In Italy, says Nicholas Farrell, in Taki’s Magazine, Catholics and fascists are both keen on intervention by totalitarian higher bodies such as the state in both life and work, and they are hostile to individual freedom and the free market. And maybe not only there, if there. It goes with my tentative observations in the [...]
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Liz Warren gaining in Mass.!
Voters in the commonwealth care not if she fibbed about Indian-ness to game affirmative action to become a Harvard prof. . . . this is a by-product of living in a liberal state. Most folks here in the Bay State not only favor affirmative action but see nothing wrong with Warren’s claims even if they [...]
Even liberals get violent sometimes
In Oak Park the pigeons are in the crosshairs.
How she had her baby
How to lower expectations for a movie you might see: What to Expect When You’re Expecting is . . . [a] timid comedy full of stock characters and clichéd humor with endings never in doubt, it wants to tell you every detail of pregnancy but none of life. You will need an epidural just to [...]
Irish come out fighting
Hopey changey not working out at Notre Dame. Nothing says more about this most obvious overreaching by the boy president. Give a look at some nuts and bolts of it, noting while you are at it, this pungency: The [legal] background [of the HHS mandate] is farcical. It represents administrative law brought to us by [...]
Chicago police
Chief McCarthy just now on Roe, WLS-AM: terrific. Police did great job with protests, his discussing it with Roe was muy impressive. Nice to win one for once, and big feather in cap of Rahm, who stayed way back and did not let himself be drawn into media commentary. Contrast it with Richie M. Huge [...]
Black studies in focus
Heresy: African American Studies has a leaden foot on the victimhood pedal, and its premise is rarely questioned. You can lose your job with talk like that.
How's this for a (delayed) Mother's Day tribute?
Reblogged from Not for Attribution: The eyes have it.
Forgive us: a meditation on clarity
Reblogged from Not for Attribution: God forgives sins? We hear that all the time, from hundreds of preachers. But God condemns sins and forgives sinners. Not theology or Scriptural accuracy here (hardly) but simple (not that it’s a simple thing to achieve) clarity. Or the priest or lector prays for those suffering every misfortune. No. [...]
