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: (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.” (more…)

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…

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:  (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. (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. (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. (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. (more…)

MANY Americans are of the opinion that Orthodox Judaism, the official belief system of the state of Israel, is the religion of the Old Testament, the faith of the patriarchs and prophets. We often hear it said that both Christians and believers in Judaism are "People of the Book," the book being the Bible. Certainly the patriarchs and the prophets are the sacred originators of the religion of the ancient Israelites but it is the rabbinic discourses known as the Talmud, not the Bible, that have been, since the close of the fifth century, the foundational texts of Orthodox Judaism, which has its offshoots in Reform and Conservative Judaism. The Talmud, as one rabbi put it, is the "starting point and the ending point, the alpha and omega of truth."* The Talmud teaches Orthodox Judaics how to think about Torah, or the Mosaic law -- and many believe the Talmudic spirit pervades even atheist Jewish culture. The Talmud, meaning "instruction" or "learning" in Hebrew, consists of more than 6,000 pages of  rabbinic commentaries on the Torah. These commentaries were written after the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of the Temple and constitute a religious, political and social code regulating the life of the Orthodox Judaic. Oral, not revealed, traditions called Mischna, Gemara, Halaka and Hagada make up these discourses. The first and lesser part of these commentaries originated in Palestine and the second part, much more important and influential,…

LIFESITE NEWS reports: Multiple professors at one college are using their positions of authority to regulate their students’ speech, threatening to flunk or even expel young people from class if they use certain offending phrases in class – like “referring to women/men as females or males.” Gender and homosexuality politics are among the areas the professors are looking to influence the young people in their classes, along with race and immigration ideology. The affronting terms that could land students in hot water in a number of Washington State University classes include “illegal alien” and “illegals,” CampusReform.org reports, but also considered oppressive and hateful by one teacher are the very definitions of gender, “male” and “female.”

"CHAOS FRANK" once again allows confusion to reign, this time with regard to a subtle, indirect endorsement from a Vatican official of a children's book by a lesbian author.