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...Italian Parliament, is facing a firestorm of controversy after saying that the May 1 burning of Israeli flags in Turin by far-left protesters was "much more serious" than the savage beating of a 29-year-old that same day in Verona by a neo-Nazi gang. The victim of the beating, Nicola Tommasoli, died late Monday after several days in a coma. Five young fans of the Verona soccer team have been arrested for the murder...
...protégé, Gianni Alemanno sweeping to victory in the race for Rome Mayor, Fini was sworn in last week at the helm of the Italian Parliament, hoping his extremist past was definitively behind him. But now, Fini is again on the spot over fascism, a victim of his own zeal to defend Israel...
...some extent, liberal Catholicism has been a victim of its own success. Its positions on sex and gender issues have become commonplace in the American Church, diminishing the distinctiveness of the progressives. More importantly, they failed to transform the main body of the Church: John Paul II, a charismatic conservative, enjoyed the third-longest papacy in church history, and refused to budge on the left's demands; instead, he eventually swept away liberal bishops. The heads at Call to Action grayed, and by the late 1990s, Vatican II progressivism began to look like a self-limited Boomer moment...
...Then one victim of my relentless pursuit articulated what the others seemed to be implying all along: “Do they even allow Harvard graduates to go into the restaurant business? Because I can’t think of any.” And, as an afterthought: “But as long as I have you here, how much do you know about food?” I could answer the latter with ease, less because of my vast array of culinary knowledge than the skillful art perfected by any graduating English concentrator of elegantly saying nothing...
...historical beef-rather than condemn it as distorted and dangerous. It was this sort of thinking that helped make the Republicans the dominant party of the past 40 years. The left believed it was all right for people like Wright to condemn white America but it was "blaming the victim" to criticize the antisocial behavior-the crime and family disintegration-going on in the black community. When Obama-the avatar of a new generation of progressives-stepped away from Wright, he stepped away from 40 years of liberal self-laceration...