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impeachment

Quote of the Day: (((J_Enigma32))) on "Evolution is a Hoax"

Here is a comment from a Christian commenter called "Evolution is a Hoax", which should tell you all you need to know... The comment was in reply to Bert's article on the impeachment: The writer of this Op should stay out of Politics. -- Clearly Trump

Sport

Don't Mix Football and Politics!

We have just had a State of the Union address where Pelosi was rightfully disgusted with the outright continual lies of the POTUS. This follows hot on the heels of Trump's Superbowl shenanigans. When Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem and there was a whole

Democratic Party

Democrat Candidates and the Religiosity of Their Supporters

Pew Research Center have been at it with their data collection concerning the Democratic candidates for the primaries. The synopsis is interesting if hardly surprising: On the whole, among registered voters who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, Protestants and Catholics are most likely to name Joe Biden

Trump

Chilling: UK Takes a Leaf out of Trump's Authoritarian Playbook

Trump has been lambasted by those interested in freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the 1st amendment for being very selective in which media outlets he allows into certain press briefings. Back in 2017, CNN, the BBC and the Guardian were barred access (amongst others): The White House

Democratic Party

Republican Commenters Defend Impeachment Witness Scenario

In my recent article about the trumps impeachments, I challenged Republican commenters here at my blog to defend not calling forward witnesses to testify. Now, I'm not asking them to pull down the impeachment as a whole, but just to give their best justifications as to why, given

impeachment

Republicans Exhibit Pathetic Behaviour over Witnesses

There is absolutely no doubt that the impeachment of Donald Trump is showing the Republican party for exactly who they are – people who are willing to defend their partisan desires and in-group ideologues over and above doing what is morally right. It is excruciatingly painful to see. In my opinion,

climate change

Trump Is Helping to Send the World to Hell in a Handcart

The world as I thought I knew it - liberal ideas being promoted by governments and societies progressively evolving towards a better place. Goodness me, ten years ago seems like a bygone era. We have Brexit, where the latest situation is that the US is supposed to be our saviour,

Economics

On Defending Billionaires

In the recent UK general election and in previous and present US political discourse, there has been a propensity to defend billionaires by those who aren't billionaires. In fact, those who defend them are far, far closer to poverty and bankruptcy than to being a billionaire. By a

Iran

Iran and Context, and...Defending Trump?

The good ole context argument, eh! Actually, context can be very important in understanding explanation, though it is very important to understand the distinction between explanation and justification. Explanation is not justification. Things have been very worrying as of late. But first, let me get onto defending Trump. Well, not

Australia

Straw Men, Climate Change & Australian Bushfires

The Australian bushfires are an absolute travesty. Scott Morrison, their PM, is an eejit of the highest order. The Murdoch press in Oz should be a national embarrassment in their coverage. NZ's Jacinda Ardern and many other tiny neighbouring island nations are being awesome. As ever, and on

2020 Election

The Hill Predicts Trump Will Lose 2020; Do You Agree?

This set of predictions comes from a contributor to The Hill. Interesting stuff - do you agree? The new year will have two main storylines: the impeachment trial and the November election. Looking at these chronologically, here are some predictions on how both could turn out: * The Senate impeachment trial

Iran

Just Sayin' (War on Iran)

As Trump orders a drone strike in Iraq, killing an Iranian general... Oh, Trump, you don't half shoot yourself in the foot with your own Twitter history. Not that your fans care. The strike has really riled pretty much everyone, apart from the Israelis: Iraq’s military has

Epistemology

Fact-Checking the Triggered Trumps

I am pretty big on fact-checking, accuracy and making sure that my claims are reasonable. I don't always get it right, but I like to think that I will change my articles to reflect a more accurate position wherever possible. Before I go on, it is both useful

evangelicals

Trump and Evangelical Christianity

Trump, as I wrote about yesterday, is embroiled with Christianity Today (CT), and, arguably, evangelical Christianity. Whether or not CT represents evangelical Christianity or not is another question. But, like it or not, a whole can of worms has opened up for him. Mark Galli from CT, who wrote the

Religion

Trump Is Saving "Religion Itself" from Communism...

Trump has been on the defensive in light of an editorial from an evangelical magazine that argues he should be removed from office after impeachment. This cuts to the core of his support and will do him some harm. That said, we have ample evidence that his core support merely

gun control

Police Chief Rails Against NRA, Miller Is a White Supremacist, and More...

A bit of a cruise around YouTube over the last few days has turned up these videos that are all worth watching. First, we have a police chief who wades into the gun control and lobbying debate with, er, all guns blazing. This is stunningly good, on-the-money stuff. https://www.

Brexit

Some Election Charts For You

Some election charts for you to mull over. This one evidences the fact that Leave voters are generally older and that Leave voters were strategically better positioned to dictate the outcome of the election. I say this because some 53% of the electorate voted for Remain parties and 47% voted

Brexit

UK Election Analysis: Brexit, the Media, Scotland and FPTP, Political Ignorance, Deunionisation

What a thoroughly depressing night for someone like me. The result itself was not particularly a surprise, but the scale was, and some of the Conservative gains were staggering. The devil, however, is in the details and there are certainly a big number of devils. The Tories have a big

humanism

Humanists UK publishes parties’ policies on humanist issues

Humanists UK, in light of next week's snap election, have produced a report on which parties are best suited to promoting humanist ideals. Here is what they have to say: Humanists UK is urging its supporters to ask their election candidates where they stand on humanist issues including

climate change

Climate Models Found to Be Accurate! Who knew!

Wow, it's like the scientists knew what they were talking about. Climate denialists have loved denying the climate change models. But a recent study has shown the models to be spot-on: Climate models have accurately predicted global heating for the past 50 years, a study has found. The

Economics

Regulation, Negative Externalities & Vacuum Cleaners. Again.

I've written on this exact subject before, but there's nothing like repeating myself! Regulation is often seen as contrary to libertarian or conservative principles and against economic flourishing in providing barriers to trade, erected by interfering governments. But, as I have mentioned before, the free market

twitter

AOC Burns Rubin

I just had to post this because it was so delicious. I don't really know much about Dave Rubin other than that he is a conservative commentator that the left loves to hate as he, presumably, attracts those much-lauded millennials, and because he is gay and agnostic. As

climate change

Meanwhile, in a Country with Decent Leadership...

New Zealand, on the right side of history. Important, given that 11,000 scientists have just warned: The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare

Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil & Politics: Defending the Indefensible

The Problem of Evil argument is ubiquitous in the world of theology and philosophy of religion. The debaters using this argument attempt to solve or accentuate the problem that exists in trying to understand the amount of suffering that takes place in the world, given that God is all-loving, all-powerful

COVID crisis

Abortion: GOP Virginia Candidate - Ankle Bracelets for Pregnant Women

Yup. It's true. Just when you thought they couldn't get more insane... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Njp_RhKwqg Rewire News reported: A Republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates, a hotly contested chamber in next month’s state elections, compared gun control to