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Amy Coney Barrett is an Ultramontane Catholic, she shares that with Scalia: an open rebellion against Vatican II.  Pope John Paul II made internal war against Pope John XXIII’s reforms by appointing conservative Cardinals, and made open war against Liberation … Continue reading →

Is the Trump, almost nominee, to replace the * utterly corrupt Kennedy, Neo-Confederate/Originalist Brett Kavanaugh, already on the ‘Conservative Shit List’ ? America’s premier political gossip sheet, Politico can’t resist speculation on this question. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/trump-supreme-court-pick-kavanaugh-immigrant-abortion-teen-700856 * http://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-son-loaned-president-trump-over-a-billion-dollars-2018-6 Political Cynic https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/trump-supreme-court-pick-kavanaugh-immigrant-abortion-teen-700856

Headline: Economic rights are being eroded under US liberals’ noses Sub-headline: Supreme Court rulings on deregulation tend to pass without much fuss or attention The most common dread is a liberal reversal in the otherwise one-sided culture war. If the court … Continue reading →

Somehow I missed this Ganesh essay. It is a cliche a ridden exercise of a kind of defense of the American Republic, that was simply swallowed whole by the imperatives of the National Security State apparatus. The F.I.S.A. Court, the … Continue reading →

This news story wasn’t the usual screeching Anti-Leftist  hysterics by Financial Times’ hireling Jude Webber, he had the help of ‘Luis Rubio of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, ‘Ryan Dimas, chief investment strategist at Chicago-based asset manager William Blair’ and … Continue reading →

The first paragraph of Mr. Douthat’s unrelenting attack on Justice Kennedy, begins an indictment of Kennedy for not being like Scalia. Mr. Douthat in high dungeon is compelling, in his ricocheting polemic, that almost hits its target, except Mr. Douthat’s … Continue reading →

The reader of Mr. Ganesh’s purely speculative ‘life report’ on the career of Mr. Franzen, which ends not with praise for Franzen the writer, but presents this author as an ‘anti-left crusader’, in sum, a ‘political elitist’. Not quite in … Continue reading →

The opening paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s political funeral oration for Anthony Kennedy is worthy of full quotation: The retirement of Anthony Kennedy is an obituary for conservatism in America. Kennedy’s pragmatic libertarianism — his belief in limited government, pluralism, moderation, … Continue reading →

Its no surprise that the Corporatist Press should outdo themselves in praise of Anthony Kennedy. Mr. Rosen’s credentials are stellar in the Neo-Liberal terms of Market Fetishism wedded to Academic status: Jeffrey Rosen is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. … Continue reading →

Peter Hitchens on ‘the noble failure’ of Thatcher The Milk Snatcher. The reader almost reaches the point of feeling sorry for the utterly disillusioned Mr. Hitchens! (If only Peter had the literary gifts that Christopher possessed.) Mr. Hitchens repeats, with … Continue reading →