CHERYL Chumley at World Net Daily reports on a Fox News show in which two attorneys and host Gregg Jarrett come to the unified conclusion that Kim Davis’s legal defense is “stunningly obtuse.”

The attorneys reject both the argument that the Supreme Court does not make state laws, and thus cannot command Davis to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses, and the argument that Davis has a constitutionally-protected right to act upon her religious beliefs. Read More »

DUE to the illness of an elderly relative, I am behind in responding to e-mails, posting comments, and adding new posts.

I hope to be back later today.

ALAN writes:

“Pop culture is filth,” John Derbyshire wrote in an essay several years ago.  And music is part of pop culture.

At a time when blacks and whites compete to determine who among them can produce the most vulgar, tasteless, and repulsive noise in the history of recorded sound, I thought it may be useful to consider what kinds of songs American blacks were singing half a century ago.

Here is a list of 20 popular songs that I compiled from memory.  These were sung by black men, women, or groups and played on AM radio stations in the years 1962-’64: Read More »

MRS. T. writes in response to the entry on flex-time:

I have an acquaintance who is a professional counselor. The vast majority of her clients are women…working women. They are mostly customer service representatives for a major phone/internet/cable company and teachers. Both jobs are very emotionally demanding. I cannot imagine what these women have left when they get home to their families.

My husband also works in customer service for a major utility. His co-workers are primarily women who are the main financial providers within their relationships. And a large percentage of them are on some sort of anti-depressant. It’s no joke; it is not uncommon for women to be either entering the building or leaving it crying.

Although in regards to kicking children out of their own home, I am guilty of this. As a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom I get a little crazy if the children don’t have time outdoors, away from me!

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

Great idea I saw today for a campaign season bumper sticker:

I voted for Bush Senior, but I ain’t voting for Señor Bush!

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes:

I call attention to Jack Cashill’s article of today at The American Thinker, in which the author invokes a glaringly self-evident, but almost entirely unobserved, fact concerning the case of Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk whom U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning has jailed on a contempt citation for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  Bunning asserts that Davis is in violation of her official duties and of his court for failing to comply with a law concerning “gay marriage.”  Cashill, citing Davis’ own remarks, points out that there is no such law.  Laws have effect under the Constitution only insofar as the House of Representatives has first written them and then submitted and enacted them by due process.  No Supreme Court ruling can make law.  Cashill writes: “One would think, though, that if the Fourteenth Amendment safeguards gays from suffering the ‘pain and humiliation’ of being denied marriage, the First Amendment should certainly protect practicing Christians, Muslims, and Jews from the pain and humiliation of being denied their very freedom.” Read More »

1781 September – The Twelve Months print, Carington Bowles

MORE delightful September images can be found at It’s About Time.

BERT PERRY writes:

What bothers me almost as much as the acceptance of ever more heinous crimes against human life is the excuses people give. I’ve recently had a discussion with two people who have argued that the “roll tape” exposé of Planned Infanticide was somehow false–as if the obvious dickering over price, desire for a sports car, and modification of infanticide procedures for getting “tissue samples” hadn’t been done by Planned Infanticide officials.

In other words, we’re getting to the point where, in the minds of adherents to various aberrant ideologies, even videotaped evidence is not sufficient to demonstrate that something occurred.  The very notion of truth is being discarded for political motivations.

Yikes.

FOR years feminists have campaigned for flexible hours in the workplace. Instead of campaigning for the family wage (and for an end to the “free trade,” open borders policies that have undermined American jobs), they have fought for accommodations in the workplace and the privilege of becoming economic serfs. These “flexible” accommodations often put women in the position of having full-time psychological commitments to jobs, but with only part-time hours. They do not change the reality that motherhood and home, except perhaps for those who have paid staffs and many paid services, absolutely constitute a full-time job. The campaign for flexibility has created the illusion that work and home can be “balanced” without cost to family life.

Yesterday, I heard of an interesting development in this brave, new, oh-so-flexible world. A woman told me of her daughter who works for a major financial management company. The daughter has “flexible” hours. She works two days at home. However, during those two days, her young children are not allowed to be home. That’s right. They are kicked out of their house. I don’t think even the Soviet Communists, in their enlightened efforts to send all women from the home and obliterate the Russian people, ever came up with this idea. (And that’s what the mass entry of women into the workforce means. If not the gradual obliteration of a people, at least a dramatic demographic and cultural decline.)

Of course, one can understand how this practice of exiling children from home came about. There’s no question that children are distracting. But the very fact that children are not permitted to remain home during those hours is an admission by everyone involved that they require care and attention. It’s an admission that the two spheres cannot be balanced.

All too often, “flex-time” is not flexible. After all, the children still exist. They cannot be flexed away.

FROM a report by the Media Research Council last week:

Two weeks after the first GOP presidential debate of Campaign ’16, the broadcast networks continue to obsess over Donald Trump to the near-exclusion of the other sixteen Republican presidential candidates.

An MRC analysis of the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts during the two weeks prior to the August 6 debate (including weekends) found Trump accounted for 55% of all GOP candidate airtime. After the debate, Trump’s share of the coverage rose even higher, to an astonishing 72% of all GOP airtime.

DON VINCENZO writes:

Five years ago, Lawrence Auster posted a piece I wrote that dealt with the growing numbers of rapes committed against Norwegian women by Muslim men. In part, it stated:

From 1984-88, I served as the Press Attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, and even then I was told that the normally independent Norwegian woman’s approach to sexual relations was being transformed by this Moslem presence. To many of these new immigrants from Moslem countries, the sight of a woman at a disco…was a sign that she was not only a prostitute, but open to any and all suggestions. What remains perplexing to me after more than twenty year absence is to hear, of all things, a female police officer explain away the rape problem in Norway as a result of people coming “from traumatized countries.” If this police approach continues, I assure you that the numbers of rapes will not decrease, and Norway, along with many other Western European countries, will continue down the path of national suicide. (Emphasis mine)

In February of this year, the Gatestone Institute Foreign Policy Council published it findings regarding the rise of rape throughout the world, and I read that Norway’s neighbor, Sweden, now ranks Number Two in the world in the crime. How and where did it all begin? The report begins this way:  Read More »

IN his book Revolution from Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order, Kerry Bolton writes about the tyranny of globalist capitalism and its monolithic control of our government and culture. His conclusion is especially relevant to the previous entry about Donald Trump. Notice how Bolton refers to the manipulative use of dialectics. The Trump campaign, I believe, is a good example of this “manufactured dissent.”

A self-appointed elite that Huxley called the ‘World Controllers’ and Carroll Quigley described as ‘an international network’ has for generations been intent on establishing a ‘World State’ (Huxley) or what David Rockefeller himself calls a ‘World Order,’ and what President George W. Bush and others, such as Rothschild employee Linnett, call the ‘New World Order.’ In more common parlance it is called ‘globalisation,’ but it is seldom understood in its wider ramifications, as set forth here, especially by the Left, whose activists support aspects of the same globalisation process: multiculturalism, feminism, marijuana liberalisation, abortion rights, open borders, and feel-good causes in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights,’ the results of which are further control by global plutocracy. Read More »

TK writes:

Donald Trump. I’m still having a hard time figuring out how I feel about him. Before he announced his candidacy, I thought he was a loudmouth braggart with a ridiculous haircut, and thought about him in the same vein as I did a Kardashian. However, immigration is the number one issue with me. I live in Texas and I see the effects of it every day. Every. Single. Day. I’m also seeing the effects of the sneaky, slimy “Refugee Resettlement” racket that’s being secretly forced on us. Read More »

THE Traditio Fathers write at their website:

While Francis-Bergoglio ignores the moral depravity of “gay marriage,” saying instead, who am I to judge? — by this is he agreeing with those who do not think that he is pope? — a very courageous Protestant, a Kentucky County Clerk, Kim Davis, is standing up to no less than the United States Supreme Court and is facing fines and jail, yet still declares that she will not issue “gay marriage licenses,” as being an affront to God and her Christian religion. Davis states that “gay marriage” violates God’s Natural Law, a law higher than the United States Constitution, a position that she shares with the U.S. Founding Fathers, who made the same statement in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Read More »

IN THE entry on the Virginia shooting, Wheeler writes:

For any readers who own a handgun and want to try an experiment, take an old rug or carpet and roll it up. Dress it with a shirt or blouse similar to the one Ms. [Alison] Parker was wearing. Stand at the same approximate distance that the shooter stood from the reporter and squeeze off a few rounds (with your cellphone camera running, of course). Then tell me you didn’t see at least some disturbance of the fabric.

Truly, if people of average intelligence can watch videos like the one of the TV shooting and not see that there are problems with the official narrative, there’s little that can be said to convince them otherwise. If people of average intelligence can read/listen to that official narrative and not have certain questions arise in their minds, well, God bless them. Sometimes, the desire to avoid being called a “conspiracy nut” (or a racist, or a sexist, or a trannyphobe, in other circumstances) can drown out the discordant signals that someone who lacks such fear can pick up quite clearly.

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

The BBC reports on another alleged case of Asian plagiarism:

The logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games has been scrapped after allegations that it was plagiarised.

The Games organising committee said there were too many doubts over the emblem for it to be used. A Belgian artist had complained that his design was stolen. Read More »