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Evangelicals Deliver President from Accountability

How did Trump become brightest hope of evangelicals? I’ve been curious for some time about the tremendous popularity Trump has enjoyed with the once judgmental evangelical leadership. Evangelicals represent more than a fourth of all active voters (26 percent) and one third of all Republican voters. Seventy-five to eighty percent of them voted for Trump in 2016 and seem poised to do the same in November of 2020. Even the recent publicity stunt of Trump using the [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:59+00:00June 11, 2020|Bible, Conservatives, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Liberals, Presidency|

How Fox Changed the Integrity of Our News

Keeping up with the virus on Fox News. I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that the acceptance of a lesser service than public service is betrayal of this trust… I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true. — Part of The Journalist’s Creed by Walter Williams (1914) [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:00+00:00April 8, 2020|Baby Boomers, Broadcast Journalism, Conservatives, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Extremes, Fact Checking, Fox News, Mortality|

Partisanship: And Never the Twain Shall Meet

Forget that "more perfect union" our founders called for. It's us-versus-them from hereon in. To me it’s a little scary that everyone is so locked into political party regardless of what is right or wrong, true or false and moral or immoral. Where have all the nuances gone on what constitutes a Democrat or Republican? I think of myself as being a moderate, whether as a Democrat or Republican (and I’ve been both), but I don’t know [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00February 12, 2020|American History, Congress, Conservatives, Donald Trump, Elections, Jim Crow, Liberals, Newspapers, Obama, Patriotism, Politics, Presidency, Social Issues, Vietnam|

Trying to Stem an “Epidemic of Lying”

Staying ignorant of the truth is literally a no-brainer. We live in an epidemic of lying. Research shows that about 60 percent of adults lie at least once in a ten-minute conversation. About 40 percent lie on their resumes, and 90 percent lie on their online dating profiles. — Dr. Amit Sood, Director of Research, Mayo Clinic’s Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why people lie, and why some seem incapable [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00February 5, 2020|Brain, Campaign Rhetoric, Conservatives, Current Events, Donald Trump, Fact Checking, Friends, Journalism and Writing, Lying, Obama, Politics, Presidency, Religion, Truth|

Are Conservatives and Liberals Really So Far Apart?

Far right and far left? Just far apart. Why do conservative Republicans see themselves as common-sense candidates, depicting those with so-called liberal views as “the radical left?” Why do liberal Democrats see themselves as more sensitive and caring, dismissing those with more conservative agendas as “the radical right?” The truth is that a conservative Republican is no further to the right than a liberal Democrat is to the left. The typical liberal Democrat and conservative Republican in [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00January 25, 2020|Campaign Rhetoric, Compromise, Congress, Conservatives, Extremes, Liberals, Politics, Radical Left, Radical Right|

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