Trump’s cabinet-level nominations

Quartz has put something together here. Handy, yes? (I’m including the photo of Ben Carson, nominated for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which Quartz calls “the most baffling” of Trump’s picks.

Ben Carson is a bad choice for Sec. of HUD

I wrote this for The Hill. And this goes far deeper than my raging bipartisanship.

Brother Ben Carson is an atrocious choice for Sec. of Education

And here are five reasons that is the case, from Right Wing Watch.

And in weird, apocalyptic time travel news:

Ben Carson would not abort Hitler’s fetus. But Jeb Bush would kill baby Hitler. Has any one thought to ask the other candidates if they would travel back through time to abort Hitler’s fetus or kill him as a baby? I get where this is going. I do. But is this what passes for political discourse these …

A godly approach to Donald Trump, the twit

Russell Moore, the eighth president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote this for yesterday’s New York Times, about evangelicals who embrace The Donald. He writes: Donald J. Trump stands astride the polls in the Republican presidential race, beating all comers in virtually every demographic of the primary electorate. Most …

Hunger? Homelessness? Who cares? Let’s talk vaginas!

Despite a week that would choke a lesser person, I carved out time in my busy life to sit and watch the entire — all of it — varsity GOP debate last night. (I could not bring myself to watch the junior varsity debate held earlier, because I only indulge in so much of such activities a …