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Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Establishmentarians 0
At Al.com, John Archibald notes that an Alabama legislator has offered a bill requiring public schools to start their day with a Christian prayer or risk losing a portion of their funding.
Archibald goes on to offer a prayer for said legislators, one which methinks is spot on.
I commend it to your attention.
Republican Family Values 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal argues forcefully that the current who-shot-john over trans athletes competing in girls’ sports is all about mean for the sake of mean.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Suffer the Children 0
That’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Mild language.)
Read the news report that Farron is discussing.
Market Farces 0
The Rule of Lawless 0
The PIttsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the complete article.
A Matter of Principle 0
Tom Hilton tries to figure out why Trump thinks he can just take (parts of) other countries (think Canada and Greenland) because he wants to. Methinks he may be onto something. Here’s a tiny bit from his piece:
This absence is at the core of Trump’s worldview. When he talks about American “ownership” of Greenland*, he thinks of it as like buying a property to develop, and Denmark saying no is just a business negotiation. And maybe we have to play hardball, like you do in business, but really this would all be easier if we could just agree on a price.
And when Putin invaded Ukraine it can’t have been a violation of any principle of international relations because there isn’t any such principle.
Stray Thought 0
If yesterday’s didn’t, maybe this article will remind you of someone–maybe several someones–in the news.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
David dissects Elon Musk’s lies, at least, the ones he told in this interview. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
Afterthought:
The sad–and frightening–thing is, I think Musk believes his lies, because he wants them to be truths, just as some persons believe the Confederacy was a noble cause and slaveholders were indeed the “Southern gentlemen” they fancied themselves to be.
Size the Day 0
PoliticalProf decodes de code.
QOTD 0
Alexis de Tocqueville:
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
The Business of America Is Giving America the Business 0
Now we know what happens when you run ruin the government like a business.
