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So, I told someone hardcore that I would be writing a column called “The Case Against Ron DeSantis 2024,” and he asked “Oh, will it be blank?” Amusing, and not unexpected because we are still at the DeSantis infatuation stage. As I wrote in my previous column, “The Case For Ron DeSantis 2024,” there is a lot to like about the Florida governor. But this is not time to go moon-eyed over The New Shiny Thing. We need to be ruthless in our vetting of the candidates. I was when I wrote “The Case Against Donald Trump 2024” (he sent...

Tutu disappointed at Pope choiceFrom correspondents in Johannesburg April 20, 2005 From: Reuters SOUTH Africa's Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has expressed disappointment in the choice of Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope, calling him a "rigid conservative" out of step with the times. Archbishop Tutu, who had hoped for an African pope, told South Africa's SABC radio the fact that Pope Benedict XVI was European was less important than his conservative views. "We would have hoped for someone more open to the more recent developments in the world, the whole question of the ministry of women and a more reasonable...