Senator John McCain recently warned of Trump’s “America first” rhetoric, describing it as “half-baked, spurious nationalism.” But every time McCain grandstands in front of Congress in an attempt to escalate conflict abroad, he is making the same argument for “blood and soil,” that these new nationalists make.
Source: Paul Is Dead
This week President Trump revealed his final five candidates for Federal Reserve chair. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, all five have strong ties to the financial and political establishment.
‘The Rooster Bar’ is an all-too-real look at the problem of law school elitism.
Source: Review: ‘The Rooster Bar,’ by John Grisham – The Washington Post
Investigators in Manhattan seized the mosaic from the home of a collector, asserting that it had been looted from Italy decades ago.
If you have an open mind and inquiring heart, you will recognize something incomparably wonderful in Plato’s writings, if only their profound resonance with Christian teachings. The Cave is a masterful metaphor for the soul trapped in sin… (essay by Thaddeus Kozinski)
Climate change is a perfect example of a problem which, to those intent on saving the world, cannot be managed within a constitutional order. Whatever may be happening to the climate, keeping faith with the Founders’ gift of ordered liberty is our best hope of addressing it… (essay by John J. Gallagher)
Source: Climate Change and the Constitution – The Imaginative Conservative
His decision to hire Andrew Weissmann indicates that Mueller may be more interested in finding someone to indict than in justice.
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His decision to hire Andrew Weissmann indicates that Mueller may be more interested in finding someone to indict than in justice.
Source: Judging by Mueller’s staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice | TheHill
John Barleycorn 
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