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ICYMI: I wrote about Muriel Spark's career and "critical but conforming" Catholicism for @firstthingsmag.
firstthings.com/article/2019/0…
Spark was hilarious.
Spark often returned to two religious preoccupations: the mysterious workings of grace and the dangers of moral superiority (something approaching antinomianism).
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Lots of people out to see the ‘Zards take on the Lakers. They’ll be so upset when they found out that Dwight Howard is stil injured!
There are 10 Lakers/Heat/Cavs jerseys for every one Wizards.
Former Badger Sam Dekker is with the ‘Zards now? I had no idea.
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Home Alone is SO unrealistic: Buzz’s bedroom circa 1990/91 has an Isaiah Thomas poster *and* a Chicago Bulls sticker? Please. No self-respecting fan of either team would have done that. (The movie was set outside of Chicago, so that should have been an MJ poster).
To those of you saying, “Isaiah was from Chicago!” Yes, but Buzz is about 13 or 14. This is what he’d know about Isaiah and Chicago:
Join me next week, when I discuss what Damone’s bedroom posters say about him in Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
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I guess it's official. I'll really miss @weeklystandard. Thank you to the many great writers there for expressing and defending conservative values and ideas, and for introducing me to so many great books, films, and ways of thinking.
Many thanks also to @PhilipTerzian and Adam Keiper for welcoming my work into @TWSculture, and for @prufrocknews for drawing attention to it!
Finally, good luck to everyone. I look forward to seeing your work elsewhere.
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Liberalism is a system of political dogma built on 3 premises:
1. Reason is accessible to each individual and dictates political truth that applies universally.
2. All individuals are perfectly free and equal.
3. Individuals take on political and moral obligation only by consent.
It doesn't matter if you call yourself a progressive, a classical liberal, or a "conservative." If your political worldview is based on these three premises, you are a liberal. Liberals disagree among themselves on lots of things. They are still liberals.
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Russia the main suspect in U.S. diplomats' illness in Cuba: NBC reuters.com/article/us-cub…
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You're still wondering why it's important to create a hue and cry about the Huffpost story?

Think about this scenario: A 100 folks from say, China, sitting in one room and creating Aadhaar after Aadhaar using a patched software which has geo-location disabled.

Every single day.
This is an actual national security issue of gigantic proportions. Mind is reeling thinking about possibilities of how this can be misused.

For all you know, terrorists in sleeper cells must have procured Aadhaar numbers and are living amongst us. Totally Legitimized by Aadhaar.
For a change all the chest-beating nationalists should be pouncing on this story and questioning the Government & UIDAI.

Where are you nationalists?
The country is being threatened!
For real!
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Inspired by this tweet, I'm going to list out a few issues that should have gotten relentless massive coverage, Gormint should have been questioned constantly, but seem to have died down.

Or maybe we just got distracted too fast?

Here we go...
The entire country's budget was passed in 36 minutes without discussion.

Everyone should have collectively lost their minds but, after a short burst of outrage, we swallowed it up whole as if it's normal.

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42 years of foreign donations to political parties was legalized. Again, it was bulldozed through Lok Sabha without discussion.

The gormint didn't even think it was necessary to EXPLAIN to us why they did this. We clearly don't deserve answers?
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