Search for "VIPREG2024 how to use promo code in 1xbet Mexico"

It’s the Water! And Other Lowlights from Presidential Science Debate

By Michael Schulson

…pparently Mexico will not be called upon to construct a stellar wall, “because space is not the sole property of America.” 2. America has enough money to go to space, but not enough to save Miami. “There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of ‘climate change,’” the Trump campaign wrote. Then things got weirder. “Perhaps the best use of our limited financial resources should be in dealing with making sure that every person in t…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…its source. People don’t illegally immigrate to the United States just because we are so wonderful. They mostly come because they can’t make a living at home. The source of emigration is usually economic and caused by the lack of opportunity in the homeland; not by the great attraction of uprooting oneself to come to the golden land of America. Of course, sometimes people migrate because they want to migrate, and that, too, needs honoring. We migh…

Trump’s Mormon Problem

By Neil J. Young

…s to face bleak prospects in Utah, a state he must win to gain the White House. A June, Salt Lake Tribune poll showed Trump and Clinton tied at 35 percent each, while an early August poll has Clinton with a slight lead. While Trump’s numbers are dropping almost everywhere—a recent poll indicated Clinton has grabbed a four percent lead in Georgia, for example—the Utah numbers invite further investigation. In Slate, historian Max Perry Mueller provi…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…nd the world were surprised to learn that Harris is actually a Marxist because her Dad is a Marxist professor somewhere and because (just like Jesus) we’re always exactly like our Dads. According to Trump, babies in the US will be executed by Harris when they’re born. Which might have been a valid point were he referencing her comment that she wanted to “[ensure] that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world”—a fighting force that conti…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…n the United States as those granted to white Ukrainian refugees at the US-Mexico border in a matter of hours? CBS News foreign correspondent Chris D’Agata provided an unintentionally revealing answer to these questions in February 2022, when he suggested that Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, was an unexpected site of war, because it was “civilized,’’ unlike “Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.” Though D’Agata provided a f…

The Morning After in Colorado

By Paul Harvey

…e balance of the electoral college system, has instead awarded the White House to the candidate who ran the most demagogic campaign imaginable. So there’s that. And there’s the evangelicals. Neil Young and Evan Derkacz already have covered the big news: the astonishing support of evangelical voters for Trump, surpassing that of George W. Bush, and defying the pleas of certain evangelical leaders to make a #NeverTrump stand. White evangelicalism an…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…-like quality toward whoever their particular others might be. But most focused more on what the Gospel stories continued to mean for them personally in terms of ethical practice outside of institutional churches. Still, even those who did not critique or condemn churches and their members for their failure to live up to the Good Samaritan ethic did not seem to feel that institutional religions were up to the challenge of offering genuinely self-s…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…ristians face increasing hostility at work, school, and in the culture because they stand for their faith and values.” Dr. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of CADC said that “It is time for the Christian bashing to stop and for Christians to no longer be treated like second-class citizens. Anti-Christian bigotry is real and growing. Those who engage in it should be exposed and called to account.” The List: While he may not win an Oscar anytime soon, Ja…

Pat Robertson Warns Yoga Will Have You Speaking Hindu

By Andrea R. Jain

…f the show’s viewers: My family recently moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico because of my husband’s work. There are a lot of people interested in New Age spirituality in our new neighborhood—dream catchers, yoga, veganism, that sort of thing. My concern is that my teenage daughter is now interested in taking yoga classes with one of her friends. She says it is healthy and will help her flexibility. I worry because it is not based in Christian faith; it…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…emember that Lucifer himself descended from heaven). What film is more suffused with a sense of the holy and the radical otherness of the sacred than The Exorcist? In that way Halloween is one the most sacred days in the liturgical calendar of our secular civil religion, because it embraces all of the facts we naturally try to ignore – that evil is real, that we will die, that we must honor the darkness lest we be controlled by it. Halloween lets…