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View ArticleTuesday links
First day of Fall (well, the middle of the night tonight, anyway): Autumnal equinox science, videos, quotes, poems, Vivaldi and Copernicus.The Biggest Guns in Human History. Kind of related – Forgotten...
View ArticleWalker's Strategic Ambiguity on Legal Immigration
On immigration as on other issues, there was a clear sense that Scott Walker personified the Groucho Marx line that “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.” Likewise,...
View ArticleFeel Distressed about the Future? Burdened? Give Pope Francis a Chance.
On a hot weekday night last week in Manhattan, no one seemed to notice the garbage piled up in the bike basket across the street. Nor the squashed dead pigeon in the middle of the street. And so too,...
View ArticleThe First Pope from the Americas Arrives Today to Remind Us Who We Are
On Friday night, Dominican priests welcomed young men for a vocation weekend in Washington, D.C., beginning with a Mass in the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Basilica of the National...
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Who Killed Scott Walker’s Chance at the Presidency?
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt…Who Killed Scott Walker’s Chance at the Presidency?A shocking twist! The presidential hopes of Scott Walker lie dead on the floor, slain by some mysterious assailant! His...
View ArticlePope Francis’s Arrival and His Vision Thing
Yesterday in Holguín, a place that had never seen a pope before, Pope Francis said:Even if we do not dare raise our eyes to the Lord, he looks at us first. This is our story, and it is like that of so...
View ArticleToday in Philadelphia: The World Meeting of Families Begins
Marriage and family is in crisis today. As Pope Francis has put it, too many people don’t want to marry, don’t stay married. People don’t see and know married love in so many cases, and so don’t feel...
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It’s Alive!
Jay Nordlinger’s Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators, is out today. The book is terrific. Check out Jay’s interview on NRO today.
View ArticleBarbarians and Their Unspeakable Folkways
The New York Times front page yesterday featured an appalling story whose title is self-explanatory: “U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies.“The story notes that “The...
View ArticleTwelve Items on the Pope's Visit to the U.S.
1. Pope Francis left Rome this weekend on the feast of Our Lady of Sallette, and on a Saturday, a day typically dedicated to Mary and her intercession. The apparition of Our Lady of Sallette involved a...
View ArticlePope Francis, Nancy Pelosi & the White House
George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, among many other things talked about the pope’s visit to the U.S. and a refreshed book of his Letters to a Young...
View ArticleJay, Hugh, ‘Monster Kids,’ Etc.
Our senior editor Jay Nordlinger appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and so did our comrade Hugh Hewitt. Jay talks about his new book Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and...
View ArticleWalker and Pawlenty
I’ve got a quick look back at the Walker campaign at Bloomberg. In that article I don’t bring up Tim Pawlenty’s 2011 campaign for president. But everyone else is mentioning it, and they’re mentioning...
View ArticleFiorina's 2010 Loss in California Doesn't Illuminate Much About Her
While it’s more than fair to wonder how Carly Fiorina will handle the challenges of the marathon of a presidential campaign, “Fiorina lost in her Senate race in 2010” is probably one of the weakest...
View ArticleRepublicans and Immigration
Also in that Bloombergpost about Walker, I note the gap between Republican politicians and Republican voters on immigration. Gallup just responded to a question I sent the organization for some numbers...
View ArticleBleeding Blue: Honoring Our Police (VIDEO)
Police officers in this country have been denigrated unfairly in the past year. It’s time to recognize the sacrifice and commitment of the brave men and women who risk their lives each day to protect...
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl: Deserter or World's Dumbest Whistleblower?
Thanks to a preliminary hearing in Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial proceeding, we now know the broad outlines of his defense:Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl was fed up. He was five weeks into a deployment in...
View ArticleNot Exactly Satire
I am not sure whether The Onionhere is being more serious than it usually is when it writes:WASHINGTON—Admitting the startling discovery had compelled him to reexamine his long-held beliefs, His...
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A Better Road Map than the U.N.'s to Empower the Poor
At its upcoming summit, the United Nations is soon due to replace its ambitious Millennium Development Goals with a new set of far more extensive and even more ambitious Sustainable Development Goals....
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