ALAN writes:

Two years ago, I cited a judgment by the American novelist Jean Stafford about the weakening of the family as a cause of moral and cultural decay.  [A Literary Divorcée on Family, August 19, 2014]

What follows is another judgment on that same matter.

From 1931 to 1959, the Dean of Women at Washington University in St. Louis was a woman named Adele Starbird. For many years, she also wrote a regular column in a St. Louis newspaper.  In 1972 my father read, clipped, and saved one of her columns.  Rereading it a few days ago, I saw in that essay the same value that he saw in it and that I believe will also be evident to you and your readers.  Here is the substance of that column: (more…)

  THE ANTI-NEW YORK TIMES responds to a profile of Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, a mover and shaker in her own right. Mrs. Cruz is an investment banker and member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), the private group founded in 1921 to include some of the most powerful figures working to further a globalist agenda. The CFR was founded by Edward Mandell House, a chief adviser to Woodrow Wilson and arguably the most influential man in America during the Wilson administration. House was a Marxist who wanted to implement socialism in the nation. Since that time, the CFR membership has been a Who's Who of top figures in the media, the academic world, the corporate wand the military.   Mike King of The Anti-New York Times writes: In the 2007 bestselling book “The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada,” Robert Pastor (CFR), who served as co-chairman of the committee which Hedi served on, was dubbed “the father of the North American Union” for the influence the CFR report had on the summit meeting between the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. That meeting culminated in President George W. Bush declaring the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The CFR website further reveals that Heidi served in the Bush White House, under the monster Condoleezza Rice, as economic director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council. She had previously served as the director…

FROM Introibo Ad Altare Dei: The Vatican II sect spits in the face of God's Own Mother by denying Her prerogatives and belittling Her at every turn, both officially and unofficially, directly and indirectly. This is why the sect crumbles even as it seeks to absorb all into its ecumenical one-world religion. The heretics had to do what they did. They want to take people away from the Blessed Mother, who is the Gate of Heaven, and who will one day stop them as the Destroyer of Heresy.

IF being a negligent husband who treats his wife like a servant, has many sexual escapades and occasionally beats his paramours does not place one in the class of male chauvinists, what does? Oh, but that wasn't the point was it.

HE WAS a traitor to his own people. He was not their liberator. H/T HenryMakow.com  

  In the Bleak Mid-winter (Based on a poem by Christina Rossetti) In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When He comes to reign: In the bleak mid-winter A stable-place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. Enough for Him, whom cherubim Worship night and day, A heart full of love And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him, whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore. Angels and archangels May have gathered there, Cherubim and seraphim Thronged the air, But only His mother In her maiden bliss, Worshipped the Beloved With a kiss. What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man I would do my part, Yet what I can I give Him, Give him my heart.

MARK JAWS writes:

When I read about the murders of women who put themselves in such recklessly dangerous situations, I could almost cry. All too often a young white woman loses her life because she thinks she can gallivant throughout the jungles of the Third World, or hitchhike on its highways, worry free, with her hair let down, while singing, “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.”  Unfortunately and tragically, that is not the case.

I just read earlier today the tragic death in Belize of Anne Swaney, 39, an executive TV news producer at ABC Chicago. Ms. Swaney traveled to Belize alone and stayed at a resort with horseback riding and an organic farm. She was last seen heading down to a river by herself to do yoga.  She was beaten and strangled. Think about that.  Rivers, such as the Mopan River in Belize, are always on low ground, and often concealed by thick foliage. She went down to an isolated place, out of sight, a quarter mile from her cabin, in a land inhabited mostly by poor blacks and browns.   (more…)

  JOHN KAMINSKI reflects on Guy Montag, "the enigmatic fireman who burned outlawed books in Ray Bradbury’s epic novel Fahrenheit 451." Bradbury’s narrative describes how Montag gradually began to doubt his mission after he saw how important books were to people willing to die rather than give them up, and his brittle life crumbled around him. When the book’s hero changed his mind about books and what he should be doing to them, he brought the power of the totalitarian state down upon him, before escaping into the shadows and yearning for revolution. Bradbury never mentioned how that revolution turned out, but the future has revealed an uncanny twist in what the famous science fiction author wrote and the way reality has turned out. Firemen are supposed to put fires out, but Bradbury’s firemen burned books the government deemed illegal. This is how our future has progressed; what was once the truth is now a lie. Suddenly, forces once thought necessary and beneficial have now turned into their opposite — a destructive menace.

  SHULAMIT ALONI, a former minister of education in Israel and recipient of the Israel Prize who died in 2014, described the uses of anti-Semitism accusations in this 20o2 interview with American journalist Amy Goodman. But then I guess Aloni was an anti-Semite.

IS the federal government inciting conflict in Oregon?

From Activist Post:

This week, Harney County Fire Marshall Chris Briels resigned after discovering undercover FBI agents posing as militia members near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has been the site of a standoff for weeks now. According to Briels, he found FBI agents who were impersonating militia members lurking around the town’s armory. When he inquired about the undercover operation with county Judge Steve Grasty he was told to back off. (more…)

MOTHERHOOD can change even a violent, hate-filled feminist and expose the fact that feminism is inhuman. Sara Fernanda Giromini, a founding member of the radical feminist group Femen, known for its angry, topless demonstrations in churches and other public places, has disavowed the group after the birth of her second child and apologized to the Christians she attacked. She has a new book out, and despite the incentive to market herself, her statements appear sincere. WND reports: The impetus for Giromini’s shift came with the birth of her second child in October. She says in her new book, “B–ch, No! Seven Times I Was Betrayed by Feminism,” that she has repented for her first abortion, engaging in a same-sex kiss in front of the Church of Our Lady of Candelária in Rio de Janeiro and practicing bisexuality to gain “maximum respect” from other feminists. “Lesbian and bisexual women have much more voice and respect within the movement, so in the search for recognition of my struggle, with each day that passed, I deconstructed my heterosexuality and was substituting it with an artificial bisexuality,” she says in a Dec. 15 YouTube video titled “I ask Christians for forgiveness for feminist protest,” News.com.au reported Thursday. Giromini went on to say that while Femen claims to have women’s best interests in mind, the reality is far different. “For the feminist sect women are not the inspiration, they are prime matter in the worst sense of the term. They are…

SHEILA writes:

An excellent piece by Joe Sobran, and some thoughtful comments.  Like Mark Jaws, I grew up in a Jewish Ashkenazi environment, but was far less marinated in it than he.  I, too, was raised with the “mythological caricature” of history, but always questioned it.  Even as a child, it made no sense to me to be persecuted without some cause or provocation.  That blindness angers me terribly to this day – Jews will harp endlessly on persecution, real or imagined, yet argue vociferously against any possible provocation, even when historically documented.  The sense of grievance combined with the innate sense of superiority seems uniquely suited, to me, to elicit dislike and anger in others. (more…)

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes:

I do think David Bowie was a talented pop musician, who did try to go beyond the “pop.” But as he neared old age and death, he began to go “to the other side” as they say. And I think he followed a satanic cult. His last video, which is understandably full of anguish about death, is really an ode to Satan – his “next” meeting place. It is creepy and evil.  Bowie went to the devil.

Another fascinating thing about Bowie is that he was married to this Somali model, Iman. I don’t think she denounced her Muslim background, and Bowie never “converted.” But he must have been influenced by Mohammed to some extent. (more…)

  THE SWEDISH painter Carl Larsson, born in Stockholm in 1853, created a vision of domestic harmony that is loved and appreciated by many today. He was an anti-modernist who embraced form. He rejected the bleak and the abstract. He adored children.

PATRICK MARTIN offers a summary:

The final State of the Union speech delivered Tuesday night by President Barack Obama was a demonstration of the incapacity of the American political system to deal honestly or seriously with a single social question.

Obama evaded the real issues that affect tens of millions of working people in America every day of their lives. He painted a ludicrous picture of economic recovery and social progress that insulted the intelligence of his television audience—and went unchallenged by the millionaire politicians assembled in the chamber of the House of Representatives. (more…)

“POPE” Francis is having an undeniable influence. See here:

… [S]ouls are now using the new, false gospel of mercy to refuse correction in the confessional, and, even more, express an unrepentant, almost proud attitude towards their sins, even very grave ones (including abortion).  They basically go into the confessional now expecting absolution (and approval to receive the Blessed Sacrament, which is odd) irrespective of their lack of contrition or their total lack of purpose of amendment.  And they often directly quote Pope Francis in defense of their new-found reprobate sense. (more…)

“Rock has always been the Devil’s music, you can’t convince me that it isn’t. … I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.”

 — David Bowie in Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976

MARGARET GALITZIN at Tradition in Action writes of the death of David Bowie and praise for him coming from the Occupied Vatican:

When rock star David Bowie, considered the most influential of rockers, died of cancer on January 10, 2016, I expected his world to applaud him. Hollywood stars and the rock world – soft rock, punk rock, heavy metal – did exactly so.  Tributes from Madonna, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Kendrick Lamar and other rock singers poured in.

Then, more unexpected eulogies came from prominent figures of the political and scientific world, e.g., David Cameron, Tony Blair and astronaut Tim Peake. It seems the 21st century is as eager to acclaim this blatantly Satanist, androgynous creature as the 13th century great personalities honored St. Bernard at his death. (more…)

  THREE CHEERS for Fr. Nicolas Desposito, theology professor at Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida. If I were not a sedevacantist, I would have to live in a world of such intense contradiction that I wouldn't be able to think straight. I would have to stop thinking.