Benny Hinn, the faith-healing fraud and one of the most prominent and wealthiest of all the prosperity gospel TV evangelists, is now suddenly renouncing the prosperity gospel, which teaches people to “sow their seed of faith” by sending money to con artists, with the promise that God will increase it to the giver by ten-fold or a hundred-fold. (more…) Read more
September 6, 2019
Mohler: Being Human Requires Being a Parent
September 6, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and former vice chairman of Focus on the Family, tweeted out a link to his daily podcast in which he claimed that “to be human is to be a parent.” So apparently to not have children is not to be a fully human being. You know, like Jesus and Paul. (more…) Read more
September 6, 2019
Trump Refuses to Admit He Was Wrong About Hurricane Dorian and Alabama
September 6, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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A few days ago, the White House released a video with Trump claiming that Hurricane Dorian was expected to hit the state of Alabama, but the graphic he used featured a crudely drawn-on map that showed the storms path going through that state (literally drawn on by a sharpie). And true to form, he is absolutely refusing to admit he was wrong and just keeps digging the hole deeper while claiming to have been vindicated. (more…) Read more
September 6, 2019
Trump Admits Tariffs Are Hurting Stock Market
September 6, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Trump finally admitted that his tariffs on Chinese goods are hurting the stock market and, by extension, the economy in general. But he says it had to be done by someone and he’s the first president to address the problem of a China that is “out of control” in some unspecified manner. (more…) Read more
September 6, 2019
Federal Judge Declares Terrorist Watch List Unconstitutional
September 6, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Well this is an interesting development. A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush has ruled that the government’s terror watch list is an unconstitutional denial of due process to the thousands of American citizens who have found themselves on the list. This is separate from the no-fly list, which was also declared unconstitutional in a different case. (more…) Read more
September 5, 2019
Trump Congratulates Poland on Nazi Invasion that Prompted WWII
September 5, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Trump rarely misses an opportunity to display his ignorance for all the world to see, and to say exactly the wrong thing when it matters. Last weekend he was asked if he had a message for Poland after canceling his trip there to go golfing and his tone-deaf response was to tell them congratulations. Seriously. (more…) Read more
September 5, 2019
McConnell Puts His Shameless Hypocrisy on Display
September 5, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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You knew this was but it’s good to see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell come right out and admit it. In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, McConnell said that if there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court during 2020, he was “absolutely” fill that position, a total reversal from when he prevented Merrick Garland from even getting a committee hearing in 2016. (more…) Read more
September 5, 2019
Joyner: Christians Must Create Militias for Coming Civil War
September 5, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Christian con man Rick Joyner has claimed for a while now that God gave him a “prophecy” about an inevitable second civil war in the United States and he told Jim Bakker that now is the time for Christians to form their own militias in preparation for that war. If they don’t, he says, others will do it. (more…) Read more
September 5, 2019
Crackpots Think Hurricane Dorian Was a ‘False Flag’
September 5, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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First-class crackpots Chris McDonald and Mark Taylor, the “firefighter prophet,” agree that Hurricane Dorian is a “false flag” operation intended to distract attention from the James Comey DOJ report. Taylor has long claimed that the mysterious “they” have the ability to create hurricanes. (more…) Read more
September 4, 2019
Trump: This Is Gonna Hurt China More Than the United States
September 4, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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As the evidence continues to mount that Trump’s tariffs and resulting trade war with China has done a great deal of damage to the American economy, he’s trying to distract attention by claiming, in essence, that his trade war is going to hurt China more than it will the United States. (more…) Read more
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