THE New York Post reports on Hillary the Cash Cow. In a two year period, she earned close to $22 million in speaking fees, mostly from business and financial interests. Think of that: $22 million. To make speeches. (Bill earned $27 million.) Why does she command such high fees from corporate America?

As Obama has shown, there’s now essentially no limit on the president’s power: He can dictate overtime wages (via executive decree), the forcible integration of the suburbs (via HUD) and even sexually integrate bathrooms (under Title IX). No wonder private companies want to cozy up to the White House. Your business is now the president’s business, if he or she wants it to be.

But, should Hillary attain the White House, you ain’t seen nothing yet. For the Clintons, who once rented out the Lincoln Bedroom, too much doesn’t even approach being enough.

Hillary will not be the first woman president, if elected. She will be the first woman dictator. As long as it’s a first for women … (more…)

IN A continuing discussion at The Orthosphere, Kristor argues that, contrary to popular economic theory,  economies prosper most over the long run not when profit is the goal, but when the good is: An economy prospers most, not when it seeks to maximize accounting profit (because that’s focusing on the wrong metric), but when its agents reliably seek the true good. And the good is just what a devout Christian is apt to do, by his best lights. As an extra bonus, and as might have been expected in a cosmos built by a good God, doing the true good generally results in the highest overall accounting profit, mutatis mutandis – and, ergo, in the highest tax base for the sovereign. Everyone benefits most when everyone is trying to do the right thing. This is not just an aphorism, but a truth of game theory. It is mathematically true; it is built into the fabric of this and all possible worlds.

THE TRADITIO website reports:

On May 9, 2016, 100 international pro-life groups took over Rome to protest Francis-Bergoglio’s anti-Catholic and anti-family March 19, 2016, Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Sex). The challenge was issued in the keynote address of the annual Rome Life Forum. The international pro-life groups have essentially branded Bergoglio as anti-life. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by LifeSite News.] (more…)

BERNARD WECKMANN is a former Orthodox Jew who has lived in Germany, Israel and Australia. He wrote at his blog in 2013 on what he calls the “mother of all sob stories:”

Few labels are as feared by Gentiles and as liberally used by Jews as anti-Semite and holocaust denier. The German butchers killed six million Jews during WW2 and now the Moslem barbarians are trying to emulate the Nazis; they want to drive the Jews out of their refuge, the God-given Land of Israel, and into the sea.

This is something that everybody knows because the Jewish-owned media tell us. So how can any sane person still doubt? Don’t you feel compassion for the victims of  irrational Gentile hatred and persecution throughout the ages and in all lands?  Don’t you feel guilty and ashamed?

And don’t you agree with the Jews that anyone who doubts that the holocaust happened or even just asks legitimate questions clearly deserves the punishment he gets?  To wit: heavy fines, vilification, ostracism, loss of career or business, physical assault, imprisonment and much much worse.

I will ask some important questions that have been asked many times before and still await answers! To the Jewish thought police I say: you are welcome to label me an anti–Semite and/or a holocaust denier or anything else you like! I don’t give a bloody damn!

So here we go! Was Cleopatra really beautiful? Did Columbus discover America? Or was it the Vikings? Did Moses part the Red Sea?  Did Hitler commit suicide? Or did he escape to Antarctica?  Did six million Jews really die? Or is this perhaps the 20th century’s greatest hoax?

Having been born after the above-mentioned people lived and after the events are supposed to have happened I can honestly answer with a resounding: “I DO NOT KNOW!” I have no first-hand knowledge of anything that transpired before I was born. (more…)

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ONE WOMAN'S descent into spiritual chaos after participating in intense yoga is described at Tradition in Action. "I want to share what I saw behind the Yoga and the evil powers who use it. It causes great confusion regarding values, it steals one's energy and ends in a total loss of freedom. 'Christian Yoga' is a contradiction. Parishes should not promote a practice that uses New Age exercises and spiritualities that lead to pride and especially spiritual pride."

A JEWISH feminist can yammer on and on about marriage and family and never once show the slightest interest in the welfare of children. Seriously, go to this long interview with Rebecca Traister, yet another well-funded Jewish feminist lecturing us about how great female self-centeredness and the destruction of the family are in a book that is like so many other books by Jewish feminists, and search for the word "children" or "child" in the text. You will not find them, even though she is talking about marriage -- you know, marriage, that institution for creating, protecting and nurturing children. You will, however, find a reference (Roe v. Wade) to killing children. Jewish feminism (is there any other kind?) is like Judaism in general. It exalts self-centeredness, materialism and resentful paranoia.

AN UNNAMED WOMAN protests Target’s “transgender bathroom” policy. To many Americans, she is contemptible. She has received a barrage of blistering abuse online — hateful rhetoric accusing her of being hateful — much of it directed against her large family and her appearance, proving that the Internet (and America) is largely garbage.

Give this woman a vote of confidence. Don’t shop at Target. Get your cheap imported goods elsewhere, even if you have to drive a few extra miles or order online.

In related news, every billboard company in Minnesota rejected an ad protesting Target’s policy. (more…)

ELIZABETH WRIGHT, who died in 2011, was an independent-minded black writer who left behind many interesting articles and essays (here and here) on race and culture. She was especially fond of Booker T. Washington and wrote about him in 1992:

In reading Booker T. Washington’s letters, speeches, personal biographies, and the many articles written about him while he lived [1856-1915], the most striking feature that one comes away with is his exceptional maturity. One can only be impressed by the clarity of this man’s thinking and his objective grasp of the situation in which blacks found themselves in the late 1800s. He understood, in a way that only a son of the South could, the complicated nature of the relationship between the two races and the interests they shared in the future economic development of the country.  (more…)

MICHAEL COOPER, an attorney in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in U.S. News, wrote in March of Trump’s appeal in the area. (As with all my posts on Trump, this is not an endorsement, but a look at his popularity.)

I live in Trump’s America, where working-class whites are dying from despair. They’re dying from alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide, trying to take away the pain of a half century’s economic and cultural decline. In the foothills of Appalachia, Wilkes County, North Carolina, is second in the nation in income lost this century, where the number of manufacturing jobs decreased from 8,548 in the year 2000 to about 4,000 today, according to Stateline. (more…)

HE'S A "justice-involved individual."

JORGE BERGOGLIO, in his latest interview with a French newspaper, compares Islamic jihadists with Christian missionaries: La Croix:  The fear of accepting migrants is partly based on a fear of Islam. In your view, is the fear that this religion sparks in Europe justified? Pope Francis: Today, I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam. It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest. [Translation here.]

WHO ARE the greatest enemies of the Fake, Fony, Faux “Catholic” Church of Vatican II? Is it,

1) Muslims?

2) Atheists?

3) “Married” Male Couples?

4) Environmentalist Earth Worshippers?

5) Conspiratorial Jews?

6) Angry Feminists?

7) Raunchy Rock Stars?

8) Catholics?

See answer below: (more…)

DON VINCENZO writes:

I am not making this up; no one could: The Washington Post carried an article (warning: graphic language) Sunday entitled, “Germany is trying to teach asylum seekers about its liberal attitude toward sex,” by Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner. I defy anyone reading that headline and then the story either to stop laughing, or from throwing up one’s hands in disgust. What has happened to Germany; indeed, what has happened to Europe and the West? In the inimitable words of the late Lawrence Auster, the nations of the West are on “the path to national suicide.”

Faiola, who is The Post’s Bureau Chief in Berlin, (and may be homosexual), reports that the German Federal Center for Health Education has created a website, “Using highly graphic diagrams and images,…the site outlines topics including first-time sex and how to perform far more advanced sexual acts.” (more…)

TIM writes: As I am sitting here at my desk this afternoon, I take a short break to watch the neighbor mother with her four small grade-school and pre-school, tow-headed children, work in her garden.  Today she is stringing lines for her tomato plants. The kids are engaged. The oldest two, both girls, are watching and helping.  The younger boy has a small butterfly net, and the toddler, another boy is watching with rapt attention.  It the midst of all this, mom changed the baby's diaper.  Mom is multi tasking, as usual, and all in stride. The memories this young mother is creating for her children will last their lifetimes. Good for her.  Good for them.  Good for all of us.

JOSEPH writes:

Thank you for your latest musings on the venerable herb ladies. I entirely agree with your estimation of them. They are grounded; they have roots; they are perennial; they know about proper timing, proper care, and the non-perfectibility of this world. See how radically reactionary gardening is! Why is this? Because gardeners inevitably come to realize that you cannot fool Mother Nature. You either learn, acknowledge, and respect the nature of living things — or they languish (and often perish). Of course, there is always a peddler trying to make a buck by selling you this latest Mastery of Nature invention to poison your garden. You may even get duped from time to time. Yet, you learn that nature must be respected and that technological shortcuts come with a hefty price to pay. Eventually, you accept that you can’t cheat and win. Follow the wisdom of the herb ladies — and your garden will prosper. (more…)

CATHOLICS decide to ignore "the pope."

ELLEN BROWN, author of Web of Debt, comments on Trump's recent statement that the government can just print the money to get out of debt: The right of government to issue its own money was one of the principles for which the American Revolution was fought. Americans are increasingly waking up to the fact that the vast majority of the money supply is no longer issued by the government but is created by private banks when they make loans; and that with that power goes enormous power over the economy itself. The issue that should be debated is one that dominated political discussion in the 19th century but that few candidates are even aware of today: should creation and control of the money supply be public or private? Donald Trump’s willingness to transgress the conservative taboo against public money creation is a welcome step in opening that debate.