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World CO2 emissions are growing, not falling. What will the children say? (source)by Thomas NeuburgerModern America is a tense place these days.

Image courtesy The Atlantic, "God's Plan for Mike Pence"by Gaius PubliusIn the wake of ultra-right bombings and shootings, with the Mueller investigation in mind and thoughts of the 2020 election close at hand, it seems appropriate to look at Vice President Mike Pence.

Subtract Anthony Kennedy from the image above and add Brett Kavanaugh. Thanks to Senate Democrats, he's as good as confirmed.

Image: plherrera via Salonby Gaius Publius“There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education…Our desire is to confront the culture in ways that will continue to advance God’s kingdom.”—Education Secretary

Mike Keefe (click to enlarge)"The party's leadership gave in to a minority of its members who are devoted to pushing devastating cuts to working- and middle-class families in pursuit of rigid and impractical ideological principles. The result has been a government in a state of perpetual dysfunction.

Plus a promise of thoughts-to-come about James GarnerYes, justice is supposed to be blind, in the sense of being impervious to outside influences.

"Career-long tool of the mining industry" Shelley Moore Capitoby KenAs I've mentioned, I sometimes get my best insight into the minds, such as they are, of the far-far-far-right-wingers from the merely far-right-wingers. (Wasn't it Freud who said, "It takes one to know one"?) By now it's no surprise to hear the MFRWs tsk-tsk-ing the FFFRWs.