Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

LQCs: Minority Rule

Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Plus: Blame everything (but guns) and see what sticks; How do Republican enablers sleep at night?; Are there any rational Republicans?

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LQCs: Memorial Day 2022

Posted on Monday 30 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Who needs prayers? What is political? Plus Fb comment, quote, meme.

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LQCs: Matches for Children

Posted on Sunday 29 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Michelle Goldberg, 27 May 2022: America May Be Broken Beyond Repair \\ I imagine there’s an alternate Earth where matches are easily available to children, since children find playing with them so much fun. Sure, an occasional house burns … Continue reading →

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LQCs: The United Mentally Ill States of America? Why Would That Be?

Posted on Thursday 26 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Media Matters, 25 May 2022: Fox News blames everything but guns for Uvalde massacre Subtitle: Fox blamed anti-police sentiment, kids afraid to snitch, flimsy fences, and psychiatry for America’s most recent school shooting

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LQCs: Gun Ideology, Immune from Evidence; Real Kids vs. Imaginary Kids

Posted on Wednesday 25 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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LQCs: Children, Guns, and Religion

Posted on Tuesday 24 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

From NYT Letters, printed 21 May 2022: To the Editor: The Republican checklist after a mass shooting: Thoughts and prayers: Check. This is not the time: Check. Let’s not politicize: Check. Guns are not the problem: Check. Just enforce the … Continue reading →

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Declinists and Decadence: TV/Movies? Science Fiction?

Posted on Monday 23 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Quillette, Kevin Mims, 20 May 2022: Undiminished by Decadence Subtitle: “I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Fringe Conspiracy Theories Becoming Mainstream; Duplicity; Sharpening of Focus

Posted on Monday 16 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, 15 May 2022: A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P., subtitled, “Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators.”

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LQCs: Replacement theory, High School biology, Y2K, Macho puffery

Posted on Sunday 15 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The New Yorker, Kathleen Belew (assistant professor of history at U of Chicago) interviewed by Isaac Chotiner, 15 May 2022: Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo, subtitled, “An expert on the white-power movement and the ‘great replacement’ … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Whose Religious Freedom?

Posted on Saturday 7 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has this opinion piece about religious freedom. San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Bogard and Tana Senn, 6 May 2022: Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American

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