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What’s causing Christianity to dive in the U.S.? Um, seen Europe lately?

[Dreher used this image for his column. Oh boy.]

Thanks to our friend Roy Edroso, we have long enjoyed the columns of conservative writer Rod Dreher, but perhaps not in the way Dreher intended. (That’s just our way of plugging our friend Roy — you should really read him if you don’t already — and to []

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Four dead in Bangladesh over a Facebook post that offended Muslims

 Police in Bangladesh say they had no choice but to open fire on demonstrators who were threatening their lives. Four people were killed in shooting by the police, and many others were injured, photos posted by CNN []

A reminder: Tulsi Gabbard’s personal guru is a real piece of work

[Tulsi Gabbard, Chris Butler]

And suddenly, Tulsi Gabbard is in the news again in a big []

Mulvaney’s sin: Getting out ahead of the others on the White House ‘so what’ defense

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Mick Mulvaney Has Conservatives Asking: WTF Are You Doing?]

Yesterday I surmised that Mick Mulvaney was intentionally advancing the impeachment narrative to its inevitable destination: “Yeah, we crimed, we crimed a lot even, but what’s it to []

Mulvaney steps in it: Can anyone at the White House get their story straight?

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

After Mick Mulvaney’s press conference today, the White House’s official explanations for why Ukraine’s foreign aid was held back have fully gone full circle []

Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders used to condemn televangelists. Now they want to be TV stars.

 Ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans put out a new video today that looks like all kinds of []

Today in Trump: Incompetence among the super-wealthy, and manufactured martyrdom

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk]

There’s a pervasive sense among the super-wealthy that they are also super-competent by virtue of their wealth, no matter the the manner in which that wealth came to []

Amazing find of 20 ancient coffins found in Egypt near Luxor

 There’s not a lot of information about this new discovery in Egypt, but we still love this kind of []

ProPublica: Records suggest Trump has committed fraud even into his presidency

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[In regards to this story: Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies]

This seems big-ish. ProPublica evidently obtained either the tax returns or tax summaries for Trump’s NY businesses over the past 8 or so years and you probably won’t be surprised to []

Doomsday family lived in basement for 9 years waiting for the end of the world

 Very disturbing and confusing story coming out of the Netherlands today about a group of seven people who have been living in a farm’s basement for the past nine years waiting for the world to []