Pope Francis is dead. God help the Catholic Church if the cardinals elect a pope who is harsh toward divorced Catholics

 Pope Francis, the man who shocked the world with his sympathetic comment about the gay community and his humility, is ...
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Warrior is the Ultimate Fight Movie

 Fight movies are an enduring cinematic subgenre. Requiem for a Heavyweight (Anthony Quinn),  Raging Bull (Robert De Niro), the Rocky ...
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“Yes, we can read. A few of us can even write. ” Yankees should reconsider Mississippi as a good place to live

Mississippi has been the whipping boy of the liberal media for decades. When the states are ranked in terms of ...
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In the Age of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, The Center Cannot Hold

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold … The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. ...
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Poison Ivy is God’s Message to be More Careful

 I live off a gravel road in the floodplain of the Mississippi River. No levee protects my side of the ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : Gene Lyons, Esteemed Columnist, Calls It Quits Over Trump: My Flyover-Country Response

In an op-ed essay that appeared in my local newspaper yesterday, Gene Lyons wrote that he is retiring mainly due ...
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Towing Our Lifeless Kubota to High Ground as the Mississippi Floods for the Second Time This Spring

Millions of Americans are worried about the stock market, which tanked last week. People saw their retirement accounts shrink dramatically, ...
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First, it was Russia! Russia! Russia! Now, it’s Social Security! Social Security! Social Security!

 Democrats have morphed from being the Party of Chaos to the Party of Chicken Little. For years, the Dems accused ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : Matt Taibbi sues Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove for defamation: She should apologize pronto

Over the past several months, Congressional Democrats have descended into demogagery, profanity, and clownisness as a way of expressing their ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : Removing a biased federal judge from a case: There’s a simple fix

 Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly been battered by biased or hostile judges in the DC Circuit–a rat’s nest ...
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