Sunday, September 27, 2020

The Baleful Comet of Boston: Samuel Adams & the Puritan Republic

 Adams had written, “The leading principles of the British Constitution have their foundation in the Laws of Nature and universal Reason. Hence . . . British Rights are in great measure, unalienably the Rights of the Colonists, and of all Men else.”

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/06/baleful-comet-of-boston-samuel-adams-m-e-bradford.html?fbclid=IwAR1vPvTvzq5xKfGszpnExpd0MoZxxj1h97YDYUvek2ASsPzKmOQ4Ruf1HKc

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Two youth arrested for theft in Sant'Agata in Caltanissetta

While some of the acts were simply wanton and committed by local youth, sources said that other incidents could be traced to "people deeply different in feeling, values, faith and roots," and "foreigners" who, although born in Italy, were from Islamic countries and "insensitive" or even hostile "to the sense of Christmas." 


https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vandals-desecrate-historic-sicilian-church

Friday, September 18, 2020

Roger Angell Turns 100

Roger Angell, a former fiction editor at The New Yorker and baseball writer, turns 100 on Saturday. In August, the small town in Maine where he lives celebrated his birthday early by putting on a “Roger Angell Day” and parade....


Allen C. Guelzo reconsiders Robert E. Lee:


 https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/roger-angell-turns-100/

The Democrats’ War on Blacks By Selwyn Duke

 These are “good moral habits,” examples being hope, honesty, charity, fortitude, justice, temperance, prudence, chastity, patience, kindness, humility and love. Another virtue is diligence, which relates to punctuality and industriousness. Yet another is forgiveness, which forestalls the bitterness and hatred that can cause a person to focus on tearing society down instead of building himself up.

The point, however, is that virtues aren’t “white” or black, Hispanic or Asian, male or female.

They are divine.

They’re also universals. All people need them to live happy, prosperous, moral lives — there are no exceptions.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/the_democrats_war_on_blacks.html

Steppenwolf--The Ostrich

We'll call you when you're six years old
And drag you to the factory
To train your brain for eighteen years
With promise of security
But then you're free
And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign
So you may die in Florida
At the pleasant age of sixty nine

The water's getting hard to drink
We've mangled up the country side
The air will choke you when you breathe
We're all committing suicide
But it's alright
It's progress folks keep pushin' till your body rots
Will strip the earth of all it's green
And then divide her into parking lots

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

You're free to speak your mind my friend
As long as you agree with me
Don't criticize the father land
Or those who shape your destiny
'Cause if you do
You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
We'll send out all our boys in blue
They'll find a way to silence you

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok