"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
Paglia rocks:
Trump may be raw, crude and uninformed, but he’s also smart, intuitive and a quick study who will presumably get up to passable speed as he assembles a brain trust over the coming months
Comes in middle of astute analysis by this Bernie supporter.
Source: Camille Paglia: This is why Trump’s winning, and why I won’t vote for Hillary – Salon.com
You were thinking, it’s important not to look scared? About this Islamic gang? Our war against them?
It will not be effectively fought with guilt, ambivalence or double-mindedness. That, in the West, will have to change.
And more more more from the wonderful Peggy Noonan here: Unite to Defeat Radical Jihadism – WSJ
This way of being – life permeated by religious practice is what I hunger for; frankly, what I think most of us ravenously, endlessly pursue.
We want liturgy and ritual that transform. We want routine and rhythm that fill our days with meaning. We want our relationships, jobs, conversations, activities, choices, emotions, and sense of self to be sacred.
We want our life to have significance – not just when looked back on in eulogy, but our day-in-day-out experience of it. This is religious.
Farther down in this essay, she gives a sort of road map:
Religious, then religion. Ritual, then faith. Words, then creeds. Writing, then Writ. Beauty, then belief. Maybe this is the way home, the way over, the way through.
more more more where this came from: Maybe we can do better than “I’m spiritual but not religious.” | Ronna Detrick, M.Div.
I can’t do better than recommend this whole piece, analyzing and reporting on the Sunday talkies, droll, by writer distanced from his subject, readable.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has officially endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Source: FL Gov Endorses Trump: ‘It’s Time to End the Republican on Republican Violence’ | Fox News Insider
The Cuban knows where he stands:
“There are profound differences between our countries that will not go away,” Castro says.
Our man in Havana? Not so much.
Source: Castro, Obama on human rights, freedom: Agree to disagree – POLITICO
It was supposed to be a secret where these 200 Marines were headed. And yet the terrorists had them in their sights.
Source: ISIS Knew Just Where to Hit These U.S. Marines – The Daily Beast
President Obama’s open-door immigration policy is set to accept more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C., according to federal documents.Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.What’s more, the president is also planning to add over 100,000 more with refugee status, many from Syria. Refugees can also petition the government for their relatives.
