Category Archives: conservatives

Dealing with Inevitable Change

Posted on Tuesday 5 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How to deal with long-term population decline; Astrology, sigh; A Christian phone network to block reality; Long essay about how Paul, not Jesus, founded Christianity, as many of us already understand; Short items about Republican censorship, lies, the tests for … Continue reading →

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What Education Is For; the End of Rational Discourse

Posted on Sunday 3 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The obvious reason conservatives are under-represented in universities; Adam Kirsch on Jürgen Habermas and the weightlessness of online existence; Conservatives’ double standard on speech about Trump and speech about everyone else; Short items on the popularity of “true-crime,” how Trump’s … 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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Dead Scientists, Fine-Tuning, and the Vacuum of Space

Posted on Wednesday 29 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

PolitiFact on the mystery of the missing scientists; AMV on the fine-tuning argument and the limitations of academic credentials; Idiotic arguments from Facebook folks who think the Artemis mission was faked. – – – A couple follow-up items today. This … Continue reading →

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The Origins of Conservative Values

Posted on Monday 20 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

MAGA wants more teen births (!), with reflection on why most human societies postpone children until adulthood; How Red State restrictions against abortion only stopped the lifesaving ones; Two items about Pete Hegseth and his Christian Nationalist leader, and guns. … Continue reading →

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Everything Bad Is Due to Progressivism! (says Clarence Thomas)

Posted on Sunday 19 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Reactions to Clarence Thomas’s speech blaming everything he doesn’t like on progressivism — and Hitler and Stalin too! A standard conservative screed. The Project Hail Mary soundtrack. – – – What kind of contorted logic is going on here? Slate, … Continue reading →

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MAGA is for OT, not NT

Posted on Tuesday 14 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

John Pavlovitz on how MAGA hates the Pope’s Jesus; The Pope denounces the US “delusion of omnipotence”; William Saletan on the GOP acting like bigots; Tom Nichols on Trump’s latest meltdown; Sean Hannity knows better than the Pope; More about … Continue reading →

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The Slow Motion American Train Wreck

Posted on Monday 13 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Rebecca Solnit on how the US is destroying itself; The significance of Victor Orbán’s loss; How Trump thinks religion is about power, not morality; Trump’s grotesque AI image depicting himself as a Jesus figure. – – – I’ve gradually become … Continue reading →

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Those Who Do, Those Who Can’t

Posted on Friday 10 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How some of us reach for the stars, while others are mired in oppressive religious fantasies; How both sides think God is on their side, and wondering what religions are trying to accomplish; Rebecca Boyle on what we’re seeing new … Continue reading →

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Our Demented Administration

Posted on Thursday 9 April 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

A majority of Americans favor impeachment; Now the Trump administration is threatening the Vatican; Yet more evidence that they’re white supremacists; Revisiting the question if Trump is suffering dementia; Long piece about how Trump is stuck in the era of … Continue reading →

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