ALAN writes:

One night last week, a thug with a gun robbed customers in Behrmann’s Tavern in south St. Louis. In 2005, a newspaper reporter described the tavern as “a quintessential corner bar across from St. Anthony of Padua Church in the heart of Dutchtown.” Quite right.  It has been there since 1933. It was there when my classmates and I crossed that intersection every day during our school years more than half a century ago. In those years, a Catholic supplies store was next to the tavern, followed by a shoe repair shop, a bicycle shop, a Post Office, and a barber shop. Catholic nuns who taught in the school lived across the street.

For 25 years, customers in the tavern were entertained by a woman pianist who played classic old songs like “Paper Doll” and “It Had to Be You.”

The tavern was pictured in a newspaper article in 2002, in which the writer claimed the area “offers a touch of Mayberry,” referring to the town  in “The Andy Griffith Show” from the 1960s. As soon as I read the article, I knew the writer was an idiot.

The article quoted owners of small businesses near the tavern as saying they “feel safe” walking in that neighborhood.

That was a fine example of kindergarten “journalism”:  Tell readers how people “feel;” don’t tell them the facts; don’t print the crime statistics; don’t print a comparison of crime statistics from that neighborhood from one year to the next and one decade to the next.

The writer quoted one resident as saying, “There’s a lot of architecture here, old buildings with good architecture. It’s like a little Mayberry…”

Are you laughing as hard as I did when I read that line? You should be. Now we know that the fictional town of Mayberry had an extremely low crime rate. Selective quotation by this journalist led readers to think that “a touch of Mayberry” could be seen even in a real-life neighborhood that—unlike Mayberry—had been made “inclusive, diverse, and multicultural” by force of law. That is what he and the people who paid him to write such things wanted their readers to believe. But was it true? Let’s weigh and consider that idea: (more…)

TRUMP’S job is to play the role of the bumbling villain, to give Democrats and leftists something to rage about, to make the Federal Reserve and the banking elites look like the “good guys”, and to lure conservatives into denying reality on the economic crisis until it is too late.

— Brandon Smith

Thanks to Steve and Fitzpatrick Informer for the links.

[This video makes some good points, but the idea that the Catholic Church and the Jesuits are Masonic is absurd and false since no institution has issued more warnings against Freemasonry than the Catholic Church. More papal encyclicals have been written about Freemasonry than any other single issue, all of them strongly condemning it and warning Catholics that Masons face an eternity of suffering. Catholics are automatically excommunicated from the Church upon becoming Masons. There is Masonic infiltration in the Church, especially in the last 100 years, and that’s not surprising as the Church is Enemy No. 1 for the brotherhood. Also, I disagree that this was a deliberate revelation by Trump. He seems to have revealed that he is a Mason — as if we didn’t know with his constant, obvious Masonic hand signals — in a spontaneous way.] (more…)

PAUL A. writes:

I was reading through some of your older posts, when I came across “The Hardships of the Single Life.”  This article really hit a chord with me, because I have thought a lot about this subject in the last few years. I’m a victim of my own poor choices. I have never really settled down somewhere, never invested in relationships, and have always lived alone, even in preference to having a roommate or two. Now I live in a smaller town in California and own my own business.  This is when the solitary nature of my existence really sunk in.

I live far away from old friends and family, and have no roots in the area in which I live. I have my own business, or rather my own job, as a repairman.  So I do my work all day, driving from location to location. It is not uncommon for me to speak to no one during the course of the day except customers. I have no co-workers, and no option to network through them. I have no family near, and no option to network through them. No girlfriend or wife, etc.

After work, I come home and do the paperwork side of the job: write invoices, order materials, work on taxes, insurance, etc.  It is quite a load. And, to the point of your article, I have to do everything for the household as well. If the dog or cat gets fed, I have to do it. All the shopping, I have to do.  All the cooking, cleaning, and yard work is my responsibility. I have to maintain the cars. If something is going to get done, I have to do it. (more…)

  THE WORLD OF BEAUTY is the world of intermediary hierarchies which are irradiated with the glory that cascades down from the Trinity even into the formless opacity of matter. The beautiful is the world of forms*** between that which is above, being the sphere of God, and that which has no form at all, being mere matter. The modern world shuts out that intermediate order. It recognizes nothing between scientific thinking and mystical possession, and in so doing denies completely the sphere which it is the function of art to reconstitute by giving back to the universe its depths. --- Jean Danielou, Prayer as a Political Problem ***"Form" is used here in the Platonic sense and refers to spiritual essences, or souls.  

HELEN KMERA writes at the website of the Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute: Money is a social instrument and medium of exchange that should be managed by society in the public interest. Clifford Hugh Douglas argued that issuing a Dividend to each person sufficient to have a decent living was justified based on the legacy each of us inherits at birth. The Douglas Social Credit argument is that the earth, with its abundant natural resources, and the accrued know-how of technological advancements made since the discovery of the wheel, rightly belongs to each member of society.  We have a tremendous legacy that forms the natural foundation of wealth.  In a just financial system, money, Financial Credit as it were, would simply reflect this foundation, this Real Credit, as he called it. Governments, as trustees of society, would exercise their authority to create money for the common good and distribute a Dividend, sufficient to afford basic needs, to each citizen.  Society can and should reclaim its authority to issue and manage its own money supply without recourse to private banks which currently enjoy a monopoly on creating money. With financial reform, we could monetize Canada’s [and America's] natural wealth and productive capacity and issue a Dividend, a form of [Universal Basic Income], to each person without conditions. There is no reason why society could not directly fund infrastructure, issue loans to business and industry AND fund a Dividend distributed to each citizen. …

NUMEROUS studies have shown that the risk of breast cancer is increased with the use of oral contraceptives and induced abortion. Here’s one by the federal National Cancer Institute.

In analyses of all 897 breast cancer cases (subtypes combined), the multivariate-adjusted odds ratios for examined risk factors were consistent with the effects observed in prior studies of younger women (Table 1). Specifically, older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age, induced abortion, and OC [oral contraceptive] use were associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Risk was decreased in relation to greater number of births and younger age at first birth. OC use ≥1 year was associated with a modest increased risk of breast cancer, and among OC users only, earlier age at first use further elevated the risk.

Nature turns against anti-nature. But you won’t hear this from the feminist establishment. Slavery used to be physical. Now it’s all mental. This is one example of the legion lies of those who claim to work for the interests of women while working against them.

Abortion and contraceptives are fake health created by fake feminists. Feminism is the greatest form of oppression women have ever faced in all of human history. It shackles the body and the soul. (more…)

  ELIZABETH A. LOZOWSKI reviews the 2018 movie Jurrassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The film delves deeper into the Revolution than its obsession with feminism and animal rights: It borders on the diabolical by encouraging affection for monsters. There has been a tendency in recent years to present monsters as normal creatures, making them seem misunderstood by men and friendly toward them: e.g.How to Train Your Dragon, Maleficent, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla, to name a few films. It is a perversion of the sense of good and evil that destroys the moral conscience of children and adults alike. It trains the mind to love what is evil and to hate what is good and beautiful. Jurassic World does this in a sentimental and strange way. The viewer is coached to sympathize with the dinosaurs, even the most vicious ones. The characters on screen weep when a dinosaur is hurt or injured, but shed no tears when a human is killed by a dinosaur.  

CHARLES PINWILL, of Australia, explains in this essay,  “The Denigration of the National Dividend,” how modern economies can be liberated from the vicious cycle of indebtedness:

By 1919, just 100 years ago now, C. H. Douglas, an Anglo-Scottish engineer, discovered the interesting fact that all modern economies generate a deficiency of purchasing power to buy all of the consumer production in the marketplace.

He did this by observing the accounts of an aircraft factory at Farnborough (England) during World War I, and crunching the numbers of another 100 companies. We will spare you the technicalities.

He concluded that as consumer incomes were insufficient to buy the consumer products offered, that this would best be rectified by declaring the surplus to be a profit and distributing new money to consumers in the form of a National Dividend to buy it.

In 1923,  Douglas was invited to dinner by New York’s top bankers;  American financier, Bernard Baruch was among them. Douglas thought he would have to argue technical details and was prepared for this. The bankers took him by surprise, telling him that they completely accepted his diagnosis, and all they wished to know was what he intended to do about it. Douglas responded that the solution was to distribute a National Dividend to all to overcome the deficiency of income;  that is, to distribute the national profit equitably. The bankers made it clear that they were not interested in a National Dividend issued by society.^[1]

They had other plans.The bankers’ plan was simply to expand public indebtedness which would be owed to themselves. This would fund the deficiency of consumer purchasing power which did not allow for existing incomes to buy all consumer goods available.  The profit of society was considered theirs; after all they were in charge of fiat money creation. (more…)

FROM The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Volume VIII, (Thorndike Nourse, 1884):

THE great writers in defence of those principles of liberty, natural right, justice, and equity, which form the basis of true Americanism, were in the middle ages, not laymen, but churchmen and monks; men who were stanch [sic] papists, and in every contest took the side of Peter against Caesar. We do not recollect a single layman of literary renown, from Dante down to the seventeenth century, whose influence was not exerted in favor of Caesarism, that is to say, the despotism of the state. Not one of them seems to have had any knowledge of liberty in our American sense; and however loudly they may talk about it, it is always either the freedom of the nation from foreign bondage, or the emancipation of the temporal from its natural subjection to the spiritual. They are always either simply patriots or Caesarists, virtually political atheists, adopting the maxim of the Roman jurist, Quod placuit principi, legis habet vigorem. They were formed under the influence of the courts of princes, not in the schools of the church. There may have been in the cultivated lay society some talk of the privileges or liberties of classes, estates, or corporations, but none as far as we have been able to discover, except by monks and ecclesiastics, of the rights of men as simply men, much, if any, prior to our own American struggle or national independence. You will not find those rights recognized anywhere in pagan antiquity. (more…)

TIM E. writes:

The story of the abandoned husband reminded me of a British nursery rhyme, which states the difference in the natures of men and women quite succinctly:

The hart he loves the high wood,
The hare she loves the hill,
The knight he loves his bright sword,
The lady she loves her will.

The male deer, the hart, is a symbol of virility; the high wood, a place of adventure and danger. The hare, a symbol of female fertility, is atop a hill where she can be seen, but not easily reached. The knight loves his bright sword, his ego, which can be used for good or evil. And the lady, she loves her will, which also can be used for good or evil.

I cannot tell you how many times when I have recited this rhyme to men, they have shuddered at the last line. They understand its full import immediately. (more…)

GWEN writes:

I have written to you before expressing my appreciation for your site and your views on home-making and marriage. I felt compelled to write again in gratitude for what you have recently posted. My heart is breaking for the poor lonely husband. Thank you for another reminder of the importance of a woman’s role and the destructive power it can hold when not in alignment with God’s ways.

How can “busy wife” abandon another person like this? How can she sacrifice family, honor, and virtue for other pursuits? I am thankful I love my husband. He is my best friend in every sense. It always baffles me how women find such pleasure in tearing down and criticizing the men they chose. I am often ridiculed for pleasing my husband. However, going out of the way to please a girlfriend is worthy of the highest praise. (more…)

“FOR THESE and many other reasons, it ought to be crystal clear that Trump cannot win 2020 and will likely withdraw from the race.  He was able to scam the Patriot Movement in 2016, but the Truth Movement has caught up with him and his circus show in 2019.  And, his dog and pony show only gets more ridiculous by the week!

“The Left has so much damning evidence on him which was acquired during the Special Counsel investigation that he must know he’s toast…or soon to be toast if he does not withdraw sooner than later.

“The electoral analysis above clearly indicates that a vast swath of voters who voted for him in 2016 will either not vote in 2020 or they will vote against him. Many of them only voted to reject Clinton, and she’s gone. Others saw in him someone who would drain the swamp when in reality he filled it up with some of the worst swamp creatures inside the Beltway.

“Trump’s fealty to the Military-Industrial Complex has also made him a particularly dangerous POTUS. His zealous backing of some of the most tyrannical regimes on the planet such as Saudi Arabia and Israel make his warmongering administration even more dangerous, especially when they kill and destroy using these US-armed proxies.

“Enough of Trump! He’s toast in so many ways it hurts to look at him now.

“And, please, someone take away his Twitter account. Early-onset dementia, extremely bad diet, coupled with highly toxic psychoactive medications have turned this guy into a full-time freak show. Someone, please get him off the stage by yelling: You’re fired!”

— State of the Nation (more…)

  AS powerful as women are today in politics, government and business, they cannot approach her power. They rule through will and efficiency. She rules through humility and inner perfection. They rule through the generalized subversion of the natural order. She rules through its culmination. They are, in many cases, the relentless and blind, No. She is the eternal and sublime, Yes. She is loved as no other woman has been loved. Never has she denied one who has approached her. So often we think we can solve all our problems on our own. We cannot solve them on our own. A woman recently told me of her painful alienation from her own mother in middle-age. It was God's way of turning her to the Mother of all. If you think there are too many for her to encompass, you do not understand the vast, maternal ocean of her heart. Billions have been devoted to her. Millions have made pilgrimages to the places where she has appeared, in Guadalupe, in Knock, in Lourdes, in Fatima. There is a rock-like strength in many of those who love her --- and a child-like trust. She is the Refuge of Sinners, the heart of tender mercy between the fallen human race and the terrible majesty of God. Blessed is the womb that was worthy to bear the Incarnate Word. We venerate her especially today, on the Feast of her Assumption into Heaven. O UNSPOTTED and forever…

  "DUPING DELIGHT" is only one of the many signs of a staged deception. See more at Winter Watch.  

IN A column by Rod Dreher, a husband describes his intense loneliness in the face of his wife's whirlwind social calendar: My wife used to be my best friend. Now we just share a house and a bed. She has friends from her office, and goes out with them a lot. When all this started, I honestly thought she was seeing some guy. I’m not going into the details, but I’m truly convinced that she’s not. She’s just hanging out with other middle-aged women who are sick of their husbands too. I suspect the real problem with this couple can be summed up in one word: contraception.  

ACCORDING TO The New York Times journalist who had the last extensive interview with Jeffrey Epstein, he did not view his sexual perversion as perversion. He was “unapologetic.”

‘He said criminalising sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world.’

This does not seem like the type of guilt-ridden person who would have committed suicide.

Perhaps he also did not view his actions as wrong because most of his victims, it appears, were not Jewish.

There’s an exalted term for this in Jewish parlance. It’s called shtupping the shiksa. What is rarely mentioned in the coverage of this story is that Epstein, whose death is highly suspicious, zeroed in on gentile girls for his own pleasure and for others (including non-Jews). The Hebrew slang for a Gentile woman, shiksa ( שיקסע), comes from the Hebrew term shekets ( שקץ), meaning “abomination.” Gentile women are Niddah, Shifchah, Goyya and Zonah (menstrual filth, slaves, heathen, whores.) [Sanhedrin, 812-82b]

Obviously many Jewish men do not see things that way, but this Talmudic mentality may run through not just the likes of Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, but the huge business in trafficking of gentile Russian and Eastern European women in Israel. Stories of the women brought to Israel under false pretenses sound very similar to the stories of the girls who were lured by Epstein with money and promises of fancy careers:

Sofia’s story is painful and complicated. When she was 17 her father had a stroke and the family was thrown into economic turmoil; they sold their home and were left with nothing. When she was 19 she answered a newspaper ad promising $1,000 a month for taking care of old people abroad. She was given a choice of going to Germany, Turkey or Israel; when she chose Israel she was promised a plane ticket and good conditions. She was instructed to say, when she arrived, that she had come for a vacation in Eilat. “I was young and didn’t imagine it was all an act,” she says.

She arrived in 1999, when trafficking in women in Israel was at its height. Her first “bosses” forced her to provide sexual services for an escort service in Bat Yam. Later she was “sold” to the owner of a brothel in Tel Aviv.

The story of Virginia Roberts, who contends she worked as a sex slave for Epstein when she was 17, has a similar beginning. Her father described it: (more…)

JOHN PURDY writes:

I don’t know where you got the idea Belloc’s quatrain was a limerick but it’s not. Here’s a limerick for you.

There once was an actor named Bates
Who was shot several times but escap’t
When asked did you act?
He replied “I redact
Everything that does not turn your pate.”

I’m not much of a “limericist” either, but that is at least a real limerick. (more…)