It should come as no surprise that James Comey's devastating testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee resulted in a lot of verbal vomit and cybervomit from the right. Prominent right-wingers openly questioned Comey's manhood on the...
It was only a matter of time before a religious right pastor got a case of diarrhea of the mouth over the horrific bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. It initially appeared...
When the Senate Intelligence Committee released James Comey's written testimony on Wednesday night, it was clear that Donald Trump was in a lot of trouble. After all, there aren't many good-faith reasons for why Trump would have...
It's been clear for some time that the religious right is losing the battle for the young--bigly. A 2014 study by the Brookings Institution revealed that the religious right is speaking mostly to an audience...
Jim Bakker is one of the worst people in the world. That has been apparent for some time. After all, the man who was once the poster child for televangelist excess has reinvented himself as...
If there had been a dictionary entry for "televangelist excess" in the 1980s, Jim Bakker's picture would be there. But since crashing, burning, and spending time in prison, Bakker has found a new calling--hard, hard...
For some time, the religious right has been among the loudest voices warning us against claiming that Russia hacked the election for Donald Trump. Their explanation? The Kremlin didn't hack the election--God did. To hear...
Like most left-leaning evangelical Christians, I believe that Christians in public office should be setting the standard, not trying to do an end run around it. Sadly, a state representative in Minnesota is the latest...
By any standard, Donald Trump's presidency is tanking. As of Tuesday night, FiveThirtyEight pegs his average approval rating at 39.1 percent. Even at this stage, when a president with approval ratings that low, it's time to...
Among the religious right leaders who are still bowing to Donald Trump, Rick Joyner is in a class by himself. He was one of the first prominent fundies to warn against opposing Trump. Initially, he...
As of Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as computed by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 38.8 percent--the lowest on record for a president at this stage in his administration. But the only reason it's even...
Most of us know that the firing of FBI Director James Comey has turned into an unmitigated disaster for Donald Trump. After all, we now have solid confirmation that the stated reason for his firing--the manner...
As of Wednesday night, Donald Trump's approval ratings hit a new low. According to FiveThirtyEight's model, Trump has an average approval rating of 39.7 percent--easily the worst on record for a president at this stage...
For years, whenever we have thought about black conservatives getting diarrhea of the mouth, the first people to come to mind have usually been Ben Carson and Allen West. But in recent weeks, another prominent...
As of Monday night, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight pegs Donald Trump's average approval rating at 42 percent. Even at this early stage, any elected official with approval ratings that bad would be in very serious...
As we know by now, the only reason Donald Trump's presidency hasn't completely cratered is that the religious right seems to be blindly loyal to him. While Trump struggles to get out of the 40s...
On Thursday morning, we got a badly-needed dose of potentially good news in a news cycle that hasn't seen much good news lately. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," are engaged....
Depending on the source, anywhere from 73 to 78 percent of white evangelicals approve of how Donald Trump is doing in office. In contrast, Trump struggles to get out of the 40s in most national...
By reality-based standards, Donald Trump's presidency is very close to the rocks. According to Nate Silver's model of approval poll averages, Trump only has an approval rating of 42.4 percent as of Wednesday night. Even...
It's more or less an article of faith among Donald Trump's diehard supporters that the massive protests can't possibly be real. Supposedly, someone is paying them to get on the streets and oppose Trump's drive...
