Category: People
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New Archbishop of NY; Church is not a Country Club
Love the quote below the link. Lots more if you hit the link. “Today in the Gospel, Jesus gives us the Great Commission,” … “Go, and make disciples, baptize them in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And behold, God is with us always.” “This is a call to be a missionary Church, not a…
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Ben Sasse: Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl
The Wall Street Journal has a new free online newsletter with a variety of opinion pieces. Ben Sasse is the former Republican Nebraska Senator who is terminally ill with stage four cancer, but still is functional. Former Senator Sasse announces terminal cancer. Below is his column about civility; hit the link for the full column.…
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Senator Fetterman on his harshest critics
This is a zero surprise. Fetterman a rare thoughtful, moderate Democrat politician. So it’s obvious who spews hate. Shows you how clueless Dana Bash is, working in her little echo chamber.
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Books I read – my 2025 list
This excludes – two exceptions below – the reading I do professionally. And it’s a shorter list than the 2024 (14 books) list, to a great extent because much of three months time was spent on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routine – every few years – examination. (I am registered directly as an…
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On Catholic Church divisions
This is pretty good as an Australian – with an Asian background – offers a commentary on some Bishop Barron comments.
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Barry Bonds v. Mariano Rivera; only time they faced each other
Who wins the duel…
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From Pew; An easy chart of America’s beliefs and practices
The Pew Research Firm is very reliable and thanks to EM for sending this to me – As of 2023, about 218 million of the 262 million adults in the United States said they believe in God or a universal spirit. Large numbers like these can be difficult to picture, but what if we scaled…
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WSJ: Minneapolis Police Union President speaks out
I think I read somewhere that a Minneapolis police official said they did offer some support to the ICE people but were told it wasn’t needed. This seems to directly contradict that. Why are the ICE agents involved in these two tragedies still on duty? They should be on leave UPDATE: TWO WERE JUST PLACED…
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Mamdani blames Adams for City financial woes.
Your basic smooth politician, like De Blasio he blames his predecessor. I hope Eric Adams responds.
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At Davos; US Commerce Secretary v. Europe
Well I guess this is telling it like it is. Howard Lutnick is a hard ass New York businessman. The CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, he lost 658 employees on 9/11 at the top of the North WTC building, including his brother as well as my friend Tom Knox. He’d have been killed also but he…