AN unhinged editorial today in The New York Times looks at Trump’s “politics of rage:”

They are leaning, in unbelievable numbers, toward a man whose quest for the presidency revolves around targeting religious and racial minorities and people with disabilities, who flirts with white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan, who ridicules and slanders those who disagree with him.

Making fun of one disabled reporter does not constitute “targeting … people with disabilities.” I don’t care for Trump, who doesn’t always act civilized and has a poor record on moral issues, but this is  exaggeration. Trump can beat Hillary and they know it. Many young voters, indoctrinated in political correctness all their lives, will see through it. With enemies such as this, they will want to be Trump’s friend.

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HOW often have you heard or read that it is psychologically and physically unhealthy for someone to go without sexual relations? College newspapers especially like to run articles making this point. The idea is not new. It was prevalent in the late nineteenth century too. The Rev. Arthur Devine, writing in 1897 in his essay “The Virtue of Chastity,” challenged it:

I shall notice one or two other excuses that are so false and misleading, but, nevertheless, are often used for the worst of purposes–that is, the falsehood that ‘all young men exceed the bounds of morality,’ and that those amongst them who have lived pure and chaste have been mere ‘prigs,’ ‘milksops,’ ‘weaklings,’ ‘muffs,’ men whose society must have been uncommonly ‘slow’ (to use the slang phraseology of the vicious). On the contrary, many can look to old acquaintances who as young men lived pure, chaste lives, uncontaminated by the grosser vices which constitute dissipation, and these, in the words of Mr. Hime, who refers to them, ‘were the first specimens of the young men at the time I refer to in the University . . . and were acknowledged superior to the large majority of their class fellows in all respects–physically as well as morally and intellectually. (more…)

WILLIAM writes: You posted a video of a UKIP (U.K. Independence Party) member explaining what a scam the banking system is.  It reminded me of a story I saw just yesteday.  This was the BBC headline: "Hampshire school calls police after pupil looks at UKIP website." A quote from the article: "Under the new counter terror act, staff at schools are asked to identify children who may be influenced by extremist material." Keep up the good work!

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FROM HAWAIIAN LIBERTARIAN: Notwithstanding the sheer entertainment value, I am still cynical about the veracity of the Trump campaign. His message undoubtedly resonates with we the sheeple after decades of mass migration, the emergence of a burgeoning Police State, and regularly programmed Arab-phobia. He's saying all the right things for those of us who have been raging against the machine for years. If Trump is not a part of the elite - THEY - than no one is. I mean, come on...it's one of the oldest tricks in the book. As Vladimir Lenin put it: "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." A billionaire Real Estate Developer and Reality Tell-A-Vision star is most assuredly well connected with the financial structure and all of the Bankster's 2Big2Fail that have shaped our current dystopian reality. He's running as an outsider, but everything about this man's history clearly points to him being an insider.

JOANNE FRANCIS decided to eschew modern technology and live in the 1940s. She has had a hard time finding a husband: “I would like to meet someone,” she said. “I’ve had few boyfriends, but I know I’m a bit of a novelty and once that novelty wears off, well, most people find me quite hard to live with. "But I haven’t entirely given up hope – I mean, I still like to think that I am a pretty good catch. "I would have their tea on their table when they came home from work, I’d do their washing and ironing. In fact, I’d take care of everything. "The only problem is that most people who want that kind of housewife are either in their 90s or dead."

  (Courtesy: HenryMakow.com)

FROM blood curses to public alarm, Mark Glenn reports on individual Jews and the powerful Jewish lobby reacting to Trump. Would Trump really challenge and undermine the seemingly unshakeable rule of Israel over America? Then I would say he would indeed be a necessary evil.

MIKE KING at The Anti-New York Times critiques the Times's coverage of the anti-white, anti-Catholic Academy Awards: The 2016 Academy Awards was a great event for the anti-White/anti-Christian cultural Marxists who own Hollywood. On a night when the very unfunny, vile, vulgar, hate-filled sub-human-piece-of-filth "comedian" Chris Rock mocked Hollywood for being so "White" (cough cough), 'Spotlight', a film about Catholic priests and child molestation, won top honors. We now anxiously await a movie about the well-documented epidemic (here) of child sexual abuses committed by Jewish Rabbis. Maybe next year? (rolling eyes) And perhaps the year after that, we can have another movie about the well-documented epidemic (here) of child sexual abuses committed by Jewish Hollywood producers and agents. We can't wait! (rolling eyes) As for the "oppressed" multi-millionaire lawn jockey Chris Rockhead, the article [in The New York Times] approvingly lists some of the derogatory wisecracks aimed at Whites, and laughingly approved of by the audience of mostly White self-hating libtards: “If they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get the job." (because he is Black) Speaking of the 'In Memoriam' tribute, Rock added that it should also honor black people who were: “.. shot by the cops on their way to the movies.” Moving on to the awards, he said: “You want diversity? We got diversity. Please welcome Emily Blunt and somebody whiter, Charlize Theron.” And: “It’s easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a studio.”

THANK YOU, thank you to those who have given so far in this, my once-a-year fundraising appeal. I am so grateful for your generosity. To others, I am still holding out my hat. Please consider donating to keep this soapbox in business. I have written to Mr. Trump and told him I am accepting donations. No answer. Humph! And he says he has tons of money! You see, I can't rely on the big honchos for a cent, so I have to turn to you, dear loyal and forgiving reader. Robert Frost was once asked by a reader to explain what one of his poems meant. Frost responded: "If I could have said it any better, I would have." That applies to this blog --- unfortunately. If I could've said it any better, I would have.

A TORNADO hit the small town of White Horse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania last week. Many buildings were damaged or destroyed, but no one was hurt. The interesting thing is how quickly things are being put back together. Already a one-room schoolhouse that was completely flattened in the storm (not the building above) is almost completely rebuilt, all by volunteers. (more…)

FAY VOSHELL, whose comments are similar to some of the points I made in this thread on Trump, writes at The American Thinker:

What more loudly trumpets the surrender of evangelicals to the broader cultural capitulation to the world, the flesh, and the Devil than the support for Trump given by Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of Liberty University, one of evangelicalism’s foremost institutions? Is there a more obvious and unrepentant secularist than Donald Trump?

Falwell’s complete capitulation, along with Catholics like Phyllis Schlafly who have joined the Trump secularist bandwagon, means the acceptance and reinforcement of a basic tenet of the Left; namely, that there really is to be a wall of separation between faith and the world. We leftists will take over and run the real stuff. You evangelicals can have your church rituals.

In sum, evangelicals have not only helped build the wall of separation, but they are living behind it in their own closed communities.

What the departure from former values and the support of a raging secularist means for the future of evangelicals in general is open to speculation.

But one can hazard a guess that after seeing the soft underbelly impotency of evangelicals in the realm of politics, the Left will ratchet up its attacks on Christian individuals and organizations opposing the leftist agenda. The reasoning will be something like this: What is there to fear?  So many evangelicals are not that much different than us!

Her last point in this passage [bold added] is especially important. (more…)

The male ensembles Chanticleer and Cantus meet in a bar and sing the Ave Maria.*  Whoever you are, when you find yourself tossed by storms and tempests upon this world's raging waters, rather than walking upon firm dry land, never take your eyes from the brightness of this star lest you be overwhelmed by the storm. When the winds of temptation blow, when you run upon the rocks of disaster, look to the star. Cry out to Mary! If you are cast away upon the waves of pride or ambition of detraction or jealousy, look to the star. Cry out to Mary! When anger, avarice, or the lusts of the flesh assail the ship of your mind, look up to Mary. When you are worried by the enormity of your sins, troubled by a confused conscience, or terrified by the horrors of the judgment to come, when you begin to drown in the bottomless pit of sorrow or sink in the abyss of despair, think of Mary. -- St.Bernard of Clairvaux, Source  

JONAH Goldberg at National Review has a very good column on The Donald. An excerpt:

I’ll be as honest as I can about why I dislike Trump. A big part of it is I think he’s a fraud. I think he’s part of the grand and glorious tradition of bunk artists in American history. I think he’s always lied about how rich he is and is lying to this day. And bear in mind, I don’t care how much money he has. The point is he cares. Specifically, he cares that other people think he’s really rich. In fact, that’s his business model. Most long cons require convincing marks that the con man doesn’t actually need the mark’s money. That’s his schtick to a T.

But I can actually get past that. That con-man aspect of him is also kind of charming. It’s not remotely presidential, but as an American character, I can see why some people are amused by Trump, and on occasion I am as well.

The thing I don’t find amusing is that he’s an insecure bully. He really does strike me as Biff from Back to the Future (Part II). His cheap macho posturing and boasting is simply tacky. I see him as a sad and insecure man. And what I truly find so depressing is that millions of Americans see the same blowhard overcompensation and mistake it for strength. (more…)

  SEDEVACANTISM is the theological position that the popes since Vatican II have not been valid popes due to their public heresies. Sedevacantism first emerged at the seminary led by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Ecône, Switzerland in the 1970s. At that time, it was not considered a thought crime, as it is today. The archbishop himself made statements in favor of it, according to the Rev. Anthony Cekada, who attended Ecône. In 1987, to take but one example, Abp. Lefebvre, then in retirement, said: Rome has left the Faith, my dear friends. Rome is in apostasy. These are not words in the air. It is the truth. Rome is in apostasy... They have left the Church... This is sure, sure, sure. Fr. Cekada discusses the history of the sedevacantist movement in this video, which can also be found here with a brief summary.   In related news, here is the latest episode of Tradcast, an informative and fun radio program about sedevacantism. Some Catholics are so unhappy with "Pope" Francis that there is talk of "deposing" him. This episode explains that deposing a pope is absolutely impossible. There's also more on a new anti-sedevacantist book. Jorge Bergoglio will surely be tuning in to find out what these "self-absorbed Promethean neo-Pelagians," as he would put it, have to say:  

THESE Iraqis recently kissed the ground after returning home from a period as refugees in Finland. They wept with relief after leaving the cold, European country and arriving home. The Finnish government provided many with financial help to get home, rather than giving them help to stay. Ann Corcoran writes about the idea of flying refugees back to their home countries and providing them with starter funds. The same thing could be done here. Instead of the American government giving money to agencies who resettle refugees and other immigrants it could set up a generous Repatriation Fund. Wouldn't this be true multiculturalism? All people are meant to be home. The fund could, in addition to resettling African and Middle Eastern refugees in their own countries, encourage illegals from Mexico and Central America to go home. Obviously for many it would not be an incentive and obviously there would need to be strict limits on this idea, but it has potential, provided the border is secured (troops or a wall), applicants haven't committed crimes and they agree to relinquish all hope of returning. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many of those who come to America are actually disappointed when they settle here. It is harder and colder than they expected. But they often have no way to get home. They are only provided help to stay. Air fare and a one-time stipend might induce them -- especially if the alternative were a complete cut-off of…

  IN THIS video posted at Refugee Resettlement Watch, Simone, a resident of Calais, France, describes the transformation of the town after President Nicolas Sarkozy allowed the establishment of a refugee squatter camp of migrants waiting to cross the English Channel and enter the U.K. It's a horrifying story. Many of you have heard some bits of what has gone on there, but she gives an insider's account. The camp was just closed by a French court. Here's a look inside the camp.