Monthly Archives: June 2018

Not in my name, Mr. Trump

Mother Jones links to a pay-walled Wall Street Journal story that, if true, is a benchmark for squalid. “There’s one particular heartbreaking case,” Mr. Videgaray said, referring to a ten-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome who was recently separated from her … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

Families are ripped apart and children are left weeping by the fences constructed by government officials blindly following a regulation. This illustrates something crucial about this administration. It is not populated by conservatives. It is populated by anti-liberal trolls. There’s … Continue reading

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Immigration and the ‘war on drugs’

The most infuriating aspect of the past week of talk-talk-talk about the chaos on our southern border is that I haven’t heard anybody ask, Why are all these people abandoning their familiar homes, friends and families to come here? A … Continue reading

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Science-y tweet of the day

According to NASA, The Milky Way is "so big that even at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to travel across it." But Trump's Space Force is going to patrol the universe at a time when we … Continue reading

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The Pope’s idea of family

Bill Donohue is unhappy today because some remarks by the Pope did not receive the widespread media coverage he thinks they deserve. On June 16, Pope Francis spoke to an Italian family association, and following his scripted remarks, he made … Continue reading

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