So, it looks like Popehat may be having second thoughts on his meeting with Ms. Wackadoodle:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/02/445236066/vatican-details-pope-s-meeting-with-kentucky-clerk-kim-davis

I guess his bureaucrats didn't think things through in that meeting with her might create some negative press.

Also, perhaps she is LYING about his telling her to "stay strong" and that his meeting was to endorse her position.

Interestingly, when I type "pope" into google this morning, the first auto-complete was "pope kim davis."

Victor Davis Hansen sees the US sliding rapidly towards an Athenian-style democracy and less of a Roman republican system where one's citizenship was sacrosanct, and also notes:

Over 300 cities—in antebellum, neo-Confederate fashion—have declared themselves immune from the jurisdiction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Often detained and deported illegal aliens have been freed by our modern bureaucratic versions of Jefferson Davis nullificationists. Consequently, many released illegal aliens have killed and maimed Americans.

The Pope does what the Pope does. That's what the progressives who were so happy with his immigration/climate change/wealth inequality need to realize: he's not one of them.

Which is typical. So often they'll recite the passage of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery and the he who is without sin may cast the first stone in a very smug fashion. I can wipe that smug look off their face with the next passage wherein that woman was instructed to avoid this sin in the future.

Minnesota allows insurers to raise health care premiums any where from 14% to 49%.

Wait...that can't be right? I was promised the cost curve would be bent down, and not the people being insured.

Hope! Change! Obamacare!

Do you want the Jabba the Hutt Lawn Inflatable, or the Han Solo Shower Curtain?

"Wait...that can't be right? I was promised the cost curve would be bent down, and not the people being insured."

Amazing how people bought the idea that adding cost to something would somehow make it less expensive, isn't it?

Anders Behring Breivik got 21 years for a 2011 terror attack in Norway that killed 77 people, most of them students at a youth camp. He is now threatening a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his incarceration. And, apparently, force-feeding him is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

I can't imagine too many Norwegians are sympathetic to his plight.

Also, 21 years? I think he would have gotten a little more over here.

If Breivik chooses a drawn-out and painful means of self-administering the death penalty, why should anyone interfere?

I think Breivik would be on Death Row over here.