To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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Republicans Are Getting Stripped Of Money

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With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cult or the money? The money or the Trump cult? One hoped that love of country and its democratic institutions would have been reason enough to strongly condemn fellow Republicans who tried to overturn […]

A Message From The Hotspot: It’s About Vaccines

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There’s a message we are hearing every day: Somehow, by June or July, everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. You will survive, if you live that long. I understand congressional anger. I hope we all share that anger. In our civil state, these are the Holy Temples literally stomping on […]

Who’s Really Behind The Desecration Of Our Capitol?

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What exploded in our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 is an outrage, a desecration of America’s democratic ideals! But I don’t merely mean the ransacking and terrorizing of Congress by violent Trumpeteers who were deluded by the lying, megalomaniacal president into thinking they could throw out the votes of 81 million citizens. Rather, let’s also […]

The Republican Party Must Split

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As Donald Trump’s Republican Party descends into madness, dragged down by the president’s lies, threats and possible mental illness, it’s become hard to imagine democracy-loving conservatives continuing to live in the same house. They’re in a marriage that can’t be saved. The framework for a new party is already up, thanks to the seasoned Republican […]

They’ve Showed Us Who They Are

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The assault on the Capitol inspired by President Donald Trump was a tragic event – disturbing to watch on television and leaving many difficult questions in its aftermath. Yet that terrible moment illuminated the national landscape like a flash of lightning. It is now clear even to those who have pretended otherwise that Trump himself […]