Rachel Ford is a programmer, and since 8:00 to 5:00 doesn't provide enough opportunity to bask in screen glare, she writes in her spare time. She was raised a very fundamentalist Christian, but eventually "saw the light." Rachel's personal blog is Rachel's Hobbit Hole, where she discusses everything from Tolkien to state politics.
Conservative writer Matt Walsh hates Donald Trump. Not moderately (as if the King of Purple Prose could ever do anything moderately…), but deeply, with all the power and loathing he usually reserves for Planned Parenthood, feminists, gay people, transgender people, secularists, and… who am I kidding? He doesn’t reserve much of anything. But he’s definitely not shying away from Trump. Not because Trump is the worst embodiment yet of conservative ideology in American politics, but because he’s not hardcore enough — and he’s not religious. Read more
Last week, we examined some of the people Ted Cruz was leaning on for foreign policy advice, and a common theme among many of them was their intense animosity toward Muslims. Among those luminaries was Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy — a group that, like Gaffney, largely focuses on spinning outlandish anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. So why would Cruz listen to the foreign policy advice of someone who believes our government is full of Muslim Brotherhood agents and President Obama is a secret Muslim (or capitulating to Muslims)? CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wondered the same thing. Read more
Praise the Lord and pass the prison sentence. One Missouri pastor’s criminal endeavors came to a screeching halt last week when he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for, among other offenses, hiring his mistress and her husband to burn his home — promising a $5,000 bonus if his wife died in the blaze. Read more
Living in Wisconsin, I’m unfortunately already familiar with Rep. Glenn Grothman from his time in the state legislature. In those days, he was tackling important issues facing our state… like proposing a bill that would update state educational materials to list single parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse. And explaining that pay inequality is just the result of money being more important to men than women. And declaring it’s “a little bit ridiculous” that people have to have a day off every week. And now he’s endorsing Ted Cruz for the worst possible reason. Read more
Yesterday, Ted Cruz announced his “national security coalition” advisers, and they’re almost as scary as Donald Trump’s chief foreign policy adviser: Himself. The coalition, which “will advise Cruz on foreign policy issues,” is composed of a variety of former military experts, political and security analysts, and politicians. They’re well-suited to advising the man who wants to “carpet bomb” ISIS, as support for invading (or at least bombing) Middle Eastern countries is practically a requirement for joining this club. Elliot Abrams, for instance, was not just a major player in the Iraq war, but he’s been yearning for a war with Iran for some time now. And even when there are dissenters in the “sure-let’s-bomb-them-to-oblivion” crowd, there’s still plenty to give you pause. Like their views on Muslims. Read more
