Category Archives: conservatives

Pi Day Rationalizations

Posted on Friday 14 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA rationalizes downturns in the economy; How scam artists prey on gullible old religious people; How the Family Research Council is anxious to replace education with religious indoctrination; How repeating a lie (“tariffs are tax cuts!”) often enough will … Continue reading →

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MAGA and “Waste”

Posted on Wednesday 12 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Brian Klaas at The Atlantic on Elon Musk’s flawed view of “waste,” i.e. any kind of preventative measures to spend money now to avoid spending much more money later; And simpleton measures about measles from RFK Jr. Paul Krugman on … Continue reading →

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So Much for Free Speech

Posted on Tuesday 11 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Now the Trump team is arresting people simply for expressing opinions the administration doesn’t like, from Robert Reich and Adam Serwer; That list of forbidden words; Egg prices are because Easter?!; Fox blames stock market plunge on Biden; Heather Cox … Continue reading →

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Why Are Conservatives Against Education?

Posted on Sunday 9 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Two pieces about the Department of Education; Trump’s contradictions are a feature, not a bug? Musk doesn’t understand government (it’s not a business); Trump doesn’t criticize Putin because he’s planning his own invasion? Tom Nichols on the Pentagon’s DEI panic; … Continue reading →

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A MAGA Feed, and DST

Posted on Saturday 8 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

A MAGA feed; A solution to the Daylight Saving Time debate. – – – For today, I want to examine this piece closely. The polarization of American society may mean that the two sides disagree, but perhaps also that they … Continue reading →

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Many Lies, No Coherent Plan

Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Commentaries and fact-checks about Trump’s speech to Congress last night. Dana Milbank on how Trump has set the country back 100 years; Fred Kaplan on Trump’s unhinged plans for the rest of the world; And Heather Digby Parton and David … Continue reading →

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Outdoing Themselves Every Day

Posted on Saturday 22 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Musk lays off government workers overseeing his car company; Musk asks federal employees to justify their jobs or be fired; Trump issues an EO stating that only he can interpret the meanings of law; Adam Serwer on how MAGA is … Continue reading →

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Nothing mattered, in the end

Posted on Sunday 9 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

NY Times’ timeline of Trump 2.0; NRA graphic from Facebook; A Canadian perspective on Trump; DEI graphic from Facebook; How Trump (and Musk) target agencies investigating *them*; The cost of scrapping the social cost of carbon; David French on the … Continue reading →

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Living in History

Posted on Tuesday 4 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Still rainy, still with cold, sleeping half the day it seems, reading a bit. I roused myself about two hours ago and here’s what I came up with. Heather Cox Richardson on the obvious: that Republicans are letting an un-elected … Continue reading →

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People Are Saying… It’s a Coup

Posted on Sunday 2 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Another sleepy day with a cold, and it’s gloomy and drizzly outside today too. The latest on what’s going on, via Connie Willis and Heather Cox Richardson; LA Times on Trump’s idiotic order to empty two California reservoirs; An example … Continue reading →

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