- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump flunks 3 key tests following deadly New Orleans attack
Within hours of the New Year’s attack in New Orleans, the president-elect simultaneously flunked tests of accuracy, decency and credibility.
- David Edwards @ Raw Story: Christian MAGA TV host calls for government 'blanket crackdown on mosques' after attacks
David Brody, a Christian pro-MAGA TV host on Real America's Voice, called for a "blanket crackdown on mosques" by the government after two potential attacks on New Year's Day.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Oklahoma's new social studies standards go all in on Christian Nationalism
As part of his ongoing efforts to brainwash children into Christianity, Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters just released the new standards for public school social studies classes. (These are the required topics teachers must incorporate into their lessons.) And, as expected, the standards include all kinds of religious indoctrination.
- Kevin Drum @ Jabberwocking: Trump already planning to break the law
Trump isn't going after gray areas. If the Journal is right, he plans to enact policies that he flat out knows to be illegal. He's just hoping that his hand-picked Supreme Court will let him do it.
- Daniel Desrochers @ The Kansas City Star: Josh Hawley thinks America needs a religious revival. Is this man helping him find it?
H.W. Crocker III thinks Western civilization is in trouble. He supports conservative Christian moral values and has decried the rise of a new, secular America where a growing number of people answer “none” to surveys asking which religion they practice. He’s lauded the Confederacy and its soldiers and generals in books like the “Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War” and “Robert E. Lee on Leadership.” And, this year, he picked up a new job: communications consultant for Sen. Josh Hawley’s Senate campaign.