After a brilliant academic career, graduating with multiple degrees in various subjects, Kurt Schlichter joined the military and served in Operation Desert Storm, the Gulf War and in Kosovo.

He co-founded a law firm in Los Angeles in 1994 and has been a freelance writer since 1984. Andrew Breitbart seconded Kurt to help establish Breitbart News and now writes three columns a week for Townhall.com. And all that is only part of the story.

As always, the mailroom with Mrs Producer.

And some words on dignity & mass migration from Pope Francis sent shortly before he died, to the Bishops of America. Was he right?

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