Sunday roundup

Open Doors USA president David Curry, writing at USA Today, takes American churches to task for not addressing persecution of Christians in lands such as Nigeria, Sri Lanka, India and China with requisite urgency.

The ABC affiliate in Austin oh-so-objectively reports on a nine-year-old-drag queen without saying a thing about how somebody really evil allowed this to happen.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune presents fresh evidence indicating that Ilhan Omar's marital track record is quite shaky. Looks like she arranged things to skirt immigration laws.

LITD likes this. Really, really, likes it:

Some upstate New York county clerks are taking a stand against the state’s controversial new lawgranting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

Clerks in Erie, Rensselaer, Niagara and Allegany counties have said they won’t be handing out the licenses, despite the legislation signed Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Of all these items in today's roundup, your must-read is "The Madcap Caution of Donald Trump" by Rich Lowry at National Review:

Subtract Trump’s taste for nonstop controversy and rhetorical brinkmanship, and you’re left with an incrementalist center-right government that has pursued an expansionary fiscal policy and avoided foreign war, for a period of peace and prosperity that — in any other universe — would be at the core of a stay-the-course reelection message.

For a while, the Obama doctrine was, “Don’t do stupid stuff.” The Trump team has built out the doctrine to “Privately consider and sometimes openly threaten stupid stuff, but at the end of the day, don’t do it (usually).”

An example that has come along since Lowry penned his piece: the Very Stable Genius did a sudden about face on the ICE roundup of illegal aliens who had been turned down for asylum-seeker status.  Giving Congress two weeks to act, or then, by golly, he will authorize the roundup! Actually, a valid point can be made here - namely, that the legislative branch has, in this case and generally, been shirking the large role it's Constitutionally supposed to play in crafting policy, preferring instead to grandstand. However, in both this case and the Iranian non-response to the drone downing, the VSG has displayed a tin ear for momentum.