Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t get too caught up in recent headlines around Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where two planes of some 50 migrants, many Venezuelan, showed up suddenly on Wednesday. Yes, this caused great confusion and a scrambling of community resources to provide basic necessities and aid to very confused arrivals who spoke little English. But it’s also nothing […]
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GOP Senate candidate admits he wants to block access to birth control
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is already leading Republican candidates to consider what other aspects of sex they can shut down. In Arizona, U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters already announced his desire to block access to birth control… even for married couples. But it’s an open question about whether he […]
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The local Arizona news story that haunts my career
Reading Time: 3 minutes The news is … not great. Let’s talk about the olds. Specifically, a story about a story that I covered in my days as a young freelance writer in Arizona. Is this the Arizona that conservatives want? As we approach the 2022 election, Arizona is decidedly a bellwether state. Will it (finally) flip blue? Or […]
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SatanCon 0: The truth laid bare
Reading Time: 3 minutes SatanCon 0 was a historic event. In my vocation, it is exceedingly rare to be a party to such an occasion. Inside the hotel grounds and convention, everything was entirely pleasant and jovial. Many of the attendees were reuniting with good friends they hadn’t seen in almost a decade. Others had been online friends for […]
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE: Catholic edition
Reading Time: 8 minutes Out of every strange practice in Christianity, spiritual warfare might just be my favorite of all. Just hearing a Christian use the phrase puts a great big silly happy smile on my face and laughter in my heart. Spiritual warfare is one of those super-context-dependent Christian practices. When removed from its very specific context its practitioners look like they’re playing a Happy Pretendy Fun Time Game — which they always were.
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Secular activism in Arizona: An interview with Tory Roberg
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last spring, I got to talk with Tory Roberg, the then Director of Government Affairs for Secular Arizona, about secular activism. The following is the interview that transpired. Secular activism at the state capitol in Arizona They need to hear from their constituents who are not Christian because we should be living in a government […]
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Tips for Satanists visiting Scottsdale for Satancon 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes When The Satanic Temple announced they would be having a “Satancon 2022” conference at the Seguaro Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona this Lupercalia weekend many detractors balked.
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Arizona “Audit” Finds…An Even Bigger Biden Win
Reading Time: 2 minutes I know you’ve all heard it, but… A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa […]
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Mark Driscoll: Bullies Keep Bullying (LSP #200)
Reading Time: 8 minutes None of us thought Mark Driscoll would learn a thing after losing Mars Hill and Acts 29, the church-planting umbrella group he helped create, back in 2014. And nope, he sure hasn’t.
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Some More Polling Analysis and Hunter Biden
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here are some interesting points of late: The race, as predicted in the final stages, is tightening to some degree. Even with Rasmussen, who skew Republican big time, have Biden to win 319 Electoral College seats. Given that Trump won the three Rust Belt seats by less than 1% only, again Rasmussen has Biden winning Wisconsin […]