JOHN G. writes:

There is a manga from China called “Cheating Craft” about a boy who spent all his time learning to cheat at casinos, but now he has to pass the entrance exam, and so he uses all his skills for that purpose. When he gets to the test, all the other students are cheating as well in various ways.

Although this is fiction, it reflects the culture from which it arises, in which test-cheating abilities are like a new form of martial arts. (more…)

KARL D. writes: If you want to see how stark-raving mad the Church of England has gone, I recommend this article from the Guardian. A group called “Women and the church" want to start referring to God as “She” due to the election of the first female bishop.

A WOMAN describes the Brave New World of gestational surrogacy at the website for the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network.

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ASHE SCHOW writes in The Washington Examiner:

The California state senate just passed S.B. 695, which adds affirmative consent instruction to high school health courses. The bill passed by a vote of 39-0 and had bipartisan support.

“As it stands, we are not doing nearly enough. We can and must educate the youth of our state, especially our young men, about affirmative consent and healthy relationships,” [State Senator Kevin] de Leon said in a press release about the new bill. “This bill represents the next step in the fight to change behavior toward young women.” (more…)

AFTER years of personal torment, the blogger Mike King has decided to make known to the world that he is really a mouse. Inspired by the noble example of Bruce Jenner, he writes:

The first step in the species-reassignment process will be eye-ball reddening, whisker-insertion surgery and rodent-dental implants. After I have recovered from that, the injection of fur growth hormones and the attachment of a prosthetic tail will be next. And finally, if all goes well, I will have the painful ear-sharpening and nasal-snout extension surgeries a month or so afterwards.

The most painful part of this process will not be the physical transformation. That much I can handle. But having to get rid of my cat, Sugar, is something I dread. With me becoming a mouse and all, well, it just ain’t gonna work out. Good bye my little feline friend. (more…)

HOW does a self-respecting feminist bow to a “transgender” idol such as Bruce Jenner? The “transgender” celebrity must be celebrated and adored. The “transgendered” are the vanguard. At the same time, in his latest publicity stunts as “Caitlyn” Jenner, the former Olympic athlete resembles a high-class call girl. In other words, he represents female oppression and the classic objectification of women.

Rhonda Garelick, a visiting professor at Princeton, tries to skate through this serious ideological dilemma. Princeton professors always tackle the most important issues of the day. In an editorial for The New York Times, she writes:

We have known for months that Bruce Jenner was becoming a woman, and we rejoice if this brings her happiness. But were we prepared for this woman? (more…)

FOUR U.S. NAVY SAILORS have been sentenced to prison for secretly recording videos on cell phones of female crew members in the shower. One petty officer received a prison term of two years and a dishonorable discharge. Another received a term of 18 months and a bad-conduct discharge, reports the Associated Press. Two others were given relatively minor sentences and several other crew members of the USS Wyoming await court martials.

So let’s get this straight.

The Navy deliberately creates conditions in which young, healthy men and young, healthy women are confined together in extremely close quarters in the middle of the sea. Then when the men show interest in the women as women, their careers are destroyed. They are not simply reprimanded for doing something improper, and of course it was improper, but their careers are demolished.

Such incidences must create a chill. There must be constant tension on coed ships. And for what military purpose? None. While the Navy severely penalizes men for minor male pranks, it relies on one thing above all else for its very existence — masculinity. (more…)

GERMANY reportedly now has the lowest birthrate in the world. Instead of having children, German women have low-level jobs.

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Paul K. writes from Houston:

I very much enjoy your writing and point of view on so many important elements of our culture and faith.  I am not Catholic, but share your concern about the general falling away from Christianity of our nation and so many families.   I thought you’d enjoy this cartoon from the Investor Business Daily (of all things) regarding what “the pope” might say to Moses if he parted the Red Sea today. (more…)

From Introibo Ad Altare Dei: Fox Television is getting ready to air a new television show called Lucifer, which actually portrays Satan as a good and helpful being. We are told “the TV series centers on Lucifer who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the gorgeous, shimmering insanity of Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.” [cont.]

DONALD writes:

Here is an article in the Wall Street Journal about how 8,000 Chinese students are expelled from American universities annually, many allegedly for cheating. I have read many of Anti-Globalist Expatriate’s submissions here regarding how cheating is culturally condoned by Asians. Until now, I didn’t understand the scale at which academic cheating takes place among this cohort. (more…)

IF Booker T. Washington were alive today, he’d almost certainly be deeply shaken and saddened by the state of American black culture. For Washington, the former slave and first leader of the Tuskegee Institute, civil duties came before civil rights. The main focus of the civil rights movement was not his idea and not to his liking. It instead reflected the ideology of his main adversary, the black leader W.E.B. Dubois, whose thinking was congenial to the white Marxist revolutionaries who started the NAACP and who strove to translate the Marxist dialectic of class struggle into matters of race. (The early funding and leadership of NAACP was overwhelmingly Jewish.)

For an excellent essay on the contrasts between these two black leaders, I recommend Ellis Washington’s 2001 article on the now-defunct website which was run by Elizabeth Wright, another  eloquent black American who died several years ago from cancer and with whom I corresponded occasionally in the last years before her death. [Ed: Unfortunately, this link is no longer working.]

Compare these two quotes noted by Ellis Washington:

We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free American, political, civil and social, and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America.

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

— Booker T. Washington

In 2012, a commenter at View from the Right described how the contrast between Washington and Dubois lingers in black thinking to this day. (more…)

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes: I sent you a post on the race-charged world of art and literature in Canada. Shortly after, I happened to listen to Ann Coulter in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News on her new book Adios America. She is basically saying the same things I am saying, when I dared to confront a Canadian liberal. I wrote a post on the interview, and here it is: Ann Coulter: Racist.

THE more black students are fed the Marxist narrative that they are victims of “white privilege” and the more schools refuse to provide them with discipline in order to avoid inequality in suspension and punishment rates, the more the behavior of students and the atmosphere of their schools declines. It’s no surprise black teenagers are playing the Knock Out Game on elderly pedestrians and killing people for their cell phones when they are encouraged in poor self control at school. Steve Gunn reports on the results of a new program in St. Paul, Minnesota which cost taxpayers $3 million and has reportedly caused so much chaos that enrollment has drastically fallen in four years. One teacher has her students use a secret knock code to enter her classroom so she can keep out those who roam the halls and cause havoc. Gunn writes:

Not long after PEG started working with St. Paul school officials, crucial policy changes were made, according to various news reports.

Special needs students with behavioral issues were mainstreamed into regular classrooms, a position openly advocated by PEG. (more…)

  CALL ME JORGE explores the curriculum at the future "Pope" Francis High School.

  THIS video, made by Ami Horowitz, features interviews with Muslims in Minneapolis. It was posted at Jihad Watch.

I HOPE you are enjoying this first day of June, dear reader. I have been detained by the weeds in our yard. They are busting out all over. How can I address world revolution when there is a revolution in my own backyard?

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