IN THIS interview, Megyn Kelly of Fox News is admirably indignant over the alleged denial of due process to an Amherst student expelled after what was an apparently false accusation of rape. [Warning: Vulgar language.]

The feminist belief in female infallibility and the chaos caused by sexual liberation have led to tyranny on campus. It’s a soft tyranny. No one is thrown in prison camp. Instead, lives are derailed. The accused are humiliated. Read More »

THE Baltimore Sun has apparently been the victim of an Internet hoax. An article is in circulation claiming authorship by a staff writer. As you can see, it is rife with heresies. It could never have  been produced by The Sun. 

The Black Dilemma

“For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an  interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites. Read More »

JONATHAN LAST writes in The Weekly Standard:

[W]hatever the Supreme Court rules in the coming weeks in Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage campaign is far from over. It hasn’t even reached the point of consolidating its gains. Rather, it is still in its aggressive expansion phase. Next up on the docket are transgender rights—even before Caitlyn Jenner, it was hard to go a week without a transgender story on the front page of either the New York Times or the Washington Post—and polyamory. Then the push to bring religious organizations—schools, charities, and para-church groups—to heel will intensify. Already, Catholic Charities has been driven out of adoption and foster care in places like Illinois, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia because that organization doesn’t place children in same-sex households. (Tellingly, this rebuff has been deemed not a regrettable by-product of the gay-marriage movement, but a victory for it. The goal is not live-and-let-live.) Then will come the big fight over breaking the churches themselves. And if you think that the same-sex marriage movement will stop short of trying to force churches to perform gay weddings, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Last’s most important point concerns why even petty forms of dissent, such as the refusal by bakers to make cakes for same-sex “couples,” will be squelched. Why?

[Same-sex marriage activists] realize that they have not persuaded society of the rightness of the revolution they actually seek.

In other words, it is precisely because this revolution is not the success it appears to be that it must be accompanied by tyrannical measures. That’s the way it must be. The more society diverges from the Natural Law, the more oppressive it must become.

JOSÉMARIA writes:

JANE writes:

This photo accompanied a front page article titled: “On the rise: Number of female firefighters continuing to grow.”

The photo sure doesn’t match the blah blah blah of the article.

ALMOST EVERY day some new atrocity, in word or deed, is committed by the man performing as pope of the Catholic Church. It all seems like a crass, nightmarish reality show. Whether he be hobnobbing with Cuban Communists or praying with, as opposed to for, non-believers or telling Catholics that sin is part of their “identity” or appointing an archbishop who approves of same-sex “marriage” or preparing his Marxist eco-cyclical or secularizing St. Peter’s Square or insulting cloistered nuns and heaping scorn on other devout Catholics with their “prayers and ideas,” almost every day Jorge Bergoglio shows why the position of sedevacantism, which holds that the papacy is currently vacant, is common sense. This emperor has no clothes. A non-Catholic cannot logically be pope.

Here Fr. Anthony Cekada answers some of the common objections.

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HERE is an important letter I sent today:

Lisa Lambert
Intel Capital Diversity Fund
Intel Corporation
Latte-with-Skim Boulevard
Palo Alto, California 12345

Dear Ms. Lambert,

I have recently been informed of your exciting new venture in capital venturing. As I understand it, you will be giving away $125 million to start-up companies run by women or minorities.

Congratulations! I have just the project for you. Read More »

HENRY McCULLOCH writes: 

I know this is a GOP-partisan news gatherer, but the title story by Cliff Kincaid about Pride Month celebrations at the Pentagon is worth reading (with sick-bag close at hand).

We are long since through the looking glass. Not very long ago this is something I would have expected to read as a parody in American Lampoon – if that rag’s creative writers were creative enough to imagine such a farce, which I doubt.

I should say, Lord, help America. But, really, what for?

The U.S. government is now without doubt the world’s most powerful peddler of perversion. I’m glad I don’t work for it any more!

W.O. writes:

I read a letter to “Dear Abby” from a troubled man who thought he was a woman. This man’s wife couldn’t accept the fact that she was married to a man who had declared himself a woman, and was considering divorce if she could retain custody of their children. Guess which one “Dear Abby” suggested should get counseling and which one should retain legal counsel. Read More »

DON VINCENZO writes:

I recently returned from a one-month trip to Japan where, among the major components that constitute the Japanese mindset, I noted a strong societal affirmation that Japan must remain … Japanese. One does not see many other racial or ethnic groups in Japan; in fact, a walk in any major – or minor – town or city in Japan will confirm the noticeable absence of foreigners, except Chinese and American tourists, all of whom can remain in the country for only 45 days. This island nation is at least 95 percent homogeneous, and to the Japanese that is not a problem. But too many “gai-jin,” or foreigners, believe the Japanese national uniformity is a violation of multicultural ethos, and that this mindset must be changed.  Enter Ariana Miyamoto.

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A Nobel-winning British biochemist has come under fire for expressing his views about the integration of men and women in science labs. According to The Guardian, Tim Hunt was speaking to a conference of science journalists in Korea, when he fantastically argued in favor of single-sex labs. He made the following insensitive and dehumanizing comments:

“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”

Hunt did not criticize the performance or work of female scientists. Read More »

SVEN writes from Alaska:

Music from the ′60s is often remembered as the anti-music of rock and roll as made by the Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc., but there is this song (albeit a little kitschy) that was a huge hit across the boards in ’66, staying at the number one spot for five weeks, even though they never play it on the radio anymore.

It celebrates the manly virtues of honor, courage, perseverance, and loyalty. Those aren’t themes found in music since then, except occasionally in country songs. I think people are still receptive to the good and beautiful, but there has been a concerted effort to starve people of it. When the cultural ship is righted, I think we will find that the hunger for true art is unabated. Read More »

HERE is the latest installment in the ongoing series, “Tales of Chester,” a first-hand account of my husband’s childhood in the industrial — and strategically-vital — town of Chester, Pennsylvania.

The End of the World

We were not surprised to learn that the living Satan himself had added the strategically-vital town of Chester, Pennsylvania, to his itinerary. Chester was home to one of the world’s great shipyards and would be a magnet for Russian atomic bombs. So it only made sense that the great conqueror and oppressor and hater of all that was holy, Nikita Khrushchev, would want to see this inviting target firsthand when he visited the United States.

The buildup to Khrushchev’s visit to America evoked images as threatening as a gathering of thunderheads along a storm front, the way we imagined the sky might look when Gabriel sounded the trumpet to wake the dead at the end of world. Normally, the Chester Times devoted its pages to Iocal Republican politics (the only kind we had) or the exploits of fullbacks at St. James and the basketball superstars at Chester High, the only kind of kids worth a damn in this town. These were extreme times, however. In the summer of 1959, on the eve of Khrushchev’s visit, the paper rolled out an extensive series under the headline, “We Will Bury You!” It was described as the Communist “Blueprint for the Future,” and we had every reason to believe the Russians could execute to the letter their plans for world domination.

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JOHN G. writes:

There is a manga from China called “Cheating Craft” about a boy who spent all his time learning to cheat at casinos, but now he has to pass the entrance exam, and so he uses all his skills for that purpose. When he gets to the test, all the other students are cheating as well in various ways.

Although this is fiction, it reflects the culture from which it arises, in which test-cheating abilities are like a new form of martial arts. Read More »

KARL D. writes:

A WOMAN describes the Brave New World of gestational surrogacy at the website for the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network.

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ASHE SCHOW writes in The Washington Examiner:

The California state senate just passed S.B. 695, which adds affirmative consent instruction to high school health courses. The bill passed by a vote of 39-0 and had bipartisan support.

“As it stands, we are not doing nearly enough. We can and must educate the youth of our state, especially our young men, about affirmative consent and healthy relationships,” [State Senator Kevin] de Leon said in a press release about the new bill. “This bill represents the next step in the fight to change behavior toward young women.” Read More »