Choosing the Most Contemptible Member of Trump’s Cabinet Is No Piece of Cake
If you were asked to name the single most despicable member of Trump’s cabinet, whom would you choose?
Attorney General William Barr might be an obvious choice, insofar as he’s functioning essentially as the president’s private attorney, and has no interest in upholding justice on behalf of the American people. His partnership with Trump is rapidly bringing an end to rule of law in the United States.
But then you have: (more…)
I’m very suspicious of the claim made above. Before I get into my reasoning, here’s an excerpt from an 
I have bad news for the GOP: rhetoric like this isn’t going to get the job done. It’s true that there are a few tens of millions of morons who can’t think back to 2008 – 2016, when politically equivalent Obama was in the White House, Joe Biden was VP, and none of this happened. But that’s not nearly enough to win the election.
A whopping 65% of Americans identify as Christians. Now, 25.4% are Evangelicals, whose version of Christianity has little if anything to do with the teachings of Christ, so that leaves roughly 40% whose lives are driven, at least in part, by a religious devotion to non-violence, love, mercy, charity, tolerance, and forgiveness. 
A reader sent me the blurb at left. My response:
With all the revolting developments unfolding in U.S. politics on a daily basis, perhaps the only thing to actually like is events that come out of deep, deep left field, like this one:
John S. McCollister is a Republican state senator in the Nebraska Legislature, representing an Omaha district.
Yes, it’s true that half of the speakers at the Republican National Convention have “Trump” surnames, but what about the other half?
Richard Rohr is an American author, spiritual writer, and Franciscan friar, ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. PBS has called him “one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world.”
