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Of big and loony lies

Walk with me for a few paragraphs.I promise you I won’t bite.The Big Lie lives.There are Americans who still swear Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in a landslide. And that BidenĢƵ 7,052,770 lead in the popular vote, had been the handiwork of demonic vote-counters, and rigged voting ...

This just in: the election was stolen

It turns out there was a Philadelphia election scandal. And the scandal morphed into a fight on Capitol Hill for the soul of the Republican Party.The leader of the Republicans – more or less – was a charismatic populist who hated his enemies and encouraged his supporters to fight like the ...

The GOP needs to say, ‘Our bad’

In early 1861, folks gathered in Brownsville hoping to do their part to stop the slide toward Civil War. They elected a remarkable number of organizational vice presidents – 28 – and proclaimed their hope to “drop partisan feelings and prejudices.”It didn’t work.The dispute over ...

Christian hate is no faith at all

Most of us who miss our mothers can name moments when our longing is most acute. For me, it sneaks up when I see people wielding God as a weapon.My mother was one of the least judgmental people I’ve ever known. This came from her belief, steeped in her view of Christianity, that most of us ...

Media have every right to cancel Trump

So, President Donald Trump has been booted off Twitter, as of now forever. Facebook also gave him the heave-ho. Apple and Google, meanwhile, have tossed the riot-friendly Parler app out of their stores.Parler became a social media cave for the Trump-inspired looters, vandals, cop killers and ...

Who’s in your shoes?

In the Book of Ruth is the story of the family of Naomi who goes to a foreign country because of famine in their homeland. The men die, and Naomi with her daughter-in-law, Ruth, travel back to NaomiĢƵ homeland. They are desperately poor, and Ruth goes to a close relativeĢƵ field to gather ...