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Nic Rowan covers the Supreme Court at the Washington Examiner. Follow him on Twitter @NicXTempore.
by | Nov 14, 2020

Just after Christopher Nolan finished the script of Batman Begins, he took it down to Michael Caine’s house, unbidden, and shoved it into the aging actor’s face. Caine, who assumed that Nolan was a mailman, rebuffed the young director and…

by | Nov 2, 2020

There are only hours to go before election day, and businesses in most major cities are boarding up in expectation of protests, riots, and God knows what else. This weekend, I passed through Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Minneapolis. It’s the…

by | Nov 1, 2020

Saturday was a big day for the Knights of Columbus, and, for a change, it had nothing to do with Kamala Harris. The Catholic Church at a mass in Connecticut beatified the fraternal order’s founder, Michael McGivney. McGivney, who died…

by | Sep 30, 2020

I’ve never been one for drinking games — not even in high school — but something about Rob Crisell’s American Spectator post yesterday changed me. Hell, I thought, why not? And so, as last night’s debate began, I found myself in…

by | Sep 5, 2020

Early this summer I looked at the two air conditioning window units stored in my basement and decided they were too heavy to carry upstairs. When I told my wife, she laughed and said, “Alright, then it’s the summer of…

by | Aug 25, 2020

Minneapolis, Minn.  Today marks three months since George Floyd was killed, and the Twin Cities are still reeling. The riots are done here, at least for now. The protests, however, are ongoing, gaining strength whenever a new racial outrage in…

by | Aug 5, 2020

There’s a rule of thumb among disaster response teams that a crisis isn’t really a crisis until the Waffle House closes. The Atlanta-based chain hardly shuts down for anything: not hurricanes, not tornados, not floods. Waffle Houses are so reliably…

by | Jul 23, 2020

“Gardens are where we create beauty,” says Hillary Clinton, reading aloud from Grandma’s Gardens, a children’s book she recently co-wrote with her daughter, Chelsea. It’s Tuesday afternoon and the former first lady is powering through a slew of public appearances….

by | Jul 7, 2020

When Kanye West announced his presidential run this weekend, most people wrote it off as a stunt. After all, the rapper has already missed the deadline to be on the ballot in six states: North Carolina, Texas, Maine, New York,…

by | Jun 11, 2020

East Moline, Illinois We were drinking outside St. Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza when we heard the gunshots. Five of them, in rapid succession, about four blocks away. I was armed only with a cigarette, but Joe Schilling was packing real heat…

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