Category: Blithe Spirit
Court drops charges against pro-life investigators who exposed Planned Parenthood | News | LifeSite
The only retained charge is that Merritt conspired to invade privacy. However, no undercover investigative journalist has ever been so charged. The law applies to private conversations, and the CMP videos were taken in a public venue. Also, [California Attorney General
Xavier]
Becerra prosecuted Merritt without allowing her to constitutionally face her accusers, and Becerra did not give proper legal notice so Merritt could mount a defense.
“Sandra Merritt did nothing wrong," Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver explained. "The complaint by the California attorney general is unprecedented and frankly will threaten every journalist who provides valuable information to the public.” [Italics added]
Yay.
Jesuit Scholar: Seeking to Defend Islam at All Costs Is Betraying the Truth | ncregister.com
The scholar is 86-year-old Egyptian Greek Melkite Jesuit Father Henri Boulad, who explains why he believes Islamist terrorists are applying what their religion teaches them, and why the Church fails to address this because she has fallen prey to a leftist ideology that is destroying the West.
Fr. Boulad wrote Pope Francis about how he talks about Islam, ignoring the reality of the situation, including the need for Christians facing martyrdom for words to live (and die) by:
“In the extreme fragility of Christians — both in the West and in the East — they are expecting something from you other than vague and harmless declarations that may obscure reality. Your predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, had the courage to take a clear and unambiguous position. His attitude has raised a lot of shields and earned him many enemies. But is not a frank confrontation healthier than a dialogue based on compromise? When the Jewish hierarchs asked the apostles to stop announcing the Gospel, they replied: "As for us, we cannot not proclaim what we have seen and heard …" (Acts 4:20)
“It is high time to emerge from a shameful and embarrassed silence in the face of this Islamism that attacks the West and the rest of the world. A systematically conciliatory attitude is interpreted by the majority of Muslims as a sign of fear and weakness. If Jesus said to us: Blessed are the peacemakers, he did not say to us: Blessed are the pacifists. Peace is peace at any cost, at any price. Such an attitude is a pure and simple betrayal of truth.”
Here is the priest’s extended interview with Natl. Catholic Register about how the West ignores the nature of Islamic terror and persecution.
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Robert Mueller expands special counsel office, hires 13 lawyers – CNNPolitics.com
Either Robert Mueller should resign, or we need two special counsels.
Glenn Reynolds at USA Today:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a problem: He has a disqualifying conflict of interest regarding a large part of his work. It involves a choice between investigating or relying on former FBI director James Comey, a longtime close friend of Mueller’s.
Ideally, he’ll recognize that and resign. But if he doesn’t resign, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should appoint another special counsel to take over the obstruction-of-justice part of the investigation, where Mueller is disqualified.
Bold recommendation for bad situation.
As Glenn would say at Instapundit, read the rest of it.
Camille Paglia cuts through the warming concept
Refreshing, intelligent, informed:
It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender.
Well, to be a progressive (liberal? leftist? whatever) is to be an uber-romantic.
The Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to kill numerous GOP lawmakers did not commit his violent acts in a vacuum. James Hodgkinson may have pulled the trigger that critically wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and 2 others. But the hyste…
Jeff Sessions takes the gloves off
He looks so mild, but . . .
Attorney General Jeff Sessions came out swinging Tuesday, blasting his former colleagues in the U.S. Senate for their sham investigation into these loony accusations that somehow Mr. Sessions conspired with Russians to rig last year’s election.
Sham investigation, loony accusations.
Charles Hurt has it right.
Mark Brown of Sun-Times tells a good story but feels obliged to explain . . .
. . . supplying this closer to a very good column:
“Why did I bother to tell you so much about the early years of two criminals from long ago?
Because for all the advancements in education and corrections, we’re still handling troubled youth pretty much like we did when [the two criminals] were coming up — and getting the same results.
And for some folks, maybe that’s easier to see when the criminals in question are white.”
“Troubled” indeed. One of them helped hang a school principal out of a window, which troubled the principal no end, I’m sure.
Something else: The hard-copy head speaks of “reform school,” and “reformatory” is in the copy, both quite accurate, because so we spoke and speak.
But also politically correct when you get down to it, as is “corrections” for the department of jailing people, in most cases to protect other people from their antisocial behavior.
Not all, however. The reform school in question, Montefiore, had at least one distinguished alumnus who shaped up rather well, Chicago Daily News etc. columnist the late Mike Royko.
