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Curt Landry Says Criticizing False Prophets Is ‘Cancel Culture’

Right Wing Watch ✒ Curt Landry is a Trump-loving right-wing pastor who was among the various “prophets” who boldly and explicitly guaranteed that former President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020.Kyle Mantyla Landry proclaimed that 2020 would result in a “red tsunami” in which Trump won the White House and the GOP won control of both houses of Congress. None of those things happened. In

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An Excess of Woke Thinking May Harm Mental Health Or Relationships

Valerie Tarico ✒ As a psychologist, I sometimes ponder how cultural trends relate to personal growth and mental health. One such current in my Seattle community of late is Wokeism.15-December-2021What is Wokeism? Wokeism is not just caring passionately about marginalized people, nor is it simply a desire to examine history with honest eyes, nor is it Critical Race Theory, though the critics often

Time To Redefine Citizenship

Tommy McKearney ☭ The recent RTE series Crimes and Confessions raises a number of important issues. The programmes dealt with three miscarriages of justice, suggesting that the wider context for these events lay in the fall-out from the Northern conflict then taking place.This self-serving explanation may please some but is actually dangerously misleading. What happened with these cases was not

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This Week In Terrorism History ✑ Nov. 28-Dec. 4

Pete Trumbore ✒ This week’s look back at the recent history of terrorism in the United States hits pretty close to home for me.29-November-2022And I mean that literally. The two attacks that will be described below both took place in Michigan, the state where I hang my hat.Burned school buses in Pontiac, MI. The aftermath of a 1971 Ku Klux Klan firebombing.It got me thinking about the extent to

Visiting A Wake House

Pádraic Mac Coitir ✒ About 10.30am today I called to the house where Maura McCrory was being waked. Maura McCrory (left) With FriendsAs soon as I walked into the living room I was greeted by Alex and Duncan. I then met the rest of the family, some of whom for the first time.  A death in any family is a sad occasion but as I stood over the tricolour draped coffin I looked at Maura and was reminded

Neon Screams

Christopher Owens 🔖 The future of music is alive and well.But for a while, commentators were predicting the death of music by regurgitation. As Simon Reynolds wrote in his seminal tome, Retromania (published in 2010): ...retro-consciousness nonetheless seems most chronically prevalent in music. That may well be because it somehow feels especially wrong there. Pop ought to be all about the

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Sinn Féin Vote Down In Stormont Poll, But On Course To Be Biggest Party

Matt Treacy ✑ The most striking finding of the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies poll published today by the Irish News is that Sinn Féin look set to become the largest party after the May 5 elections to the Stormont Assembly. 14-February-2022Which would of course mean that Michelle O’Neill would then be nominated as First Minister in the Executive.The poll places Sinn Féin on