Trump- and Pillow Man-endorsed gubernatorial candidate allegedly hangs with Nazi sympathizer, Q-bots
Didn’t Western civilization make a collective decision some years ago that Nazis were bad? I seem to remember learning something about that in my ultra-woke private Catholic...
Yeah, I’m Pro-Life. Quote Me.
Repost: Fordham Political Review. No one issue in politics today causes greater polarization than the issue of abortion. I remember sitting down with my mother...
Tennessee Pushing to Make Bible the State Book
Tennessee is at it again. State Rep. Jerry Sexton is trying for the third time to get the legislature to say that: https://youtu.be/Jcc-V_C2B7A BE IT...
Pope says the Catholic Church can't bless same-sex unions. Should we care?
I grew up Catholic. Went to Catholic grade school and high school, got confirmed, went to confession (at least twice!), received communion, ate ham and...
The Door is Ajar
Forty-four of the sitting fifty Republicans in the Senate put on their tinfoil hats, held up Q’s, ignored the Constitution, and voted against having a...
Disorganized Castor and Schoen blow their unconstitutionality defense, admit Trump lost election
Jim Acosta of CNN reports that a Trump advisor says that “Trump is F’ed if further criminal proceedings happen after this impeachment trial”. Bad lawyering...
Fox News contributor blames Barack and Michelle Obama for COVID school closings
Rachel Campos-Duffy is a former reality star … and some other things. Her husband, Sean, is a former GOP congressman from Hayward, Wisconsin, which is way, way...
She counted ballots in a pandemic, and he killed two people. Guess who gets treated like a hero?
Normal, decent people were outraged when Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha killer charged with first-degree intentional homicide, was made into a right-wing celebrity. All of the...
Patrick Carolan: voting hope vs. hate, Trump imaginary world, Right-Wing dialogue, MSM Awake?
Patrick Carolan, Catholic activist, writer, and speaker, discusses hope vs. hatred. The MSM has awakened to Trump polling reality & more. Patrick Carolan defines election...
Quinnipiac Poll Has Joe Biden Beating Trump 48-47 In Ohio
Some very encouraging news today out of Ohio courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: OHIO: PRESIDENTIAL RACE The race for the White House in Ohio...
Pete Buttigieg slaps back at Amy Coney Barrett's not-so-subtle homophobic slur
We all pretty much know who Amy Coney Barrett is. I see such super-Catholics on my social media feeds pretty regularly because, well, I went...
Dear Amy Barrett, and ALL “originalists”
One has to remember that an Amendment to the Constitution is PART of the Constitution, and since it is LATER than the original text of...
Sorry, Republicans, but a majority of American Catholics are pro-choice
It is one of the GOP’s tried and untrue slanders, deployed every time a Republican President nominates an anti-abortion Catholic to the federal judiciary. The...
Take heed. Agree or not.. We have to be careful on the nomination until AFTER the election.
Yes, this is wrong on so many levels to nominate a judge before RBG is warm in her resting place. I said in another...
RBG not even buried and Trump announces patriarchy's handmaid 'Aunt Lydia'
A new generation of “forward to the past”, anti-modern conflict for which the GOP should pay in November. x“The likely shift in the court’s makeup...
Krugman: The Only Thing Trump Has is “Fear Itself”
In less than 90 years, we’ve gone from “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” to “the only thing we have is...
GOP tries to rewrite history yet again for Trump's pandemic incompetence and inaction
The GOP keeps trying to rewrite history as a quarter-million deaths lie ahead with a failed policy, as if any death toll could be spun positively....
Oh, look, a stutter truther! Must be a big Trump supporter!
Last night, as I watched 13-year-old Brayden Harrington’s inspirational and emotionally wrenching testimony about Joe Biden’s life-changing kindness and caring, born of Biden’s own childhood struggles...
Trump's Evangelicals and How to Woo Them
There’s a major story in the Sunday New York Times about Trump’s hold on evangelical Christians: ‘Christianity Will Have Power’ The headline is a quote...
Spartacists and the antifas like movies about gladiators
Street protests do not resemble those of the 1960s and Portland is not like Berlin after WWI, even as Trump has constructed from DHS tactical units...
Rush Limbaugh questions Joe Biden's faith, says liberals worship trees
I’m not religious. You might say I’m an agnostic with Buddhist leanings — but most people would just call me a heathen. And that’s fine with...
unhinged Trump has brought more water for dishwashers as he also claims Joe Biden will “hurt God”
MSM is not covering Trump’s latest nonsense as people get tested before meeting Trump and Governor Mike DeWine tests positive for COVID. Trump is now...
Luring Evangelicals Away From Trump
It’s common on this site to bemoan, make fun of, scratch our heads in wonder, bewail the hypocrisy, and otherwise write off the large number...
So I am going back to school
to finish my doctorate. I abandoned my previous attempt almost 20 years ago with a dissertation almost half written for a variety of reasons I...
Patrick & Delvon Carolan: White dad, Black son discuss their experience w/ Police, School, more
Patrick & Delvon Carolan, father & son discuss their American experience. Delvon’s police encounters & discrimination at school was met by no-holds-barred dad. Patrick &...
Trump's Latest Ad is Great – for Biden
It’s late and I should be back in bed, but this one was just too delicious: Joe Biden Mocked In Trump Campaign Ad For Kneeling...
Columbus statues toppled… It's an iconoclasm of indigenous days and knights
So much iconoclasty, so little time to election day. Darn all those racist targets and their problematic cultural frames, constructed from their siting and historical...
Imagining a Trump speech on race relations will be a pushover
Trump delivering a White House speech on race relations written by Stephen Miller is like faking a concussion because you’re supposed to be a hard-core...
Trump went to another photo-op at Catholic shrine because empty threats
Will Trump also call the Catholic archbishop a “leftist media pawn”? There was no need for crowd-clearing teargas because this was a trip to signal...
A statement to share – well worth reading
I teach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville MD, a school founded in 1946 originally to educate people for the Trinitarian Order, more properly...
For Memorial Day: The Highest and Purest Democracy
A submission for Memorial Day weekend: The Highest and Purest Democracy: Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn's Iwo Jima Eulogy to his Fallen Comrades Roland Gittelsohn was a...
GOP candidate gets cease-and-desist letter from Mother Teresa's lawyer
Hey, I can relate. I got my knuckles rapped by nuns, too. Not from beyond the grave, of course, but still. Chuck Dietzen, a Republican candidate...
This will probably get little traffic
and that’s okay with me. Nevertheless I will take the time to write it. Yesterday completed 5 weeks since I last was in school...
Krugman Fixes COVID-19 Blame on GOP Denialism; I'll Add Fundamentalist Christianity
As usual, Paul Krugman makes an excellent point. Today’s column, This Land of Denial and Death, lays it out in clear and damning words: Incredibly...
Listen to Bloomberg trash his own Obama 2012 endorsement
Mike Bloomberg has been attaching himself to the hip of Obama in all his commercials as if they've been mutual supporters. Yet in newly exposed...
Trump knows 'Dear Leader' is gone if you get Philadelphia, Milwaukee & Detroit out to vote #GOTV
The moral imperative remains, to remove Trump no matter who the Democratic candidate might be. Regardless of one’s moral compunctions, the deadly prospect of continuing the...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Saint Sebastian's arrows aren't like Saint Valentine's
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
PA Senate President Pro Tempore GOPer Calls It Quits, Putting The State Senate Up For Grabs
Some big news out of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati will not seek re-election, he told The Associated Press on Wednesday night....
Lawrence O’Donnell nails Trump: Most dangerous thing is that he feels nothing.
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell did a segment on Donald Trump that was piercing as it was able to explain the president's pathology. Ultimately, this is a...
Trump's disinformation in local media this year may deploy Potemkin local news sites
The Trump campaign’s media strategy will more directly address “local news” that at some moment might trade on the same model of Sinclair Broadcasting. Brad...
no Des Moines Register / Selzer Poll results because of a “bad question” excluding Buttigieg's name
2020 cannot be an electability choice, 2020 remains a referendum on Trump. Remind yourself that “winning” Iowa still means proportional delegate allocation. "The Des Moines...
Student expelled from Christian school after posing with rainbow cake
I went to Catholic school and often ate Lucky Charms on Saturdays. Not every Saturday. You know, when I’d get a wild hair. I wasn’t...
Political CessPool Report From KY: Payoff to Pardon Sodomizer and Thomas Massie Has Primary Fight.
Another day, another Kentucky criminal’s family pays to have them pardoned from prison. GOP prosecutor took donations from sex offender's family, then pressed Bevin for...
“but it can end in a dream!” CNN settles with Nick Sandmann
Probably more about legal fees since when you have to pay a PR firm to support your lawfare, there are a lot of expenses. https://twitter.com/WashTimes/status/1214644669583376386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw...
Bill Barr Wants to Save Us from Hell
The tagline on my profile says, as it has for years: “It is not the business of the state to help its citizens get into...
The Republican Party brings you holiday miracles
The holiday season is a special time of year for Americans of all faith traditions. The arrival of Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s brings good...
White House holiday mashup signals war on Christmas, Hanukkah, and all our brain cells
The next time a Christian upbraids you for showing insufficient deference to FUCKING CHRISTMAS, YO!!!!!!!!!, show them this (second tweet): xWho was the first president...
GOP rep: Dems are worse than Pontius Pilate, and Trump is like Jesus
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) during today’s impeachment hearing: x“...When Jesus was falsely accused of Treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers....
Donald Trump's War on Hannukkah
White House RWNJ messaging chaos continues. Trump honors pastor who said Jews are doomed to hell at Hannukah event Trump invited right-wing Pastor Robert Jeffress...
Trump in the land of “the Nittley Lions” as Biden remains the leading contender in QU national poll
Trump had a rally in Pennsylvania after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. Apparently Trump’s rally had the usual “malarkey”. Darn that disinformation: apparently...
