Among her notable writings, Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor, co-authored a 1998 law review essay that asserted Catholic judges opposed to capital punishment should recuse themselves, rather than impose a death sentence on a criminal defendant.

Traditional Jews in America who read these broadsides against Judge Barrett can easily imagine similar ones about themselves. We might wonder what the reaction would now be were a member of our own religious community appointed to a position of prominence… Like Muslims, Sikhs, and other minority faith communities, we dream of our daughters and sons experiencing American equality without suffering for their beliefs.

The questions should be about how an orthodox Catholic judge’s religious commitments interact with his or her legal ones… Yet, the issues are complex and delicate, and we should be skeptical about the possibility that a nomination hearing is a good place to explore them.

…when a sitting president stands on a national stage refusing to condemn white supremacists and hate groups, as President Trump did when he told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during the first presidential debate, he is complicit.

Every uncovered plot — the FBI finds them all the time — gets blamed on Trump. It’s like last year when Maryland man Christopher Hasson was taken into custody after he was found to have stockpiled a bunch of ammunition and written in a diary about his dreams to create his own white city…

There was no Trump connection in that case, and no Trump connection in the Whitmer case, either.

…while most people can separate rhetoric from real life, we knew and have now seen again that when presented with repeated messaging — especially those elevated or sanctioned by authorities — about defeating or killing a “tyrant” or a “dictator” enough times, a handful of extremists can take those words as calls to action, not just political messaging.

Dr. Mark Mulligan, director of the N.Y.U. Langone Vaccine Center, who is involved in studies of both Regeneron’s and Eli Lilly’s antibody products, said the president’s claim that he was cured seemed premature — though not impossible.

The reality is more complicated. These drugs are promising and may serve as a valuable bridge to vaccines… However, the president is exaggerating their benefit and likely availability.

The president is only one data point. Clinical trials need thousands of data points to determine whether a treatment works, and his endorsement could ironically make it harder to recruit patients for the trials. In hyping a treatment without the data proving that it works and without the groundwork for deploying it “immediately,” as Trump said yesterday he wants to do, he is breezing right past the scientific and logistical challenges still ahead.

For more than a hundred years, [statues of Columbus] have been symbols of Italian pride and accomplishment in the face of tremendous odds. Far from being a celebration of white colonialism, Columbus Day is about inclusiveness and our nation of immigrants.

Italian-Americans have many things to be proud of, but Christopher Columbus is not one of them. Columbus has no connection to actual contributions made by Italian-American immigrants. Indeed, contrary to popular belief, Italian-Americans have better historical grounds to identify with the indigenous victims of Columbus than Columbus himself.

Race is not real but ethnicity is based on something real… In order to save Columbus statues from white progressive terrorism, to save Columbus Day from vindictive and hypocritical Anglos, and to protect our community, we need to play identity politics and to demand reclassification, alongside Middle Eastern, North African, Portuguese, Greek, Jewish, and Armenian people as Mediterranean Americans for all state and federal purposes.

James and Michael Jordan are forever linked because they are the two greatest to ever play the game, and despite being different types of players in different eras, James can’t escape the talk and he knows it.

This isn’t to compare the two because that’s been done, and it won’t change anyone’s mind… What James is trying to show is that no matter how many championships he wins or loses, he is painting an original.

There will never be a consensus.

But if we’re being objective—shouldn’t there be one? At 35-years old, in his 17th year and in his NBA-record 260th playoff game played, James recorded his 28th triple double en route to his fourth championship, with as many Finals MVP’s.

He’s the greatest of all-time in my book. You can’t change my mind. Yes, I was too young to truly appreciate MJ during that moment, but I’ve seen everything he’s done. His game-winner against the Jazz is my first real NBA memory. As we saw in The Last Dance, MJ was differnet. If you think Jordan is the greatest ever, that’s fine. It’s completely your opinion and right to do so. Like I said, this debate isn’t going away.

I’m sure Gal Gadot is going to do a wonderful job as Cleopatra. However, for me personally, I would love a Cleopatra who’s darker than a brown paper bag, because that seems a bit more historically accurate.

Gal Gadot, who is Israeli, was cast to play Cleopatra

Now we’re finding out how many people didn’t know that Cleopatra wasn’t actually of Egyptian descent

The only reason she is attacked is because she is a proud Israeli Jew. “Anti-Zionists” find it difficult to hide their antisemitic hatred.