Did Dinosaurs and Humans Coexist?

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An outdated image of Tyrannosaurus

AN article at the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation explores the historical evidence that human beings walked the earth when dinosaurs were alive, supporting the biblical assertion that every kind of land animal was created at the same time as man.

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A Terrible Surrender

ALAN writes:

In response to your excellent remarks about the imbecility called “gay marriage,” Bill R. wrote that Americans now live under “a tyranny that grows harder by the day.”  I agree essentially with that statement.  But may I suggest that that tyranny was not forcibly imposed on the American people by a monster government; it was the American people who made their government into a monster by surrendering more and more power to it over a span of years, partly by intent but largely by default. (more…)

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St. Joseph

 

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Hymn: Te, Joseph, celebrent

O Joseph, heavenly hosts thy worthiness proclaim,
And Christendom conspires to celebrate thy fame,
Thou who in purest bonds wert to the Virgin bound;
How glorious is thy name renowned.

Thou, when thou didst behold thy Spouse about to bear,
Wert sore oppressed with doubt, wert filled with wondering care;
At length the Angel’s word thy anxious heart relieved:
She by the spirit hath conceived. (more…)

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Why Women Seek “Bad Boys” — and Men Seek “Bad Girls”

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Illustration for Pride and Prejudice; Anna and Elena Balbusso

GUILAIN writes:

I agree with the following statement you wrote:

Men and women are too interdependent for one to fall without the other.

That is so true that most men still intensely desire women. If men had not fallen with women, they would not seek their approbation; they would realize it has no value.

Some time ago, when I roamed the manosphere, I was struck by the fact that many criticisms of modern women could be directed at modern men as well. Among the men writing or commenting on those “red pill” websites, no one seemed to notice this fact.  (more…)

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The Drug-like Effects of Video Games

FROM an article at Tradition, Family and Property:

It could be argued that video gaming is simply a pastime, a way to combat boredom.  But what is the point of engaging in a pastime that has no palpable goal, no real accomplishment and no deeper meaning?   Since the purpose of gaming is undefined, players often find themselves compelled to play more and more.

According to the Boy Genius Report, “there are currently over 34 million core gamers in the United States, and they are playing video games for an average of 22 hours every week.”2 (more…)

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Bias in Favor of Women in Science

HEATHER MAC DONALD describes a study of 371 colleges and universities conducted by the Cornell Institute for Women in Science based on three hypothetical applicants for tenure-track positions in science: The job-search packages for the applicants included a search committee’s report, quotes from letters of recommendation, and an overall numerical score. The academic qualifications of two of those hypothetical candidates, a male and a female, were equal. A third male candidate was slightly inferior to the other two. The nearly 900 faculty members, half male, half female, from all four fields preferred female applicants over identically qualified males by two to one. Only male economics professors showed no gender preference; female economics professors chose the female candidate by a ratio of two to one.

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The Big Money Behind “Transgendered Rights”

AT Gulag Bound, Cliff Kincaid writes:

Years ago the idea of a man dressing like or appearing as a woman was good for some laughs. Comedian Flip Wilson evoked that response as the character “Geraldine.” Corporal Klinger did likewise in the comedy show MASH.

But now we’re supposed to take all of this seriously. It’s tempting to laugh now, except that the campaign for transgendered rights has big money and Big Media behind it. (more…)

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Ripped Off at the Sperm Bank

TWO lesbians are suing an Atlanta sperm bank because the sperm they purchased and used to conceive a now-seven-year-old child came from a criminal schizophrenic, not the intelligent neuroscientist described on paper.

The sperm donor is also the biological father of more than 30 other children conceived the same way. The women in question might have applied, you would think, a modicum of suspicion to the ejaculations of a successful scientist, but shopping fantasies have a life of their own and it’s all too easy to avoid the truth. It is unclear if the child knows that a huge mistake was made and that his grades in chemistry might not be as high as expected and in fact he might experience serious mental illness, in addition to the alienation he will suffer from being raised by two “moms.” In any event, it is only a matter of time before he finds out, now that his loving “moms” have made his laboratory beginnings and their commercial disappointment in him public.

“Gay marriage” is a boon for the eugenics industry even with these occasional mishaps, but then it always has had strong commercial interests behind it. It’s about money, money, money.

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A Vatican II Theme Song

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

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Uproar in Minnesota

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. (more…)

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Feminism Destroys Character

DANIEL writes:

What is a man to do about modern women? I am a man in my mid-twenties that merely wants to have a family and a good wife. I have success with women but the more successful I am the more hopeless a marriage relationship seems to be. Women garner too much power from their sexuality to be chaste and they tend to lie about or downplay their sexual pasts. Social media sites spoil them from a young age, making it even more difficult to keep a woman’s interest without being disgusting. Beyond this, there seems to be no social limitations on women for even their own good–they tend to want to jump from one man to the next and “have fun.” Cheating on boyfriends, husbands and fiancés is routine.
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Rape and Abortion

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. (more…)

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Bergoglio Ends Crackdown on Novus Nuns

  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.

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More Federal Oppression

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.   (more…)

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Consider Alabama

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! (more…)

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