Current Affairs
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For the second time (at least), Justice Kennedy demonstrates that being a fool is no bar to being a Supreme Court Justice.
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Well, this story came as a bit of a shock. It's been 17 years now since flight TWA 800 mysteriously exploded shortly after taking off from JFK Airport. When I saw the headline it took me a moment to remember what it referred to. At the time of the event I was a member of…
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Here's something else I've revisited in the process of selecting Sunday Night Journals for inclusion in a book: a series of posts from 2006-7 called "The Liberal Conservative," in which I lay out at some length my notion of a meaningful conservatism. It covers a lot of the ground we've visited here in recent discussions…
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We’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here. –Barack Obama
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"…an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell." Does he–Omar Bakri, apparently the spiritual director or educator of the Woolwich killer–not realize that that could mean two very different things?
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On the way home from work I listened to the BBC/PRI radio show The World. A BBC foreign affairs writer was interviewed about the Woolwich murders. The interview lasted for somewhere around ten minutes, and the words "Islam" and "Muslim" were never once mentioned. I deplore anti-Islamic hysteria and fear-mongering. But there's nothing to be said…
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It's an interview with a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado. You have to watch it all the way to the end. (Hat tip to Neoneocon.) http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf
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I get a daily email from the Vatican Information Service which reports on the doings of the pope. A lot of it is dull stuff about meetings and ecclesial appointments, so usually I just scan it quickly. But usually there are at least a few remarks from the pope. And sometimes there's something pretty substantial.…
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This story from the Telegraph is somewhat alarming. I read National Review's blog pretty regularly, and a couple of their English writers, in particular Andrew Stuttaford, discuss the EU often, always in very negative terms. They are quite hostile to it, viewing it as a road to despotism, and since I don't know anything much…
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The Internet Cat Video Festival.
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