For my sins, I guess, I watched all six hours of the Jericho March proceedings from Washington today, on the march webcast. I say for my sins, but in truth, I decided to watch it because I am interested in what the activist Christian Right is saying, and how they are thinking, in the wake of Donald Trump losing the...

In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Bill Gates said he expects that there will be an ugly wave of increased coronavirus infections through the winter before the new vaccines are able to be widely distributed, and that this is likely to require more mandatory shutdowns, particularly of such hospitality businesses as restaurants and bars.

As the end of the year approaches, we must reluctantly acknowledge that it has been a year of unimaginable triumph for America’s only serious rival, the People’s Republic of China. We will probably never know exactly how the coronavirus originated, …

The press’s coverage of the incoming Biden administration suggests we are in for at least four excruciatingly long years of subservient, suck-up news reporting from our vaunted Fourth Estate, that bulwark of our democracy.

By: Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta – wsj.com – December 17, 2020 The approval of several Covid-19 vaccines is an impressive technological development that should rapidly end the lockdowns and allow normal life to resume. But authorities like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates argue that lockdown restrictions may have to continue through the fall and even into 2022, notwithstanding the catastrophic harms...

A retrospective on President Donald Trump’s four years in office must be put in perspective of what he himself promised to accomplish when he ran: Make America Great Again. Source: President Trump: Promises Made, Promises Kept

For four years, we heard that President Donald Trump is a threat to freedom of the press. The Washington Post signaled its own faux bravery by adopting the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the top of its masthead.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday explicitly acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect for the first time after weeks of Republican delays in recognizing the 2020 election result. Source: Senate GOP leader McConnell congratulates Joe Biden following Electoral College vote

A group of more than two dozen Black pastors, many of them from Georgia, have sent a letter to Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock urging him to reconsider his pro-choice stance on abortion heading into a runoff election in the Peach State. Source: Over 25 Black ministers sign letter to Warnock on abortion | Fox News

Joe Biden has a message for Georgians: The work isn’t over yet. The Democratic president-elect traveled to Atlanta on Tuesday to push the state’s voters to elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to the Senate, emphasizing that the upcoming runoff elections could determine his administration’s success enacting his agenda, giving Democrats effective control of an evenly divided, 50-50 Senate, with...