PLEASE see the excellent commentary at Novus Ordo Watch on this Good Friday performance in Vienna.

A READER writes:

Time to leave Robbinsdale, Minnesota! The daily drama and uproar, the protests, ululations, swooning, and instant community/activist mobilizations are just not worth it. Ferguson in microcosm.

Thank goodness the cop was a bad shot. If the girl wound up dead (and assuming the cop was white) there would have been hell to pay. From The Star Tribune:

[T]he criminal complaint says [Tania] Harris “burst” out the apartment door, chasing a woman with the knife and screaming, “I’m going to kill you, b***h!”  The complaint says that the police officer ordered Harris to stop and drop the knife — a command heard by at least two witnesses, investigators say — but she didn’t stop running or drop the weapon. An officer fired twice, wounding Harris, and then recovered the knife. Read More »

DANIEL writes:

THE feminist work ethic and the willful destruction of the one-income family often leaves little time for women to cultivate their marriages. They should always put their relationships with their husbands above those with their children, but that is too often not the case.

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IT’S AMAZING how few politicians will challenge the claims of feminism. Too much of their money comes from the feminist establishment and they also face the solid wall of the feminist press. Those are explanations as to why they so seldom appeal to ordinary women. But cowardice is obviously a factor too. Or perhaps you just can’t possibly advance into the higher ranks of the political world anymore with a grain of common sense left.

Take the libertarian candidate for president, Rand Paul. He has avoided answering the loathsome Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s most aggressive challenges to him on abortion. Read More »

THE Washington Post reports that Vatican II Church has “unexpectedly” put an end to intense scrutiny of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the heavily political umbrella group that represents the ever-diminishing cohort of radicalized American nuns.

[O]n Thursday, leaders of the umbrella organization and the Vatican officials in charge of the overhaul released statements of mutual respect, and the sisters met in Rome for nearly an hour with Pope Francis. The Vatican released a photo of the nuns sitting across a table from a warmly smiling Francis.

This is no surprise. The women’s religious organization promotes feminism, Marxism-tinged social work and Buddhist-style spirituality, which are all up Bergoglio’s alley. Last year, it honored Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a Fordham University “theologian” whose error-studded writings were even condemned by Church modernists.

The more masculine and undignified nuns have become, the less they have attracted newcomers. Since 1970, the number of women religious in the U.S. has declined from roughly 160,000 to less than 50,000.

This non-Catholic bastion of egalitarianism is dying a slow death and Bergoglian mercy cannot save it.

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

The unholy alliance of the libertine Left with Islam is at it again.  Two U.S. Representatives of the Democratic variety — but no doubt they will find Republicans to agree with them — plan to introduce in the House of Representatives the Federal LGBT Resolution Opposing Discrimination to suppress state religious freedom protection acts of the sort recently abandoned by chicken-livered “Christian” Republican governors in Indiana and Arkansas.   Read More »

LEARN more about the Pennsylvania German folk art known as fraktur here.

SARAH S. writes:

As the wife of a police officer, I understandably take exception to the harsh criticism of police expressed by some of your readers. My husband is an excellent shot and very calm under pressure. The chief of his department (of about 100 officers) is a sharp guy who keeps a pretty tight rein on the department’s activities. He’s not keen on his officers or investigators arresting people when a warning will suffice, which is most of the time. But then again this isn’t Chicago. The state of things up there sounds pretty alarming, doesn’t it?

And so I would like to invite you all down to the great state of Alabama. We are approximately 40 years behind the times and the cost of living is low. We don’t support sodomy and the police in our state are not unionized, as unions are generally frowned upon here. I could go on about the food and the climate, but just give it some thought… We would love to have you! Read More »

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT will very likely rule in June that the preposterous invention known as “gay marriage” must be recognized in all states, even states that have laws against it. The court is hearing arguments in the matter this month. If the highest court were to rule that all people must declare the earth is flat, and must act as if the earth is flat, it would be no more absurd. There is no such thing as “gay marriage.” There never will be any such thing as “gay marriage.” It doesn’t exist no matter how many lawyers say it does or how many people act as if it does or how many newspapers produce maudlin stories of loving “couples,” whose existence would not be valid without phony marriage certificates and mock weddings.

The U.S. Constitution has been virtually torn to shreds. We can expect the further unraveling of civil rights in the years ahead if the Supreme Court rules as is likely. All those people who ignorantly asked, “What difference does it make?” are going to find out and it’s not going to be pretty. Read More »

AT American Renaissance, Jared Taylor has a commendable analysis of the Michael Slager shooting. He writes:

I give police the benefit of the doubt. They have one of the hardest jobs in America. They may have to make a split-second decision, at any moment, that could determine whether they live or die. Sometimes it’s kill or be killed, and you can’t expect them to get it right every time.

Michael Slager clearly got it wrong. There’s no evidence race had anything to do with it, but in today’s climate, race has everything to do with it. Mr. Slager is charged with murder, and if there’s a trial we’ll learn all there is to know about whether he’s a “racist.” Read More »

MARK PERRY writes here:

Every year the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) publicizes its “Equal Pay Day” to bring public attention to what it claims is a 23% gender pay gap driven primarily by discrimination against women in the workplace. “Equal Pay Day” this year falls on April 14, and allegedly represents how far into 2015 the average woman has to continue working to earn the same income that the average man earned last year for doing the exact same job.   Inspired by Equal Pay Day, I introduced “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” in 2010 to bring public attention to the huge gender disparity in work-related deaths every year in the United States. “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” tells us how many years and days into the future that women are able to work before they would experience the same number of occupational fatalities that occurred in the previous year for men.

HANS BADER looks at some of the commonly-cited statistics regarding differences in earnings between men and women.

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COLE FOX, a sadly-confused 18-year-old state wrestling champ from a “Catholic” high school in Gilbertsville, Iowa, is the latest victim of what is now widespread political exploitation of the young by the media and cultural Marxist agitators. Fox has achieved international acclaim and, as he put it, the support of the entire state of Iowa, for announcing he likes sodomy. Read More »

JIM QUINN writes in a piece at Zero Hedge:

Every time the BLS puts out their monthly propaganda report on the wonderful state of the U.S. jobs market and states with a straight face the unemployment rate is a measly 5.5%, their corporate mouthpieces in the mainstream cheerleader media regurgitate the fake numbers and urge you to buy stocks. The millionaire talking heads on CNBC and the corrupt bought off politicians in D.C. make broad sweeping declarations about economic recovery, strong job growth, GDP advancement, record highs in the stock market, and soaring consumer confidence.

The people living in the real world know otherwise, but they want to believe the “experts” and “leaders”. This dichotomy between reality and what they are being told is causing a tremendous amount of mental stress. Read More »

The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Caravaggio

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. Then he saith to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed. Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book.

But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his name.

—– Gospel According to St. John, Chapt. 20, 24-31

JOE A., who frequently sends articles about excessive police force, writes:

I’m not the only one to use “comply or ivorcie!” to name the de facto cop policy of “fire at will.”

To those “conservatives” who defend killer cops because they are “the good guys,” I say: Read More »

PETE F. writes:

The title alone of the Military Times article you recently cited, “Special Ops Troops Doubt Women Can Do the Job,” was enough to make me suspicious that a feminist had written the story, and sure enough, there are signs that is the case. Likewise, it was no surprise to find that the author is a young woman.

According to the brief professional/biographical sketch turned up by an Internet search, Lolita Baldor is a “National Security/Pentagon Reporter” for the Associated Press. Her photo reveals her to be a fairly young woman, probably of no more than thirty-five years of age. Read More »