This article contains news and liberal commentary. Loren Culp, who is the entire police force of Republic, Washington, a remote mining town, is running for governor. He won’t be elected. But folks in his neck of the woods love him to death, and even sell Loren Culp souvenirs including hats and[...]
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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: HYPOCRISY IN STATUES
DOES INERRANCY REQUIRE HYPOCRISY? The Vatican unveiled its first new statue for St. Peter’s in 300 years. To be honest the statue seems to me to be fairly ugly .. a monstrous brick of bronzed poor people, crowded together amidst the glorified statues of saints and popes. The message, to me[...]
The GOP’s drop-box hypocrisy
This article contains news and liberal commentary. California Republicans are picking a fight with state officials over ad hoc, unofficial, homemade ballot drop boxes they’ve installed at party offices, churches, and other locations. Read the latest update here. The unofficial boxes are limite[...]
GOP losing ballot drop box battles
In Texas, a federal judge blocked GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s order limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county, saying it violated Texans’ “fundamental right to vote under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” Abbott claimed removing drop boxes was necessary to prevent voting fr[...]
The GOP packed 2 Supreme Courts and targeted 7 more. They’re complaining?
Republicans have been “trying to change the size of courts at both the state and federal levels for years,” Huffington Post reported on Friday, October 9, 2020, adding, “Two of those attempts, in Arizona and Georgia, were successful. In both cases, the GOP controlled the legislatur[...]
Aborted fetal tissue key to Trump’s experimental drug treatment
Trump is talking up Renegeron’s antibody cocktail as a cure for Covid-19. “I went in, I wasn’t feeling so hot, and within a very short period of time, they gave me Regeneron. It’s called Regeneron. And other things, too, but I think this was the key. But they gave me Regenero[...]
Hypocrisy alert: Trump and Pence flip-flop on prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts
This article contains news and liberal sarcasm. Pence bragged in Wednesday’s debate about bringing two ISIS killers of American citizens “to justice in the United States.” In other words, they’re going to prosecute them in federal courts, not send them to Gitmo. Trump and Pence criti[...]
TrumpWatch 10/4/20
This article contains news and liberal commentary. Update 10/4/20 @ 9:45 pm: It’s now clear the White House and Trump’s doctors withheld information. It also came out Sunday that Pelosi isn’t being briefed. CNN asked Dick Cheney’s cardiologist what he makes of the information[...]
Rightwing media’s shrieking grievance peddlers
This article is liberal commentary. Victimhood is an essential piece of conservative mythology which plays a key role in mobilizing the right. Conservative propaganda labors to manufacture a strong sense of grievance among adherents, seeking to convince them they’re victims of profound mistrea[...]
October 2nd, 2020 - 11:31 pm § in America, Economics, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Racism, Religion
“Defeat the Right in Three Minutes” by Conceptual Guerilla
Introduction: This article is a classic I first read many years ago. It’s still on the internet, but getting harder to find, so I decided to archive it on this blog to help preserve it. I hope the author doesn’t mind (I’m pretty sure he won’t). This version came from a third-[...]