STEVE writes:

This article by James Barrett most definitely has a liberal bias, which I obviously don’t agree with, but it does make an excellent observation about mighty-rightie, tighty-whitey, right-whingers, in their obsession with Nietzschean ubermenschness, especially their mistaken, arrogant belief that they can will (or, more accurately, conjure) something into existence.. They emphatically cannot.

The only true ubermensch is the Lord Jesus Christ. Read More »

“SOCIALISM was never meant to be a system to ‘help the people’. It is, from its inception, a system of mass management of populations, on behalf of a self-appointed governing class, the “intelligentsia”. It’s a system by which that governing class uses the powers of the state to take control over (and from then on, manage) each and every aspect of society, according to its own particular whims.

“It was born out of the 19th century ideologies of “scientific/rationalist management of society”, under which individual liberty could not be tolerated, and social life had to be entirely regimented, and planned, by the ruling class. That meant *everything* would ultimately be defined by the state: economics, social creeds (including religion), politics, social habits, and even population size and composition, through the practice of population control and state-run eugenics, among certain groups (abortion, sterilization, euthanasia).

“The endgame of socialism is to have a system where the individual will “only be allowed to exist in order to serve the state (as was stated by top socialists like Trotsky, GB Shaw or HG Wells). That is, under full-fledged socialism you will only be allowed to exist if you willingly serve the ruling class that sets up and manages the all-powerful state on its own behalf.

“So, the big lie here is that socialism is ‘meant to help the people’. No, it’s not. It’s a crafty way of regimenting the people to work and be slaves for a system, on behalf of a top intelligentsia.

“That is why, throughout history, socialist systems only go after personal independence and the middle classes. They rarely ever hunt down the big banking and mercantile interests.” Source

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[WARNING: Do not watch this commercial with children in the room.]

IN THIS ad from Coca Cola, mothers (and one father) prepare their sons for a pride parade.

With the right lighting, the right acting, the right cinematic skill, and the right emotions, anything can be made to look good.

Rudyard Kipling, an evil, misogynistic poet of evil, unenlightened times

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. Read More »

AMERICA is a wasteland of political junkies.

Every morning, or as often as possible, Democrats inject hatred of Trump into their veins. Ooh! Aah! Without that, they wouldn’t feel alive. Republicans toss needles to the ground after a fresh dose of hatred of Trump haters.

The impeachment effort is perfect for all involved. It gets everybody high.

Trump, the crude and blasphemous egomaniac who didn’t make things new, was losing support from his base. The impeachment process has possibly saved him for another term. Now he’s anti-establishment again!

As for Democrats, they are tantalizingly close to maximum revenge. The street price of a high hasn’t been this low in years.

Despite all this sectarian fervor, the difference between the country we would get with a Democrat and the country we would get with a Republican is very small. I know a lot of others have said this and it seems hard to believe, but it’s true. The cards are stacked against all of us. No matter who wins, millions of children will still go to schools where they are taught to be political junkies rather than to think. The economy will still be based on debt. We will be just as materialistic and conformist, utterly frightened by the prospect of being different or “kooky.” Our elections will still be controlled. We will have big government and high immigration and the abortion industry and fake news and a total absence of leisure and war and drag queens at the library either way.

The impeachment is theater, something to watch and to feed the cravings of addicts. It’s drugs, not democracy.

So what can you do?

You can carry your cross instead of trying to escape it. Read More »

FROM the desk of Daren Jonescu:

A follow-up on the story of Canada’s use of famous hockey commentator Don Cherry as their “Goldstein,” the enemy-of-convenience at whom everyone in Orwell’s Oceania is encouraged to shout invective for two minutes, just to purge all negative feelings by spewing them at an outsider, rather than fomenting anger against the oppressive State.

I see that Bobby Orr, whom Cherry coached during the final years of his career as a Boston Bruin, when he was arguably the best player in the NHL, has stepped up to defend his old coach and friend in an American radio interview.

He’s not a bigot and he’s not a racist. This guy is the most generous, caring guy that I know. What they’ve done to him up there is disgraceful, it really is. It’s a new world I guess. Freedom of speech doesn’t matter. Read More »

“THE advent of a Universal Republic, which is longed for by all the worst elements of disorder, and confidently expected by them, is an idea which is now ripe for execution. From this republic, based on the principles of absolute equality of men and community of possessions, would be banished all national distinctions, nor in it would the authority of the father over his children, or of the public power over the citizens, or of God over human society, be any longer acknowledged. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of terror.”

— Pope Benedict XV, July 25, 1920, Bonum Sane

THAT men make more aggressive rulers has been a frequent claim of feminists. Here is a study that suggests otherwise:

A working paper by political scientists Oeindrila Dube, of the University of Chicago, and S. P. Harish, of McGill University, analyzed a selection of mostly European kings and queens who reigned between 1480 AD and 1913 which covered 193 rulers in 18 countries. A Daily Mail article says the 400 years of European history included female rulers such as Catherine the Great , who made Russia a waring nation in the 18th century, Britain’s Elizabeth I , who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, and Isabella I of Castile , who led Spain to dominate the world in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Over 193 reigns the researchers found that states ruled by queens were 39% more likely to wage war than those ruled by kings. Not only did the team of researchers find that states ruled by queens were more likely to fall into conflict and war than those led by kings, but females were also more likely to gain territory and were attacked more often. Co-author Oeindrila Dube told The Times that there’s this general stereotype that men are greatly responsible for wars and genocides and that women are natural peace-makers, but “our research turns this stereotype on its head”.

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Is it possible that queens have resorted to military aggression more often in an effort to make up for the natural authority they lacked by virtue of being female? It’s an interesting question.

ALEXANDER BORODIN’S beautiful composition In the Steppes of Central Asia will help cleanse your mind of Russian drag queens. You can just see the wide open skies and exhilarating emptiness when listening to this. Why does great beauty make us want to cry? It makes us homesick, that’s why. We are made for a better world. And great music momentarily takes us there.

“In the Steppes of Central Asia had been intended to be presented as one of several tableaux vivants to celebrate the silver anniversary of the reign of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who had done much to expand the Russian Empire eastward. The intended production never occurred, but the work has been a concert favorite since its first performance, on 20 April 1880 (8 April Old style) in St. Petersburg by the orchestra of the Russian Opera under the conductorship of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. [Source]

This was performed by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Evgeny Svetlanov, proving that even Communists can’t resist great art. Read More »

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alexander Steinberg, bringing Cultural Marxism to America 

ALEXANDER STEINBERG goes by the stage name of “Sasha Velour.” He is an extremely well-funded and extremely freakish “drag queen” who has gotten tons of free national publicity including a mention on Saturday Night Live. His rise at the age of 32 has been meteoric. This week he got more free national publicity when he was in the news with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (See here). He is currently starring in his one-man show, Smoke and Mirrors. Big bucks have gone into this production.

Steinberg, who grew up in Connecticut, has an unusual background, having worked as a security guard at the most famous Russian museum, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg. He was also a Fulbright scholar in Moscow. How many supposedly self-made New York “artists” have such close ties with Russia? His mother was editor of The Slavic Review and his father is a Russian historian.

Below is an interview if you can bear to watch it. Not sure what ring of hell this comes from. Steinberg makes explicit references to Satan in his get-up and his skits. Drag queens have been around for eons. Their sudden widespread visibility and the constant promotion, however, suggest an orchestrated and well-funded campaign. One goal is to get people like you agitated and upset.

Let these drag queens drag on. What you do with your life is what matters.

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[I REMOVED a link to a Twitter thread that was here. On revisiting the site, I realized it had nasty commentary. I apologize for including this link.]

Pope Pius XI

“WHILE it is true that the race or the people, the State or a particular form of government, the representatives of the civil power, or other fundamental elements of human society have an essential and honorable place in the natural order, nevertheless, if anyone detaches them from this scale of earthly values and exalts them as the supreme norm and standard of all things, even of religious values, deifying them with idolatrous worship, he perverts and falsifies the order of things created and constituted by God, and is far from true faith in God and from a conception of life in conformity therewith … our God, is the personal God, transcendent, almighty, infinitely perfect, One in the Trinity of Persons and Three in the Unity of the Divine Essence, Creator of the Universe, Lord, King and ultimate purpose of the history of the world, Who does not suffer and can never suffer any other divinity beside Him … only superficial minds can fall into the error of speaking of a national God of a national religion, of foolishly attempting to restrict within the narrow confines of a single race, that God, Who is the Creator of the world, the King and Lawgiver of all peoples, before Whose greatness the nations are as small as drops of water in a bucket.” [bold added.]

This profound and truthful statement was made by Pope Pius XI in his 1937 Encyclical, On the Condition of the Church in Germany, in which he condemned the racial idolatry of Nazism.

Pius XI’s statement is important for those of us today because he not only warns against deification of race, but he clarifies the important truth that love of one’s own race is natural and good.

Interestingly, the political phenomenon of multiculturalism suffers from both extremes essentially warned against by the Pontiff.

Multiculturalism causes Westerners to disparage excessively and to a neurotic degree their own race, therefore eliminating the “essential and honorable place” race has in the natural order. At the same time it perversely causes them to idolize other races, creating a “national God” of race … and “foolishly attempting to restrict within the narrow confines of race” that Supreme God.

White nationalism which makes the white race a God is deeply wrong and should be avoided at all costs. But then so should a mystique of race applied to non-whites, with the constant suggestion that they can do no wrong and are untainted by original sin.

Christian Zionism is another example of racial idolatry today. Read More »

PUTIN appears to be trying to unleash a new “migrant crisis” in Europe.

Read more at US News.

CHRIS R. writes:

Happy Veterans Day.

As a frequent reader of your (often musical) blog, I thought that you might appreciate that I am a classically trained baritone/bass-baritone.

I still fondly revisit the music you shared of the soldiers in San Francisco singing Eternal Father. Hauntingly beautiful. Here is my version.

+JMJ

Laura writes:

Thank you. Beautiful! You have a wonderful voice!

Let’s pray for all veterans today. And let’s pledge to do anything and everything in our own small ways to prevent war.

Thank you again.

Prayer for those in the Armed Services

O God, we implore Thee, watch over those exposed to the horrors of war and to the spiritual dangers of a soldier’s, a sailor’s or airman’s life. Give them such a strong faith that no human respect may ever lead them to deny it, or fear to practice it. Do Thou by Thy grace, fortify them against the contagion of bad example, that, being preserved from vice, and serving Thee faithfully, they may be ready to meet death whenever it may happen, through Christ our Lord.

O Sacred Heart, inspire them with sorrow for sin, and grant them pardon. Mother of God, be with them in battle, and, if they should be called to make the supreme sacrifice, obtain for them that they may die in the grace of thy Divine Son. May their guardian angels protect them. Amen.

“Miserable the sinner who hardens his heart and resists the divine calls: His heart shall be as hard as a stone and as firm as a smith’s anvil. Instead of yielding to the graces and inspirations of God, and being softened by them, the unhappy man becomes more obdurate, as the anvil is hardened by repeated strokes of the hammer. In punishment of his resistance to the divine calls, he will find his heart in the same miserable state at the very hour of death, at the moment of passing into eternity. ‘A hard heart shall fare evil at the last.’ ‘Sinners,’ says the Lord, ‘you have, for the love of creatures, turned your back upon Me.’

They will have recourse to God at death; but He will say to them: ‘Why do you invoke me now? Call on creatures to assist you; for they have been your gods.’ The Lord will address them in this manner, because, in seeking Him, they do not sincerely wish to be converted. St Jerome says that he holds, and that he has learned from experience, that they who have to the end led a bad life, will never die a good death.”

— St. Alphonsus de Liguori, “The Sinner at Death“

THIS WAS a very good, amateur video that was mysteriously removed from Youtube, along with the rest of the channel by someone named “DJ.” There was nothing inflammatory about this video. DJ warned viewers to watch television news no more than once a month. He said people should direct their attention elsewhere and read and study issues in depth. I agree with that. The news is too managed to take seriously, similar to how it was in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the censorship here was because this Youtuber exposed shills on the alt-right — people such as Stefan Molyneux and Adam Green — in his other videos.

FROM THE COLLEGE FIX:

A Romania-born academic says he recently left his tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is “on its way toward full blown communism,” according to a Romanian TV interview translated by a Romanian-American immigrant.

Prof. Andrei Serban, an award-winning director, complained about the increasing social justice demands he faced in the theater department in the interview, which aired on Romania’s TVR1 Oct. 26. One prominent example he gave: pressure to admit a transgender applicant who auditioned as Juliet from “Romeo and Juliet.”

Andy Ionescu, a native Romianian speaker who immigrated to the United States in 1999, told The College Fix in a Twitter message that he translated the interview.

Read more.

The Friends of the People caricatured by Isaac Cruikshank, November 15, 1792, Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine are surrounded by incendiary items

A READER sent me a long e-mail from a Republican Party official in Fairfax County, Virginia. In it, she recounts the losses of conservatives in this past week’s election. (See the e-mail below.) She says George Soros and his operatives may have been involved in the outcome.

She may be right, but, let’s face it, as the reader pointed out, is George Soros anymore radical for his day than Thomas Paine?

Remember, the American Revolution was a revolution. 

If Fairfax County sees “after-birth abortion,” isn’t that the inevitable outcome of the Masonic universalism represented by Paine and his revolutionary ideals?

Paine, who supported the French Revolution, which legalized abortion in France, wanted to inaugurate a New World Order by overturning traditions of Western civilization, including monarchy, aristocracy and the “political superstitions” of organized Christianity. For him, society should be guided by human reason alone, as he wrote in his book The Age of Reason:

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. [Source] bold added

He also later wrote:

“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally paid to the sun”. [Source] Read More »