Peaceful pope is not always right in world affairs
It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church. So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic. Rubio was on more than a spiritual journey. His mission was to persuade Pope Leo XIV of the rightness, even the righteousness, of the Trump administration's actions to destroy Iran's goal of acquiring a nuclear weapon and likely using it as a means of intimidation, or possibly launching it as a weapon of war. The Pope is committed to resolving disputes through diplomacy. That course would be worth pursuing if Iran's ...
Virginia Democrats reveal radical design
Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country -- by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances. Democrats violated the state's constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four congressional seats away from Republicans. But when Virginia's supreme court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn't back down: They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. If the Democrat-controlled ...
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Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dies at 29
Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was found dead Monday at a home in the Los Angeles area, a person familiar with the terms of the ongoing investigation said Tuesday. He was 29. Emergency personnel who responded to the scene found drug paraphernalia in the home, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because those details were not released publicly. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the exact cause of death. Neither the Grizzlies nor Clarke's agency, Priority Sports, provided any further details about Clarke's death. "We are ...