by Steve Schmidt | Jan 21, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Steve Schmidt I’m going to show you the face of MAGA today. This is Sean Strickland, a champion of the UFC, the fighting league run by wife-beater Dana White: What do you see when you watch this video? His comments are hateful,...
by John Pavlovitz | Jan 20, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from John Pavlovitz I’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well. As a Christian for most of my life and a pastor for nearly three decades, I’m quite familiar with the Old Testament story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 19, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Monday, in addition to being Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, was National Religious Freedom Day. But what does that mean, and for whom? What would the “Christian America” that Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are...
by Tennessee Lookout | Jan 18, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Tennessee Lookout, by Ren Brabenec Millions of women lost half a century of legal protection following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in SCOTUS’s 2022 Dobbs decision. The ruling has led to a patchwork of wildly different laws across...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jan 17, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
So Trump just won the Iowa Caucuses for the start of the 2024 Primary season. This was very predictable, but this tells a sad tale on many levels. First, the Republican Party and a majority of its voters are in lock step—or should we call it goosestep—behind a man who...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 16, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Some white people really don’t want to hear that if they’d been born Black their lives would have almost certainly been much harder. It shatters their ability to cling to the number one most important aspect/benefit of...