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 »

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

Even the confirmed anti-communists in India have no sense of proportion. Four years ago, a politician decreed that all of Calcutta be painted in blue and white.

Note: ‘Kolkata’ is the relatively new politically-correct name for Calcutta. But ordinary Indians still call it Calcutta, just as they call ‘Mumbai,’ Bombay and ‘Chennai,’ Madras.

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ANN Coulter writes about Rolling Stone’s infamous false rape story:

The UVA fake rape is even worse than the Duke lacrosse team fake rape. The accused fraternity hadn’t even courted danger by hiring a stripper. They were going about their lives, minding their own business, when, out of the blue, Rolling Stone, the president of their university, and a fiendish coed decided to accuse them of a monstrous crime. Read More »

A READER writes from Ireland:

 The Roman historian, Pliny the Younger in approximately 100 AD, uses the word ‘burden’ to describe the one-child “families” of the Roman élite. As you know, Augustus the first acknowledged Emperor of Rome, was never tired of urging the Roman élite to have children and to stop spending their time having fun with the girlfriends and boyfriends. Augustus even had his “Bachelor Tax” to encourage young men into procreation.

However his Bachelor Tax failed spectacularly. His Bachelor Tax was made unsuccessful by the following method. Tom would have his buddy’s sister Mary pretend to be his (Tom’s) wife. They would then gather up a group of local children. Tom would present Mary and the children as his “family” to the Roman Bachelor Tax office. Indeed there was a thriving ‘Hire a wife and children for the Bachelor Tax office’ black market to deceive the Roman Bachelor Tax officials.

Time has proven the leaders of Rome correct in their view of the danger of demographic decline.

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HERE’S a humorous look at the fact that no Muslim bakeries or pizzerias have been targeted for refusing to cater “gay weddings.” Why is this unlikely ever to happen? I realize you already know why, but let’s just briefly mention the reasons.

First, Muslims do not take kindly to religious challenges.

Secondly, the Muslim view of homosexuality is inhuman and cruel. It is just so obviously wrong.

It is precisely because the Christian view of homosexuality is not hateful, it is precisely because it is charitable toward those afflicted with homosexual inclinations that it is targeted. The Christian view of homosexuality is based on objective truth and kindness. Thus it is truly threatening to homosexual liberation, which is founded on lies and distortions.

True morality is far more charitable toward the homosexually-inclined than Islam and far more charitable than liberalism, which simply ignores the scientific facts of the harmful medical, psychological and spiritual consequences of homosexual behavior and says, “Deal with it.”

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I HAVE a friend, I’ll call her Elizabeth, who was one of two children of a woman who was an attentive mother but also very critical of her daughter. Apparently she had great expectations of Elizabeth, who attended two Ivy League schools and then went onto have a reasonably successful career in public relations but did not become a superstar. For some reason, her mother was disappointed and thought she should have succeeded more. I’m not clear as to why, but it was true because I saw them interact. I remember being shocked, having never experienced this kind of disapproval myself. The mother often interrogated Elizabeth about her job prospects. When Elizabeth got married, the mother was disappointed again. She didn’t like the husband.  Elizabeth and her husband sadly divorced after a short time and Elizabeth had no children. Read More »

“Wretched are those countries to whom the Lord doesn’t speak any more, not even in quiet indignation, for this is a sign that He has cast them off, that they are abandoned and left alone in their blindness and obduracy.”

—Padre Pio in a letter to his spiritual daughter Raffaela Cerase

FROM Military Times:

Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Studies that surveyed personnel found “major misconceptions” within special operations about whether women should be brought into the male-only jobs. They also revealed concerns that department leaders would “capitulate to political pressure, allowing erosion of training standards,” according to one document.

Some of those concerns were not limited to men, researchers found, but were found among women in special operations jobs.

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ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

From The Times of India:

A leading British medical journal has retracted 43 published articles after it was found that the authors had fabricated their peer reviews. As many as 41 articles were written by doctors who worked in Chinese hospitals. Read More »