Lawrence Baron

By Laurie Baron Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, has observed that many MAGA Evangelicals reject Jesus’ doctrine of loving your neighbor and caring for the least among us as “liberal talking points.”  To prove their point, they claim that archeologists recently discovered a lost manuscript in an excavation of an ancient Roman latrine.  Here […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company Virgin Galactic ushered in the era of commercial space flight with its successful launch and landing of the VSS Unity.  It carried one passenger who paid for his ticket and a mother and daughter from Antigua who won the voyage in a lottery.  Although

(Melody: Hit the Road Jack) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Try him soon Jack. And don’t let him come back, no more, no more, no more, no more. Make him squirm, Jack. Don’t let him come back no more. Oh Donald, Oh Donald, you pushed the Big Lie. You should have conceded, but you

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — This week Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox coalition rescinded the Israeli Supreme Court’s power to overturn governmental laws and policies deemed unreasonable.  Subsequent “reforms” will grant the ruling coalition the right to override Supreme Court decisions and appoint all the judges on the Supreme Court.  Since I have a copy

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The new African American history curriculum for Florida public schools requires teaching that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” and that acts of black-on-black violence are the equivalent to white collective violence against blacks.  The textbook companies are now scrambling to publish

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump received a letter from Jack Smith informing him that he is a target of the federal investigation into election inference in the 2020 presidential election.  He is also facing a probable indictment from Fani Willis in Georgia later in the summer.  Ever the savvy businessman, Trump is

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Ted Cruz has condemned the film Barbie for “pushing Chinese propaganda” because its trailer features a map with dashes around areas in the South China Sea which China claims belong to it. Initially, I dismissed his accusation as the ravings of a paranoid reactionary since that characterizes most of

By The Supremes (Melody: Accentuate the Positives) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The six conservative judges on the Supreme Court have formed a singing group and named themselves The Supremes. Unlike the famous Motown group, it consists of five white men and one white woman who was invited to join them because she belongs

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — You might be experiencing climate change if: You wear an N-95 mask whenever you go outside for reasons other than Covid-19 protection. The city where you live is building swimming pool sized ashtrays in public parks. Your inland house has become beachfront property. You plan to purchase a Tesla

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Last week the Republican candidates for president addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference.  They competed to demonstrate which of them could come up with the most restrictive bans on abortion. Mike Pence pledged to pass a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.  For many in

By Elona Baron (as told to Laurie Baron) SAN DIEGO — I recently received an email from someone whose existence has been speculated about for years: Donald Trump’s Pitbull.   I know everyone thinks that Trump never owned a dog largely because he is incapable of caring for anything beyond his own political survival.  While it

(Melody: Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Jack Smith indicted him. Donald Trump, excuses slim. Trump’s not above the law. Charged him for his crimes. Took files lied many times. Hid them from the FBI. Trump’s not above the law. He’s going where the guilty dread. No White House,

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The slogan for Ron DeSantis’ recently announced campaign is “Make America Florida” inviting a copyright infringement lawsuit from Donald Trump who issued an executive order in his mind to make it illegal for other politicians to start their campaign slogans with “Make America.” What would the United States look like

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Musk is a scent used in perfumes, but the odor emanating from Elon Musk’s interviews and tweets reeks. He describes himself as a “free speech absolutist” except when an authoritarian leader like Erdogan requests that he censor Twitter in Turkey. Since acquiring Twitter, he has welcomed the return of