The modern notion of “forgiveness”, often wielded as a weapon against people of faith, has nothing to do with either faith OR genuine forgiveness; it is only another way of refusing to hold people accountable for their bad deeds.

STEVE SCALISE: No forgiveness for shooter, Trump ‘motivated’ recovery. Rep. Steve Scalise is a good Catholic who won the prayers of many church leaders as he recovered from a bullet fired by an angry liberal while he and his Republican baseball …

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The American people are coming to terms with the notion that the intelligence community — far from being an above-the-fray servant of a popularly elected government — is in fact inherently political, serving long-term shadowy interests, including its own.

Author Douglas Valentine whose work includes “The CIA as Organized Crime.” Greenwald is mentioned at the end. via whowhatwhy.org:   What does it say about the state of the nation that many on both the left and right are banking their …

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