Harris Faulkner (bio here), one of the Fox personalities filling in for Tucker Carlson after he was fired, claimed on the air that Christians are under attack. It’s classic rightwing victimhood. To bolster her storyline, she asserted she was kicked out of a restaurant for saying grace. She tol[...]
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Advice for the departing Washington GOP chair
I’ve never met Caleb Heimlich (photo, left), but he’s probably a decent guy you could have a beer with. He’s a career political junkie (read his bio here). He is was one of the youngest GOP state party chairs in the country, but is leaving that post to “spend more time with h[...]
Oklahoma board votes to use public funds for Catholic education
An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
Nikki Haley wants to “save America”
From what? Union wages? Women controlling their own bodies? Queer people? In a townhall on Sunday, June 4, 2023 (read story here), she wouldn’t get specific about abortion. Women voters are entitled to assume she would sign a nationwide ban, because that’s what Republicans are enacting [...]
If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway
State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 12:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arrested for raising bail money for protesters
Three Georgia activists were arrested by a heavily-armed SWAT team and charged with financial crimes for soliciting donations to a bail fund for protesters against a controversial cop training facility (see story here). “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents and Atlanta poli[...]
Biden and the sandbag
Republicans want you to believe Biden is too old for another term. That’s doubtful, but even if true, isn’t a good enough reason to elect any Republican presently in the field. Amusingly, Republicans who question Biden’s mental faculties are complaining he outsmarted them in debt c[...]
The debt ceiling is a fake crisis
Wall Street never believed the U.S. would default; Congress isn’t that crazy. But somebody could miscalculate. The 2023 debt ceiling crisis will be a squeaker. The House passed the compromise that Speaker McCarthy and President Biden spent weeks negotiating; the Senate still must do so. It pr[...]
Alaska governor fires adviser for defending Hitler and marital rape
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) has an opening for a “pro-family” policy adviser. Jeremy Cubas (photo, left), was hired for the job last month, but his views on Hitler, race, and rape don’t square with Dunleavy’s family values concepts. When local reporters listened to recordin[...]
May 28th, 2023 - 12:42 am § in Donald Trump, Republicans
There’s a sucker born every minute
You can’t buy $10,000 for $99.99, but some Trump fans think so. “Trump Bucks” bills, coins, and checks are being sold by scammers as “memorabilia” and “commemorative” items, but some of their advertising (e.g., the video below) claims they can be used as cas[...]