Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Do These People Ever Go Outside and Look Around?

Posted on Wednesday 8 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman asks why the Right hates America; Like Mike Johnson, Rick Santorum is skeptical of democracy (when results don’t go his way); Adam Lee on the allure of tribalism. Paul Krugman responds to the Damon Linker piece that I … Continue reading →

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More About Fake History

Posted on Sunday 5 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Let’s follow up on yesterday’s post here, with a couple more items on the same general topic. Mike Lofgren at Salon about the history of right-wing fake history; Texas Tribune about David Barton; And closing comments about theme parks and … Continue reading →

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The “Intellectual” Christian Nationalists

Posted on Saturday 4 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

(Finishing on Sunday a post I began yesterday, Saturday, and am posted in that slot.) Here’s a longish essay by Damon Linker about conservative “intellectuals” who are trying to justify the takeover of America by Christian Nationalism. On what grounds, … Continue reading →

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More About Things People Believe That Aren’t True

Posted on Wednesday 1 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —Mark Twain Jonathan V. Last about how most voters are “disconnected from reality”; How Google’s Pixel phone could destroy … Continue reading →

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Checking in on the Wackadoodles

Posted on Wednesday 18 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Several items about Jim Jordan; How the Bible disproves climate change; how people in wheelchairs lack faith in God; how Trump claims (falsely) that flypaper is illegal because cruelty to animals; how tap water is birth control; More seriously: Items … Continue reading →

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Heather Cox Richardson, Book Bans, and Libraries

Posted on Saturday 14 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Profile of Heather Cox Richardson, and a review of her new book; Several items on book bans in the US; And an item about all the threats to US libraries, not just book bans. – – – Profile of Heather … Continue reading →

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Human Extinction and Climate Change

Posted on Friday 13 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Émile P. Torres at Salon on the history of ideas about human extinction; The latest data on climate change is scary; September was the hottest month ever. Peter Gabriel’s “I Grieve”. – – –   The scary thing is that … Continue reading →

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More Items from Recent Weeks…

Posted on Tuesday 10 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Hemant Mehta’s summary of the “Project 2025” plan by conservatives to turn the nation into a Christian theocracy; The trend in the US of the nonreligious; How drug use doesn’t cause homeless; it’s usually the other way around; and conservative … Continue reading →

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Numerous Items From Recent Weeks

Posted on Monday 9 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

How the worldwide migration crisis is about civil wars and climate change, but also about the internet and smartphones; How the Luddites were not what we think, and why it might be appropriate to be one now; About the new … Continue reading →

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How Politics and Religion Are All About Human Psychology, Chapter 5,271,009

Posted on Sunday 1 October 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

How dumb fascists can be dangerous, re: the Biden impeachment hearing; About The Shepherd of Hermas, an obscure Christian text, once popular, now forgotten; Why Trump wants Gen. Milley to be killed, and Trump’s belief in his superior genes; David … Continue reading →

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