DON VINCENZO writes:

Much of this morning’s news was dominated by a story in which a man, arrested and charged with several bank robberies, who had escaped police custody and was being sought by the law enforcement members of Fairfax County Virginia, where I live. There were radio updates upon updates, informing the public to be on the lookout for a certain car, which had been hijacked, and not to approach the “accused” felon, who was considered armed and dangerous. But something did not fit: how had this man, identified as Wossen Assaye, who appears (from his photo) not particularly big or bulky, “overpowered” two policemen, taken the gun of one, and fled. It didn’t sound kosher, and, of course, it wasn’t. (more…)

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

A featureless and ugly museum has opened in Boston, next door to John Kennedy’s featureless and ugly presidential library.  It is the brain-child of the late President Kennedy’s late baby brother, Senator-for-life Edward Moore Kennedy, known to Americans with varying degrees of affection as Teddy Kennedy.  The museum, The Edward M. Kennedy Institute, is supposed to be about the U.S. Senate but is really a center for Leftist hagiography of Teddy, just as the library next door is a center for Leftist hagiography of Jack. (more…)

TODAY marks the tenth anniversary of the court-ordered starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who suffered massive brain damage after she collapsed in cardiac arrest at the age of 26. At Christ or Chaos, Thomas Droleskey discusses the famous case and presents a first-hand account of Schiavo’s last days by the priest who was by her side when she died. There were police in the room also. They were there to prevent anyone, even the parents who loved her and brought her into the world, from giving Schiavo food or water. The Rev. Frank Pavone wrote:

There was a little night table in the room.  I could put my hand on the table and on Terri’s head all within arm’s reach.  And on that table was a vase of flowers filled with water.  And I looked at the flowers.  They were beautiful.  There were roses and other types of flowers and there was another vase at the foot of the bed.  I saw two beautiful bouquets of flowers filled with water — fully nourished, living, beautiful.  And I said to myself, this is absurd, totally absurd.  These flowers are being treated better than this woman.  She has not had a drop of water for almost two weeks.  Why are those flowers there?  What type of hypocrisy is this?  The flowers were watered.  Terri wasn’t.  And had I dipped my hand in that water and put it on her tongue, the [police] officer would have led me out, probably under arrest.  Something is wrong here.

As the media reported, those who killed Terri were quite angry that I said so. The night before she died, I said to the media that her estranged husband Michael, his attorney Mr. Felos, and Judge Greer were murderers. I also pointed out, that night and the next morning, that contrary to Felos’ description, Terri’s death was not at all peaceful and beautiful. It was, on the contrary, quite horrifying. In all my years as a priest, I never saw anything like it before. (more…)

"THE entire history of mankind is a story of love. It's a story of how man was made for God and how man became estranged from God. But in the end, after many struggles and sorrows, man has come back to God to have a happiness in the end." --- From this sermon on Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

DON VINCENZO writes:

A READER writes:

I was thinking of Lawrence Auster this weekend when I took my boys out to lunch near my new apartment, which is in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. I admit this East Coast stuff is new to me, having recently moved here from overseas, but the scene I witnessed in this restaurant at 1 p.m. on a Sunday was really something to behold. (more…)

THE hysteria regarding all things feminist and racist in the mainstream media has reached new levels. Ideas contrary to orthodoxy are now believed to inflict emotional abuse or even torture.

As one example, I offer this review by Anthony Tommasini, music critic for The New York Times, in which he compares the “mental brutality” of Rush Limbaugh’s radio shows to the beheading of women by the Persian king in the tale of Scheherazade. No kidding. He actually does that. I would like to say Tommasini is an imbecile, appearing under the guise of the cultured aesthete. But that would be too kind. He appears to be off his rocker.

By the way, women are indeed being beheaded. They are being beheaded by feminist ideology.

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STEPHEN I. writes:

On a purely personal level, I was very pleased indeed to learn that Lawrence Auster loved and studied both English literature and law as a young man as those were my own two courses of undergraduate study at university. In the case of the former discipline, it was and remains my consuming passion – whilst the latter provided me with a living for almost 30 years. Not a great link to a great man but, then again, better than no link at all. (more…)

ACCORDING to The Wall Street Journal, two- to four-year-olds watch an average of 25 hours of TV per week. Now television producers are aiming at the younger market, creating programming for children as young as six months old. This is not surprising. There is nothing -- nada -- to prevent commercial interests in America from exploiting and corrupting children. We're living in the sort of dystopian screen environment depicted by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451

“JOURNEY” is a much abused and over-used word. So much so that it is almost impossible to use it today without conjuring a New-Agey binge of self worship. But, on the second anniversary of the death of the formidable writer Lawrence Auster, I am drawn to think of his journey.

He was born in New Jersey in 1949. He was born at the right time and at the wrong time. He was constantly at odds with his surroundings. (more…)

WENDY McELROY writes about the movie, The Hunting Ground: 

Political careers, administrative jobs, government grants, book and lecture contracts are just some of vast financial benefits that rest upon continuing the “rape culture” crusade on campus.

The Hunting Ground offers a rare glimpse into what may be a subtle “other financial benefit.”  (more…)

“This, then, is the great white paradox: Whites claim to adore “diversity,” but they make every effort to avoid it. They make every important decision in their lives — where to live, whom to marry, where to send their children to school, whom to choose as friends, which church to attend — as if it were made for racial reasons, but deny that race had anything to do with it. As one wag put it, in their mating and migratory habits, liberals are no different from members of the Ku Klux Klan.”

                 — Jared Taylor, A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century (p. 325)

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A POEM by Mark Signorelli .

Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira’s essay on youth can be found here.

GRETCHEN writes: As you are an undisputed expert on the subject of the Pizza Industrial Complex, I send you this exciting news:  Pizza-flavored salad dressing is here!!

BROTHER NATHANAEL, a Jewish convert to “Orthodox” Christianity, writes about the interior world of Jews in a three-part series called “How Jews Think.” Obviously, these are generalizations, and generalizations, if one accepts them, are what they are, they don’t apply to everyone:

HAVING GROWN UP AS A JEW and having gone to an upper middle class synagogue throughout my childhood up through my young adult years, I am uniquely qualified to do an expose on the inner workings of the Jewish mind. Now that I am an Orthodox Christian, having converted in 1971 to Christianity, I can see very clearly how the Jew thinks: (more…)

FEMINISM, which is the hatred of womanhood and manhood embodied in the myth of feminine infallibility, could never take root in a culture that truly loved and honored the Mother of God. Feminism has been the most virulent in those nations — Britain, America and Russia — which have spurned Mary and rejected national veneration of her. Feminism could never reconcile its theories of history and male oppression with true devotion to this one woman or explain why women were queens and abbesses, virgins involved in great charitable and intellectual enterprises and mothers who owned property and businesses during the age when Mary was accorded the most respect. She is the lodestar of feminine excellence. Her humility is towering strength. It crushes the serpent underfoot.

Today, on the Feast of the Annunciation, we honor the day when this poor Jewish girl was approached by an angel and assented to the unimaginable. “My soul doth magnify the Lord,” she would later say to her cousin, Elizabeth. Is there any greater rebuke to feminism’s claims? (more…)