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The scenes of destruction wrought on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Harvey cannot do other than move even the stoniest heart. One aches at the sight of people who have lost everything, including loved ones. Yet amid these scenes of suffering and anguish there also shines a glimmer of hope. As I watched footage of ordinary people piloting their fishing boats down the streets of their flooded neighborhoods, plucking strangers from their upstairs bedrooms and rooftops and taking them to safety, I could not help but recall the events of September 1940. Britain was in grave peril. Hitler’s armies were...

“It looks like every scummy atheist is using a terrible tragedy to mock religious people, because that shows the best of their values,” Right Scoop blogger Soopermexican commented. This is so cruel, so dishonest, so thoughtless, so talentless that one scarcely knows where to begin. The idea that scores of Texans (including 30 fatalities so far) deserved this suffering? The premise that Nazis comprise any meaningful percentage of the Texas populace? The contrast to how Texans reacted when tragedy struck Charlie Hebdo?