Monthly Archives: July 2019

Tweet of the day

From the concluded #MuellerHearings: -Mueller dismissed President Trump’s claims of total exoneration – He condemned Trump’s praise of WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails stolen by Russia – Trump’s allies cast Mueller as politically motivated https://t.co/SVC7K59K5c — The Associated Press (@AP) … Continue reading

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Channeling Joseph Goebbels, ctd

The Trump campaign has blasted out an email falsely claiming that Mueller “confirmed” there was “no collusion, no obstruction, totally unprecedented treatment.” Maggie Haberman, New York Times Once again, this is Trump and his enablers promoting blatant, self-serving lies, creating … Continue reading

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And there goes Writer’s Market

After almost 100-years of publication, it appears that Writer’s Market — a sort of Yellow Pages for freelance writers — has folded. The Web site was there just yesterday; I know that, because I stopped by to see whether the … Continue reading

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Embarrassing theology-related tweet for the day

This essay by ⁦@albertmohler⁩ is outstanding. An important truth therein: Unless there's a God, there's no intelligible ground for liberty as a basic good. Liberty assumes a particular telos. Remove God and all that's left of liberty is choice. https://t.co/Gpsf8ZJN0D … Continue reading

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Church and education

A story in today’s New York Times exemplifies the reasons that (1) churches should not be publicly subsidized via a privileged tax status, and (2) the country ought to be run by bona fide professionals rather than big donors. Continue reading

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