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] (more…)

“I SHOULD LIKE to make clear, therefore, that although I consider the concept of mental illness to be unserviceable, I believe that psychiatry could be a science. I also believe that psychotherapy is an effective method of helping people — not to recover from an “illness,” but rather to learn about themselves, others, and life.

“In sum, then, this is not a book on psychiatry, nor is it a book on the nature of man. It is a book about psychiatry — inquiring, as it does, into what people, but particularly psychiatrists and patients, have done with and to one another. It is also a book about human conduct — since in it observations and hypotheses are offered concerning how people live.”

— Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, Harper and Row, 1960 (more…)

E. MICHAEL JONES argues in this interview that “white” is not a social identity, but a political trap.

Sorry, Dr. Jones, but you are wrong.

While it would be better to use the term “European American” because it is less stigmatized, the mere fact that people can intelligibly identify as “Caucasian” or “white” on medical and census questionnaires shows that the term is a biological reality and existing social identity. Genetic studies back that statement up. In a world where other races aggressively pursue their group interests by identifying as black or Mexican or Asian or Jewish, it is morally imperative for those with European ancestry to have some race consciousness — not, by any means, excessive racial pride or race hatred — lest they be culturally subjugated. The category of “white” is broad and genetically complicated. It is wrong to make one’s race the most important part of one’s identity. Race is most definitely secondary to theology. But race is real. Christians especially must shed a neurotic fear in order to preserve what’s left of Western civilization.

Read Lawrence Auster’s new book, Our Borders, Ourselves to understand why white identity is essential. (more…)

ANOTHER young girl bites the dust in an inclusive school bathroom.

"THE sexualization and homosexualization of children in general -- and the [feminizing] of boys in particular -- is by deliberate design of the 'usual suspects' behind Globalism who, via their Fake News, Academia and 'entertainment,' are spreading this mental/moral cancer like a fungus. We already have kids in drag appearing on TV, Drag Queen Story Hour in libraries, boys as young as seven 'transitioning,' and gender confusion being taught at educational levels from K-college. Normalization is almost here. "What is the motive -- the ultimate aim which most well-meaning social conservatives cannot, or will not, see? Answer: To engineer a nightmare society of dumbed-down, degenerate, confused, obedient, twisted, alienated, rootless, raceless, familyless, Godless, powerless, cultureless weaklings and weirdos good for little else but working, "consuming," paying interest, and paying taxes -- all to support the top tiers of the Rothschild pyramid structure enslaving a debased and hopeless humanity -- forever. "'Marlboro Man' will rebel against tyrants --- 'Mascara Man' will bend over for them. It's that simple." -- The Anti-New York Times  

  CHRISTOPHER Dummitt, a major author of gender theory in the 1990s, pleads guilty to having made the whole thing up: The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up. In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making it up. That’s how the gender-studies field works. But it’s not much of a defence. I should have known better. If I were to retroactively psychoanalyze myself, I would say that, really, I did know better. And that’s why I was so angry and assertive about what I thought I knew. It was to hide the fact that, at a very basic level, I didn’t have proof for part of what I was saying. So I stuck to the arguments with fervor, and denounced alternative points of view. Intellectually, it wasn’t pretty. And that’s what makes it so disappointing to see that the viewpoints I used to argue for so fervently—and so baselessly—have now been accepted by so many in the wider society.

  PLEASE join with me in welcoming the publication of Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism by the late Lawrence Auster, a friend and mentor who died of cancer in 2013 and left a long unpublished manuscript, which I agreed to bring to his devoted fans. It took six years (six years!) to make that happen, but here at last is an abridged version of the book, published by Vdare. From the back cover: At its founding, immigration was integral in the formation of the United States of America. The melting pot was the essence of our beginning. The blending of diverse people overwhelmingly from Europe made the country an extension of the greatest of civilizations. When immigration was measured, when assimilation was demanded, and when our borders were controlled, America thrived. This diversity within limits enriched America. But in the last half century or so, when uncontrolled immigration from the world over was pushed upon us, when balkanization was encouraged, America faltered. "Diversity" became a deceptive catchword and a force hostile to cultural and natural distinctions. Illegal immigrants were welcomed by the millions. Eventually, we saw racial profiling in college admissions, politicians pitting groups of people against each other, and white becoming a bad word. In Our Borders, Ourselves, genius conservative essayist Lawrence Auster details the fraud foisted upon the American people in the name of diversity. Published posthumously, Our Borders explains how the Immigration Act of 1965 led to the erasing of white…

FROM The Contemplative Observer:

We look, in our current political debate, at all kinds of people who – at times, frivolously – advertise themselves as “conservatives”. But are they? What is it that they defend? What is it that they stand for? Do they practise what they preach? At a time of permanent, unrestricted, asymmetrical war, that needs dedicated, sincere, but also competent and knowledgable warriors: are these people the ones, to paraphrase Comrade Obama, we’ve been waiting for?

It may be an attractive career to be a “conservative” media icon giving eloquent speeches peppered with the most entertaining polemics. But if such conservative heroines (or “paleo-conservative” living monuments) don’t even remotely understand that the Russian bear of today is still the same deep-red communist bear as ever, what then are these “public figures” ultimately good for? Especially as the damage they do is twofold: They cannot see the beast for what it is, number one, and instead praise it as the new hope for Christian civilisation, number two! Maybe these people should stop writing books and start reading books instead!

Let’s not mince words here – and today we MUST expect from a true, valuable conservative to be “holier than the pope”, because, well, just look what has been going on in Rome ever since Pius XII was succeeded by “good pope” John XXIII: (more…)

  A MAN remembers his "Mammy's" lullaby in this sweet 1921 song, which I hope you enjoy. Source  

FROM Oliver Heydorn at Social Credit Views: One of the difficulties that tends to be characteristic of the contemporary Christian milieu in particular, is the belief, more or less unconscious in most cases, that engaging with questions of money, economics, finance and so forth is ‘mundane’ and therefore of no interest to Christianity, which is ‘otherworldly’. There is, in the minds of some people, a strict separation between the religious/spiritual/supernatural sphere and that of profane concerns, a separation which is somewhat analogous to the liberal democratic principle of ‘separation between Church and State’. One manifestation of this compartmentalizing is the notion that “all is fair in love, war, and money”. In other words, because money and economics are profane they are essentially neutral, just like football, the weather, and food preferences. One can do with them anything that one pleases within the broadest of parameters … the underlying assumption being that Christianity has nothing of particular importance to say about the rights and wrongs of money and economics, i.e., has nothing of substantial doctrinal import that could or should be brought to bear on such subjects. Indeed, in some streams of Protestantism, both historical and contemporary, one is heartily encouraged to ‘do business’ and to store up treasures with wanton abandon. Such an attitude may even be taken so far that behaviours which would be regarded as sinful in other circumstances, such as theft, rise above any suspicion if they occur…

  "DRAG KIDS is an intimate journey into the lives of four child drag queens from around the world. Stephan, Jason, Bracken and Nemis have never met, but they’re united by a shared passion for drag, and they’re about to come together for the first time – to perform Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ at the world-famous Montreal Pride Festival. As they prepare for the big show, each faces their own unique challenges, as well as challenges they have in common – deep feelings of isolation (most have ever met another ‘drag kid’ before) and the struggle of trying to claim a place of your own on the fringes of a fringe culture." --- Guelph Film Festival  

  THE PIOUS Job gives us the finest example of real patience and resignation to the will of God. He was a wealthy, respected, and at the same time god-fearing man in the land of Hus, he was father of seven sons and three daughters, and lived peacefully and happy. God wished to try him and permitted the devil to vent his whole rage upon him. Job was deprived of his children and all his property, and, finally, he was himself afflicted with the most painful disease of leprosy. But in the midst of all these dreadful misfortunes Job remained calm. Naked, covered only with a few patches, he sits on a dunghill, a picture of misery, and yet no sound of murmuring comes from his lips, he does not curse, does not blaspheme God, but says resignedly: God hath given it, God hath taken it away, God can give it again; blessed be the name of the Lord. To all this misery was added the baseness of his own wife, who came and mocked him, and of three intimate friends, who instead of consoling him, judged him falsely and said, that his misery was just punishment from heaven. And still Job did not murmur against God's wise dispensations; with unshaken patience he held out with confidence in God, and God did not forsake him. He rewarded him well for his fidelity and patience. For He made him well again…

  TRADITIONAL Italian cookies called "ossi di morti," or bones of the dead, have been part of Sicilian customs of honoring the souls of the dead on All Souls Day. A recipe is available at Made in House.  

  IN POLAND, graves are decorated with flowers and the cemeteries are illuminated with candles at night on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Nov. 1 and 2: Her family would begin preparing a week ahead of time by cleaning up the graves of their deceased relatives. The whole village would be at the cemeteries preparing the graves of all the deceased, including the graves of those who had no living relatives in the area. Later, I read that the Poles took this obligation of cleaning the graves so seriously that after World War II many would travel to Monte Casino, Italy, to pay this honor to the graves of the Polish soldiers who died there. Read more at Tradition in Action.    

WILLIAM BYRD, a composer of the Tudor period, set Psalm 150 (Laudibus in Sanctis) to music in his 1591  Cantiones Sacrae and his hymn gives us a sense, though shadowy and inadequate, of the saints in heaven and their choruses of praise to a good and just God. I hope you enjoy this beautiful performance by Stile Antico. A translation:

Celebrate the Lord most high in holy praises:
Let the firmament echo the glorious deeds of God.
Sing ye the glorious deeds of God, and with holy voice
Sound forth oft the power of his mighty hand. (more…)

THE blog It’s About Time explores the Celtic origins of Halloween festivities.

And two American images from the Library of Congress:

Halloween fun fact:

Did you know that dressing up as a hobo, always a last resort for the lazy, is now considered “hurtful?” According to the ADL, a hobo costume stereotypes the poor. Gee, I didn’t know hobos were so sensitive. Here’s more advice from the ADL for schoolteachers:

Many Halloween costumes perpetuate gender stereotypes and exclude those who don’t conform to traditional gender norms, especially those who are transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming. Be mindful that you may have students who feel excluded and marginalized by the overly gendered way Halloween costumes are marketed.

Encourage self-expression, while making sure that children who venture outside of gender norms for Halloween are accepted, respected and not teased. Before a Halloween event, you might say something like, “It’s really fun to dress up and pretend. At our school, there aren’t boy’s and girl’s costumes.” (more…)

FROM Heather Mac Donald, writing about the manufactured racial hysteria in Madison, Wisconsin: Contemporary racial practice ... treats certain words as magical talismans, capable of inflicting harm on official victim groups regardless of how those words are used or even of their meaning, as protests over the academic term “master” reveal. This magical view of language has been lethal to many a career, in K-12 schools as well as in colleges and universities. It is a safe bet that the only appearance of such racial epithets in mainstream white society today is as a mention, not a use. To generate a sufficient number of racist incidents to ground the anti-racism religion therefore requires suspending the use-mention distinction. But if reinstating that distinction will itself generate a racial crisis, then it will be resurrected in the blink of an eye. And that is what happened in Madison over the last two weeks.