If you listen to Christian conservative radio and television long enough, you can take it to the bank that most of what you hear will be tone-deaf and unhinged. But even with those low expectations...
Lately, when there's a mass shooting at a school, you can count on right-wing luminaries to claim that such butchery would have never happened if Jesus were still welcome in the schoolhouse and in our...
Donald Trump's approval ratings have ticked up since the State of the Union address. But they're still pretty brutal for a newly-elected president at this stage--an average of 41 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight. And they're...
As of Sunday, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 38.8 percent. At risk of sounding like a broken record, this is the worst approval rating on record for a newly-elected...
The religious right has sold its soul to Donald Trump. That was amply demonstrated in the wake of the "Access Hollywood" tapes. The nation's so-called moral guardians tried to tell us that it wasn't a...
For years, the religious right has insisted that all it wants is a place at the table for Americans with "traditional values." That's why so many of the nation's so-called moral guardians fawned over Donald...
It seems hard to believe that anyone would even try to defend Donald Trump suggesting that we take in too many immigrants from "shithole countries." But one of Trump's most ardent religious right supporters tried...
By any standard, Donald Trump enters 2018 on very shaky ground. As of Friday night, his average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 39.1 percent. While his numbers have ticked up slightly since...
A group of Clergy members in Arkansas held a press conference in Little Rock on December 18 to announce a statement of unity aimed at supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The following are...
For the better part of two years, the religious right has tried to peddle a false narrative about Donald Trump. The nation's so-called moral guardians would have us believe that Trump was chosen by God...
As of the close of the first week of the new year, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as measured by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 38.2 percent--easily the lowest of any newly-elected president at this early stage...
Donald Trump starts out 2018 with the lowest approval rating of any newly-elected president at this early stage of his presidency. According to FiveThirtyEight, his average approval rating stands at 37.9 percent--some 12 points lower...
Donald Trump is all but assured of ending 2017 with the lowest approval rating on record for a newly elected president. According to FiveThirtyEight's latest average, Trump's approval rating stands at 37.7 percent, more than...
As election day dawned in the race for Jeff Sessions' Senate seat, polling was all over the place. Depending on the source, Roy Moore and Doug Jones were in a dead heat, or Jones was...
Ever since Roy Moore was first accused of molesting women and pursuing girls young enough to be his daughters, we've heard all manner of defenses from both Moore and his supporters. Moore himself has maintained...
Visiting my grandmother became a girl’s day out event in the latter years of her life. My mom, my sister, my niece, and I would all make a day out of driving to Waldron and...
In at least 40 states, Roy Moore's bid to enter the Senate would be in a death spiral at this point. There is mounting evidence that he molested and harassed several women in the 1970s...
When a national tragedy happens, a lot of things have become as certain as death and taxes. Sadly, one of those things is the religious right trying to blame tragedies on something liberals have done...
By any measure, Donald Trump is cratering. The latest average from FiveThirtyEight pegs his average approval rating at 37.7 percent--which is absolutely brutal by any standard. But he's very lucky to be even that high....
Conventional wisdom suggested that when the "Access Hollywood" tapes came out, Donald Trump was a dead man walking politically. After all, on paper it seemed that even the most diehard Republican would balk at getting...
