Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

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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Morality Wars

Posted on Monday 23 March 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump declares Democrats as the greatest enemy of America; Trump demands election rigging plan be approved “for Jesus”; Why do MAGA keep supporting Trump? Perhaps some kind of selective, “vertical”, morality; How Trump has cultivated the ugliest passions within the … Continue reading →

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Increasing Willful Ignorance and Intolerance

Posted on Thursday 19 March 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How energy independence, which even Fox News once thought could avoid the quandary we now face in the Strait or Hormuz, is now regarded as a scam by the likes of JD Vance; How Trump and MAGA are all for … Continue reading →

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Leaving the US, Shalom, Worrying the Mind-Body Problem, the Latest Drake Equation analysis

Posted on Sunday 8 March 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

About Trump’s misguided “Christian” war, as more and more people are literally leaving the US; Peter Wehner on a word for our trouble times: shalom; Alan Lightman wonders, rhetorically, if our minds transcend the corporeal form (an issue long-since settled); … Continue reading →

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Fearmongering and Gratuitous Cruelty

Posted on Friday 27 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

E.J. Dionne Jr. on Trump’s fearmongering; Gratuitous cruelty in Kansas: canceling the driver’s licenses of transgender people, immediately and without notice; Florida cuts off HIV meds access; White House edits video of US hockey star; Thoughtful piece by Ryan Burge … Continue reading →

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SOTU last night

Posted on Wednesday 25 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Perspectives on last night’s State of the Union address; Followed by personal thoughts about ICE and why conservatives are especially concerned about crimes committed by immigrants. – – – We saw only a bit of the SOTU address last night, … Continue reading →

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