Jim Acosta was doing his job

Donald J. Trump, in his first press conference since July, did his thing, including calling out CNN (and Buzzfeed) for “fake news,” and then refusing to call on Jim Acosta, senior White House correspondent of CNN (you can watch it above). (Acosta later said a Trump spokesman threatened to expel him.) Here’s the thing. In …

Whaddya think the President will say about guns on Thursday?

Pres. Obama is planning a Thursday town hall meeting to say…something… about guns in America. In fact, that’s the name of the show, “Guns In America,” and it starts at 8 p.m. on Thursday on CNN. Gonna watch? Whaddya think he’ll say? Here’s a fact sheet from the White House, if that helps.

So what does gun violence cost us?

$229 billion. 2. 2. 9. Billion. Read more at the above Mother Jones link. They’ve been studying the topic since the 2012 Colorado theater mass shooting that left 58 wounded and 12 dead. All told in the last decade, gunshots wounded at least 750,000 Americans and 320,000 killed. Do we really want to keep listening …

Will the Supreme Court do the right thing this morning?

Or, as Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite asks in the Washington Post: Will the Supreme Court ruling on health care violate Jesus’s teaching? She writes: The “Good Samaritan,” in a well-known story told by Jesus (Luke 10:25-37), is the person who stops and cares for an injured man left by the side of the road. In this …