Odds and ends ...11:51 am
Richard John Neuhaus’s remarkable closing address at last week’s convention of National Right to Life Committee is at this link: We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest.
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Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) takes on Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ bizarre attempts to restrict the free speech of members of congress, and he does it in a Dylanesque style. (Via Hot Air.)
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The final frontier: Jody Bottum (one time Q&A subject) is, I think, brilliantly on-the-mark in a piece called The Red Planet in which he makes the case that satisfying humankind’s need to look outward could help submerge the growing and destructive tendency to seek after a perfection of the species. (And any piece that includes the words “Vatican”, “terraforming” and “Mars” in one paragraph really has to be read.)
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Belatedly coming to this, but Jackie Mason’s Independence Day message from last week provides a great and classic lesson in magnanimity and brotherly bipartisanship, and so I can’t resist posting the YouTube clip of it below.
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