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Fr. George Rutler, author and pastor of Our Saviour Church in New York City, evinced sparkling erudition during his speech yesterday at the Portsmouth Institute’s conference celebrating William F. Buckley, Jr. That Fr. Rutler has lived a life of the mind came across forcefully, with regular practice at public oratory, and one couldn’t help but…

A couple of William F. Buckley, Jr., displays:

In the latest Community Crier announcement of the Portsmouth Institute’s inaugural conference, on the topic of William F. Buckley, I wrote of the importance of stepping away from one’s life. I mentioned dislocation of place — the religious man’s journey into the desert, as well as the working man’s days of intellectual pursuits, as represented…

It had to be serious if even NOW was taking the side of Governor Palin and her family. Drudge is reporting that tonight on his show, Dave Letterman sincerely apologizes … especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by…

Here’s where the prostitution decriminalization narrative begins to unravel for me: “We urge Rhode Island to go forward, not backwards, in the fight against human trafficking,” Andrea Ritchie, director of the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York City, said. If Rhode Island wants to “eradicate prostitution,” she said, the way…

No doubt, they were tasteless and crude, even about an eighteen year old, as he thought, and not a fourteen year old. They were also not particularly funny. But what reflects most poorly on David Letterman in his telling jokes about Sarah Palin’s daughter is that it demonstrates a lack of consistency on his part.…