Abigail Adams

“THE PECULIAR FORMS of uneasiness in the American woman of today come naturally enough from the Revolution of 1776. That movement upset theoretically everything which had been expected of her before. Theoretically, it broke down the division fences which had kept her in sets and groups. She was no longer to be a woman of class; she was a woman of the people. This was striking at the very underpinning of femininity, as the world knew it. Theoretically, too, her ears were no longer to be closed to all ideas save those of her church or party — a new thing, freedom of speech, was abroad — her lips were opened with man’s. Moreover, her business of family building was modified, as well as her attitude towards life. The necessity of all women educating themselves that they might be able to educate their children was an obligation on the face of the new undertaking. Another revolutionary duty put upon her was — paying her way. There can be no real democracy where there is parasitism. She must achieve conscious independence whether in or out of the family. Unquestionably there came with the Revolution a vision of a new woman — a woman from whom all of the willfulness and frivolity and helplessness of the “Lady” of the old régime should be stripped, while all her qualities of gentleness and charm should be preserved. The old-world lady was to be merged into a woman strong, capable, severely beautiful, a creature who had all of the virtues and none of the follies of femininity.

“It was strong yeast they put into the pot in ’76. Read More »

ALAN writes:

One day at the library, I happened by chance to see a new book about Tammy Wynette.  It caught my eye because I enjoyed some of her songs long years ago.  She made the mistake of trying to balance too many things: Marriage(s), homemaking, and a professional career.  But to some extent she was a traditionalist-minded woman. “Stand By Your Man” was not exactly an ode to feminism. Late in her life, she was not favorably impressed by contemporary music and wondered what had become of the classic, prettier, more restrained country-western music she had heard and grown to love when she was growing up and for some years after.

I picked up the book on the naive expectation that it was about Tammy Wynette. I was wrong. On one level, it may be that.  But on another and more brazen level, it is a screed using her life and career as a pretext for helping to advance revolutionary ideology and vocabulary. Read More »

Olympic fencers, one of whom is pregnant

The Female of the Species
––Rudyard Kipling

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
’Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale –
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man, a bear in most relations – worm and savage otherwise, –
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. Read More »

MICHAEL SMITH was brimming with high expectations when he became a public defender in a large city in the South.

He describes his brutal lesson in reality:

If you tell a black man that the evidence is very harmful to his case, he will blame you. “You ain’t workin’ fo’ me.” “It like you workin’ with da State.” Every public defender hears this. The more you try to explain the evidence to a black man, the angrier he gets. It is my firm belief many blacks are unable to discuss the evidence against them rationally because they cannot view things from the perspective of others. They simply cannot understand how the facts in the case will appear to a jury.

This inability to see things from someone else’s perspective helps explain why there are so many black criminals. They do not understand the pain they are inflicting on others. One of my robbery clients is a good example. He and two co-defendants walked into a small store run by two young women. All three men were wearing masks. They drew handguns and ordered the women into a back room. One man beat a girl with his gun. The second man stood over the second girl while the third man emptied the cash register. All of this was on video. Read More »

AMELIA writes:

I have read your blog for many years now and have appreciated your thoughtful posts and comforting wisdom throughout the many different seasons of young motherhood and the homeschooling years. Now that my homeschooling years have come to a close, I am saddened to be surrounded by people pressuring me to go “make something of myself” at every turn. My husband is not interested in me returning to paid employment and appreciates the work I do in our home as well as what I do for our community. I have been running a home economics club for young people for several years now and also support two different charities in our community. Between these efforts, my social life, and my home, I am plenty busy and fulfilled.

How does one turn off the noise of the peanut gallery at this stage of the homemaker’s journey? How does a new empty-nester prepare for this new chapter of mean remarks and advice? It seems mighty different than the unkindness and confused questions I experienced during my baby, toddler, and homeschool years.

Thank you kindly for your advice. Read More »

An “orchestrated ‘White rebellion’ that was designed to make Whites look like reactionary, barbaric fools who are easily duped by ‘fake news.'”

Below, police deliberately shepherd “far left” protestors in Liverpool to confront “far right” protestors.

TEAM WOMAN is off to a roaring start.

Remember, a woman can do no wrong. A vote against her is a vote against every woman who ever lived.

John H. Vincent

[Reposted]

“WHEN about thirty years of age, I accepted for a time the doctrine of Woman Suffrage, and publicly defended it.

“Years of wide and careful observation have convinced me that the demand for Woman Suffrage in America is without foundation in equity, and, if successful, must prove harmful to American society.

“I find some worthy women defending it, but the majority of our best women, especially our most intelligent, domestic, and godly mothers, neither ask for nor desire it. The instinct of motherhood is against it. The basal conviction of our best manhood is against it. The movement is at root a protest against the representative relations and functions by virtue of which each sex depends upon and is exalted by the other. This theory and policy, tending to the subversion of the natural and divine order, must make man less a man, and woman less a woman.

“A distinguished woman advocate of this suffrage movement says, ‘We need the ballot to protect us against men.’ When one sex is compelled thus to protect itself against the other, the foundations of society are already crumbling.

“Woman now makes man what he is. She controls him as a babe, boy, manly son, brother, lover, husband, father. Her influence is enormous. If she use it wisely, she needs no additional power. If she abuse her opportunity, she deserves no additional responsibility. Her womanly weight, now without measure, will be limited to the value of a single ballot, and her control over from two to five additional votes forfeited.

“The curse of America today is in the dominated partisan vote — the vote of ignorance and superstition. Shall we help matters by doubling this dangerous mass? Free from the direct complications and passions of the political arena, the best women may exert a conservative and moral influence over men as voters. Force her into the same bad atmosphere, and both man and woman must inevitably suffer incalculable loss. We know what woman can be in the ‘commune,’ in ‘riots,’ and on the ‘rostrum.’

“Woman can, through the votes of men, have every right to which she is entitled. All she has man has gladly given her. It is his glory to represent her. To rob him of this right is to weaken both. He and she are just now in danger through his mistaken courtesy.”

— John H. Vincent (1832-1920), Methodist founder of the Chautauqua movement

Calandrucci, Giacinto; The Transfiguration; The Fitzwilliam Museum

“At His Transfiguration Christ showed His disciples the splendor of His beauty, to which He will shape and color those who are His.”

– St. Thomas Aquinas

Cloud Study, Simon Dennis

AT that time, Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow.  And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

And the disciples hearing, fell upon their face, and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them, Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes saw no one but only Jesus. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.

— Matthew, xvii 1-9

“PROBLEM, reaction, solution.”

The goal of the Southport hoax is to demonize “far-right extremists” and implement more intense government surveillance and security measures. Those in power want engineered civil unrest so they can prevent true civil unrest.

FROM Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson (1787):

 [T]hey should continue with their parents to a certain age, then be brought up, at the public expence, to tillage, arts or sciences, according to their geniusses, till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age, when they should be colonized to such place as the circumstances of the time should render most proper, sending them out with arms, implements of household and of the handicraft arts, seeds, pairs of the useful domestic animals, &c. to declare them a free and independent people, and extend to them our alliance and protection, till they have acquired strength; and to send vessels at the same time to other parts of the world for an equal number of white inhabitants; to induce whom to migrate hither, proper encouragements were to be proposed. It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expence of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.—To these objections, which are political, may be added others, which are physical and moral.

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“ONE of the worst effects which Adam’s sin produced in us, was its blinding our reason by means of the passions, which darkened the mind. O how miserable is the soul that allows itself to be ruled by any of the passions! Passion is a vapour, a veil, which will not suffer us to see the truth. How can he fly from evil, who knows not what is evil? Our mental obscurity increases in proportion as our sins increase.”

— St. Alphonsus de Liguori

THE suspect in the alleged Southport stabbings is a confirmed actor. From The Daily Mail:

Footage unearthed by MailOnline shows Axel Rudakubana, then aged 11, emerging from the Tardis in David Tennant’s trademark trenchcoat and tie – before urging the nation to help children by getting involved in fundraising.

The clip featuring Rudakubana, filmed in Blackpool in 2018, was deleted earlier today by both the BBC and the Ology child talent agency that represented him. Read More »