Something Russian this way comes (reprint): Robert Harrington | 12:01 pm EST January 15, 2020 It’s a disjointing sensation, awakening one morning and seeing a building I was in just two scant nights before (and actually possess keys to) featured on the international news. It’s a sobering reminder of what a small world it can occasionally be,…
Christians’ Call to Speak Truth to ‘Alternative Facts’ Reprint from 2017 By Jim Wallis 01-26-2017 “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” — John 18: 37-38 This has…
Explosive report indicates that Donald Trump’s loans from Deutsche Bank were backed by Russia Mark Sumner Daily Kos Staff Friday January 03, 2020 · 7:19 AM PST The reasons that Donald Trump would need a massive distraction at this point are numerous. Every day seems to produce fresh evidence that the White House was fully…
The Republican Party stands in the way of our survival as a species Many of us have the eighth century historian Bede to indict for the misplaced notion of our genetic and cultural precedents. It was he who gave flight to the idea that, some time after Rome withdrew, Saxon hordes swept across Britain…
Donald Trump’s base can’t buy a clue During the plague years of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton fled Cambridge for his home in Lincolnshire and, as would any bored 23 year old, co-invented a method for the assembly and disassembly of infinitesimals that later became known as calculus. Calculus came in handy when, so the mythology…
It’s Time To Call A Murderer A Murderer In the run up to their 1998 Jackson Pollock retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the show’s curator received a disturbing letter from a Mr Metzger. Metzger wanted to know, “Why are you honoring the man who murdered my sister?” If…
Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret that will end with his imprisonment. For someone who sold out his country years ago, Trump has continued to pretend to work towards “America First,” despite all evidence to the contrary. While it is clear that Trump illegally inherited nearly…
This is a tale of how a bluff, loud, lying, bullying, rotund, ostensibly blond, narcissistic vulgarian came to capture the hesitant yet sufficient mandate of his country. He kept his slogan simple and easy to remember in four words or less. While the opposition mired itself in murky messages, the vulgarian turned the election…
Bill Barr and the Republican cult of death Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EST December 12, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis Immediately upon the release of the Mueller Report and its eponymous author’s tepidly dry, hyper-qualified, squeamish defense, I knew we were finished. I knew that nothing short of angry, full-throated outrage would save it in its presentation, and…
NORTON SPEAKS WITH A REPRINT FROM SOJOURNERS MAGAZINE: Nov. 27, 2019 written by Jim Wallis What does reconnecting with Jesus mean as we go into the world? How do we see him, recognize him, and follow him? Does reconnecting with Jesus mean reclaiming a way of life or style of life that we can look…
