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Tag: Blithe Spirit
A Georgetown University law professor recently declared on social media that “all white people are racist” and “all men are sexist.”
Thereby pretty much destroying the concepts.
Beautiful.
Reuters takes down live feed on Spicer home after blowback
It’s the newsroom atmosphere: all those think-alikes going for the headline. It’s natural.
On that strange, disturbing, and anti-American “Civiltà Cattolica” article
From Catholic World Report, an analysis of the recent article by an Italian Jesuit and a Presbyterian Argentinian, both working under the approving eye of the Vatican (and Pope Francis):
No doubt, Evangelical scholars and others will highlight the many problems characterizing the article’s grasp of the history of Evangelical Christianity and fundamentalism in America.
One agnostic friend of mine who happens to be a leading historian of American Evangelicalism at a prestigious secular university described the article’s take on this subject to me as “laughably ignorant.”
I also suspect Rev. Figueroa and Father Spadaro are oblivious, for instance, to many Evangelicals’ embrace of natural law thinking in recent decades: something that, by definition, immunizes any serious Christian from fideist tendencies [that undersell reason drastically].
Old movies never die — When they speak to ages like ours (and all others)
Pope Francis, won’t you please come home!
Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions – Bloomberg
Ald. Maldonado’s Argument With Police At Crime Scene Caught On Tape: VIDEO – Humboldt Park – DNAinfo Chicago
Ben Stein: We Essentially Have a Civil War Going On | Fox Business
Commenting on Trump’s situation:
“The media is at war with the president,” Stein said. “We essentially have a civil war going on.”
The famed economist said the political civil war is driven by the debate over sanctuary cities, which are a serious challenge to the constitution.
“These people are in open revolt against the constitution that is a very, very serious matter. It’s not a joke. It’s not trivial liberal airy fairy stuff. It’s a really serious challenge to the constitution,” Stein said
Such a good point. S-Cities are civil disobedience by office-holders. Selective secession, you might call it. State’s rights the Democrat Party way. Shades of Fort Sumter.
The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards – Imprimis
This working journalist with long and distinguished resume remembers when "
journalists were trusted and admired."
We were generally seen as trying to report the news in a fair and straightforward manner. Today, all that has changed. For that, we can blame the 2016 election or, more accurately, how some news organizations chose to cover it.
Among the many firsts, last year’s election gave us the gobsmacking revelation that most of the mainstream media puts both thumbs on the scale—that most of what you read, watch, and listen to is distorted by intentional bias and hostility.
I have never seen anything like it. Not even close.
That’s what you call an indictment.
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