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MGB: The question is how Roberts will vote.  He usually sides with defending the law, but if he does not the ideologues will give a victory to the reactionaries.  I am not sure I mind.  The Union movement needs to be spurred back into radical territory, getting in touch with its revolutionary roots. The current movement is mostly part of a system which prevents basic change. Let them die and be replaced with real worker ownership and empowerment. Among socialists writers, there has been a resurgence in strategic thinking.  The remainder of the union movement could help, but they will get more from us than we get from them.

Still waiting for the results of the Chile visit.  They must be made public.

Mulvaney was an idiot in Congress.  Some things never change.  This is one occasion where we hope that the staff subverts his efforts.  If they do not, expect bad mortgages and high gas prices to return.

St. John Paul was a dissenter during the Council and certainly did not encourage the spirit of Vatican II.  He attracted priests and bishops who shared his views on the authority of the Church, as expressed in Veritas Splendor, which is the natural heir to the Syllabi of Errors of Pius IX and X. It is a reactionary epistemology quite at variance with the openness to inquiry of Vatican II, where a third of the bishops prized faith as loyalty over faith as abandonment to the will of God as continually discovered by the Church.  Francis is of the latter, St. John Paul and Benedict the former, as is Weigel.

I don't watch Arroyo, who is more Republican and Reverend at this point. DACA is easy to fix. Just give all undocumented immigrants the visa they qualify for, such as student or H-1B, up to and including citizenship, if they meet all requirements except current legal status.  Of course, what is obvious is too easy for those who operate in bad faith.

The witness of the survivors is perfectly timed.  I doubt the blessing of rifles by the Unification Church was anything but bad timing.  I would like to think that no one is that stupid, but then I hear about the antics at FoxNews.