PAUL C. writes:

Here is a sample of how some black Americans support the police.  It is a tough video by a white captain in the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana backed by black people.  St. Landry is located in Cajun country about 120 miles west of New Orleans.  It is particularly encouraging because a Louisiana black man was indicted (and appears in the link) on February 23, 2016, for burning alive this pretty twenty-seven-year-old white woman in rural Courtland, Mississippi on December 14, 2014:

Many people don’t realize there are a lot of black people in the South who support law enforcement.  There is a conservative black radio personality in “hateful” Jackson, Mississippi.  He begins his show on Friday evening telling all how the gunfire in the black community will begin shortly.  (Maybe he uses sound effects, if I recall.)  My friend lives in a new mixed subdivision (about 1200-1900 square foot homes on average), which is in a suburb (Brandon) adjacent to Jackson.  The blacks and whites are leaving Jackson because of the crime.  The touching (but exaggerated) movie The Help set in Jackson did not attempt to presage what was going to happen in Jackson.  White Southerners knew.

Madonna Surrounded by Six Saints, Sano di Pietro

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Thanks to you, Laura Wood, for all the work you do. A Southern Baptist upraising for me and yet your Catholic views are always clearly stated and because of the clarity more easily understood. You are never uninteresting. I wish you much success in your public life on the ‘net. Read More »

JOHN C. WRIGHT offers a Southern gentleman’s view of the women’s vote:

[W]omen are naturally less suited for war and conflict than men. If the vote were restricted solely to men, perhaps the public debate over public laws would make fighting wars and fighting crime its primary, or even its only, order of business. Perhaps all these other things, housecleaning the environment, mothering the poor, schoolmarming the schools, would be done privately, not by the government.

Perhaps if women did not vote, they could see to the environment, the schools, and the poor through the institutions of the Church, which are better suited to charitable activity and feminine compassion than the hard and harsh swords and balances of townhall.

The Nanny State only exists in nations where all the Nannies were given a vote.

Men, left to their own unaided reason, cannot handle the vote either. That’s why the Church was appointed by God as the moral guardian over society.

A FEMALE commenter writes:

I totally disagree with the previous commenter [who defended Trump’s mocking of a disabled reporter.] What Trump did was tasteless, offensive, and crass, like much of what he does. His politics might be sound on many counts, but he is humiliating conservatives everywhere, including me, with his disgusting tactics and display. It’s obvious that he wants attention and wasn’t raised with strong morals.

My husband is disabled (and yes, physical disabilities ‘count’ as disabilities; usually they are accompanied by medical issues as well), and while he is gainfully employed, he has had to deal with many setbacks (financially and medically) because of it. Clearly the commenter doesn’t know much about disability or the lived reality of it.

Bottom line, if Trump doesn’t have the intelligence and class to satirize what someone said and instead has to stoop to mocking their appearance or medical condition like a schoolyard bully, he’s not a man I can respect. Certainly not one I’d want leading my nation. Read More »

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CPT. Sarah Cudd from Public Health Command in the last few seconds of the 12 Foot March at Fort Dix, N.J. on April 27, 2015.

Russian pop singer Oleg Gazamov singing his latest hit Forward, Russia!

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The Little Beggar, Charles Henry Barnes

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THE Jewish-run and Jewish-funded ACLU, whose mission it is to de-Christianize America under the camouflage of “separation of church and state,” has no qualms about using the young and confused as proxy warriors to obtain its own form of theocratic rule.

A case in point is that of Taylor Victor, 16, a Manteca, California high school student who “came out” as a lesbian at the tender age of 15. Victor came to school one day last August wearing a T-shirt that said, “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian.” Both a teacher and an assistant principle took offense and told her to go home and change.

The ACLU filed suit on Victor’s behalf, converting her instantly into one of its most effective weapons — a tender adolescent who may be psychologically scarred if not given free expression. Those authorities — parents, teachers, principals — who try to defend the moral law, they are the real target of this suit. They must be disempowered. The project of preparing the young for a life of serfdom by enchaining them to their passions is otherwise not assured.

The case was quickly settled out of court. The school has agreed to change its dress code so that it no longer discriminates against those who express their perversion “orientation.” It also will pay $63,000 to the ACLU in attorney’s fees and other legal costs, and provide regular training in censorship “free expression” to  high school administrators. What’s most shocking is the absence of any backlash at all from parents in Manteca. If there was one speck of decency left in that town there would be a riot and those ACLU hotshots would be arrested and charged with corruption of minors.

In a few years, the ACLU will have forgotten Victor, I mean, Taylor. She will be left to pick up the pieces of her life, a veteran of a war that she didn’t even remotely understand.

I feel very sorry for this girl. Read More »

STEVE KOGAN was one of those people I have been fortunate enough to have struck up an acquaintance with in my years of blogging, but never personally met. An English literature professor for more than 30 years, an accomplished writer who also contributed to View from the Right (under the name “Murray”) and Brussels Journal, Steve was a gracious and warm man.

Sadly, Steve died last August of pancreatic cancer. I am sorry he is no longer with us and wish he could have sent many more essays. May he rest in peace and may his wife, Carol, find consolation in his memory. A collection of Steve’s essays, Against the Grain, is now available at Amazon.

Here is a 2011 essay by Steve that was posted here before, a meditation on a performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear in Brooklyn. During the famous and harrowing tragedy, the audience frequently burst into laughter:

If I had had a counter in my hand, I could have pressed it forty times for every laugh I heard. Many came in response to sharp exchanges of conflicting points of view, as though the audience were being treated to witty repartee, while others followed sadistic comments during the blinding of Gloucester and even scenes of murder, as when Regan collapses – “Sick, O, sick” – after being poisoned by her elder sister, Goneril, who retorts in an aside, “If not, I’ll ne’er trust medicine.”

William Dyce, King Lear and the Fool in the Storm (c. 1851)

 King Lear in New York

– by Steve Kogan –

I HAD A strange and disconcerting night at the theater this spring, when my wife and I saw Derek Jacobi in the title role of Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On our subway ride back home, my feelings ran so high that we began to quarrel over their intensity, and it was only after we apologized to each either in the morning that I was able to express exactly why my emotions had been roiled. What follows grew out of what I said to her and what I later discovered when I read a review of the production in the New York Times.

In my last two years of college, I took a one-year course on Shakespeare and a senior semester on Lear, which we read scene by scene and line by line. There was a time in my life when I went to the theater to see whatever works of his and his fellow dramatists were being performed in the city, and I developed a way of turning even mediocre acting to advantage by supplying my own imaginary performance as I let the familiar words sink in. When the acting was good, my absorption was complete. Read More »

Scalia with Talmud scholar, Adin Steinsaltz

WHILE Catholics claim Antonin Scalia as one of their own, the Jewish press comes close to doing the same thing, reports Call Me Jorge. Scalia, after all, was a longtime student of the Talmud and was among the justices who ruled that the rabidly supremacist and anti-Christian Chabad-Lubavitch could put their towering menorah on government property near the White House without violating the Establishment Clause. The decision cleared the way for menorahs on government property throughout the country.

“When there was no Jewish justice on the Supreme Court, I considered myself the Jewish justice,” Scalia once said.

From Haaretz:

Scalia’s death prompted pundits to highlight his now-famous relationship with Jewish liberal justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. Despite their radically differing political philosophies, they remained close friends throughout their years on the court. They would attend operas together and their families would vacation together. Their off-the-bench friendship was so similar to a Romeo-Juliette bond that they even inspired an opera.

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“POPE” Francis radically distorted the Gospel according to St. Matthew to justify his support for open borders in his recent comments about Donald Trump.

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CARDINAL Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa, had the nerve to say in 1960 that masculine clothing negatively affects the psychology of women. Here is commentary from the famous Italian cardinal.

But as we know, pants have liberated women to look wonderful:

Joseph writes:

This year, the parish of St. John the Baptist (Russian “Orthodox” Church) in D.C. organized a youth ball at the Russian Embassy. It was to be held on St. Tatiana’s day, the patron saint of students, though it was delayed due to the snow storm in late January (St. Tatiana’s day is on January 25). Here is a video of the Dance Polonaise. It is not perfectly executed, but I watched those boys and girls grow up, and it brought a smile to my face. Read More »

IN THIS news report from last fall, Donald Trump mocks the physical condition of a reporter with palsy. He then later apparently lied about it and said he didn’t know the reporter.

Trump here — and elsewhere — is an embarrassment to the cause of preserving America’s borders. Read More »

DONALD Trump, who once attended a same-sex “marriage” and called it “beautiful,” is relatively good for the LGBT cause. He personally supports free marriage and he has been a vocal supporter of “gay rights.” According to Jonathan Jacob Allen:

Donald Trump’s been accused of being a bully and a bigot. But he stands out among Republican presidential hopefuls for his comparative sensitivity to one politically potent minority group: the gay community.

Trump has advocated for banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. He criticized a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court found, earlier this year, that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry. He is also one of only two Republican candidates — along with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — that the Human Rights Campaign deems to have even a “mixed” record on gay rights.

“He is one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency,” said Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an advocacy group for LGBT Republicans. Read More »

CHARLES MURRAY writes in the Wall Street Journal on the appeal of Donald Trump to the white working class. “American egalitarianism is on its last legs,” he says. It has produced an elite (much wealthier in real dollars than the elite of 50 years ago) with open snobbery and contempt for the disaffected white lower classes, who have seen decline and community breakdown. Trumpism has replaced Americanism.

“It is the endgame of a process that has been going on for a half-century: America’s divestment of its historic national identity…. Its three core values may be summarized as egalitarianism, liberty and individualism….Today, the creed has lost its authority and its substance. What happened?….

“In my 2012 book “Coming Apart,” I discussed these new classes at length. The new upper class consists of the people who shape the country’s economy, politics and culture. The new lower class consists of people who have dropped out of some of the most basic institutions of American civic culture, especially work and marriage. Both of these new classes have repudiated the American creed in practice, whatever lip service they may still pay to it. Trumpism is the voice of a beleaguered working class telling us that it too is falling away….. Work and marriage have been central to American civic culture since the founding, and this held true for the white working class into the 1960s. Almost all of the adult men were working or looking for work, and almost all of them were married. Read More »