- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Odyssey: presenting a list of eleven alternate facts that are definitely true, along with moving reactions.
- Dave Dubya contrasts the honor and decency of old-line traditional patriot John McCain with more contemporary values of today’s conservatives.
- Max’s Dad notes that American hero John McCain provided moments of decency to an otherwise barren political world.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post is inspired by John McCain to call for civility in politics.
- Jonathan Bernstein makes the case that, while Hurricane Maria was a disaster in Puerto Rico, Washington is still a disaster.
- After my President boasts that he is proud of how he responded to Hurricane Maria, Tommy Christopher covers San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as she explains on national television that “The administration killed the Puerto Ricans with neglect.”
- Congress is considering replacing Obamacare with tax deductible Health Savings Accounts. The idea is attacked as more breaks for the wealthy. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara objects to the objection. The wealthy are people, after all. The proposed tax cuts merely lets them keep money that was their own, after all. Fair is fair, after all.
- In his usual acerbic way, tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors contrasts the huge cost of Trump’s tax cuts for the rich and the upcoming military parade in honor of himself with the comparatively minuscule savings by eliminating a modest cost of living increase for public employees.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz urges Christians to stop blaming God for their own LGBTQ hatred.
- Infidel753 has an entertaining list of common writing mistakes committed online. As a rule, those errors I commit are minor and nearly unnoticeable. What I notice in what I read are major distractions that I am sure make everyone crazy.