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Today I announce that, if nominated and elected, I will serve as president of the United States. A brief account of my platform is published at @thedispatch. Link below.
Matt Franck
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Matt Franck
@MatthewJFranck
Visiting Lecturer Politics @Princeton. Senior Fellow @WitherspoonInst. Contributing editor @PublicDiscourse. Professor Emeritus of Political Science @RadfordU.
Princeton, NJ
Joined April 2012
- I haven’t been in this room at Princeton for 19 months. During the pandemic it was closed. My eyes were drawn to these shelves repeatedly. Then it struck me: some philistine rearranged the books by color.
- Suicide figures are up. Could 2 followers please copy and re-post this tweet? We’re trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. Call 1-800-273-8255 (USA Hotline) Just two. Any two. Copy, not retweet. We are listening. We care about you.
- The kid’s right! The exam should ask about the *demand* for slaves.My ten year old is not having it.
- It occurs to me that every pro-lifer I know is very well acquainted with the arguments for abortion. But it’s a rare thing to encounter an advocate of abortion rights who has a real awareness of the arguments for the humanity and rights of the unborn from conception forward.
- Olivia de Havilland, who made her film debut at age 18 as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1935, is 104 today.
GIF - To all the folks who think they’re so witty when they say of J. Kavanaugh’s interrupted dinner, “where is the right to privacy in the Constitution?”—If all our obligations to one another depended on the laws and the courts, civilized life would grind to a halt in a week. 1/4
- No, @nytimes, this is not a “legal loophole. This is a constitutionally protected institutional religious freedom. nytimes.com/2021/10/27/nyr…
- Replying to @rgoodlawIf he thinks the FBI hasn’t already got the unaltered video, he’s dumber than I thought.
- And he was so right.BREAKING: Senate confirms John Bush to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. He called #abortion 1 of 2 greatest American tragedies. 51-47 vote.
- The roll of honor: Burr, Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, Toomey.
- Judge Amy Coney Barrett gave a simply splendid Walter F. Murphy Lecture for the @MadisonProgram @Princeton this evening. When the video is online, I’ll tweet it here.
