1. Some coverage of the panel on ISIS genocide the National Review Institute did with the Heritage Foundation this week.
2. Guardian: 12,000 people trapped in Syria refugee camp by bombs, shells and bullets
3. A video from Alliance Defending Freedom the Obama administration should have seen before issuing its bathroom edict:
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Bingo. The WH is the new Congress. And the new State Assembly. And the new Town Council. #efficiency@RyanTAndhttps://t.co/2hF9fbt1s2
— Matt Brubaker (@MattBrubakerNC) May 13, 2016
5. Russell Moore: “The Sexual Revolution, chaotically, wants to tell us that gender means nothing and that gender means everything. Neither is true.”
6. Rod makes a good point about acceleration here. Like with the business that got the Little Sisters of the Poor to have to go to court, this is such an unnecessary fight the administration has forced because of its sexual revolutionary ideology which it has decided on various fronts to mandate.
7. It’s been a few hours now, but I still can’t quite believe the bathroom edict came while Elie Wiesel and Armando Valladares were warning a ballroom in New York City about the dangers of little encroachments on liberty. Valladares, the former Cuban political prisoner, was honored by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty – Wiesel was present to pay tribute to Valladares. Valladares in turn praised the Little Sisters of the Poor! It was a needed, beautiful night celebrating courage.
Read Valladareshere.
More to come on that.
8. Charlotte Allen writes about “Punching Down” for First Things.
9. John Allen on John Paul II and Our Lady of Fatima. Today’s the 35th anniversary of the day he was shot (on the Fatima feast day). An eyewitness – who has been an NRI Washington fellow – talks about being there here.
10. At 2:00 today you can watch Justice Clarence Thomas give Hillsdale’s commencement address here.
PLUS: 10 Catholic things today.
Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (May 13, 2015)