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Trump is Under Attack, and Not Just by Human Critics | The Stream

This piece is unique in its reference to spiitual warfare as an explanation for  the poor track record of Trumpism: Trump is Under Attack, and Not Just by Human Critics | The Stream : 'via Blog this'

Belief in One True Church: Is it "Breathtakingly Arrogant"?

Dave Armstrong is a Catholic Apologist among other roles. He is a convert to the Church, and one can learn so much about Catholicism via his books  and blog -- for example: Belief in One True Church: Is it "Breathtakingly Arrogant"? : 'via Blog this'

On the Contemporary U.S. Scene

M ichael Flynn made a lot of enemies inside the government during his career. When he exposed himself as vulnerable these pounced. How?? Anonymous and possibly illegal leaks of private conversations with a foreign national. Now, we aren't supposed to spy on Americans without probable cause, nor disclose the results of our spying in the pages of the  Washington Post   because it suits a partisan or personal agenda (overturning the results of an election). Current and former national security officials used their position, their sources, and their methods to destroy a political enemy. Why aren’t all Americans upset by this? Mr. Flynn is not the only recent occurrence of such. The  New York Times reports that civil servants at the EPA lobbied Congress to reject Donald Trump's nominee to run the agency because Pruitt was critical of the way the EPA was run during the Obama years.  Traditionally, civil servants follow the direction of the political appointees who serve as repr