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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO. William F Buckley Senior Scholar @ISI. Yes, DMs.

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calendar_today01-11-2007 00:09:40

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The next time you hear a brain dead lib say the “left needs its own Joe Rogan,” just play them this video. 🤣🤣🤣

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I think we need to expand our political vocabulary beyond ideological content to include modes of politics. People who talk about a populist "philosophy" as if it had perennial policy commitments are ignorant. It is more properly a mode of politics. Populism can describe a

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I like Lawler and would immediately benefit from this deduction. But raising it to 40k gives Hochul and Albany running room to raise state taxes even higher. Then if a future Republican Congress repeals the SALT deduction I’m worse off than when I started.

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This is so self-defeating, because British institutions were falling over themselves in cringe to support Kneecap, sapping any hint of radicalism or authenticity from them.

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If it applies to the pipe it should apply for all bishops. We need to stop the impression that the only person in the world with a duty to hold orthodox belief is the pope.

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None of this is the subject of Leo’s encyclical and nowhere does JD say he is separating himself by acting in accord with duties imposed on him by the role to which he was elected. A lawyer doesn’t separate himself if in court he represents his son.

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Been going to Ireland every other year or so for a while now but am still a long way from making as many trips “home” as Bill Clinton did to Epstein’s island.

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Cast away your extra pounds with the Castaway diet, based on medical observation of criminal exiles from the Royal Navy. You can’t help but shed lbs on this diet of boiled rope soup, wet rope steak, and fermented dandelion juice.

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After Virtue was, for me, one of those books that cuts your life into a "before I read it" and an "after I read it." A colossal achievement from a colossal thinker. RIP.

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It is but haven’t we seen this over and over again when well educated countries go through a demographic transition toward low fertility? Korea, Japan, Ireland, now Poland.

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Besides being a grimdark gangster show with a few dodgy accents, I’m coming to think Mobland is primarily a story about the struggle of Gen X to save and stabilize institutions from the unhinged greediness of Boomers and the vainglory of Millennials.