Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Superficial Christianity on Full Display

Posted on Monday 18 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Things attendees to last weekend’s prayer rally said, and how they strike me as unhinged from reality; Heather Cox Richardson’s take: a turning away from “Enlightenment values of natural rights, equality, and self-government to one that requires Americans to accept … Continue reading →

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The Law vs. Tribal Priorities

Posted on Thursday 30 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The Supremes eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, and the partisan flexibility of the law; King Charles visits while Trump claims America is not an idea but an inherited Anglo-Saxon culture; Heather Cox Richardson on the same point; Brief items about … Continue reading →

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Will Humanity’s Cognitive Limitations Lead to the End of Human Civilization?

Posted on Monday 27 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Belief in unfounded health care claims about solar energy; how so many people believe unproven claims about raw milk and vaccines; How the Trump administration is ending the EPA and paying to cancel wind farms; Chris Barkley on Trump’s 7-step … Continue reading →

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Is Reality a Hoax or a Conspiracy? No.

Posted on Sunday 26 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Many items about the apparent assassination attempt last night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and how many people on social media detected signs of a staged attack; Why posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms doesn’t work, as conservatives think … Continue reading →

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An Assortment of Current Events

Posted on Saturday 25 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Trying to catch up on numerous items from recent days, briefly. MAGA and confederates • Firing the National Science Board • A Texas court defies the Supremes about posting the ten commandments • America’s moral code • The new Navy … Continue reading →

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Change For the Better, vs. Sunk Cost

Posted on Friday 24 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

John McWhorter: Don’t pronounce the T in ‘often’; How an American living abroad realizes the problems with America; Why we’re stuck with a religious calendar. – – – My favorite pet peeve. NY Times, John McWhorter, yesterday: What’s Better Left … Continue reading →

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Myths That Endure, and Conservatives

Posted on Tuesday 21 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Who are these young Republicans who find MAGA insufficiently radical? Myths that endure: utopia, invisibility, magic, the immortal soul; Trump is going to read the Bible, out loud?? How Pro-Trump avatars are infecting social media; The evidence for the Trump’s … Continue reading →

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An Optimistic Big View

Posted on Wednesday 15 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Peter Leyden on how the arc of human history is toward cooperation; Once again, evidence shows that same-sex marriage is a “win for children and society”, and I suggest why this may be so; While Stephen Miller resorts to bigotry … Continue reading →

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Eve of Destruction?

Posted on Sunday 5 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump’s profane threats to Iran; US politicians respond; Seeing resurrection everywhere, in cycles of life and death; Trump killed easy tax filing software to appease big business; Review of a book about how capitalism conquered the world and may destroy … Continue reading →

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Again, Living in History

Posted on Tuesday 24 March 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How America has become a dangerous nation; How Christian Nationalists really do want to destroy their political enemies; What that poll about MAGA supporting Trump 100% really means; Brief items about the Supreme Court, a quote from Kurt Andersen about … Continue reading →

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