Sunday Thoughts

It's Sunday, and lots of people are getting ready for church. I'm willing to bet that readers of this site aren't thinking of going to a Unification Church, though. We probably don't attract a lot of Moonies to this site. That's right, Moonies. You'd thought they had gone away, hadn't you?

Wrong.

John Gorenfeld has a lot of great stuff on how much influence the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, famous megalomaniac religous nutball, has in this country. He owns the United Press International wire service (bought that one a few years ago; prompted Helen Thomas to resign), the Washington Times (loony conservative paper set up to promote loony right-wing ideas; masquerades as journalism; loses a boatload of money every year), and a bunch of other, more transparently Moonie-ish publications. The Unification Church was also a big part of the "faith-based initiative" nonsense.

These people have influence in the federal government that is hard to imagine. Moon has literally bought himself a place at the table. Though the Moonies are really in bed with conservatives, they ingratiate themselves with lots of Democrats, too. And, lately, they've been making a concerted effort to woo black politicians.

None of this is fantasy; it is, unfortunately, all too true.