Matt Franck

@MatthewJFranck

Director, Simon Ctr on Religion and Constitution, Witherspoon Institute. Prof Emeritus of Political Science, Radford University. Politics Lecturer, Princeton U.

Princeton, NJ
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Joined April 2012
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    Jan 29

    By skipping last night's debate, has jumped *off* the shark, and will now sink beneath the waves.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Heck, do they even know what "literally" means? Or do they plan to put CO2 emitters at Gitmo?

    “We need to literally declare war on climate change” — do liberals have any other metaphors?
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  3. 2 hours ago

    I mean he's just miserable up there. He's boring himself.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Reminder: Trump's call to occupy Iraq to seize the oil fields would require a massive and bloody incursion surpassing the actual Iraq war.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    It takes a Minister for Children to raise a child.

    I can't stop laughing at the grandiosity of this!
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  6. 2 hours ago

    Black felon points loaded gun at black officer, who shoots him in protection of black neighborhood, which black residents burn down.BLM? Not

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  7. 3 hours ago

    Visionaries, geniuses, futurists, demigods, whatever the tag we hang on them, regularly get away with murder.

    Also from WSJ piece He rules TSLA employees like tyrant; summary firings, etc. Progressive? via
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  8. 4 hours ago

    As the 1st president drafted his Inaugural Address, he foresaw the candidates who would compete to be the 45th.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    But then we would have had to learn real history, and good luck finding that in many American schools or colleges!

    I've said this before, but I wish people would use a historical era besides Nazi Germany from which to draw analogies.
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  10. 6 hours ago

    With all facts on the table? Me too.

    I'd love it if we could have an election in which your view faced off against social democracy.
  11. 7 hours ago

    Even if Trump was joking about 2A advocates assassinating Clinton, some defended the right(!) responds:

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  12. 8 hours ago

    Trump is apparently proposing acceptance of gay rights as a pre-req for U.S. citizenship.

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Today is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God!

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  14. 7 hours ago

    A first for me: translation of my last essay into Slovak. Ahoj to my new readers in Slovakia!

    1 retweet 3 likes
  15. 9 hours ago

    And yet in retrospect unsurprising.

    Dept. of Unintended Consequences, Case No. 436,861.
  16. 9 hours ago

    Yep, nails it. is the blowhard you don't want seated next to you at dinner.

    The final insult: Donald Trump is a bore. Here's my column this morning.
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  17. 20 hours ago

    Republican Voters Are Not "Moving On" From Marriage

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  18. 21 hours ago

    Priest celebrating our Mass this morning called it a "Holy Day of Opportunity."

    In case anyone is wondering, the Assumption is NOT a Holy Day of Obligation tomorrow in the United States.
  19. Aug 14

    Archbishop Chaput recommends Mary Eberstadt's It's Dangerous To Believe, which I reviewed:

    Archbishop Chaput points out how far the 2 major candidates are from the Christian ideal... h/t
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  20. Aug 14

    I am confused as to why this qualifies as a "stupid law."

    It is illegal to fly a plane while drunk. (Nebraska)
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