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Blake killing (Kenosha, WI) 2020
Are the police killings of unarmed Black men isolated incidents?
This graph is from a June 2020 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute: Here is Dawn Araujo-Hawkins at The Christian Century: Two days before Rusten Sheskey, a White police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, fired seven shots into the back...
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What Trump did in Kenosha
John Nichols, writing at The Nation, is on the mark: Donald Trump and his partisan wrecking crew jetted into Kenosha Tuesday on a political mission. That was no secret. The president spelled everything out in his acceptance speech at last week’s Republican […]
Another Monday in Trumpland
Monday, August 31, 2022, in Trumpland began with news that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican and Trump supporter, doctored a video to make it appear that Biden wants to defund the police. I am expecting Scalise’s GOP...
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Trump at 2016 GOP Convention: “Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”
“The most basic duty of government,” Trump said at the 2016 GOP convention, “is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.” How should we think about...
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Fear and Frederick Jackson Turner: Night 4 of the GOP convention
Well, it’s over. Last night Donald Trump, a president who lost the popular vote by 3 million and has never had his approval rating rise over 50%, used the White House–the “people’s house–for a political rally. Most of the sycophants...
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A conservative Lutheran college in Wisconsin withdraws a speaking invitation to Mike Pence
Mike Pence was scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Wisconsin Lutheran College, a theologically conservative school affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The school withdrew the invitation to speak at the August 29th event after “careful consideration of...
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Court evangelicals on night 3 of the GOP convention
Here is what the Bible-believing, born-again Christians who support Donald Trump are saying today: Let’s start with the Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd: Charlie Kirk believes that the Democrat concern over racial unrest and racial justice is politically motivated: Isn’t...
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