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It’s the Hayward and Long Hour this week, meaning it’s TheoBro-PoliPhi time. Since this duo was away for our recent episode featuring questions submitted by Ricochet subscribers, we asked for a new batch of inquiries catered specifically for our blithesome professor and the jocular seminarian. As ever, Ricochet members delivered a surplus of material for us in the chatty corner of showbiz.
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Harvard has no right to taxpayer money, so if they don’t want to follow the rules, they can do without. It’s not like they’re short on money.
I guess Rob hasn’t noticed that the border inflow has already dropped fairly close to zero. So just immediately returning new arrivals, would also accomplish nearly nothing. Deporting those already in, is required.
Re administration-heavy institutions with skewed priorities: In the ’90s, when my community’s hospital gave its administrator $500,000+contract, I noted in my newspaper column that you never go to a ball game or other public event and hear over the PA, “Is there an administrator in the house?”
It would have been nice to have asked the questions re the pope and the Church to a Catholic rather than an Episcopalian. What we need in a new pope is a holy, virile, wise, courageous man who lead with orthodox Catholic moral and theological clarity. To try to frame it as we need a conservative or a liberal is hogwash. Sigh.
This Roman Catholic agrees with you on the traits we need in the next pope. Another way of putting it would be: Someone The New York Times doesn’t like.
Augustine was indeed pretty cool.
I invited George Weigel to be the guest, but he’s in Rome and very busy for the next few weeks. Will try him again after the conclave.
At the risk of having to defend Mitt Romney , I see nothing wrong with the term self-deportation, it would have been hailed as brilliant and witty if uttered by Obama. It’s just like ‘binders’ or Trumps second scoop of ice cream, it’s just something the media latched onto having nothing else at hand at the moment. No need for conservatives to play along as if it’s some kind of gaffe.
Firstly, just as I was thinking about how we going to miss James’s skill in smoothly integrating the commercial into the program, Steve deftly slid into Bamboo HR. Very well done.
Secondly, I sent Steve’s Papal/Baptist smoke cartoon to a relative, a college instructor who’s also an ordained Southern Baptist minister. His response was “Yes, that’s true”.
The administrators take 2 weeks off at Christmas and 2 weeks off in July at times when the docs are scrambling to cross cover each other to squeeze 2 or 3 days off. That’s what chaps. Oh and good luck finding an administrator after 3:30 in the afternoon.
When you sit at the Lileks Clinic on Segues, sooner or later you pick up a few tricks.
Pepperdine University: I still remember my brother coming back from a college shopping visit to Pepperdine (circa 1975) wondering how any students get any studying done there. We lived in coastal Orange County, so the Pacific Ocean was not foreign to us. But my brother decided the Pepperdine coastal scenery would be too much for him, so he chose Cal State Long Beach instead (accounting major).
Regarding the distinction between Republicans and Democrats: Democrats are above the law and can never be arrested or prosecuted for anything, at least without massive demonstrations and violent protests. And they have innumberable rights and are a proteced class. Republicans are below the law and can be prosecuted for whatever concocted nonsense a Democrat official wants to invoke. Indeed they can be surveilled as terrorists just for breathing or attending Mass. And their Constitutional rights are entirely fungible. Strange that the podcasters are unable to identify such a clear distinction between the labels.
At the same time your brother was visiting Pepperdine, I was entering Syracuse University, here in the snow country of Central New York. After graduation, I lived in California for 40 years, and the first time I saw Pepperdine, those were my exact thoughts: “If I’d gone to this school, I never would have made it.” Not much temptation to sit outside and enjoy the view at SU!
From the end of Young Sheldon:
Bob Medendez, Christopher Flanagan, Eric Adams, Terrance Cox, Henry Cuellar and Andrew Gillum would like a word.
The problem is, of course, is that in MAGAland the Democrats are guilty of all sorts of crimes and they imagined that every day of the new Trump Administration was going to be frog-marching heaven and it hasn’t happened.
Ah, but those are Democrats who broke with their masters, and suffered the consequences. You absolutely confirm my point. Andrew Gillum got off scot free. Flanagan stole from the HBA he was serving. He was a State Representative in Massachusetts, hardly a national figure in the Democrat Party. Cuellar, Adams, and Menendez all opposed Democrat positions and paid for it. Had they not, despite their crimes, they would never have been charged. That’s another distinction between Republicans and Democrats, Democrats require complete adherence to the Party policy and talking points, or they pay the consequences. Republicans not at all.
The Democrat party functions like the Mafia. As long as you don’t cross the bosses and are useful to the Party you are a Made Member. Once you cross the bosses or harm the Party, you wind up in the political equivalent of a shallow grave or a pair of cement boots.
Cox was a one term Congressman from a relatively conservative area of California and was investigated and charged after he was out of Congress and no longer a political person of consequence in the Democrat Party.
You are scraping the bottom of the barrel and working very hard to make a very very very weak case. Now if you could cite someone like, say, Alcee Hastings, I would concede the point. He had a long career in Congress after being removed from the Federal Bench for taking bribes from criminals, never prosecuted criminally, not given the Death Penalty of never holding federal office by Arlen Specter when he was Impeached and convicted and removed from the federal judiciary by the Senate, never charged with the crimes he committed in criminal court, and went on to a long and fraudulent career in Congress. In Democrat parlance, that is being punished for your crimes.
I was going to mention Rod Blagojevich and Kwame Kilpatrick but they got pardoned by another corrupt politician.
I’m not an expert, but I think what happened to Blagojevich was highly questionable and he sure as hell didn’t deserve 14 years.
Ha. That’s it!
He crossed the light worker. 14 years is called mercy when you cross the light worker.
EJHill is too young to remember the Kefauver hearings that took down corrupt Democrat machines (redundantly redundant), and even the Democrat Senate Majority Leader. That was almost 75 years ago.
Not personality, no. And no one has used my name and the words “too young” together for some time.
Republicans have had their machines, too. The Stalwarts fought for patronage and the spoils of winning and fought Civil Service reform tooth and nail.
It’s said one of the reasons Nixon didn’t press the corruption of Cook County in 1960 election is because he knew what his own party was doing down state in Illinois.