Evening Roundup, May 7
DOJ's grift, humanitarian crisis in the Middle East, church in the state, Ted Turner's legacy at CNN, The Tea, and The Movement
Spotlight Story
The Justice Department’s Appalling Grift Store
The Department of Justice’s grift store for friends and supporters of the president, laying a solid foundation for settlement payouts, should be an affront to every taxpayer in America.
Legacy Media
'He Put a Lasso Around the Earth in a Way Nobody Had Before'
Ted Turner, the brash, iconoclastic media mogul, yachtsman, rancher, and philanthropist who ushered in the 24/7 news cycle and forged a cable empire on old movies, reruns, and sports programming, died Wednesday at eighty-seven years old.
Humanitarian Disaster
Wars Do Not Occur Within a Vacuum
Across the Atlantic, a mother is grabbing her newborn baby hastily as evacuation orders ring out. A family is praying that the missile just shot down overhead will land in a nearby field instead of their street. An eighty-year-old woman is abandoning the only home she has ever known. A young girl is grieving a future she thinks may no longer be possible.
Religion in the Administration
Split Screen: The Church Is the State Now
Donald Trump’s Jesus photo was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the questionable usage of overt religious words and imagery through the government.
