“No One Expects the Roman Inquisition” 0
The Roanoke Times has found it in Richmond. Here’s a bit from their editorial yesterday.
So how is this like the Roman Inquisition?
House Republicans bring to mind the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition, which in 1633 silenced Galileo about his observations that supported Copernicus’s theory of the previous century: Earth, rotating on its axis every 24 hours, was orbiting the sun. Earth was not the center around which all of the universe spun.