Month: June 2017
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Gulf Coast Politics
Stats show Stimpson moves Mobile forward
By Quin Hillyer at Yellowhammer News; The rest of Alabama may want to watch to the race for mayor in Mobile, where fiscally responsible reformer Sandy Stimpson is trying to ward off a comeback attempt by liberal former mayor Sam Jones. Stimpson, a leading timber executive with a long…
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National Politics
No handshake for loutish Trump
Knowing this will make me very unpopular among many of my readers…. still…. — Quin By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; If I met President Trump in the Oval Office, I would refuse to shake his hand. A handshake, even among adversaries, is a sign that at some level, even…
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National Politics
Liberty Headlines: Bribery, and Water/Land Grabs
Herewith, my two most recent news summaries from Liberty Headlines — Quin Media Ignore Liberals’ ‘Environmental Racism’ Hobbyhorse Because Perp is a Democrat Question: Since when does the national news media pay almost no attention to a guilty plea from a state legislator – a high-profile former star athlete, at that –…
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National Politics
Health care reform: Go slow, and explain it better
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., promised on Thursday to provide “ample time” for “robust debate” with an “open amendment process” regarding the draft healthcare reform bill he had just released. But he also is reported to be insisting that the Senate vote…
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Faith
Christians should embrace Jewish roots
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; There’s a fascinating book review (I haven’t read the book itself) published online June 22 at Christianity Today whose topic tracks a question I’ve asked in writing for years. As I put it in a column years ago at the Mobile Register, “why aren’t…
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National Politics
Liberty Headlines: A Four-fer, from Sharia to ‘White Privilege’
Note: My work at Liberty Headlines involves rounding up and summarizing numerous articles on a single topic, so that it is sort of “one-stop shopping” for news on that topic that day. Every week, I’ll post all of my week’s work for Liberty Headlines in one entry here at QuinHillyer.com…
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National Politics
Bringing civility back to civil society — a crucial enterprise
Note: For several weeks before last week’s horrific shooting of Steve Scalise and others, the Rt. Rev. Duncan Gray III and I had been trying to place in a prestige journal an overlong essay on the desperate need for civility to return to the public square. After the shooting, National Review…
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National Politics
Ten years of writing about Steve Scalise
As a tribute to Steve Scalise, whose career I have closely followed since I met him as he was leaving LSU way back in 1989, see herewith a compilation (follow the links below) of as many of the pieces I’ve written on him as I can find. I particularly commend…
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Faith
After shooting, we need faith in the public square
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; It is heartening, in the wake of this week’s horrific shooting of Republican Congressman Steve Scalise and others, to see so many responsible people calling for a return to greater civility in public life. As it so happened, for two weeks before the shooting…
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National Politics
Jeff Sessions did very well at Senate hearing
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; Attorney General Jeff Sessions acquitted himself quite well in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The focus on Sessions, in relation to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, always has been absurd. He has told no lies; he has…