this is an adventure

So it turns out “agency officials after 9/11 [drew] up plans to hunt down and kill terrorists using commando teams similar to those deployed by Israel after the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, according to a former senior U.S. official.” Republicans pray Democrats decide to hold hearings on why this was a horrible thing to do.

Last night’s Home Run Derby was on the boring side, but there’s something more fundamentally wrong here: “An All-Star game or any exhibition is, in a sense, anathema to a sport, in this sense: that whereas sports beg and demand to be taken seriously on a certain level, All-Star games are essentially about showing off.”

The late First Things editor and his final book stand as a mark of America’s place on a spiritual and cultural measure. “Neuhaus offers sound advice, based on years of experience and reflection, on how Christians should live between the “now” and the “not yet,” pulled at once by “this-worldly” and “other-worldly” obligations.”

This is one of those crackdown things that, using Clintonian doctrine, we’d get involved in if not for the politics: “Iraqi officials tightened security around churches in Baghdad and in two mostly Christian towns on Monday and braced for possible violence this weekend when huge crowds visit a holy Shiite shrine in the capital.”