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September 2020

September 22, 2020

This Was Always the Endgame

In the intervening four years, white evangelicals have become entranced with Trump's anti-immigrant sentiment, his...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Small Local [Top Down Authoritarian] Government Conservatives

Republicans aren't about state's rights, either. At this moment, and for some time---perhaps some very...

July 20, 2020

The GOP is the real threat to religious believers

The true risk to religious believers is not the Left, for all of Laura Ingraham...

July 13, 2020

Lies, Lies, Lies, and the Death of Truth

I want to live in a world where a blatant, outright lie from a politician...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

If Republicans are the party of Lincoln, why do they fly Confederate flags?

The Republican party has become the party that defends statues erected by white supremacists to...

March 2020

March 09, 2020

Deluded in Chief

Despite what Trump appears to have thought prior to now, the flu vaccine does not...

March 03, 2020

Politicizing the Novel Coronavirus

I started following the novel coronavirus when it was mostly limited to China. I was...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

This Is Not an Evangelicalism I Recognize

I left the evangelical world in 2007. While most of my family is still evangelical,...

December 04, 2019

Trump’s Rejection of American Hypocrisy

Which, then, is better? Hypocrisy, or blatant and unashamed wrongdoing? The hypocrisy involves a failure to...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

The Will of the People

I expect to disagree with Republicans on substance. My political positions align with the Democrats,...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

Did Trump Cancel His Con Because Atkinson Tipped Off the Authorities? It Sure Looks Like It.

Today, as I thought over recent testimony and looked at the dates, I put something...

October 17, 2019

Grappling with the Dystopia We Now Call Home

Trump won't be impeached and removed from office, no matter what he does or has...

October 16, 2019

Are the State Department and Department of Justice Preparing for President Pence?

An ousted President Trump wouldn't necessarily mean a President Pence, though, because Pence is implicated...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Donald Trump’s Corpulent Creeping Corruption

In general, I try to be careful to check my facts, and I don't like...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Everything You Need to Know about Bed Bugs and Trump’s Doral Resort

I have to say, "Trump denies his Doral resort is infested with bed bugs" is...

August 22, 2019

Donald Trump Gleefully Declares He’s Taken the Place of God in Israelis’ Hearts

Evangelicals will go right on supporting Trump, blasphemy or no blasphemy, and utter glee over...

August 13, 2019

How Trump Shapes Reality

This is what gives Trump the ability to shape---and create---reality. He acts in ways we...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

Trump Has Given Evangelicals Everything They Want

I would like to think that signing on with a white nationalist will eventually come...

October 04, 2018

Trump’s George Washington Comments Were Worse Than You Think

What makes this perhaps more odd is Trump's insistence that surely---surely---there must have been accusations...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Evangelicals: Moral Rectitude No Longer Required

Much ink has been spilled over the last two years over how evangelicals could go...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Benjamin Franklin and the Prayer That Didn’t Happen

Trump, in his comments, referenced Franklin's proposal that the Constitutional Convention begin each day with...

October 17, 2017

How Did Saying “Merry Christmas” Become a Judeo-Christian Value?

However it started, a rhetorical embrace of "Judeo-Christian values" has become a staple of American...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

I Already Answered Trump’s Question about Statues of Slave Owners

Asking these questions rhetorically, in a press conference, is the height of irresponsibility. If you...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

On Supreme Court Nominee, Trump First of One

None of these cases are similar to Trump's because---and this is important---Trump's situation was unprecedented....

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Donald Trump: The Most Successful President Ever?

We saw this same problem with inauguration crowd size, which the White House turned to...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Trump Must Not Have Read the Pew Report He Cited

In his interview, Trump asks why the report was written, if there was no evidence...

January 24, 2017

Jesus Christ and Donald Trump

While I left evangelicalism and the Republican Party over half a decade ago, this election...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

The Danger of the “Just Campaign Rhetoric” Excuse

Not keeping your promises is a problem, but not intending to keep them when you...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Mountain at the Foot of Donald Trump

A guest post by xCCC. I was born-again as a sophomore in high school. I...

November 14, 2016

Are Progressives Crying Wolf? Not So Fast.

It is not crying wolf to point to statements Trump has actually made. Our country...