Dear NR Fan, Big Jim is away: Yesterday on Twitter we spied a picture of him keeping bocce the Sabbath in what looks like South Carolina. Enjoy the sun and warmth, my friend! By the way, there were snowflakes falling as I walked down Lexington Avenue this morning. Some spring. Meanwhile, Yours Truly will try to get my Smoky Burgess on and pinch hit today through Thursday. (NR will be closed Friday.)
Let me recommend a few things surely worth your read today at NationalReview.com (and by "read" we mean, read, share, and e-mail!): John Fund has an excellent analysis of Hillary Clinton, her e-mail scandal raising eerie comparisons to Richard Nixon, and a replay of the historical fall-out if the Democrats embrace her (like conservatives did with Nixon in 1968) because her presidential candidacy was "inevitable." A religious-liberty law in Indiana is under severe attack by liberals and PC moral supremacists, the latest battle in the Big Gay Wedding Cake war. You should read NR's editorial ("Liberals against Religious Liberty in Indiana") on the matter. A slice: Gay-rights activism is, just at the moment, very much oriented toward preventing the emergence of any social compromise on the matter of homosexual marriage, which is why tradition-minded florists and bakers, generally conservative Christians, are being targeted for prosecution as enemies of civil rights. In terms of government interest, homosexual couples planning wedding receptions in Connecticut are a good deal less compelling than were black Americans who were effectively circumscribed from public life -- political, social, and economic -- under the machinery of oppression constructed by Democrats after the Civil War. Among other things, the market provides same-sex couples plenty of other options. But gay-rights activists insist that the situations are morally and politically identical. That this view is rightly received with some skepticism by the general public -- including much of the public inclined to support gay marriage and similar issues -- is why the increasingly fanatical homosexual activists reject the notion that religious liberty might even be raised as an issue in the case of a wedding planner who does not wish to be involved in the blessing of a homosexual union. Their goal is a coercive coast-to-coast regime with no room for social compromise at all. You'll find excellent related pieces on the Indiana controversy by Andrew Walker, Quin Hillyer, and Josh Blackman (all of which non-sequitorially reminded me of R. Dean Taylor's 1970 hit, "Indiana Wants Me," so I had a good listen). Jeb Bush has big ties to Republicans fighting for immigration reform. Ian Tuttle reports on the governor's roles with the American Action Forum and the big-spending American Action Network and Congressional Leadership Fund. Related -- Jason Richwine's superb piece, "The Amnesty Numbers Game," on how defenders of Obama's immigration "executive actions" refuse to look at the possibly massive fiscal impact. In the Corner, Reihan Salam considers Obama's Coming Break with Israel, and comes away very concerned. How about a very cool slideshow on King Richard III? Jay Nordlinger and Mona Charen hang out with George Will on the latest edition of the hit podcast, "Need to Know." Listen here. Florence King's new book, Withering Slights: The Bent Pin Collection, can now be purchased at the NRO Store. So can the official NR Tee Shirt. We'll be back tomorrow with some more suggestions. Best, Jack Fowler Publisher | 
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