In his acceptance speech, Kavanaugh . . .

. . .  stressed judicial independence, and fidelity to statutes and the Constitution, interpreted as written, not as imagined. . .

. . . or deduced from a cloud of circumstance.

via Glenn Harlan Reynolds in USA Today

Chalk one up for common sense.

An uncommon virtue in gun matters.

But there’s a catch.

Fortworth, Texas, Jul 7, 2018 CNA/EWTN News.- The Diocese of Fort Worth is removing signs notifying people that concealed and open carry of firearms are both banned on church property – but the policy against guns has not changed. [?!]

Removal of the signs was recommended by a security team whom the diocese hired as consultants after a mass shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs last November, NBC reported.

Tony Perez, a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, has a license to carry firearms, . . . told Dallas-Fort Worth’s NBC affiliate that the signs were “effectively advertising a gun-free zone,” which notified individuals seeking to do harm that the location was vulnerable.

The catch:

Instead of posting signs near the entrances of churches throughout the diocese, notification of the gun ban will be included in weekly Sunday bulletins, NBC said.

It’s called having cake and eating it. Impossible, you say? Nah. Happens a lot.

They will have their bans, won’t they?

Published 7/9/2018

Signs of blossoming fascism in our land.

Reminds of Nazi street squads of ’30s. Bad, bad.

The man knows how to argue. Keeps his eye on the ball, rarely misses.

Argument here for K. as a strong pick.

Obvious, but good, point.

“This police academy is a shiny object that Rahm Emanuel can point to and say, `I’m all about police reform.’ It’s for political purposes — not functional purposes,“ McCarthy said.

Thing is, I can, perhaps naively, think some of the candidates are capable of having non-political purposes, but not Rahm.

With my first Chicago mayoral vote ever coming up, I find myself eager to participate.

via Chicago Sun-Times

He’s been dipping into Robert Frost lately.

ROME – Closing an ecumenical encounter with Christian leaders from the Middle East, Pope Francis on Saturday said that “truces maintained by walls and displays of power will not lead to peace,” only a concrete desire to engage in dialogue will work.

Seriously, folks, can’t he come up with something not market-tested? OK words abound, do they not?

(Robert Frost? Here. He could do worse, I grant you. Yet and still . . . )

Also, how were them dialogs with Palestinians led (a while back) by the likes of Yassir Arafat and friends? Intransigents all.

via Pope: Truces imposed by force won’t bring peace to Middle East

When in curial appointments, as in its being Italian bishops uber alles.

via MondayVatican

Boiler plate stuff he comes up with periodically.

Incontrovertible but hardly in a class with his climate-warning rhetoric,

Pope Francis warns against turning Earth into vast pile of ‘rubble, deserts and refuse’

Which I liken to the long-bearded, white-gowned guy carrying an “End is near” sign. I swear, he’s made an act of faith in this business.

Yay.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Marquette University had wrongly fired a conservative professor after he criticized a colleague who he believed to be curtailing student discussion of gay marriage.

The court found that Marquette violated the academic-freedom clause in professor John McAdams’ contract when it fired him over a 2014 blog post accusing a graduate student of refusing to allow undergraduates to express opposition to gay marriage during her class. As part of the ruling the university has been ordered to reinstate McAdams and provide him damages, including back pay.

“The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck a major blow in favor of free speech,” McAdams’ attorney, Rick Esenberg, of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Now what to do about the wretchedly wrong the decision-makers in this Jesuit-connected university? At the very least, they will bear watching.

via National Review

Meanwhile, Your Holiness, how’s that curia reform coming?