WAR AGAINST FATHERS

Fathers, caricatured as embodiments of the hated patriarchy, have been unseated so that a bureaucratic state might increase its power.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/01/war-against-fathers

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Pound and Catholicism

In 1937 Pound writes the Guide to Kulchur, [and] extolls the virtues of "Catholic culture" [p 261].... To his praise of Catholicism, Pound subjoins an attack on Protestantism and on "semitic" ways of thinking [p 185].

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/pound/fascism.htm

Machiavelli and Change

``It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.  For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it.''

http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Machiavelli.html

Teen wanted in connection with grandmother's death detained trying to enter Canada

http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-wanted-connection-grandmothers-death-detained-enter-canada/story?id=51375361

Until the discovery of French’s body, their whereabouts had been treated as a missing-persons case since Wednesday when Logan and French failed to show up at the airport to pick up Mott and his girlfriend....

For two days Logan’s mother, Carrie Campbell-Mott of Missouri, issued distraught pleas for the safe discovery of her son and his grandmother.

http://jacksonville.com/news/public-safety/2017-11-24/missing-neptune-beach-teen-detained-us-canada-border-body-found-buried

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Monday, November 20, 2017

The Politicization of Motherhood

Women produce more oxytocin than men do, which answers the obvious question of why fathers aren’t as well-suited as mothers for this sort of “sensitive, empathetic nurturing.” People “want to feel that men and women are fungible,” observes Ms. Komisar—but they aren’t, at least not when it comes to parental roles. Fathers produce a “different nurturing hormone” known as vasopressin, “what we call the protective, aggressive hormone.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politicization-of-motherhood-1509144044

The true story of For Greater Glory Our hemisphere’s greatest martyrs remain virtually unknown to English-speaking Catholics.

The Reforma, which also confiscated the lands of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, would ultimately culminate in the concentration of 90 percent of the agricultural land of Mexico in the hands of one percent of the country’s families, resulting in abuses that would lead to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and the rise of Francisco I.

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/07/06/the-true-story-of/

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Campus Conservatives Should Check Their Own Trolling

The Founding Fathers believed in “ordered liberty”—that freedom could not coexist without virtue. George Washington wrote that the “security of a free Constitution” depends on “teaching the people…to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness.” The Founders predicted that forgetting this lesson would lead to despotism, as men who could not rule themselves would come to be ruled by others.
The importance of self-restraint through virtue lies at the core of both America’s founding and conservative thought. Young conservatives should feel proud to own such a rich intellectual legacy—it was Edmund Burke who wrote that “the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.” In times such as ours, that idea is countercultural, and therefore powerful.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Myths about middle ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur

http://www.history.com/news/a-brief-history-of-bloodletting

The practice of bloodletting began around 3000 years ago with the Egyptians, then continued with the Greeks and Romans, the Arabs and Asians, then spread through Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It reached its peak in Europe in the 19th century but subsequently declined and today in Western medicine is used only for a few select conditions.

http://www.bcmj.org/premise/history-bloodletting

Child Sexual Abuse Facts

FACT: Family and acquaintance child sexual abuse perpetrators have reported that they look for specific characteristics in the children they choose to abuse.

  • Perpetrators report that they look for passive, quiet, troubled, lonely children from single parent or broken homes (Budin & Johnson 1989).
  • Perpetrators frequently seek out children who are particularly trusting (Conte et al., 1987) and work proactively to establish a trusting relationship before abusing them (Budin & Johnson, 1989; Conte, Wolfe, & Smith, 1989; Elliott et al., 1995; Warner-Kearney, 1987). Not infrequently, this extends to establishing a trusting relationship with the victim’s family as well (Elliott et al., 1995).

FACT: There are child and family characteristics that significantly heighten or lower risk of sexual abuse. The following risk factors are based on reported and identified cases of abuse.

  • Family structure is the most important risk factor in child sexual abuse. Children who live with two married biological parents are at low risk for abuse. The risk increases when children live with step-parents or a single parent. Children living without either parent (foster children) are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children that live with both biological parents. Children who live with a single parent that has a live-in partner are at the highest risk: they are 20 times more likely to be victims of child sexual abuse than children living with both biological parents (Sedlack, et. al., 2010).

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. 

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings

Lewis and Tolkien found that they greatly enjoyed one another’s company, and so they cultivated the habit of meeting on Monday mornings for beer and conversation. Lewis wrote about it in one of his letters: “It has also become the custom for Tolkien to drop in on me of a Monday morning for a glass. This is one of the pleasantest spots in the week. Sometimes we talk English school politics: sometimes we criticise one another’s poems: other days we drift into theology or the state of the nation; rarely we fly no higher than bawdy and puns.”

http://www.cslewis.com/c-s-lewis-j-r-r-tolkien-and-the-inklings/

THAT OTHER PLOT – TO BRING DOWN TRUMP Pat Buchanan: 'The real indictment here is of the American political system'

A spinoff of Bill Kristol’s The Weekly Standard, the Beacon is run by his son-in-law. And its Daddy Warbucks is the GOP oligarch and hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/that-other-plot-to-bring-down-trump/#yWzzEAfU29zQH4h6.99

FBI Evidence Team Processes Home of Missing 3-Year-Old Girl The girl's father, Wesley Mathews, was arrested Saturday for abandoning or endangering a child and released Sunday on bond

Meanwhile, members of Emmanuel Bible Chapel in Irving, where Sherin and her parents are members, printed fliers with the girl's description and posted them in and around the Richland Meadows neighborhood over the weekend. Joanna Cherian walked around to any post she could find and taped fliers.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Richardson-3-Year-Old-Special-Needs-Girl-Missing-for-Nearly-48-Hours-450019193.html

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Monday, September 4, 2017

Two minds The cognitive differences between men and women

In her preface to the first edition, Halpern wrote: “At the time, it seemed clear to me that any between-sex differences in thinking abilities were due to socialization practices, artifacts and mistakes in the research, and bias and prejudice. ... After reviewing a pile of journal articles that stood several feet high and numerous books and book chapters that dwarfed the stack of journal articles … I changed my mind.” Why? There was too much data pointing to the biological basis of sex-based cognitive differences to ignore, Halpern says.

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Monday, August 28, 2017

Thursday, August 17, 2017

A new international currency?

The wealth transfer to the banking system since President Nixon abrogated the Bretton Woods Treaty – without any vote or debate – has been astonishing.  For the period 2006 through 2016, according to the FDIC, they include distributing $818 billion in dividends to bank shareholders, $1.8 trillion in employee compensation, $4 trillion net interest income on money that banks created out of nothing, and $6.5 trillion in revenues net of interest expense.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/a_new_international_currency.html

What Do We Say About Decent Men Who Died for a Wicked Cause?

Black America is in jeopardy. For every 100 black women of marrying age there are only 81 men: the rest are dead or in jail. Seventy-three percent  of African-American children are born out of marriage. Although universities admit blacks and whites in roughly equal proportions, only 40% of black men graduate within six years of matriculation. Agony over these circumstances motivates the witch-hunt against imagined "micro-aggression," as I wrote two years ago. The "micro-aggression" theory does not explain why African-American women (who presumably are doubly oppressed for being both black and female) have a much higher college graduation rate (50% as opposed to 40%) than black men.

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/08/15/say-decent-men-died-wicked-cause/

After the Coup, What Then? Pat Buchanan

Did Trump collude with Putin to defeat Clinton, the Beltway media demand to know, even as they daily collude with deep-state criminals to bring down the president of the United States.

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2017/08/08/after-the-coup-what-then-n2365631

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN AT COLLEGE

There are several fact-packed books which tell a great deal about the relations of government and economic ruling c1asses down through history. Two especially good ones are Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization and Decay and Alexander Del Mar’s His­tory of Monetary Systems. Almost any professor wi1l agree that Brooks Adams was one ofAmerica’s greatest thinkers and historians; Del Mar was called the great­est historian of the 19th Century, and was frequently consulted as an expert by governments (who often refused to take his advice).
Both books have been out of print for years, and neither is used in a college or university today, as far as I know. Arthur Kitson’s testimony before the Mac­millan Commission has never been refuted, yet his book (The Banker’s Conspiracy! which unleashed the World War) is as little-known, in academic circ1es, as Adams or Del Mar. Read all three of them, and see what you think of the history and economics taught in your school.