[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdpei]

• Beyond the Beyond shares an early 17th century Catholic Church communication doubting the Earth went around the sun.
• blogTO notes the sympathy cards placed outside the American consulate in Toronto.
• Crooked Timber argues that liberal progressivism hasn't been tried in recent years and so can't have failed.
• The Dragon's Tales shares one model

Comments

[mmcirvin]

Trump isn't the one with the power to overturn Obergefell or any of the other same-sex-marriage rulings; that will be up to whatever Supreme Court justices he appoints, and they're more likely than not to be hard-right conservatives. Replacing Scalia with another right-winger will just return the Court to the status quo before he died, but if Trump gets to replace another one the story changes.