John Hirschauer
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The video Taylor Lorenz is describing is of a self-described "magical pleasure worker" who runs "Sexy Summer Camp" for children in rural Kentucky.
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Great. It’s been illegal in the United States since 1963.
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The New York Times is bending over backwards to avoid saying the word “Chiefs.”
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Whatever my disagreements with Father
@JamesMartinSJ
, his decision to include the "unborn child in the womb" among his prayer intentions at the Democratic National Committee last night was an act of courage for which all faithful Catholics ought to commend him.
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“After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, we’ve decided we hate you and want to make our contempt for you and your religion unmistakably clear.”
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“Dark and divisive”
Breaking News: President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, leaning into the culture wars and barely mentioning the pandemic.
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Pennsylvania announced the closure of two of its remaining four state institutions for people with disabilities in 2019.
The last residents are slowly being moved out. Some are crying. One asked what she did wrong.
I reported on it for
@CityJournal
:
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Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is called "the Alcatraz of the South." It has a reputation as one of America's bloodiest prisons. Its critics call it a modern-day plantation.
That was not what I saw.
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Amazed by the Catholics on this website who spit white-hot fury about the office culture at Word on Fire but can't speak with anything approaching moral clarity and conviction on the subject of abortion.
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"debunked conspiracy theory" is a way for reporters with little actual knowledge of the subject matter to express contempt for low-status beliefs and the people who hold them
@NPR
might’ve been the most dismissive, running stories on back to back days suggesting there was nothing to the allegations & that scientists “debunk[ed]” & “dismiss[ed]” the idea of an accidental release.
They were, in retrospect, entirely wrong, but memoryholed these pieces.
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"Hospitals don't perform transgender surgeries on minors, and it's good that they do."
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The point of universal pre-K is to take children out of "reactionary" households and turn them over to teachers like this.
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@ChristinaPushaw
Amazed she just let his claim stand that DeSantis "doesn't support African Americans and their right to vote."
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"Catholic school persists in teaching bimillennial dogma 'years after Obergefell v. Hodges.'"
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The best punting prospect in a generation had his career ruined by a false rape accusation.
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Excited to announce I'll be joining
@CityJournal
as associate editor this coming Monday.
I'm grateful to my colleagues at
@amconmag
for two great years and am looking forward to the next chapter.
Pray for me!
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"You dress kind of wild, don't you, son?"
Fifty-two years ago, today.
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"My cohabiting fiance and I were just about to commit a mortal sin when I remembered, shoot—I have the prayer breakfast this morning!"
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Justice Barrett asked SG Fletcher whether a gay website designer would have to design a website for a pro-traditional-marriage religious group.
"I don't think they do, Justice."
It’s not a double standard. There's one standard: you lose.
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Great news.
Catholic hospitals are growing — and banning treatments they see as “immoral”
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Pleased to announce I’ll be joining
@amconmag
as an assistant editor late next month. TAC is a publication on the rise and a central player in the big debates on the Right. I’m grateful for my time at RealClear and eager to take this next step with TAC.
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Joan Crist says that the Institute of Christ the King represents "radical traditionalism, clericalism, sexism, sectarianism, triumphalism, rejection of the teachings of the second Vatican Council and the seamless garment of Catholic social teaching." Where to start!
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It is in our very brave new world that Drew Brees is “the problem.”
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Right on cue:
Expect new "questions" to be "raised" about the Chiefs' tomahawk chop chant by Wednesday or so
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NY has cut 300 beds from its State Psychiatric Centers over the past five years. The result has been a spate of assaults and homicides committed by former mental patients with untreated serious mental illness.
My latest at TAC:
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Can we expect "an incredibly strong statement" from the Archbishop the next time a pro-abortion politician attempts to receive the Eucharist?
Breaking: An incredibly strong statement from the Archbishop of Washington, DC, protesting the President's visit today to the Shrine of St. John Paul II: "reprehensible."
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“A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.” -Cdl. Ratzinger
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I spoke to
@michaeljknowles
about transgenderism, the role of the state in discouraging vice and encouraging virtue, and elected Republicans' sudden obsession with the competitive integrity of girls' sports.
Read the interview here:
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I roasted a whole chicken in the oven Monday and I’m amazed at how much of a cheat code this is. I spend $9 and get three meals. It tastes amazing. And I can go buy another chicken literally any time I want.
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I listened to an old episode of
@SpencerKlavan
's podcast on Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and was struck by an excerpt from Volume II, about a monastery on Anzersky Island that was converted into a concentration camp. Here is the excerpt in full, with a chilling footnote:
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Please pray for a family friend who is seriously ill and potentially facing death alone.
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Ghoulish.
More than 180 CEOs sign a letter opposing state restrictions on abortion.
The leaders says their employees and customers’ economic stability depends on it.
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“I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.”
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They also claim community-based care is cheaper, but this is only true because they closed institutional admissions and thereby skewed the case mix. Ultimately, their objection to places like Polk and White Haven is ideological, not economic.
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“The phrase [‘Viva Cristo Rey!’] had been something of a puzzle to police, who believed it was Latin. ‘I don’t know what it was,’ said one officer, ‘but it didn’t sound good.”
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If
@michaeljknowles
's readers are moved return to Mass and crack open the “Iliad”, “Speechless” will have done more for the conservative movement than every think-tank luncheon held in the past 30 years.
My review of Speechless for RealClear.
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tfw you’re out in the west Texas town of El Paso and fall in love with a Mexican girl
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Since most residents at Polk and White Haven are there voluntarily, the Department was implying that it better appreciated residents’ dignity than did residents’ family members or even residents themselves.
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generally speaking people who wear these in public are not to be trusted
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“Trumpy Bear is extremely overpriced. I’m going to buy three of them.”
Among my favorite
@michaeljknowles
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"People like Loury’s lived experience—and therefore his derived social philosophy” made him an exception to the rule that black thinkers acknowledge structural racism as paramount... [the administrator] preferred I assign “mainstream white conservatives."
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jarring to see a trending topic critical of the Biden administration that is not prebunked in the description ("false claims," "wrongly," "Experts say," etc.)
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“His legacy as a theologian pope is so formidable, of such unchallengeable merit, that his detractors and enemies already appear as fools, and zealots, as rank amateurs, ignoramuses, and passing windbags.”
@michaelbd
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Disability-rights groups cite declining censuses at state institutions to argue families no longer want institutional care. These same groups lobbied to ban institutional admissions, and, according to one PA parent, pressure social workers not to say institutional services exist.
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A hero.
@GriffinNamin
is a tremendous loss to the town of Southbury. A genuine person and a talented young man; I count myself fortunate to have known him. Everyone is heartbroken for his family, who merit our prayers. God rest the soul of Griffin Namin.
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My
@amconmag
column this week reviews the plan to remove some of Notre-Dame's confessionals and altars and replace them with "emotional spaces" and "discovery trails."
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Grateful to City Journal for running the piece.
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While this is an illegal formation (both tackles are uncovered/only five guys on the LOS) you love to see DeSantis throwing it back to 1912 with two wingbacks, a fullback, and a tailback in there.
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Buckley introducing Episcopalian James Pike in a debate on school prayer, to which the latter was, of course, opposed:
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If by "radical traditionalism" she means "a fealty to the prevailing doctrines and traditions adhered to by the Catholic faithful for 1,960 years," then sure, ICK represents "radical traditionalism."
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A 2013 survey of all residents of state institutions for people with developmental disabilities in PA found that 271 of the 306 residents capable of responding indicated they wanted to remain at the facilities. The Department is moving them anyway.
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I'm amazed by the mental gymnastics required to arrive at the belief that disability rights "begin" with right to kill an unborn child with disabilities.
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The closures of Polk and White Haven Centers, which have been open for 125 years and 66 years, respectively, drew the ire of families, staff, and some residents. It was supported by disability-rights groups and officials, one of whom said it was “consistent with our values.”
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@blackhowling01
@wicksdoug
@maggieNYT
To suggest that letting people keep more of their own money is stealing is to suggest that the government is entitled to a person's labor. I'm not a "greed is good" guy, but I don't buy this paradigm that a small business owner keeping more of his money is the end of the republic
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“The way to eternal life is narrow because it is demanding, requires commitment and denial of one’s own selfishness.”
Requiescat in pace.
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“That is just absolutely false! It was important for me that the Church is one with herself inwardly, with her own past…my intentions were not of a tactical nature, they were about the substance of the matter itself.” -Pope Benedict XVI, ‘Last Will and Testament’
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Last year, over 10,000 Canadians were euthanized, 219 of whom did not have a terminal illness. The Canadian parliament recently created a council to study whether "mature minors" should be eligible for assisted suicide.
My latest
@amconmag
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When are the people who were not allowed to attend funerals going to get an "open letter" from the "medical community"?
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If "clericalism" means "distinguishing between consecrated ministers of the sacraments and the laity," then ICK believes in "clericalism." If "sexism" means "holding a view of gender consistent with the bimillenial disciplines of the Church," then ICK is "sexist."
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“But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.”
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These "hard-line position[s]" are the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
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And if rejection of "the seamless garment of Catholic social teaching" means "objecting to the moral equation of littering and abortion and refusing to call advocacy for higher marginal tax rates a genuine form of generosity," then the ICK indeed rejects the "seamless garment."
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Angola is one of the most spiritual places I've ever been. Inmates pray before meals. They staff a hospice unit for dying inmates. They bury their dead on grounds. There are chapels in every prison camp.
"I was in prison, and you visited me."
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This is journalism.
@JohnHirschauer
received a package of crickets at the
@amconmag
office from a reader who raises and sells insects for human consumption. She reached out and offered to send him some after reading his column above.
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Expect new "questions" to be "raised" about the Chiefs' tomahawk chop chant by Wednesday or so
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If by "rejection of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council" Crist means "rejecting the non-doctrinal 'spirit of Vatican II' which includes no discernible teachings and only a series of amorphous slogans meant to undermine the clarity of dogma" then ICK "rejects Vatican II."
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Professional advocates I spoke to not only believe that people should be able to choose community-based care, but that community-based care should be imposed upon people in institutions who do not want it.
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Angola's prison rodeo is famous. In person, I saw why. Trusted inmates, most serving life for murder, are given unfettered access to family and friends. Rodeo participants bask in the crowd's applause. The event draws tens of thousands of fans. Inmates said it gives them hope.
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It would be nice if liberals would decide whether Jesus is a fictional character that I'm an idiot for believing in or a rubber stamp for all of their policy preferences.
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It has always been about “the flag.” Colin Kaepernick started the entire protest movement by declaring he refused to “stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
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Unlike most modern prisons, which are small and spartan by design, Angola sits on over 18,000 acres of Louisiana farmland, where inmates ride tractors and bicycles. At Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Center, 700 inmates live in a 27-story building with a single rooftop yard.
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At Polk and White Haven, in service of that ideology, vulnerable residents who rely on the specialized care offered at the facilities are being put in vans and driven away.
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If "sectarianism" means "believing Jesus Christ founded one Church which holds the keys to the kingdom of God," then ICK is "sectarian." If "triumphalism" means "believing that Jesus meant it when He said no one can come to the Father but through Him," ICK is "trimuphalist."
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Corrections staff were worried when Hooper started giving Angola's 4,200 convicts more freedom on grounds, but violence among inmates and against correctional officers has dropped substantially. "You can sleep peacefully around here," one inmate told me.
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Meeting William Marshner was for
me what I imagine meeting Taylor Swift is for 16-year-old girls.
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At some level you have to appreciate the utter shamelessness required to send this tweet.
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Had a bit of fun with this otherwise sordid subject:
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Re-upping this piece, on New York's years-long "Transformation Plan" to further reduce the number of beds at state mental hospitals and move more people with serious mental illness to "community-based settings."
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"Saying these people 'broke the law' does not answer for the morning raids, the trumped-up charges, the year-long gap between the events and the indictments, and the draconian potential sentences relative to the underlying conduct."
My latest:
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