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Leftist media duck new Vatican sex scandal

Last year, my wife and I visited Italy for the first time. In Rome, we arranged for a guide to take us through the Vatican. I envisioned an elderly gentleman, but our guide turned out to be an attractive young woman who, I soon decided, was a practicing Catholic.

US voters support “effective SOB”

Debra Saunders | Real Clear Politics

WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter lives in a two-bedroom ranch house in Plains, Georgia, assessed at $167,000, the Washington Post recently reported. And unlike former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, he chose not to join corporate boards or deliver six-figure speeches because he didn’t want to “capitalize financially on being in the White House.”

Hungary, Italy combine against migrants

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute

China extends online control of citizens

E John Gregory | National Interest

Facebook’s breathtaking economic richess were built on free expression. Still, in seemingly endless bouts of self-infantilization, Facebook continues to literally run and grovel to the Party to be let into the safe space mega-market while the Party taunts them that it would “damage the national interests of China” while simultaneously waving fat stacks of advertising cash.