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1) On the homepage today, I begin a series — two parts — on Dana Perino and her new book And the Good News Is …: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side. What a wonderful American. A wonderful person. Like a glass of cool water on a hot day.

2) At The New Criterion, I have a post on the thorny question of Otello (or Othello), makeup, opera productions, etc. The question is as interesting as it is thorny, I think.

3) In 2008, Louis Farrakhan told an audience the following:

You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

See it on YouTube, here.

Now the minister is saying, “This is a system that has to be taken down.” And “when you vote a black man in office thinking he is your savior, within a short while he will show you, ‘I’ll do the best I can, but that is very little.’”

4) A headline from the indispensable Mauricio Claver-Carone: “U.S. Embassy Re-Opened amid Record Political Arrests in Cuba.” (Article here.)

I wonder: Do President Obama and his people care? Are they a tiny bit embarrassed? Would the press ever ask them about it? Or have a chance?

5) As this story tells us, University of Michigan fans went to Salt Lake City, to see their team (my team too) lose to Utah.

Afterward, some of them went to Bourbon House, racking up a bill of $505. They — or one of them — left a $3,000 tip. This is part of the Tips for Jesus phenomenon. The waitress cried tears of gratitude, etc.

My message to Michigan fans: Save your dough! We may need it to bribe recruits …


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