Here is West’s conversation with writer and Presbyterian minister Christopher Hedges: Some key West quotes from the Hedges interview: “I’ve always viewed myself as a jazz man in the world of ideas as well as a jazz man in politics,...
I used to occasionally watch EWTN. As a former Catholic (I am confirmed in the church and a friend who is a priest tells me that all I need to do is go to confession and I’m back in), I...
Last week I wrote that the House Select Committee on January 6th had the political equivalent of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss’s little black book. Well, thanks to Liz Cheney, we now know some of the things in that book. The...
Yesterday was a sad day for the United States. When I use the term “anti-Christ” in this post I am not invoking some kind of eschatological figure mentioned in the Book of Revelation, but a general spirit that runs counter...
Here is the AP:  Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended some of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they posed “zero threat” to the lawmakers who had assembled there to certify the Electoral...
After the first night of the Democratic National Convention I tuned into Fox News. Laura Ingraham was on the air and, as might be expected, she was trashing the convention. I stopped watching after about forty minutes of analysis from...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? It looks likes COVID-19 was present at Robert Jeffress’s Sunday morning political rally at First Baptist-Dallas. Newt Gingrich is on the Eric Metaxas Show today talking about his new book Trump and the American...
Trump finally admitted that COVID was a serious threat. But the conservative commentators who keep the Trump train moving continue to push narratives that pose a threat to American lives. Here is Beinart at The Atlantic: Mainstream news descriptions of the...
As some of you know, Donald Trump believes that a malaria and lupus drug called hydrocholorquine will help coronavirus patients. A team of reporters at The Washington Post tell us more about Trump’s obsession with this drug. Here is a taste of...
This reminds me of Kara Swisher’s recent piece. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o&w=560&h=315] And it doesn’t stop. Here is Laura Ingraham, TODAY: The “experts” are routinely wrong on issues big and small—on wearing masks, on reusable grocery bags…virus modeling and treatments. For years...
I think a lot of folks can relate to this piece. Here is Kara Swisher at The New York Times: I’m a huge pest, in fact. “I’m going to block your number, if you don’t stop,” my mother said to me...
Here is former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart: The massive backtracking at Fox, Hannity, Ingraham, Jesse Waters is the right thing to do –it will save lives. But I’d bet it was driven by Fox legal who anticipated massive legal...
In the last few minutes, The Washington Post reported a second coronavirus case of unknown origins. CNN just identified a third case of unknown origins. There are now sixty-four entire cases in the United States. Trump’s recent press conference the other...
They can learn something about moral clarity. They can learn something about doing the right thing. They can learn something about patriotism. “If the truth doesn’t matter, we’re lost.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYV6qDU4Lk&w=560&h=315] Here is what Fox News had to offer in...
Learn more here. Will Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham say that their own poll is “fake news?” Meanwhile, David Brooks does not think impeachment is a good idea. According to this poll, he is now in the minority....
David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr., will drop a bombshell tomorrow (Thursday) when Standpoint magazine will publish an article, based on memos that discuss FBI tapes, that paints the Civil Rights icon in a very unflattering...
In case you missed it, here is CNN’s Brian Stelter’s report on Ingraham’s recent comments about “massive demographic changes.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNRTTctoWo&w=560&h=315] Ingraham is correct about the demographic changes facing America today. This is not the first time we have seen...
