Wilson and Robert Evans Read at The Guardian Leaked audio recordings and online materials obtained…
No other advanced nation was as unprepared for the pandemic as was the US because no other nation was living under the rule of the fantasy-land of magical evangelical “thinking” of the white evangelical voting…
By Glenn Kessler Read at Washington Post “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group…
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This we know: Black or brown people gathering in the streets or at the statehouse with rifles and body armor would not be tolerated. They would not be allowed to yell in the face of…
An epidemiologist didn’t hold back in his assessment of the U.S. response to Coronavirus on Wednesday. Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves said the approach came close to genocide. Gonsalves sent a series of tweets slamming the U.S….
After years of a government-destroying maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of an edgelord maniac who incites violence while hiding behind the Secret Service in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to…
White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit. By Neil MacFarquhar Read at New York Times America’s extremists are attempting to turn the coronavirus…
Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and “collective rage.” By Frank Bruni Read at New York Times I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra….
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post Four years ago, Donald Trump’s core supporters embraced Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” label because it encapsulated their class struggle against the perceived ruling elite. Now, as Trump’s reelection nears, the…
Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats by David Smith in Washington Read at The Guardian He is 37 and less than 10…
The president’s judicial appointments have been a quieter project than most of his flamboyant presidency, but will have longer-lasting impacts on healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice and the climate by Tom McCarthy in New York Read at…
The Trump-supporting education secretary and her billionaire family have for years promoted rightwing causes and candidates By Adam Gabbatt Read at The Guardian While the anti-coronavirus lockdowns springing up around the US came as a…
By Emily Holden Read at The Guardian Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis. DeSmog, a blog and organization…
After years of a science-denying, magical-thinking presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism…
Watch, share, show, promote and win in 2020. We need a BLUE WAVE to wash Trump into the history books where he’ll live on as a warning to America about what white evangelicals with religious…
By Paul FarhiApril 16, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. MSTRead at Washington Post A new research report from a leading journalism organization says President Trump’s attacks on the news media have endangered American democracy and imperiled press…
After years of a government destroying maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age…
After years of evangelicals propping up a maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the…
If you aren’t terrified both by Covid-19 and by its economic consequences, you haven’t been paying attention. Even though social distancing may be slowing the disease’s spread, tens of thousands more Americans will surely die…
The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures. By David FrumStaff writer at The Atlanticread at The Atlantic I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March…
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Beijing punished covid whistleblower, claimed it came from US and ‘is STILL lying about death figures’ – so what CAN we believe from them? Coronavirus is thought to have originated at market in Wuhan before…
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response. By Michelle Goldberg Read at New York Times Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should…
We can’t change the world but all Americans can agree on this: Let’s unite to destroy, then obliterate Jared Kushner and his family from American life. The failed rich brat just appeared at a Coronavirus…
By Michael Gerson March 30, 2020 Read at Washington Post After learning of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s decision to partially reopen Liberty University, my thoughts turned to the biblical account of Balaam’s ass. According to the Hebrew scriptures,…
After years of an unstable, magical-thinking maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age…
ICYMI, Here I am talking with the great Joy Reid of AM Joy on MSNBC about Donald Trump’s miserable response to this crisis and his preoccupation with pandering to the religious zealots that make up his base,…
Even as most of the world clamps down further on the movement of people, Trump remains focused on restarting the economy and spreading feel-good lies. He can do this because he is in line with…
By Sarah Jones Read at NY Mag The economy must be a hungry god. Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, believes grandparents will sacrifice themselves for it. At the Federalist, a writer wondered if social distancing…
Here Come Republican “Pro-Life” Death Panels. Obamacare didn’t lead to health care rationing but Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus is. And the same vulnerable people the Nazis got rid of- the elderly and infirm, are…
Why are we OK with old people dying? By Louise Aronson Dr. Aronson is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Read at New York Times “Not just old people: Younger adults…
Even in war, America has kept up its democratic traditions. We can’t stop now. By Jon Meacham Mr. Meacham is the author, most recently, of “The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus…
I’m glad Tom Hanks is fine- BUT we know that testing is a key to derailing this virus’s path of destruction. The only communities that get tested fast and early – are primarily be the…
He offered public assurances that the government was ready to face coronavirus then Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold off $1.56 million of stock but never warned us. Make a warning example of Burr…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
Dear Evangelicals: The Coronavirus has exposed the falsehood of so many of your notions about Trump: that experts are unnecessary; hunches are a substitute for knowledge; competence in administration is overrated; every criticism is a hoax;…
I was raised in an evangelical home. My family were instrumental in creating the religious right. I was my father’s nepotistic sidekick out on the road for many years in the seventies and eighties until…
By Katherine StewartTue 3 Mar 2020 01.00 EST By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s…
By Dave Krieger Read at Colorado Sun We watched the season of televised debates with hope, my son and I. At least, in the beginning. Adding Colorado to the list of Super Tuesday states offered…
As a member of one of the first families of the evangelical movement, we were raised to believe that the bible was true; -only- the bible. That science was a hoax. That the earth was…
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Read at New York Times Gail Collins: Wow, Bret, action-packed political times. I am looking forward to your thoughts about tonight’s debate. But first, my big question: If things continue the way they’re…
It’s worth noting, on a day that I voted for Elizabeth Warren, who is a fine Senator in my state with a great track record, that whomever the nominee ends up being will have my…
The Democratic presidential primary is starting to feel less like a political contest and more like an existential experiment gone wrong. Women alone powered the resistance to Trump: The Women’s March was the biggest protest…
But he plays one on TV. That’s a problem. By Paul KrugmanFeb. 13, 2020Read at New York Times Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils…
The president’s rhetoric has changed the way hundreds of children are harassed in American classrooms, The Post found By Hannah Natanson, John Woodrow Cox and Perry Stein Feb. 13, 2020 Read at Washington Post Two kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy…
Trump Is a Pimp Who Turned America into His Whore. It is hard to pick out the lowest humiliation the USA has suffered at the Trump clan’s hands but here are just a few contenders:…
By Mark Weisbrot Social security helps millions, but America’s largest anti-poverty program remains vastly misunderstood Read at The Guardian Social security has become an issue in the presidential election campaign. Democratic candidate Joe Biden has…
By Micah Danney • January 24, 2020 Read at Religion Unplugged BOSTON — In one of his videos, Frank Schaeffer stands outside in a blue t-shirt speaking into his phone selfie-style. He’s stern and growing…
By Dana Milbank Jan. 23, 2020 at 4:28 p.m. MSTRead at Washington Post There is justice in John Roberts being forced to preside silently over the impeachment trial of President Trump, hour after hour, day…
The Zhou (1046–256 BC) created the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ idea that there can be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time and this ruler has the blessing of the gods. If that blessing…
Trump’s legal team during the impeachment trial would be a joke if it wasn’t real. It’s a bunch of white guys bound together by crime, pedophilia and religious con games. Jay Sekulow, Alan Dershowitz and…
By Yuval Levin Read at New York Times Our institutions lost the capacity to mold character and have become platforms for performance instead. Americans are living through a social crisis. We can see that in…
In white evangelical’s support for Trump there was something adolescent with their taste for proud poses and laughably delusional attempts to tie Trump to the fulfillment of the myth of biblical prophecy. Now they deny…
I was raised to be the sidekick of an Evangelical evangelist in the 1970s and 80s. My father, Francis Schaeffer, went on to become one of the founders of the anti-abortion movement in its Protestant…
At nearly a quarter million views, my latest video has struck a chord, and every so often I receive a message like the one below; pure love which cuts through all of the jingoism and…
This article is nearly a year old, but perfect for this time, and may even be “prophetic.” Read at Newsweek BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 1/12/18 AT 4:02 PM EST Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because…
“GOD IS ON OUR SIDE!” HE TELLS EVANGELICALS, RE: ASSASSINATION- THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE SHOUTING IN IRAN! After suffering a theocratic presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my…
2020 is the year we either stop the abomination of Trump and his lickspittle cult or we do not. We will either destroy the Republican Party and send this verminous group of sycophants and cowards…
By Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel Originally published December 11, 2019 Read at citizensforethics.org There’s no question about it: even though Attorney General Barr postponed his $30,000 holiday party at President Trump’s DC Hotel, any appearance of his impartiality had long since disappeared….
ORIGINALLY POSTED JANUARY 6, 2019 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ Read at johnpavlovitz.com Most morally compromised men of faith don’t sell their souls all at once. Sometimes it happens in a billion tiny transactions; a series of infinitesimal compromises…
The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet. Originally Published December 17, 2019By George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson The authors have worked for and supported…
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is. Originally published December 12, 2019By Anne Applebaum Read at The Atlantic Sherwood Eddy was a prominent…
Attorney General William Barr, who is busy trying to muddy the legal waters around the impeachment process against Donald Trump, is a conservative, far-right Roman Catholic Activist. A Roman Catholic first, and an American second….
Christopher Leonard has produced a relentless accounting of the brothers grim which somehow concludes with sympathy By Charles KaiserOriginally Posted Sun 8 Dec 2019 02.00 EST Read at The Guardian If the unbridled consumption of fossil fuels…
Why are the perpetrators of 9/11 STILL invited to America to learn from our military? The Saudi student who killed three people at a US navy base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in…
Leading social indicators are trending their way, but somehow it is only Trump who stands between us and the apocalypse. By Peter WehnerContributing Opinion WriterOriginially Posted December 6, 2019Read at New York Times We are facing…
I dropped out of film school to edit video for the conspiracy theorist because I believed in his worldview. Then I saw what it did to people. By Josh OwensDec. 5, 2019, 5:00 a.m. ET Read at…
This is the best ever on TRUMP as a crook. Read, share, weep, VOTE!!! Read at Washington Post By Richard Blumenthal Dec. 3, 2019 at 12:58 p.m. MST Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, represents Connecticut in the U.S….
Based on their support for Trump, American white evangelicals are the only people in America who consistently seem to disrespect, reject and ignore the teachings of Jesus. Trump-supporting white evangelicals’ enabling of Trump’s Republican politics…
By Richard SpencerNovember 27, 2019 at 3:56 p.m. MSTRichard Spencer is the former secretary of the Navy. Read at Washington Post The case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was charged with multiple…
By Emma Graham-Harrisonand Juliette Garside Sun 24 Nov 2019 13.00 EST Read at The Guardian The internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a million people from the nation’s Muslim minorities are…
by Nancy Jo SalesOriginally posted Fri 1 Nov 2019 02.00 EDT A report released by Common Sense Media on Tuesday found that by age 11, 53% of kids in the US have their own smartphone. And 69%…
Attorney General and Trump Personal Attorney William Barr recently made a speech at Notre Dame. These are my rebuttals. Bookmark this page and please share! Clip 1 – 2 Minutes…On Religious Liberty Clip 2 –…
Sorry to be rude but this is just nuts: “As a Christian, I believe that Satan is behind this. He is trying to steal, kill and destroy. And Donald Trump has been raised up by…
via Southern Poverty Law Center November 12, 2019by Michael Edison HaydenRead at SPLC In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories…
Shocked evangelicals didn’t object to children in cages and forcibly separated from parents by ICE? Don’t be! Evangelicals were fine with W. Bush using torture. If you’ll accept torture as okay, after that anything is…
After years of End of Days obsessed Evangelicals propping up lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of…
Evangelical Madness is Driving US Policy -Trump was sent by Russia to Help Russia Destroy Israel, Says Anne Graham Lotz– Franklin Graham’s Sister. From Kyle Mantyla on Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pastor Anne Graham Lotz…
by Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti Read at The Guardian The US attorney general William Barr’s speech at the University of Notre Dame last week has been widely decried by liberal commentators for violating the separation between church and state. In his speech, Barr portrayed…
If President Trump doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office. By William H. McRaven Admiral McRaven is a former commander of the United…
Attorney General and Trump Personal Attorney William Barr recently made a speech at Notre Dame. This is my rebuttal. After years of a completely corrupt presidency, how do we make our way back into love,…
via Strange Days with Fernand Amandi I recently had a chat with Fernand Amandi for what he described as “perhaps one of the most disturbing episodes of the Strange Days Podcast.” Have a listen. “BE…
After years of a lunatic traitor in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
The President of the United States Is Unwell https://t.co/HGgzi02CE1 pic.twitter.com/voGrByl859 — The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) October 11, 2019 After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love,…
by Hamilton Nolan Read at The Guardian I don’t want to hear Democrats pretending that the fact that Biden’s son got a do-nothing $600k per year corporate handout is unremarkable. It is wrong One of…
via The Hill: US soldier in Syria: ‘I am ashamed for the first time in my career’ BY TAL AXELROD – 10/10/19 08:40 AM EDT Read at The Hill A U.S. special forces member serving with the Kurdish-led…
Trump asked America’s white evangelicals to choose between Jesus and him. They chose Trump. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham is amplifying the violence-loving comments Trump repeated in a tweet, that if Democrats impeach him (or he…
Trump tweeted Pastor Robert Jeffress, on the Fox & Friends, “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War.” Are the gun-toting…
Am I the only old white male utterly sick of all male political “leadership” right or left? We need women to lead now. We’ve tried the domination “method” and look where it got us? Look…
ICYMI, I was on AM Joy on MSNBC with the great John Fugelsang talking about Jerry Falwell Jr. and his sycophantic relationship with the utterly corrupt cult figure Donald Trump. But here’s the thing; nothing about…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
Via Politico: ‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian…
Dozens of supporters of Donald Trump have carried out or threatened acts of violence. Here, the Guardian lists them all by Jon Swaine and Juweek Adolphe Read at The Guardian Since Trump embarked on his campaign for the…
Like all evangelical children, I grew up while being told that “the return of the Jews” to Israel in 1948 was the biggest and most important event in world history, right up there with Jesus’s…
ICYMI, I was on AM Joy on MSNBC talking about Trump’s white supremacy and anti-Semitism and his dangerous comments about American Jews, loyalty and Israel. After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we…
If there were no evangelicals Trump would not be president of the USA, nor would Jair Bolsonaro be president of Brazil. The Amazon would not be burning and the Earth would be protected. Evangelicals and…
by Benjamin L. Corey I’ve reviewed every prophecy on the Antichrist, and what I read blew my mind: Does the Bible predict the future with stunning accuracy as so many in the end-times camp have…
By Gregory Paul | 11 October 2003Free Inquiry magazine “You know what happens when atheists take over—remember Nazi Germany?” Many Christians point to Nazism, alongside Stalinism, to illustrate the perils of atheism in power.[1] At…
By Mary Papenfuss Read at HuffPost The mother “had this lost look,” an immigrant rights advocate told The Clarion Ledger after a visit. “She doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring.” The massive raids by Immigration…
“So I think, you know, I think our family was involved in helping to launch a horror show.” –Frank Schaeffer America’s anti-abortion movement is gaining ground fast, and it’s white evangelical Christians on the front…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
The El Paso shooter said he wanted to stop the immigrant “invasion” of America. As recently as May, Trump used the exact same words: “It’s an invasion.” Then someone in the crowd yelled out “shoot…
Killer clowns are taking over: Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán. Build a wall to stop the world’s slide to…
Trump sees the presidency as a giant megaphone for stoking racial and ethnic hatred. He seeks to demonize those who oppose his policies as dangerous extremists out to destroy …. Germany, uh, no, I mean,…
Trump’s disgusting comments telling Americans to “go back where they come from” is classic racism. My last name is Schaeffer – that’s a German name. I would like to remind Trump that he has German…
Frank Schaeffer: From Helping Found the Religious Right to Embracing Uncertainty and Finding Community “I think that a lot of times people start with their worldview answers in a big stroke, but the first thing…
This July 4th Trump’s goons on Border Patrol are using a secret Facebook page joking about children dying, about forcing female Congresswomen to have sex. July 4, 2019 Trump’s America is a fascist state taken…
Trump said Monday that a New York-based advice columnist and author who accused him of raping her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s was not his “type.” Writer E. Jean Carroll claims…
Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Silicon Valley to take responsibility for the damage it has caused in a recent commencement speech at Stanford Originally Posted June 19, 2019 Read at The Guardian If I’ve…
By Emily Bazelon Originally posted June 17, 2019 at nytimes.com The first time I met Elizabeth Warren, she had just come home from a walk with her husband and her dog at Fresh Pond, the…
By David Von Drehle Read at Washington Post When rich people are credibly accused of crimes, does the public have a right to know? Should multimillionaires be allowed to silence their accusers with cash? According…
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By Philip Johnson Originally posted May 22, 2019 at PeterBeinart.net. Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that American aid to Israel is “something that can be discussed” in Washington. Her comments made news precisely because…
If Bernie were progressive he’d drop out. He lost the election for Hillary and now impedes Elizabeth Warren’s chances. She has the intellect and has done her homework. Warren has the progressive credentials. Will this…
via The New York Times Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries. By Suketu Mehta There is a lot of debate these days about whether the United States…
The Massachusetts senator is proposing something radical: a country in which adults discuss serious ideas seriously. By Farhad Manjoo It’s early, but this much is true: Elizabeth Warren is running the most impressive presidential campaign…
To send an American white supremacist Neo-Nazi president to honor those who died fighting the very ideas he supports as he cages children is disgusting. Today America lost its honor. Given his support of Putin,…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
ICYMI – I was on AM Joy on MSNBC this morning with the great Johnathan Capehart discussing Franklin Graham’s and Evangelicals’ denouncement of the genuine Christianity of people like Mayor Pete Buttigieg, while hypocritically promoting Trump’s twisted…
The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood….
“Biden and Sanders come across as romantics. Biden- stuck in the past, when real bipartisanship sometimes happened. Sanders [living] in an imaginary future, where a popular tidal wave washes away all political obstacles. Neither seems…
The woman who blew open the Cambridge Analytica scandal says Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are ‘handmaidens to authoritarianism’ Even before the TED 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada opened on Monday, the event promised to be political….
It’s very early in the race to 2020, and there are a lot of wonderful candidates on the Democratic side, but there is something electrifying about the way Mayor Pete Buttigieg is approaching this run…
Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy allianceby Carole Cadwalladr The WikiLeaks founder’s astonishing admission should prompt MPs finally to start asking question Last Wednesday, 11 months into Donald Trump’s new world order,…
Watch this! You won’t find a more compelling argument today for the need for human decency, being kind to others, and most importantly, being true to ourselves and our values. After years of a man…
It seems fantastical that a 37-year-old openly gay mayor from South Bend can even be in this conversation until you look at who he is. Then the question becomes: How could any sane Democrat vote…
Pete Buttigieg has a long-term generational view. He is not reacting to the media outrage cycle of the day but thinking about making the planet and our country livable for his generation. Listen to this…
Maria Ressa, chief of Philippine news site Rappler, was released on bail after being arrested at an airport in Manila, her second arrest in a month. (Reuters) By Regine CabatoMarch 29 at 4:40 AM MANILA — A Philippine…
THE MUELLER REPORT DID NOT EXONERATE TRUMP OF Self-dealing Trump family corruption Cheating on taxes Defrauding banks Lying perpetually Racism Provoking White Nationalist terror & killings Giving billionaires tax breaks Stiffing working Americans Attacking Medicare and Social…
Q: Why does AIPAC work with white nationalist Evangelical Trump bigots who shape Trump’s foreign policy in favor of Israeli hard liners?A: Evangelicals root for Israel because they think the “return” of Christ depends on…
Originally posted Monday, March 18, 2019 at Down with Tyranny Fox White Nationalist Tucker Carlson’s biggest worry about the slaughter last week in New Zealand– by a confessed Trump supporter– was worry that social media…
After years of an idiotic fascist demagogue in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
Sarah Huckabee, please explain why Trump has a fetish for putting himself in compromising positions. Now Trump turns up implicated in a story about a Chinese pimp family who donates to him and the GOP…
Trump signs Bibles for members of Providence Baptist Church in Alabama with the same hands he put up women’s skirts as he assaulted them and when not hanging out with the pimp/trafficker who runs the…
If you want the State of Israel to have American support 10 years from now you’ll side with Omar and her right to speak her mind. The bullying US Israel Lobby is turning off an…
BY TIM WU The defining political fact of our time is not polarization. It’s the thwarting of a largely unified public. We are told that America is divided and polarized as never before. Yet when…
If Trump wins in 2020 here’s how group-think Democrats made it possible. Here’s why (sadly) Trump may well win a second term: Trump doesn’t need to pretend to his followers he’s lived a life of…
Republicans and their white evangelical base know, deep in their hearts, that Cohen’s portrayal of Trump as a “racist,” “a con man” and “a cheat” is true. So it is the truth they fear most…
“Climate delayers aren’t much better than climate deniers,” says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s wrong: The delayers are far worse. They know better but lack the guts to take on true evil. Thank God for the younger…
If the Roman Catholic Church was a school it would have long since been shut down for multiple cases of habitual ritual child rape and the entire faculty and administration sent to prison for life….
Trump had 2 years in which Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate — and could not persuade Congress to give him funding for a wall. What a loser. What a conman. Who would…
Labeling anyone as an anti-Semite who speaks about how Israel cynically uses evangelicals and Jewish mega-donors like Sheldon Adelson to shape US policy weakens the fight against real anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi white nationalist that have seen…
While the enabling Republicans are stuck with the misogynist-in-chief-groper, Democrats have the luxury of an entire roster of amazing, brave, vibrant, brilliant, and articulate strong women presidential candidates– any one of whom I’d be thrilled…
Here’s how to define Donald Trump: Trump is the intersection where all the con-artists, sleaze-bags, petty criminals, anti-democracy thugs, white evangelical losers and delusional racist fanatics on the planet met and fell in love with…
The roars of approval Trump received from his enabler-Republican lawmakers during his State of the Union is all you need to know about why the Republican Party — as it is now – must be…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
After years of a hapless amateur in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump,…
Chances are Mike Pence might become president through Trump’s resignation, impeachment or arrest. A Pence presidency is a horrible possibility because every entity related to Trump is either bankrupt, closed or under investigation. Trump Casinos, Trump…
Every year, ordinary homeowners like my family pay a percentage of our house’s value in tax. A house is the biggest asset that most families own. If we lower and middle-class families can pay an annual wealth…
Howard Schultz and Donald Trump share a religious faith in the self-evident goodness of wealth, greed and “The Market.” This is the evil religion of planet-destroying greed. It’s the religion of empty people who put…
The last thing Democrats need in 2020 is a white male candidate (Bernie) who would be 79 on taking office. Period. We need a fresh — preferably female — brain to lead the fight to…
Roger J. Stone- the longtime petty crook/dirty-trickster colostomy bag of American politics, and adviser to the contents of that now badly leaking bag-Trump-was arrested by the FBI on Friday after being indicted in the investigation…
What’s the state of the union? There is none. What we have is the end game on planetary destruction by corporations and a dumb population that elected a reality TV small time crook who denies…
Note to young white males: When you wear a Trump hat to an anti-woman rally you are making a statement. Expect to be taken seriously. Trump hats put you on the side of white nationalist…
“Realistically, FBI Agents should not have to work at a store, stocking shelves, because they can’t feed their families, on their government job.” –Tom O’Connor, FBI Agents Association president The FBI Agents Association held a…
The absolute numbing of legal and ethical senses by Trump’s Republican enablers is a direct threat to the viability of the United States. Unable to win elections Trump’s Republican enablers resort to voter suppression, election…
Guest Blog by Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny! These days, the Senate doesn’t pass anything remotely controversial, let alone pass it unanimously. But last month they did– a bill by Tim Scott (R-SC), Cory…
Here’s the actual state of the union: a failed presidency, in which the bonds of trust between voters and leaders have been decisively severed. Where did Trump spring from?: George W. Bush and the establishment…
Even Tucker Carlson finally knows what time it is, it’s a sign that everyone — including you — should be checking their clocks Carlson’s Wednesday night monologue was part of a larger critique of American financial systems…
Donald Trump finds himself ever more dependent on Evangelical voters. Having lost control of the House of Representatives in November, and under ever closer scrutiny for his campaign’s links to the Kremlin, Trump’s instinct has been to…
People trust religious leaders to be honest and moral, and when that is gone little influence remains. Evangelicals don’t know it yet but their complicity with Trump just killed them. Where did Trump’s evangelicals come…
