To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Bottom Line On The Border: It’s Already Orderly
There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development is President Joe Biden’s […]
A Good Enough Debate
J.D. Vance is a smooth talker and a far more disciplined debater than the man he is running with. He knows how to evade answering a question, how to sound more reasonable than he really is, and how to stick to a plan and stay on-script. He made the case that Donald Trump literally forgot […]
School Lunch, Christian Nationalism And Jesus
An iconic Texas band, the Austin Lounge Lizards, has a song that nails the absurd self-righteousness of Christian supremacists: “Jesus Loves Me [But He Can’t Stand You].” I think of this refrain when I behold today’s right-wing proselytizers wailing that the blessed rich should not be taxed to assure that everyone has the most basic […]
The Fall Of Donald Trump
It’s over for you, Donald Trump. America can’t go on like this – don’t you feel it too? The breaking point came during the debate with Kamala Harris. After nine years, your dangerous duel with democracy is done. Something to do with Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs was a bridge too far […]
MAGA’s Nazi Infestation Just Got Worse
How unsurprising is it that former President Donald Trump appeared recently at an event supposedly devoted to opposing antisemitism – and proceeded to deliver a speech dripping with antisemitic innuendo and contempt for American Jews? Like so much of what Trump says and does, his remarks at the “Combating Antisemitism” affair in Washington, DC, expressed […]