This is refreshing, Pope Francis allowing problems with being one’s brother’s keeper.

Pope Francis warned Monday that the recent influx of migrants risked overwhelming European values and traditions, but said he was confident the continent could successfully integrate the newcomers.

Is the bloom off the rose of his getting down with the bad-smelling?

Gonna wash those Hillary emails right outa our hair.

If you haven’t been focused on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, it’s important to get up to speed on one of the nation’s most important scandals.

Source: Michigan’s Snyder facing nation’s most serious scandal | MSNBC

NFL has multiplied rules (and penalty flags), ditto U.S. as to rules and penalties.

This is what we can expect from the federal government as the legislature delegates more and more of its rulemaking to federal agencies and their all-too-human experts. Federal agencies enact 3,000 rules each year. Congress voted on 318 bills in 2015 and passed just 115 laws. The more rules we have, the more the people on the sidelines will mistake themselves as the main actors in the daily drama of American life.

Source: We Are All Bengals Now

Why not? And bon voyage.

While most of his policies and signature pieces of legislation have had dismal results, Obama has certainly redefined the office of the president. In many ways, his term could be identified as the Kardashian presidency — famous for being famous, but lacking entirely in substance.

Thus spoke Dan Hevia in LifeZette. Read the whole thing.

A case of making one’s point in a supposedly straight news story:

As an editor the word “only” is usually a red flag for me. It’s an easy way for a reporter to slip in his or her own opinion about whether a number is so high as to merit concern or so low as to not be worth fretting about. A fine example is this

The reporter just knows what’s going on but is not a columnist, so . . .