- Scotties Toy Box posts a sentence and a link pointing to the most prominent of America’s current moral failings.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has the reaction we all should share. The national debate is over what to call the cages holding refugee children rather than the fact that those kids are denied soap, toothbrushes, and even sleep. Nope, we should argue over whether it’s fair to the Trump administration to call those conditions concentration camps for kids.
- Okay, we’re gonna bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, then we we’re not, and it all depends on which Fox personality last talks to my President. Green Eagle has a thank you for a lonely publication that treats the coming war with a bit of judicious skepticism.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reads the papers. On Iran, it seems our President managed to do the right thing but still manages to lie about it.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger listens to my President boasting proudly that my country “right now has among the cleanest climates there are based on all statistics.” So Ted looks up the statistics.
- Dave Dubya recounts the chants from the leader of our nation: No collusion, no collusion, no collusion but, hey, I’m open to it in 2020.
- The Central Park Five. Does anyone not have at least a passing recognition of the case of five teenagers coerced 30 years ago into false confessions to the beating and rape of a young woman jogging in New York? Years later, a real confession backed by DNA evidence proved the innocence of all five men. Max’s Dad reviews the documentary that reviews the case, including his smoldering anger at the role of Donald Trump in denying a fair trial and helping to forever damage the lives of five innocent young men and their families.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors listens carefully as a prolific MAGA broadcaster reveals the first rule in getting Trump elected in 2020.
- We’re getting ready for next year when we will decide whether Mr. Trump will remain in the White House. nojo believes our choice of an alternative is dominated by nightmarish memories of an election from almost half a century ago.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post wants Presidential candidates to adapt a Democratic version of Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
- Opinion personalities are jumping on Joe Biden for warm memories of friendly relationships with segregationist Senators. Under-reported is the point he tries to make: that the ability to respect those with reprehensible views can help in negotiating with them for important goals. Tommy Christopher does his research. Biden told the same story while campaigning for Doug Jones in Alabama while making the same point.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has some fun at a mass transit test gone bad. Not every experiment goes exactly … aw crud!
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce gets hit with some of the decisions he made years ago as an extreme conservative Christian.
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In the 60’s I believe we would have been fighting in the streets over this bull crap. They did’t slow down until Kent State! Today we don’t have many if any war protest songs and we are still in Iraq, Afghanistan, and lord knows how many other countries! So I’m calling on 250 million of my friends and neighbors to to “KICK OUT THE JAMS MF’S” on July the 4th anywhere and anyhow you can. Washington, DC anyone?