BRANDON MARTINEZ comments on what he says is the alternative media's unquestioning approval of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

WOLFGANG GRASSL writes at Crisis Magazine:

The frantic quest for “diversity” is a deeply anti-Catholic impulse. It finds no support in Catholic moral and social teaching. There is no mention of diversity as a goal of Catholic life in the Catechism of the Catholic Church or in any of the pastoral, moral, or social constitutions and encyclicals before and after Vatican II. Diversity has never been advocated by the great thinkers of the Church, who have instead preached unity. And there is a good reason for this glaring absence: Catholics marvel at the natural diversity of God’s Creation, at the difference in people, animals, landscapes, plants, and languages. They want to preserve as much of this diversity as is possible, because it enriches all of us. But they will resist disturbing the order God has willed for the world. Erecting skyscrapers in the Sahara Desert, crossbreeding species, developing artificial languages, dying our hair green—all of these increase diversity, but at what cost? Artificial diversification drives out the natural diversity of God’s very good Creation. Enticing students of a particular race from a distant big city to move to a small rural one, or making every effort to prioritize gay and lesbian candidates for faculty positions, does not exactly exemplify the improvement of the world to which Christians are called.

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RACHEL writes:

Have you seen this?  This is really not about women.  It’s about ANTI-children.

Women always have had control over their reproductive life.  It’s called, don’t have sex. (more…)

LILLIAN MOLLER GILBRETH is credited with inventing the layout of the modern kitchen. It's an interesting story. Here's a 2012 article about her from Slate. Gilbreth, described as an industrial psychologist and engineer, had 12 children (and the help of servants). She was an anonymous assistant to her husband until his death, at which point she pursued their joint field on her own. She did motion studies of women working in the kitchen and introduced "Gilbreth's Kitchen Practical" at a Women's Exposition in 1929. The design is similar that in many kitchens today. In the 1940s, what Gilbreth called “circular routing” became known as the kitchen “work triangle,” a concept that designers still rely on today. In an efficiently planned kitchen, the perimeter of the triangle formed by stove, sink, and refrigerator should be no greater than 26 feet, with a typical distance of 5.5 feet between appliances. As neat as her ideas are, others probably would have come up with them if she hadn't. But no one else could have come up with those twelve Gilbreths.

 BURY THY SORROW Bury thy sorrow, hide it with care; Bury it deeply; the world has its share. Think of it calmly, when curtained by night, Tell it to Mary and all will be right. Tell it to Mary, She knoweth thy grief; Tell it to Mary, She’ll send thee relief. Hearts grown aweary with heavier woe Drop into darkness; go, comfort them, go— Bury thy sorrow, let others be blest, Give them the sunshine; tell Mary the rest. Source

  THE brilliant E. Michael Jones offers his panoramic view of Western history in "The Goy Guide to World History." This is Part I (above). Here is Part II (below), in which he wisely says, "The Jewish people are the human shields for the Jewish leaders."  

KRISTOR writes at The Orthosphere:

In the latest issue of Touchstone, SM Hutchens identifies the ultimate target of the Social Justice Warriors:

The white male conservative is the hidden, negative correlative of “diversity” among those who value that concept. It is he who, by definition, is not diverse, and therefore can not only not share in that virtue, but is the embodiment of all that opposes it. (more…)

ONE OF the best websites on the Internet, Novus Ordo Watch, has a great new look and format. See its new page of memes about Vatican II (samples below) and sedevacantism and lots of great introductory articles and videos.

Congratulations, Novus Ordo Watch! You’re the best!

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LYDIA SHERMAN writes: In the simple days, the highlight of a child's life was the trip to the Grandparent's house. My husband is a preacher in a church, and is hearing almost daily, reports from grandparents in tears who say their children are too busy taking their children to fairs and amusement parks and vacation locations, to visit the grandparents long enough to form any heart-felt connection. He calls this a national plague, and says it is destroying the country faster than bad politics. When families are strong, individuals cannot be swayed to participate in false ideas. Detachment, emotionally and physically, is encouraged even in homeschool families, making individuals vulnerable to all kinds of evil. I too remember the simple home life, where there was not so much time to argue with one another. We were too busy bringing in the wood from the wood pile, or heating the water for washing, and gathering in the food from the garden. Yet, even those who did not live so rough a lifestyle and who had more leisure and personal comfort at home, could hardly wait to take the children to Grandma's house. The children looked forward to it more than a trip to Disneyland.

RHONDA Pasek, 50, and her friend, James Acord, 47, are shown passed out in an SUV on a street in East Liverpool, Ohio while Pasek’s four-year-old grandson is in the backseat. Both adults had overdosed on heroin. They were resuscitated and arrested.

Drug overdoses killed a record 3,050 people in Ohio last year, more than one-third of them from fentanyl, a super-potent opiate often mixed with heroin. Source (more…)

FROM an essay by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: [W]hen sorrow enters our lives it is a proof of the love God has for us. We should also realize that if sorrow does not enter our lives, we do not have this proof of His love for us. Therefore, we should not complain when sufferings come to us – nervous problems, difficulties in our apostolate, misunderstandings with our friends, problems at home, poor health, business troubles. We should accept these things as normal, as a proof of the love of Divine Providence for us. When I see a person without maturity, stability, rationality, elevation of spirit, I think: He is lacking suffering. These qualities only come with suffering - much suffering. If we receive such trials, certainly we should pray for them to end. But to the measure that they remain, we should thank God and Our Lady.

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THERESA BYRNE writes at Finer Femininity: When I grew up our life was very simple. We lived in a one bedroom home with seven children. In our tiny kitchen you could see the dirt ground under the linoleum. We had to pump the septic out all the time and the highlight of our week was hoping to see “Uncle Mark” on Sunday evening. And yet our fondest memories are of those times. We grew a huge garden out back and it was not unusual to see my dad lying in the sunshine, in-between rows of tomatoes, taking a cat nap. When autumn came, dressed in her gowns of orange and yellow, we would rake piles of leaves and play long into the evening, only coming in when it was time to say night prayers and go to bed. We lived our days down by the creek skipping rocks, up in the mulberry tree picking berries and in the back yard, playing on our old, rickety jungle gym. Snack time consisted of celery and peanut butter, date balls or nuts and raisins. We lived simply and happily.. Now don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for electricity and don’t want to go back to days without air conditioning, but to slow down a bit, relearn to “stop and smell the roses”, I think that would be lovely!

ANN CORCORAN at Refugee Resettlement Watch writes: Huge companies, many of them multinational corporations, are, according to the International Rescue Committee (America’s wealthiest refugee contracting agency), scooping up refugee workers and training them apparently rather than spending the money to train needy African American or other American citizens. The International Rescue Committee tells us that ‘do-gooderism’ is secondary to making smart business decisions that they say are driving these companies. (Ha! I bet the IRC’s volunteers think this is all about humanitarian zeal!) Americans first! Wouldn’t it be smart to train and hire needy American citizens first especially in cities hard hit by unemployment that leads to hopelessness and crime? Apparently not!

OBAMA has pledged $38 billion to Israel over a ten year period, starting in 2017. It is the largest military aid package in U.S. history. Meanwhile, about 40,000 American veterans of recent wars are homeless on any given night.

FROM The Great Truths, Daily Meditations by Rev. R. F. Clarke, S. J.:

We are all of us jealous of what belongs to ourselves. We resent it if any one interferes with it, or deprives us of any portion of it. Yet no one owns anything by a title so absolute as that by which God is the Lord and owner of all creatures in the universe. My body and my soul are His; everything I possess is His; every action, every thought belongs to Him. He has given all these in charge to me to use for Him. Do I do so?

God is moreover a God infinite in knowledge and in power. His all-seeing eye overlooks nothing, forgets nothing, passes nothing by. No one shall escape who takes anything from Him, and does not give Him His due. God will not forget the ill use that men make of His gifts, though they themselves soon forget it. Have I not therefore cause to tremble when I think how often I have behaved as if I were my own master, independent of God? (more…)