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August 2016

August 22, 2016

WATCH John Oliver’s Best Trump Suggestion Yet! A Hilarious “Open Letter” to Trump

(YouTube) Oliver says Trump has 2 options: a “humiliating” and “off-brand” loss to Hillary Clinton, or a “reset”...

August 20, 2016

WATCH: The Trump Con Through the Fog of My Post-Surgery Pain (and Bad Spelling!)

Trump's trolls can't spell and neither can I. Let me explain the Trump con, my...

August 19, 2016

“Evangelical” now Equals WHITE! (It Always Did) Trump Cements Deal With White Supremacists While Jerry Falwell Jr. and other “Christian” Leaders Cheer on the Revival of OVERT Racism

According to a report in the The Associated Press "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and...

August 18, 2016

An (Actual) Secret Recording of What Trump Supporters Talk About When they Think No One is Listening (Just what you’d imagine… and worse)

(YouTube screen shot) According to Alternet a "Massachusetts convoy of Trump supporters drove from Wrentham...

August 18, 2016

ENTER THE SLIME: Here’s What To Expect From A Breitbart News Trump/Lies/Filth/Sex Campaign

(Photo YouTube) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 18, 2016 Here's What To Expect From A...

August 17, 2016

Here’s why the Republican Party must be Totally Crushed in November (A Personal History of the GOP’s fall from a Former Religious Right Leader Who Changed His Mind)

I was there when the religious right started that eventually destroyed the Republican Party....

August 17, 2016

NOTE: this Friday August 19 to Sunday August 21 my book “WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD– How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace” will be FREE on Amazon-Kindle. Please pass on the word. Thank you.

"All we have is our stories," writes novelist Schaeffer (Crazy for God, 2008, etc.) in...

August 15, 2016

MY FREE NEW BOOK THIS FRIDAY 19th TO SATURDAY 20th! (WATCH the Offer)

This Friday Aug 19th to this Sunday Aug 21st you may get my book for...

August 14, 2016

It’s Not Economic Hardship that Motivates Trump’s Base but Far Right Brainwashing and (Sadly!) this Denies the Best Military-Service Traditions of Working Class America

"Speaking as the father of a Marine, it seems to me that Trump's 'vision' contradicts...

August 12, 2016

Here is Why I Got out of The Evangelical Movement (and maybe you should too…)

This is my best explanation about my journey away from the faith of my...

August 12, 2016

Ken Medema and Frank Schaeffer talk about change, creativity, social justice, music, and art. Wild Goose Festival 2016 WATCH

I had a chance to interview Ken Medema at the (terrific!) Wild Goose Festival this...

August 10, 2016

The 8 Year Slow Motion Lynching of President Obama by the Republicans Ends With the President More Successful and Popular than Ever and… TRUMP as the Evil Ghost Haunting the Party of Obstruction

(photo Wikipedia) "How did we get Trump?" a Republican might ask. The answer is quite...

August 09, 2016

An Open Letter from Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Jerry Falwell Jr on Why They Support Trump (Okay, Just kidding it’s really a “revised” version of Senator Susan Collins denouncing Trump)

Pictured Below: 6 (actual) Leading Republican Party Leaders (photos of 6 Republican Party leaders shown...

August 08, 2016

Just How Stupid Will the Evangelical Leaders Who Back TRUMP Look to Their Supporters now that 50 REPUBLICAN National Security Officials Eviscerate Trump In Open Letter?

Below is one of Jerry Falwell's Tweets along with the picture he Tweeted: J L...

August 08, 2016

Here’s the Best Article I’ve Read on Just Why and How Evangelicals Can Deny Everything They Say they believe and Support the Ultimate Anti-Jesus Candidate: Trump

"According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of white evangelical voters say they...

August 06, 2016

DO NOT MISS THIS: Watch Hillary Clinton Endure 40 Years Of Sexism In Under 3 Minutes

(photo hillaryspeeches.com) “You’re really not all that interested in state dinners and teas and garden parties?”...

August 06, 2016

Don’t Miss this Wisdom From Bill Maher on Liberals/Progressives Blowing the Election and Handing the Country to Trump WATCH!

(photo HBO) In this hilarious all-too-true rant "New Rule," Bill Maher warns liberals against allowing...

August 04, 2016

Trump is going to lose the election. And Trump will make us pay. (HINT: It’s Trump’s Version of Hitler’s “scorched earth” Policy) Here’s How to Stop Him Taking Revenge on America

Tell a large group of not-terribly-bright heavily armed angry white men (prone to belief in...

August 04, 2016

Who Will Go Door-to- Door For Trump… And Would Anyone in Their Right Mind Open Their Door?!

Can you imagine a Trump get out the vote door-to-door effort? Neither can I. Picture...

August 04, 2016

TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED–WATCH this shocking raw, unfiltered 3 min video of Trump supporters’ anti-American un-American “beliefs”

(photo YouTube) After a year of covering the hate rallies of Trump, The New York Times just...

July 2016

July 30, 2016

Tim LaHaye is dead but his apocalyptic fact-free “vision” of an alienated alternative and utterly destructive “reality” lives on in the candidacy of Donald Trump

(photo YouTube) Donald Trump is Tim LaHaye's true heir. LaHaye is dead. Dystopian fantasy...

July 29, 2016

Please take 10 min and watch my Friend Reverend William Barber Tell the Truth at the Democratic National Convention

photo CNN On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Dr. William...

July 26, 2016

Take it From this Ex-Fundamentalist: Listen-up Bernie Worshipers (Seemingly Working to Elect Trump) There are No Political Messiahs

Please WATCH my 4 min "answer" (such as it is) to the Bernie Sanders...

July 25, 2016

White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses

"White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses" writes Steven Rosenfeld in an...

July 24, 2016

In case you missed this, trust me it’ll be a classic. Enjoy! Watch “Late Night” host Seth Meyers dissecting Mike Pence’s “relationship” with Trump

(Photo YouTube) The segment is less a look at just Pence, than a disemboweling of Trump's...

July 23, 2016

Did Jerry Falwell Jr Watch the Multiple and Disgusting Howard Stern/Trump Interviews (or Know that Trump is accused of Child rape) BEFORE Endorsing Him?

(YouTube photo) In the 1980s when I was myself in the religious right I preached...

July 23, 2016

Don’t Miss Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Reunited to Fight Trump, FOX “News” and the GOP on the “Late Show” WATCH!

Jon Stewart is back to battle Trump, the GOP and FOX "News." Don't miss this...

July 22, 2016

Donald Trump Begins Presidential Nomination Speech by Weirdly Patting His Daughter’s Hips (and almost her butt)

Donald Trump has long a history of odd father/daughter behavior to say the least... Here’s...

July 21, 2016

Watch the GOP Circus (Day 4) HERE LIVE!

Bring on the clowns, the nuts and yes, the fascists! ENJOY. Brock Mealer, Motivational Speaker...

July 21, 2016

You Better WATCH This Bill Maher Zinger: “Trump Might Win” (Michael Moore) and it’s VERY funny but less crazy than you think

(Photo YouTube) "Get out of your bubble everybody!" says Moore, Amen! So please WATCH this,...

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