NBC News, Sept. 18, 2022 – The GOP’s American psychosis didn’t start with Trump. It won’t end with him, either. A line runs from the 1964 Republican National Convention to Trump’s Jan. 6 riot. It has zigged and zagged over the years. But there is a path. By David Corn, Washington, D.C., bureau chief for … Continue reading David Corn on the Origins of the Trump Disorder
On September 15, California governor Gavin Newsom announced that billboards with the assertive pro-choice messages below were going up in several states. Very striking. How many more to follow? South Carolina? Way too close for my comfort. North Carolina could join his target list if the midterm elections go badly. … Continue reading Gavin Newsom takes Pro-Choice fight to Anti-Abortion States
Joe Biden, 09/15/2022, United We Stand Summit, at the White House: “Too much hate that’s fueled extremist violence [has] been allowed to fester and grow. You know, as a result, our very own intelligence agencies — our own intelligence agencies in the United States of America, have determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white … Continue reading On the Brink of Autumn: Quote of the Season
An Excerpt From, “What Church Splits Can Teach Us About a Dividing America,” Russell Moore, in Christianity Today: “I asked a pastor of a large Methodist congregation what took the churches in the denomination so long to figure out that they must go in different directions. He responded, “You are looking at this wrong, and … Continue reading Russell Moore on Current U. S. Church splits, and their wider implications
I thought everyone would have lost interest in this by now . . . Hey, wait — you forgot your Sunflowers, and Toto! My money’s on the one with the sword . . . Does this “Semi” label make my butt look fat??