Hey, MAGA! You're supporting WHAT now???

 

MAGA, you're supporting WHAT now? Seriously?

It's a week before the 2026 midterm elections. And you're now supporting THIS?

 

Seriously?

 

You?

 

You're my friend. I like you. How could you? How?

 

Before we talk about what you are NOW supporting, let's talk about what you've supported in the past.

 

Ten years ago, you shocked us.

 

How could you vote for HIM?

 

1.) The stupidity.

 

He's an idiot. The part of your brain that believed that he is a business mastermind was blinded by bling. Admit that on this one you played his dupe, like that guy who thinks he can beat the Times Square sidewalk shell game.  

 

He inherited all that wealth from his father. If he had just plowed his inheritance into a conventional investment plan, he'd be richer today than he is now – sorry – richer than he was before he turned our White House into his crooked cash grab.

 

The bankruptcies. The businesses as rotten as a termite-chewed foundation. Trump university? Steaks? Water? Airlines? Casinos?

 

2.) The betrayal of America.

 

Is he a Russian asset? Doesn't matter. He acts like a Russian asset. Sabotaging American interests around the world. Betraying the Founding Fathers. Tearing down the White House.

 

3.) The indecency.

 

This is the big one for me. I know you. I've seen you do good things. How can someone like you embrace and actively support an adjudicated rapist? A con artist who ripped off countless contractors? Who humiliated naïve working class dreamers who emptied out their life savings for fake Trump University?

 

So, yeah. Ten years ago, your support for the stupidity, the betrayal of America, the indecency shocked us all.

 

But now this.

 

Child _ _ _ _.

 

That's how bad this is. I can't even type the word.

 

You

 

actively support

 

with your vote

 

with your donations

 

with your social media endorsements

 

child _ _ _ _.

 

Here's the facts.

 

When Amy was three years old, her biological parents divorced.

 

Her mother, Donna Arthur, remarried a man named Cledith Arthur. Cledith Arthur had already been accused of _ _ _ ing his own biological daughter. Donna married him anyway.

 

Donna and Cledith Arthur abused Donna's two children, Amy and her brother Philip Stearns.

 

The family moved frequently. At one point, they lived in a tent.

 

In 1978, when she was twelve years old, Amy and Philip were removed by the state from Donna and Cledith. Cledith was charged with _ _ _ ing Amy. Cledith posted bail. He then fled. He became a fugitive from justice. Donna stayed with Cledith until his death as a fugitive from justice in 2004.

 

Amy had little to no contact with her mother since the removal in 1978.

 

In October, 2026, MAGA candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, running against Amy Acton to be Ohio's next governor, published an ad featuring Donna Arthur.

 

In this ad, Donna Arthur looks haggard and demented. She rants that her daughter, Amy Acton, is a liar and mentally ill.

 

Donna says that Amy never lived in a tent. Donna says that Amy was not abused. Donna doesn't use the word _ _ _ _, but the ad suggests that Amy Acton falsely accused Donna's husband Cledith of child _ _ _ _.

 

Here's what's true.

 

Every detail of Amy Acton's childhood abuse is supported by facts.

 

Hey, MAGA, remember facts? Objective truths? Those things that you rejected? In favor of conspiracy theories, social media tribal groupthink, the slop your MAGA talk radio controllers dump into your feeding trough, and ravings from the cult leader you mindlessly worship?

 

Contemporaneous newspaper accounts, court records, and testimony from eyewitnesses, including Philip Stearns, support Amy Acton's bio, and refute MAGA's sick, child-_ _ _ _-supporting lies.

 

Yes, Cledith Arthur was charged with child _ _ _ _. Yes, his own biological daughter, as well as Amy, were his victims. Yes, campground employees report that Cledith Arthur lived in a tent at a campground and used that campground as his address. Yes, Donna and Cledith abused little Amy and little Philip. Yes, authorities had to remove the children from the abuse.

 

Yes. Yes. Yes. Facts, MAGA. Facts.

 

And there's more.

 

Donna Arthur has repeatedly been legally charged with abusing animals. She tortured kittens.

 

This is the slop you support, MAGA. Not just someone who, according to court documents, facilitated the _ _ _ _ of her own daughter. You support a kitten torturer.

 

Donna Arthur pleaded guilty to "Theft by Deception / False Impression." She was repeatedly charged with this crime.

 

This is what you support, MAGA. Not just the big, fat criminal in the White House. You support this nasty, child-_ _ _ _-facilitator, who served up her own daughter to the evil POS she married.

 

Is it wrong to associate you, MAGA voter, MAGA donator, MAGA endorser on social media, with child _ _ _ _?

 

Are you serious?

 

The Epstein Files coverup was not enough to get you to wash your hands of this filth forever?

 

Donald Trump and JD Vance both explicitly endorsed the ad alleging that Amy Acton lied about having been abused, about living in a tent, about being removed by the state from her demented mother and _ _ _ ist stepfather.  

 

Let me spell this out for you.

 

When an adult man _ _ _ _ s a child, he is in the stronger position. The child is in the weaker position. He has physical strength. The little girl lacks commensurate physical strength.

 

The _ _ _ ist also possesses greater social strength. The little girl might not even understand what's happening. The adult man may have groomed her. He may use threats as part of grooming. Some of the _ _ _ ists, for example, threaten to hurt the child's loved ones if the child speaks up.

 

Too many surrounding adults don't want to deal with child _ _ _ _. They close their eyes. They say, "Oh, the girl is making stuff up." What they really mean is, "If I confront this guy, he might hurt me. The girl can just endure it. She'll grow up and leave home soon enough and be okay."

 

How do I know that this is what happens? I'm a teacher. I've worked with girls to whom this happened. I know the barriers to belief and salvation that victims face.

 

One of those barriers is when people choose to side with the _ _ _ ist, rather than the child.

 

MAGA, if you continue to vote MAGA, to donate to MAGA, to endorse MAGA on social media, that's who you are. You are the person who is using their personal power to crush a victim of child _ _ _ _, and to protect _ _ _ ists.

 

Your guy, the leader of your movement, Donald J. Trump, your guy, the second-in-command of your movement, JD Vance, have actively, overtly, explicitly, called a victim of child _ _ _ _ a liar, thus facilitating child _ _ _ _. If no one believes the victim, if everyone believes the perpetrator, the child is stuck in the hell of _ _ _ _ _ _ abuse.

 

It's a binary choice. Either you are on team anti-child-_ _ _ _, or  you are on team pro-child _ _ _ _.

Muhammad: A Critical Biography by Robert Spencer

 

Muhammad: A Critical Biography by Robert Spencer
Americans must read this book

 

Over a year ago, a political figure permitted me to participate in a private discussion site dedicated to the output of a group of prominent journalists, scholars, political operatives, and public servants. Some of the men and women in this group had written bestsellers, managed campaigns, worked in the White House for Republican presidents, or commanded troops. Some were practicing and others were lapsed Catholics; some were proud Jews, dedicated to Israel.

 

At the discussion site, I was just one commentor among thousands, but every now and then one of the celebrities whose work we were commenting on would respond to one of my posts. These "brushes with greatness" delighted me.

 

Over a year later, I received an email that sent a chill through me. The sender was a beautiful young white woman with a great head of hair. Her online bio ironically states, "My passion is helping humans understand one another — and the world around them." In her two-hundred-word reprimand, she quoted and analyzed my posts. She informed me that she had deleted my posts and would not allow me to speak for the next thirty days. If I sinned again, I would be permanently silenced. She accused me of posting thoughts that were not "kind" and not "true."  

 

You think I would have learned.

Islam and Terror

 

To anyone who can see this post beyond Google's firewall. Isn't it interesting that Google does not want you to have access to this image or this content? 

Islam and Terror

Islam is different from all other world faiths

A note for the reader: I'm from New Jersey, and I've lived in Africa and Asia. Thanks to my background, I've lived among Muslims my entire life. In Paterson, NJ, the call to prayer reaches inside my apartment. In the Central African Republic, I lived mere steps away from a madrassa. I witnessed tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, including Christian and Animist Africans. Those tensions eventually burst, after I left the CAR, into a potential "genocidal" conflict.

I've had Muslim friends, students, co-workers, health care professionals, and bosses. We can love our Muslim friends and neighbors, and still criticize concepts like jihad, gender apartheid, and dhimmitude.

Twenty-five years ago, after 9/11, I thought to myself, "One good thing will come of this. Americans will finally talk frankly about Islam." But that didn't happen. Powerful voices in media, in pulpits, and in classrooms blamed 9/11 on American foreign policy. Any honest critique of Islam – the exact kind of searching inquiry we devote to Christianity, democracy, capitalism or Marxism – was denounced as "Islamophobic," "racist," and beyond the pale of decent discourse. Cultural relativism was deployed to silence critique of Islam. "Christians do bad things! What about the Inquisition!" Those who used this tactic inevitably revealed themselves to be woefully ignorant of recent scholarship on the Inquisition, and also completely uninformed about any aspect of Islam.

In frustration, I wrote the essay, below. The Answering Islam website ran it, and Front Page reruns it today, because, unfortunately, the public conversation about Islam has not changed from twenty-five years ago. Cultural relativism, claims of "racism!" combined with tragic ignorance still inform our public discourse.

Desert Fathers; Tish Harrison Warren; Jen Hatmaker; Tony 2026 book and movie reviews

 

Desert Fathers; Tish Harrison Warren; Jen Hatmaker; Tony 2026 book and movie reviews 

What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience by Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren was published by Convergent, an imprint of Random House, on May 12, 2026. It is 192 pages long. Warren is 47 years old, married, and the mother of three. For her previous two books, Liturgy of the Ordinary and Prayer in the Night, Warren has won two Christianity Today awards, as well as an Intervarsity Press Readers' Choice award, and an Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian Book of the Year award.

 

What Grows in Weary Lands argues that the Desert Fathers and Mothers offer guidance to Christians today. These Fathers and Mothers retreated to monastic desert lives in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in the third century AD. Their wisdom is available to modern readers via a collection titled Sayings of the Desert Fathers. In spite of this title, the collection includes quotes by Desert Mothers as well.

Questions for Muslim Candidates

 

Questions for Muslim Candidates

No more softball

 

The essay, below, briefly discusses how the Judeo-Christian tradition affected American democracy. It summarizes how Protestant America reacted to Catholic candidates. It ends with questions that should be put to Muslim candidates.

 

Part One: A Brief Look at the Impact of America's Judeo-Christian Foundation.

The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan Movie Review

 

The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan

 

One movie lover's response

I Stand with the Jews. Part Two of Two Parts

 

"I Stand with the Jews"

What does that mean?

Second of two parts

A canopy of oaks and maples rose overhead. Green understory surrounded me: pinxter azaleas and thorny Japanese barberry. Bluets – tiny wildflowers – blossomed underfoot. Up ahead, Marc approached me with his typically hale and hearty, "Hello, Danusha!"

I shoved my rosary in my pocket and removed my headphones. I had been cheating. I should have been focusing, with the binoculars around my neck, on the migrating spring warblers that make Garret Mountain famous among birders. Instead I was listening to Gregorian chant and praying the rosary as I hiked. "Hello, Marc," I said, as I migrated from internal contemplation of the eternal to external society and the ingeniously plumaged sprites zipping around us.

"Look at that color!" Marc exclaimed.

I pointed my binoculars in the direction Marc indicated. He had spotted a purple finch.

"I can see," I said, "Why Roger Tory Peterson called them 'a sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.'"

Marc is, by many estimates, the best birder in the state. Of course we are all, in our own ways, the "best" birdwatcher in compliance with our own needs and desires, but Marc racks up awesome numbers of the species he sees annually.

Marc's surname harkens back to Chelm, a city in Poland once famous among Jews as a site of folkloric fools. My favorite Chelm story: the local wise men declared that if you drop a buttered slice of bread, it will always fall on the buttered side. This conclusion reflects the pessimistic worldview typical of both Jews and non-Jews in Eastern Europe. Of course, eventually, someone dropped a buttered piece of bread and it fell buttered side up. The wise men of Chelm debated this astounding event and determined that the slice had been buttered on the wrong side. Chelm stories arose from a culture that valued scholarship enough that it could spoof scholarly folly.

Mindful of Marc's identity as someone other than our state's best birdwatcher, I wondered if I should say something.

I had told myself, if the opportunity arises, I will say something.

Was this the moment, though, to say something?

I felt timid, but also determined. If we keep waiting for the perfect moment, we never say anything.

"Marc," I ventured. "I want to say something about something other than birds."

"Yes?" Marc said, turning his attention from the purple finch to a streamlet that might be playing host to a Louisiana waterthrush.

"There's been a rise in antisemitism."

"You think?" Marc said, his voice rising, in an atypical, for him, sarcastic comment.

"Yes, and I just want you to know that I'm not Jewish…" said the woman who had been praying the rosary and listening to Gregorian chant. "But I want to be an ally. I'm on your side."

I'm glad I said something. If the moment arises when Marc could use some support from someone like me, he knows I'm here.