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May 2017

May 18, 2017

Does U2’s Bono Support Donald Trump?

Bono is on tour and denouncing Trump. The problem is that Bono unwittingly helped get...

May 13, 2017

As we watch Trump abuse and debase the office of president we see a spiritual problem unfolding: the loss of the American soul.

In Calvinism, the theological cult of an angry God in which I was raised, humans...

May 11, 2017

If Trump Was Your Cousin Would You Ever Ask Him to Care for Your Child or Grandchild Alone and Unsupervised For a Weekend?

We are being conditioned to chaos by Trump. Thank God he’s not caring for my...

May 10, 2017

When He Fired Comey — And Lied about Why He Did — Trump Acted Like a Mobster Trying To Avoid Prosecution by Intimidating Witnesses

Clearly Trump wants the FBI to become his version of Putin's lapdog FSB (the Russian...

May 01, 2017

Trump Is Delivering on the Religious Right’s Evangelical Sharia Wet Dream

White evangelicals love Trump because he's delivering what his core constituency craves: the real possibility...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Did Trump Organize the Fyre Festival — A Disastrous Failed Luxury “Music Event” — or did the Event’s “Organizer” Billy Mcfarland Become President of the USA?

Take the Fyre Festival -- the disastrous failed luxury “Music Event” story about disappointed rich...

April 28, 2017

100 DAYS OF TRUMP (It’s Been More Like 100 Awful Years)

"His Presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the...

April 26, 2017

Trump Voters Were Fact-Free and Now It Looks As If They Are Also Willingly Even Proudly Stupid: A New Poll Shows They’d Elect Trump– Again!

Trump voters have changed the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me...

April 25, 2017

Trump and the ‘Left Behind’ Evangelicals: How They Were Prepared To Vote for a Fool and (Maybe) Destroy the World

Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series of sixteen novels represents everything that...

April 21, 2017

What’s The “Conservative” Response Been to the Rash of Fox News-Sexual Predators? Silence.

When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were...

April 15, 2017

My “Easter Sermon” and Video Rant: Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls…

Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live...

April 05, 2017

Trump: Will he Fake Terror?

Trump is a man so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, it is...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was — according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill — supposed to be a secular age of reason

Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was -- according...

March 20, 2017

America Dishonored

I had never thought about ancestry much until Trump was elected. His fanning the flames...

March 19, 2017

Do NOT Miss This Explosive NEW Well Made Documentary Exposé of Trump’s Slimiest Alt-Fringe Cohort – Steve Bannon (If you’re Not Horrified You Don’t Have a Heartbeat) WATCH

(Photo YouTube) Steve Bannon is the slimy Alt-Fringe delusional brain behind brain-less and unstable...

March 19, 2017

Don’t like Trump? Meet the 2 people who with their children (literally) put Trump in power

(Photo YouTube Rebecca Mercer, left, with her parents Robert and Diana Mercer) Don't like...

March 16, 2017

Trump Is President Because Too Many On the Left Put Faith in Late Night Comedy Rather Than Policy: Call This the Daily Show Epic Fail

The Daily Show was an epic fail: irony and snark lost to the reality...

March 15, 2017

I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class

I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class. This inglorious inheritance of slaveholders,...

March 05, 2017

Did you know… that in 1978 Steve Martin predicted Trump would someday become president and played him on THE MUPPET SHOW arriving at the oval office on Trump’s first day as Trump is welcomed by Steve Bannon: WATCH!

(Photo YouTube) Did you know... that in 1978 Steve Martin predicted Trump would someday become...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Here Is the Best Piece I’ve Read on Why Susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism’s rejection of expert elites

(photo YouTube) Susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism’s rejection...

February 17, 2017

Do Not Miss Andrew Sullivan Saying the Unsayable About Trump: “Then there is the obvious question of the president’s mental health… He’s deranged; he’s bizarrely living in an alternative universe.”

(Photo Twitter) "Then there is the obvious question of the president’s mental and psychological...

February 15, 2017

WATCH: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and white American evangelicals are fast becoming America-hating complicit traitors to democracy

TRUMP, RUSSIA, EVANGELICAL FASCISTS = IMPEACHMENT: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and...

February 05, 2017

Can the black church rescue Jesus’ reputation from Trump? AME to the Rescue!

Can the black church rescue Jesus' reputation from Trump? Maybe. At least the African Methodist...

February 02, 2017

Bannon’s ‘bible’ explains Trump’s first 2 weeks as president

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

IF TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE NEED TO BAN MUSLIMS (HE’S NOT) AND IF YOU TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD IT’S CLEAR HE PUTS HIS BUSINESS INTERESTS AHEAD OF THE SAFETY OF AMERICANS. TRUMP IS THUS A CORRUPT TRAITOR TO AMERICAN INTERESTS BY HIS OWN STANDARDS…

(Photo YouTube) IF TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE NEED TO BAN MUSLIMS (HE'S NOT) AND...

January 28, 2017

Proof of Trump’s Corruption? Only Arab/Muslim Countries Where He doesn’t Have Business Interests Have Been Banned. Saudi Arabia Epicenter of Global Terror? No Problem! C’mon in Trump’s Building Towers There!

Proof of Trump’s corruption? Only people from Arab/Muslim countries where he doesn’t have business interests...

January 28, 2017

Here Is a Deeply Informative—Scary-As-Hell–Sober (and Rare) Truth-Telling About Who Is Really Running the Trump “Presidency” That You Cannot Afford To Ignore

"While Trump lies, the former Breitbart chief seizes the reins of power... Compared to Bannon,...

January 26, 2017

Just Pray Trump IS Lying

(Photo, YouTube) Pray Trump is a pathological liar. Convinced of secret media and liberal plots...

January 25, 2017

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP?

(Photo YouTube) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP? WATCH and then PLEASE COME...

January 22, 2017

DO NOT MISS this SNL shirtless Vladimir Putin’s “celebration” of Trump’s Inauguration With a Comforting message for the American people: “Relax. I got this.”

(Photo YouTube) Donald John Trump is President of the United States. This week’s “Saturday Night...

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