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On the radio this past week, I mentioned Alan Jay Lerner, author of My Fair Lady, Camelot, Brigadoon, Gigi, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, etc. And about twenty minutes after I came off-air I remembered a conversation I had with him decades back. The Pope was on tour somewhere (my estimate from the time period would be eastern Canada): he'd landed at the airport to be greeted by a shy moppet bearing a garland of flowers, and he'd kissed her head. And Alan showed me the headline above the picture in the newspaper: Thank Heaven for Little...

And as a path forward was finally plotted through the Megxit crisis, Her Majesty also seemed determined to move on from the disruption caused by Andrew with a public show of forgiveness. Although he cut a solemn figure as he marched into church, Andrew seemed pleased with his first 2020 appearance at the Queen's side and was pictured grinning as he was whisked away from the service.

Users have been flocking to the Queen's new Facebook page to post abusive messages about the Duchess of Cornwall, it has emerged. The Queen's Facebook page - The British Monarchy - has attracted nearly 200,000 visitors since it launched on Monday. Royalists and republicans alike have logged on to the social networking site to view images, videos and news about the British monarchy. But moderators were forced to remove many abusive comments by anti-monarchist saboteurs who clicked the 'like' button in order to post anti-Royal messages.

We’ve seen a lot in the last week about people protesting more government control and increased taxes. The tea parties last week showed us that the independent spirit of America is alive and well and won’t be shackled by Obama and his neo-Marxists so easily. The protestors at the tea parties were harkening back to the Boston Tea Party, a tax protest which occurred just prior to the American Revolution. But the history goes back a lot further than that. In the England of the early 1500s, the Tudor king, Henry the Eighth had decided to break with the Catholic...