I received an email from Indiana GOP chair Kyle Hupfer who asserts: “Joe Biden, in an attempt to place blame for his floundering far-Left agenda, has been asking the rhetorical question: ‘What are Republicans for?’ Of course, [Pres Biden] doesn't really want to know” 1/7

In 2020, GOP stuck w/2016 platform & its lead candidate added “core priorities.” Hupfer lists 7 items. Item One: “American exceptionalism”: our nation’s ideas & principles give us unique moral leadership &…

JR Ewing was all-American tone: winning’s no fun unless you cheat. Indiana’s education system skews rules in favor of schools that aren’t supposed to receive public funds. Ind.Const, Art. I §6 states: “No money shall B drawn from the treasury, 4 the benefit 1/5

of any religious/theological institution.” But today a lot of Indiana tax $$$ go 2 religious schools. Prof Sheila Kennedy’s blog a few days ago is accurate: “religious indoctrination academies supported by Indiana’s voucher…

More on Rev Micah Beckwith’s talks w/his supreme deity will be discussed on Civil Discourse Now tonight, Feb 1, at 7 pm, on FB. Beckwith has posted videos over the past couple of years in which he quotes conversations. God is whom Beckwith quotes. 1/7

Beckwith needs to ask if he can record those conversations. God apparently has a lot to say about MAGA ppl & their goals, e.g. (as quoted by Beckwith): “I sent those riots to Washington.” And “What you saw yesterday [01/06/21] was my…

The last couple of days I’ve blogged about Micah Beckwith’s conversations. God, it seems, has a dialogue with Beckwith and has confided “I sent those riots [meaning Jan 6] to Washington” and “What you saw yesterday [Jan 6] was my hand at work.” 1/5

Beckwith quotes from these talks, so it’s not Beckwith’s “inspiration” and description. Auditory hallucinations have many causes. Then again, if there is a realm of such beings, it is possible the source of the voice Beckwith hears is the…

More on Rev Micah Beckwith’s talks w/his supreme deity should be noted. Beckwith posted a video, on FB, in which he quotes from a Jan 7, 2021, conversation he says he had. God, as quoted by Beckwith said: “I sent those riots to Washington.” 1/5

But wait! God also told Beckwith: “What you saw yesterday was my hand at work.” This should trouble us. From video of Jan 6, documents obtained by the House committee, interviews of & internet comments by insurrectionists, and Court…

Quotes must be accurate. Micah Beckwith, who was a candidate in the 2020 GOP primary for INCD5, has claimed he has spoken with “the Lord” on various matters. Beckwith, the day after the Jan 6 insurrection, reported in a Facebook post another such talk. 1/7

God sayeth to Beckwith: “I sent those riots to Washington.” Riot: “unlawful assembly that has begun to fulfill its common purpose of breaching the peace and terrorizing the public.” Black’s Law Dict., pocket ed., 1996, p. 554. God…

Rev Micah Beckwith has given his supreme deity a bad rap again. Beckwith, who ran in the GOP primary for INCD5 in 2020, says his god claims to have sent the insurrectionists to The Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. But any competent supreme deity should have pulled it off. 1/4

We can infer attributes of the types of ppl Beckwith’s supreme deity favors from 1) Video of Jan 6; 2) Interviews of & internet comments by insurrectionists; 3) Documents obtained by the House Committee on Jan 6th;…

At the end of an email that discusses Justice Breyer’s retirement, Indiana State GOP chair Kyle Hupfer invited the recipient to “share it with a friend.” Hupfer derides President Biden as “likely nominate a candidate much more liberal than Justice Breyer.” 1/8

Mr Hupfer refers to Sen Mike Braun (R-IN) to say Pres Biden “should put forward a dedicated constitutionalist who respects the rule of law and our nation's system of checks and balances”; & quotes Sen Todd Young (R-IN) on…

SEL, Social Emotional Learning: children/adults acquire/apply knowl & skills 2 understand & manage emotions, set/achieve + goals, feel/show empathy, make/maintain + relationships & responsible decisions. (Website: Social and Emotional Learning Alliance for Indiana.) 1/7

Evangelicals, a minority (31%, Pew Center) in Indiana, want to control us. They oppose SEL & have an “event” scheduled on Saturday, Jan. 29, on “SEL in Schools + Medical Freedom in Courts and Medicine.”…

trumpist U.S. Rep. Cawthorn (R-NC) hired Terre Haute attorney James Bopp, Jr., in a challenge, brought by several NC lawyers, to Cawthorn’s candidacy for re-election. The challenge is based on The Constitution: No person shall hold office “having previously taken an oath... 1/6

to support the Constitution” who engages “in insurrection or rebellion...” Mr Bopp is scheduled to speak at a gathering in Indy on Jan. 29. Topic: “SEL in Schools + Medical Freedom in Courts and Medicine.” SEL…

U.S. Rep. Cawthorn (R-NC), a trumpist, faces a challenge to his candidacy for re-election. The Fourteenth Amendment, sec. 3, provides no person shall hold office “having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution” who engages “in insurrection or rebellion...” 1/5

Lawyers in North Carolina have brought an action to block Cawthorn’s inclusion on the ballot due to Cawthorn's support of the Jan 6 insurrection. A lawyer from Indiana represents Rep Cawthorn. James Bopp, Jr.,…

Comment by Micah Beckwith to a post on FB page for “Mouthwash” got to me. John Schmitz posted a chart & sd: East Chicago, S Bend, Indy all have avg BELOW 10% proficiency in English Language Arts and Math. All Democrat controlled cities. 1/8

Beckwith’s reply: When you flood our schools w/Leftist, woke ideological crap, this is result. Our kids can’t do Math & English to save their lives but they all know why it’s ok to choose the bathroom of your preferred gender & that BLM…

Chris Hayes asked this evening: when we have we seen this before? Speakers from the Anti-vax rally of Jan 23 threatened actions media and scientists. Anger of MAGA ppl played out in the Jan 6, 2021, violence at The Capitol. Mob anger and violence have long history here. 1/5

Shays’s Rebellion, the KKK in Indiana in the 1920s, MAGA & other movements gave voice to anger. To compare trump’s supporters to Nazis, in part, is inaccurate because some of those supporters wear regalia of…

Senator McConnell reminded us this week that to say “All lives matter” is a farce and that “Black lives matter!” must be stated, and repeated. Sen McConnell, in defending the Senate’s blocking of voting rights legislation wanted to cite “facts.” 1/4

McConnell said “if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans." This is hardly an innocent slip of the tongue. McConnell has proudly posed in the past, standing, with a smile,…

MAGA ppl can weaponize the jury system in defense of the insurrection that occurred on January 6. I hope this only is a figment of my imagination, that the very people who seek to hijack our system would use one of the basic elements of the system to bastardize it. 1/7

One might presume that MAGA ppl are active in social media. After all, many of the people who stormed (MAGA ppl like variations of der “storm”) the Capitol have been tracked down, charged and pleaded guilty as a result…

Tonight at 7 on the "Mouthwash" channel on FB, my guest will be attorney Ross Thomas. We shall discuss jury nullification and possible impact of that doctrine on trials that might result from the January 6 insurrection at The Capitol. 1/3

Ross Thomas is an attorney with offices in Indianapolis. His practice is focused on major felony criminal defense in state and federal courts throughout the state. He received a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from Tulane University in 1992.…

Before too many white ppl (1) congratulate ea other for progress against racism (2) in re Dr King’s birthday, we need to do something too few Americans want to do. We need to remember history. A Harris poll in early 1968 showed Dr King’s disapproval rating at near 75%. 1/4

Dr King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for work against racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act became law by way of the work of Dr King, and many others, just…