IN HIS remarks yesterday about the Trayvon Martin case, Obama spoke of the times he has been profiled as a black man. The New York Times reports:

But in the most expansive remarks he has made about race since becoming president, Mr. Obama offered three examples of the humiliations borne by young black men in America: being followed while shopping in a department store, hearing the click of car doors locking as they cross a street, or watching as women clutch their purses nervously when they step onto an elevator. The first two experiences, he said, had happened to him.

“Those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida,” Mr. Obama said. “And it’s inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear.” (more…)

IN a rambling, convoluted and contradictory statement meant to address the “pain” felt by the “African American community,” Obama today blamed the Zimmerman verdict once again on racism, stating, “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” He said whites — a word he never uses but that is implicit in his message — use the facts of black violence as an “excuse” to treat blacks differently. So much for the president’s respect for the verdict of a jury.

Was the president saying that 35 years ago, he was the sort of person who would have said these things to his friends and pummeled a man who stopped him so hard that he broke his nose and left gashes in his head? No, Obama doesn’t mean that. He was playing on widespread denial of the facts. Obama blamed whites for the high rates of black criminal convictions by referring to the “history of racial disparity in the application of our criminal laws.” He said:

The African American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws — everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.

Notice the way he attributes something that he believes to “the African American community” so that he can comfortably make the outrageous assertion that our judicial system is corrupt and blacks are often unjustly convicted of crimes and unjustly executed. Imagine being told by your president that you and your people are being sent to jail and killed for no reason. His wording next is very clever as he seems to contradict himself and back away from this assertion but in the end he returns to his basic point that blacks are not responsible for their criminality: (more…)

  MY OLDER SISTER, Clare, is an extremely talented cook. This has been true for a long, long time. Many years ago, when I was 12 or so, she made the batter for a Lady Baltimore layer cake in my bedroom late at night. The cake was for a boyfriend's birthday and she hid the baking bowls under my bed. I never tasted it, but it looked delicious. Then there was the time years later when she created a stunning red pepper tart. She placed it on the front seat of the car in transit to some important event. When she braked suddenly it flew off the seat and somehow landed on her braking foot. As she had to accelerate, the tart was smashed underfoot. But this sort of mishap never deters her. Clare owns a restaurant today and she continues her brilliant cooking adventures. One of the best recipes she has ever given me is for corn salad, which I have made many times in the summer. It requires cutting fresh corn from six to eight ears and then boiling or steaming it until it is just done. Then add lots of chopped fresh basil, cut-up fresh tomatoes, scallions, chopped onions (preferably sweet) and salt and pepper. Make a dressing by slowly adding in a steady stream ½ cup olive or vegetable oil (I prefer corn oil) to ¼ cup cider vinegar mixed with two teaspoons Dijon mustard, one tablespoon lemon…

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

In a letter Thursday to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, some 93 Catholic presidents and several professors urged passage of a bill “that includes a road to earned citizenship,” according to the National Catholic Reporter.

Can anyone recall the last time U.S. Catholic college presidents as a group pressured any politicians about abortion?  [Laura writes: Or about same-sex “marriage,” divorce, contraception laws and affirmative action?] I can’t. (more…)

GALLIAWATCH reports that the recent derailment of a train near Paris, which caused the death of six passengers, was the work of criminals who damaged the tracks. People were seen throwing rocks at the train after it derailed and attempting to loot the bodies. [A reader below says it has not yet been determined that the damage was deliberate.]

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JOHN writes:

What you wrote here about the myth of “balance” for women is so good that I just wanted to write and thank you for it. You have the courage to state truths that others are afraid to say, even those others who to some extent support traditional roles. I wish I had something witty or brilliant to tack on to what you said, but I really don’t have anything more to add except “Wow!” and “Thank you”!

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DAN R. writes:

Liz Cheney to the rescue of the Republican Party!

Despite declaring her support for “the family as the fundamental building block of society,” her father came out in favor of “gay marriage” several years ago upon the very public knowledge that her sister is lesbian. Lynn Cheney, her mother, wrote a novel from way back which even included a lesbian love scene or two. Any bets where she might tilt? In her announcement that she will run for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming, Liz Cheney pays tribute to her grandmother who became the first female sheriff in her Wyoming county. Cheney has five children, the youngest of whom isn’t even in school, and here she is, the very model of a major feminist politico. Who says feminism is the exclusive province of the Democrat Party? (more…)

HERE is one of the most chilling articles I have ever read. The New York Times reports that a seven-month old boy was kidnapped by his own mother, who reportedly has “a history of mental illness.” The child was being held at a “child welfare” agency when the mother walked away with him. Never once in the report by Winnie Hu and J. David Goodman do the journalists question the official description of the mother or the idea that a child can be a possession of the state. An alert message was sent out on cellphone networks to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers at 4 a.m. Wednesday. The mother was on the run in a city of government-controlled automatons. Needless to say, she was “located” a short time later.

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KAY writes:

I have quietly read your blog for awhile. I have found many stories that resonate with me and have helped me to realize that I am not some weird throwback to a different time. I would like to share a very long story about two girls raised in the same family. The first girl is regularly told about white privilege and how lucky she is. The second girl is told her problems are a result of racism. They are even told these things by the same members of the family they share. Neither is told her place in the world was dictated by the choices she has made and even the choices of her parents.

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THEY both used the N-word.

But Paula is a sinner and Trayvon is a saint.

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N.W. writes:

I’ve thought of writing a couple times recently, but every time I thought to write about some new assault on our freedom or some new disgrace it just felt like one more inevitable beat upon the tiresome drum of progress.

I thought to mention the article about sexual mores at Penn State where having anything more than a one-night stand is passé. I also thought about sending a post from Ms. about how the new tween girl cartoon “Monster High” rehashes all the same outdated ideas about femininity. I figured you’d already seen how mass murdering Islamic jihadists are the new cool, per Rolling Stone, and heard about the Tsaernevs’ teen and tweenie fan club.

As I said, I just didn’t see much point in writing to you concerning all of that tiresome agitprop.

However, I came across one piece today that was so predictable, and yet so amusingly original that I figured I’d pass it on: the United States Marines are looking for a few good “gender neutral” uniforms. (more…)

MRS. C. writes:

I just finished reading your post, The Balance Myth, and it rang so true I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I was raised in the ’70s, when a woman was encouraged to bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never let her husband forget he’s a man. My mother decided to “have it all” and went back to work when I was 11 and my brother 9, even though my father made enough for us all to live comfortably. For the rest of our childhood we were latchkey kids, raised by part-time parents and whatever was on cable TV. We knew not to bother our parents when they came home from work as they were often tired and short-tempered with us. My mother continued to do the family’s laundry and cooking, but was put upon to do any household chore and endlessly complained about these duties.

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ADAM writes:

Here’s another instance of government officials refusing to enforce the law which they swore to uphold simply because they do not like the law. In this country, we are fast abandoning rule of law in favor of arbitrary rule by the opinions of whomever is currently in power. (more…)

  STEVE KOGAN writes: John Constable’s landscapes and outdoor studies of nature are a perfect example of Goethe’s maxim, “Do not, I beg you, look behind the phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.” In other words, do not look for the causes or “laws” behind the surface of life, for if we are patient in observing and absorbing the tangible details of what is unfolding before us, their relationships will gradually emerge in a coherent, living whole, and “relationships are life,” as Goethe also observed.

IN the late 18th century, the French statesman and philosopher Louis de Bonald argued that legal divorce would lead to the unraveling of social bonds and injustice for fathers. His predictions are haunting today, but as dire as they were they did not foresee the extent to which government would someday profit from divorce. In the case of Bryan Sheffield, the state of Nebraska is demanding that he pay $11,000 in child support payments again because the payments were made directly to his wife and not to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, which receives federal funding based on how much child support it collects. This is merely one of many thousands of similar cases, in which family courts and state agencies, often to the detriment of fathers, encourage and manage family breakdown to their own benefit. You can read more about Sheffield’s case here. Notice that no court prevented his wife from moving with their children more than a thousand miles away from their father, who picked up and moved too to be closer to them.

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    SAME-SEX "marriage" will be legal in England and Wales as of later this week, after the House of Commons passed a new marriage law yesterday. This means not just the redefinition of marriage in Britain, where more than half of children are born illegitimate but a host of necessary repressions. In the above video, posted at Heteroseparatist, Tony Miano, a Protestant street preacher, explains his arrest in London for publicly stating that homosexuality is immoral.

    TIBERGE at Galliawatch has numerous important posts about events in France. Regarding the unpopularity of François Hollande, she posted the above video of the French president being booed on the Champs Elysée during the Bastille Day parade. She also has a shocking report about looting of the dead and injured during last week's train derailment. And, Tiberge continues to follow the activities of "les Veilleurs," the protesters against same-sex "marriage" who stand in front of public buildings in silent vigils.

THE acquittal of George Zimmerman on Saturday was not a triumph for justice. That’s because Zimmerman never should have been charged in the first place, given his injuries and the eyewitness account, and the evidence presented in the trial made that clear. As it is, he has been condemned in the press and faces possible “hate crime” charges.

If Zimmerman had been killed by Trayvon Martin, his death would have merited a few articles in local newspapers. If Trayvon had been white, Zimmerman would likely not have been charged. It is very sad that a teenager died. Trayvon Martin certainly didn’t deserve to die and Zimmerman was reckless in pursuing him when the police were on the way. But it is even sadder that the thuggishness Trayvon emulated is so common and has so many victims. The case was “racially polarizing” precisely because of pervasive dishonesty about black criminality and a race hustling industry that has much to gain from keeping white America in a state of guilt and fear.

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