The world’s worst judge may finally be going down:
Trump May Have Hit The Ceiling
Donald Trump has defied political pundits for months now. When he first attacked John McCain, the thought was that it would kill him in the polls, but then he went up. And that’s been the story for over four months now. He keeps on appealing to the worst-of-the-worst conservative base and his numbers go up. But many are now saying … Read More
Thoughts and Prayers
There seems to be a backlash to this almost reflexive (and increasingly meaningless) response to mass shootings, best exemplified by the cover of today’s New York Daily News: There has also been a backlash to the backlash. Christians got offended at what is being called “thoughts and prayers shaming”. The Weekly Standard offered a headline that blared,“Liberal Outrage Over Prayers … Read More
Ted Cruz: “Climate Change Isn’t Science; It’s Religion”
OMG. Sen. Ted Cruz, candidate for the highest office in the land, thinks that climate change — a phenomenon widely accepted by the scientists who study it — is a religious belief. “Climate change is not science. It’s religion” That is what he told Glenn Beck yesterday. To back up his claim, Cruz pointed to the way we talk about climate … Read More
In A Few Decades*, Americans Will Laugh At This The Way We Laugh At Victorian-Era Magazines
You wouldn’t invite a stripper to your family Thanksgiving, would you? Because they might perform their act just as you start carving the bird. And if that’s true, then why would you let your gay grandson bring his “partner” to Thanksgiving? You might get gay juju on the stuffing. *I say “a few decades”, I hope “a few years”
But Can They Build A Bridge Out Of Her?
What the hell is happening over at Fort Meade? Air Force dental technician accused of being a witch The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is representing a former Air Force contractor who says she was fired from a dental clinic at Fort Meade, Maryland, after complaining that her co-workers discriminated against her because she was Hindu. She claims they then accused her of … Read More
Republicans Don’t Really Want “Religious Freedom”
Someone at Daily Kos pulled certain results of this PPP poll and turned it into this revealing bar graph: What does it mean? While most Republicans want religious freedom, almost half of them mean they want religious freedom for Christians only (and/or no freedom for followers of Islam). Perhaps they don’t understand what “freedom” means, or perhaps they think “religion” means Christianity … Read More
Update To Pope Meeting Kim Davis
In a follow-up to an earlier post, I should mention that the Pope, while admitting to meeting Kim Davis the other day, is doing some serious backpeddling today: In a formal statement, the Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis’s meeting with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis “should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its … Read More
Kim Davis Secretly Met With The Pope
Not much of a secret anymore: Pope Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. Ms. Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, has been at the center of a nationwide controversy over whether government employees … Read More
The Pope’s Speech To Congress (And By Extension, The American People)
He reminds us that “America” is more than the United States, and that we are all immigrants. He calls out the black/white-good/evil mindset in politics and promotes pragmatism in resolving problems. He reminds us of the Golden Rule in calling for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty (as well as a subtle nod to banning abortions). He speaks of … Read More
The Right Wing Welcomes The Pope
The Pope’s message:: In his strongest remarks yet concerning the world’s economic and financial crises, the pope said, “Money has to serve, not to rule. “We have created new idols,” Pope Francis told a group of diplomats gathered at the Vatican on May 16, and the “golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult … Read More
Here Come Da Pope
I am a BIG Pope Francis fan. And I like that he is coming to America and he’s going to do some papal spanking. I noted this morning that Lindsey Graham tweeted about how the Pope has pro-life views. Indeed, he does. But he also has very strong views on sexual equality, climate change, and income disparity. I wonder how … Read More
Breaking: Kim Davis Released
Details coming. UPDATE – 1:00 pm: The contempt order was lifted by a US district court judge. Unclear if it was the same judge who gave the contempt order or if it was lifted on appeal. UPDATE – 1:15 pm: It was the same judge: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage … Read More
Huckabee Needs To Attend Just One College Level Course On The Law
As far as conservative Christians candidates go, I always thought that Mike Huckabee was a slight cut above the rest. He doesn’t seem dogmatic, and he was governor at one time. So you would think that he would have some sense, while also being true to his conservative principles. But this past week he has proved to be either a … Read More
Kim Davis Is A Footnote To The Same-Sex Marriage Victory
I’m on vacation, but I am not completely off the grid. I just have a higher bar (this week)n as to what interests me enough to blog about. Checking in, I see not much has changed. Trump is still testing the bounds of open bigotry. Ho hum. And I see that Kim Davis, who I wrote about last week, has … Read More