De Jure Jim Crow, Evangelical Fear, and Weather Wars

I. De Jure Jim Crow
"De jure Jim Crow ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting rights Act of 1964 the following year, but given a slight probe of the United States -- its neighborhoods, school systems, criminal-justice policies, re-emergent brazen hate crimes --turns up evidence aplenty that the civil heirloom of Jim Crow endures." "It's with us when scheming men are trying to figure out how to gerrymander their state to deprive brown people of their vote, to figure out which polling places to close so that people have a difficult time getting time off and traveling to register or vote." [1]

II. At War Online
"The DHS has found a 'rise in malicious cyber activity.' " "Those were the latest moves in a rapidly escalating cyber conflict that is proving to be a test run in the future of war." "As the U.S. runs out of economic pressure to apply and Trump balks at the costs of a new military conflict in the Middle East, cyberspace seems like the inevitable next arena of conflict." [2]

III. Evangelical Republic of Fear
"Clinton's scandals helped spin the Southern Baptist Convention in 1998 to issue its seminal 'Resolution on Moral Character of Public Officials.' The document's key statement was unanimous and unequivocal: 'Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestricted immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God's judgment." [3]

"Talk to evangelicals and fear is all too often a dominant theme of their political life. The church is under siege from a hostile culture. Religious institutions are under legal attack from progressives. "The American evangelical church is acting as if it needs Trump's version of secular salvation. Yet the church is acting as if it needs Trump to protect it, That's not courageous -- It's repulsive. And so long as this fear continues, expect the church's witness to degrade further. In seeking protection from its perceived enemies the church has lost its way."

"America's conservative people of faith should seek a primary challenger to Trump and send a message to the  GOP that it will do so from a position of confidence -- and faith."

IV. Weather Wars
"Economic damage from severe whether reached $306 billion in 2017. And a NOAA report last year estimated that whether-elated variables has reduced the nation's GDP by 3.4%." [4]

The Trump administration's interest is in prioritizing the role of the private sector in weather forecast. It would apply its industry-first approach to the entire international meteorological community.

ADDENDUMS:
*In a nutshell, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House on how to deal with Iran: 1.) Repeal the overly broad 2001 war authorization; 2;) Push for a return to U.S.compliance with the Iran nuclear agreement; and 3.) Use other diplomatic efforts to reduce terrorism.

*Presidential candidate Julian Castro has said that it's "worrisome" to set up a meeting without the staff work being done. He pointed out that North Korea has not disclosed its nuclear stockpile.

*"If physicians and physician assistants faced significant disciplinary consequences for engaging in a practice that medical professionals widely view as a ghostly form of torture, prison authorities might soon find themselves without the personnel to carry it out. (He is speaking of force-feeding.) [5]

Footnotes:
[1] Mitchell S. Jackson, "Another Colson Whitehead..." TIME, July 8, 2019.

[2] W.J. Hennigan, "The U.S. and Iran are already at war online," TIME, July 8, 2019.

[3] David French, "The Evangelical Republic of Fear," TIME, July 8, 2019.

[4] Andrew Blum, "Weather wars," TIME, July 8, 2019.

[5] Letter writer Jacob M. Appel, The Nation, July 15/22, 2019.