WE live in a world of staggering deceptions. While the crude and offensive millionaire Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, one of many basketball teams which have elevated individual blacks to stardom and wealth, receives national condemnation and lifelong ostracism for stating that he did not want his crude girlfriend to associate with black people, proving that America is perfectly capable of outrage and believes fanatically in the moral superiority of non-whites, blacks who murder whites are sent to air-conditioned hotels for respite with almost no public indignation over their crimes. One of the latest victims is Judy Salamon, who was executed on the streets of East Oakland while on a neighborhood watch patrol. Salamon took action against crime in her neighborhood and for this she lost her life.

The idiocy of charging Sterling with racism is exposed by simply looking at photos of the Clippers.

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IN AN interesting post at her blog Reclaiming Beauty, from which the above photograph of daisies near Niagara Falls is taken, Kidist Paulos Asrat quotes a previous entry at VFR in which she explains her experience as an Ethiopian immigrant to Canada and how her relatives became leftists once they had emigrated:

I grew up mostly in England and France (that was the nature of the exile my family had to take to avoid the massacre of the Communist dictator). My best friends growing up were French and English (I have a great love for England—especially Kent, where I went to boarding school). (more…)

THE Quebec provincial government is now paying for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments for women providing gestational services to homosexual men. Surrogacy is not legally recognized in Quebec but it still takes place and a radio host has claimed that it’s “discriminatory” for the government not to pay for treatments for surrogate mothers acting in concert with homosexual men. He was apparently the first to win subsidies for a surrogate, who is expecting twins. The Quebec government now spends $67 million annually on IVF treatments. Taxpayers will be directly subsidizing the commercial market in children for homosexuals.

Regarding the growing fertility industry in this country, the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network writes of the consequences for children and women drawn into contractual arrangements: (more…)

PAUL WESTON, chairman of the Liberty GB Party in England, whom some readers may recall as a commenter at View from the Right, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of racial and religious harassment in connection with a campaign speech in which he quoted Winston Churchill’s words on Islam. It is permissible to denigrate Christianity publicly, for surely one cannot imagine an arrest for comparable statements about Christianity, but it is criminal to criticize Islam. Such is the inversion of values in multicultural Britain, which is really anti-cultural Britain. Weston has been released on bail. According to The Daily Mail:

The passage from the book, written by the wartime Prime Minister and first published in 1899, focuses on Churchill’s observations about Islam while serving during the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan.

Mr Weston told his audience: ‘Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

‘Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. (more…)

HERE is an interview conducted last year by an Army public affairs officer with Cpt. Kelly Hasselman, who achieved some fame as the head of a “Female Engagement Team” in Afghanistan. Hasselman, who was from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is now dead, and there is reason to believe she committed suicide on April 19th. Where is the Public Affairs Office now? Where are the news outlets that broadcast this interview and have yet to report her death? (more…)

PETER ZITKO writes:

I couldn’t agree with you more. What a sad day it was for the Church Sunday, two heretics and destroyers of the Catholic Church “canonized” and now worthy of veneration as declared by Francis.

How could these men possibly be in heaven, for what they have done to the Church? Walk into any Novus Ordo Church today, and you will witness the abomination of desolation taking place.

What an absolute mockery the Vatican II church has become by claiming to be Catholic. And to make matters worse, millions of Catholics have fallen into deception by actually believing that these men are now worthy of veneration.

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S. from India writes:

India is facing a terrifying influx of Muslims from Bangladesh. How much of our crime is a direct result of this, no one dares ask, but the news items that give away names do give away this fact. The socialist intelligentia, press, political parties are all maintaining a conspiracy of silence.

A friend posted this on Facebook. Japan, which has relatively few Muslims, makes for a compelling study:

“Another thing that helps the Japanese keep Muslim immigration to their shores to a minimum is the Japanese attitude toward the employee and employment. Migrant workers are perceived negatively in Japan, because they take the place of Japanese workers.

The fact that the public and the officials are united in their attitude against Muslim immigration has created a sort of iron wall around Japan that Muslims lack both the permission and the capability to overcome. (more…)

  TWO DAYS ago, a reader reported that a friend, a female graduate of The Citadel and an Army captain, had committed suicide. I have not been able to find further confirmation of this story, which was also reported on another website, so for the time being, pending more evidence, I am going to remove it. [UPDATE: The original entry has been reposted as it was. There is good reason to believe it is true. A reader who knew the deceased Cpt. Kelly Hasselman reports that a memorial service is scheduled for tomorrow at The Citadel, the South Carolina military academy.]

  FRENCH politicians bring serial polygamy to a whole new level. Top political figures are now weirdly part of the same extended harem. It truly is creepy and redefines the concept of nepotism. Perhaps someday in the not-too-distant future, France will have a president with an entire cabinet of former wives. Should be exciting. At Galliawatch, Tiberge writes: Wow! What a piece of juicy gossip lies within the readers' comments at Le Salon Beige. First, the cover ofL'Express shows a happy François Hollande surrounded by his harem, from the left: Ségolène Royal, Julie Gayet and the rejected Valérie Trierweiler. But who is missing? That's what we learn from the obliging readers. It's Anne Hidalgo, newly elected mayor of Paris, who has a daughter by the very busy and productive president! Louis XV could not have done better, though I still prefer Madame de Pompadour. Le Salon Beige also asks a pertinent question that should occur to any good Socialist: Is this not homophobic behavior? Yes, it is, and furthermore, where is the racial mixture? François Hollande is just an old racist fuddy-duddy, unless the Spanish blood of Anne Hidalgo saves him from perdition. But Spanish blood is still white. So… Where is SOS-Racism when you need them?

IN an essay on Jorge Bergoglio’s recent conversation with an Argentine woman regarding divorce and the sacraments, in which he is reported to have blithely denied Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage, the Rev. Anthony Cekada writes that it was the sort of calculated move that has characterized His Holy Humbleness’s utterly false reign:

Looking back over the catalogue of Bergoglian messes, we can see a pattern emerge.

Bergoglio sows the seeds of change through what at first appears to be chaos. But far from being misrepresented in the secular media, he manipulates it to his ends with a peasant-like cunning.

In a few short months, therefore, Francis has positioned himself as “the people’s pope” and become a world-wide object of adoration, thanks to self-aggrandizing gestures designed to showcase his “humility,” “compassion,” “simplicity,” contempt for “small-minded rules,” indifference towards sexual immorality, and moralizing on social issues dear to the left (immigration, income disparity, unemployment and “climate change.”)

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      WHO were the multitudes who cheered on the canonizations in Rome today of John XXIII and John Paul II? Atila Sinke Guimarães at Tradition in Act describes the "middle-of-the road majority" that celebrated this blasphemous demagoguery, which was a flagrant, illegitimate effort to glorify Vatican II and was in effect in homage to every religion but Catholicity because of the revolutionary ecumenism of John Paul II: The entire world, including its Freemasons leaders, its Jewish inspirers, its almost unanimous media and its characteristics stars, are thoroughly pleased. The great multitude of Catholics, who love the modern world, are thankful to have the conciliar Church “canonize” these two Popes who ended the “old” Catholic militancy and replaced it with a “more human” face. This new Church tolerates their bad morals and relativist beliefs. So, they are going to Rome in great exhilaration to express their approval of these Popes and the transformation of the Church into a joyful institution consonant with the World Youth Days. This cheering majority of hedonist Catholics does not want to submit to any hierarchy and seeks approval for whatever kind of moral behavior they adopt – divorce, free-love, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, etc. They are going to Rome because John XXIII and John Paul II are symbols of this mentality.

[UPDATE: The death of Kelly Hasselman has been confirmed on social media and there is reason to believe she has committed suicide.]

SARAH SAMS writes:

ALAN writes:

The sinking of the ferry with a 26-year-old woman at the helm prompted the memory of these incidents:

1. Chicago, March 2014:  “Brittney,” age 25 and with two months’ experience operating trains, dozes off at the controls of a passenger train arriving at the airport station, thus permitting it to crash into the platform and escalator, injuring more than 30 passengers and causing millions of dollars in damage. [ Read about it here.]

2. Washington, D.C., June 2009:  Passenger train collision kills nine people and injures more than 70;  train operator is 42-year-old woman with seven months’ experience operating trains.   “Were standards lowered to hire her?”, asked Lawrence Auster.  [“D.C. commuter train crash, seven dead.”]

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  IN WHAT many will no doubt see as an event symbolic of the pending canonization of John Paul II, a 21-year-old Italian man, Marco Gusmini, was crushed to death Thursday by a hideous, gargantuan crucifix erected in 1998 in John Paul II's honor. Representative of the ugly, sterile modernism of the Vatican II Church, the 100-foot-high cross collapsed as the young man was posing for a photograph underneath and he was not able to move in time. At Novus Ordo Watch, there is a longer report. The Telegraph reports: In a bizarre coincidence, the 21-year-old man was reported to have been living in a street named after Pope John XXIII – who will also be canonised in the ceremony on Sunday, in an event that is unprecedented in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church.

  THESE words of the Catholic blogger Dr. Thomas Droleskey are apt regarding the Great Canonization Show on Sunday, when John Paul II and John XXIII will be elevated as "saints," placing those Catholics who believe in the legitimacy of Jorge Bergoglio's reign and yet recognize the revolutionary work of these men in a definite dilemma, as they are then absolutely bound to venerate them as saints: Yes, step this way. Get your programs in advance. Watch the conciliar revolutionaries ape the practice of Roman emperors, who had busts of themselves placed throughout the Roman Empire, and of the French and Bolshevik and Maoist revolutionaries in establishing cults of personality that will continue after their deaths. The conciliar “canonization” process is a farce, and it is been used in many instances, including the upcoming “double canonization” of Roncalli and Wojtyla, to place beyond question the legitimacy of the false doctrines, liturgical rites and pastoral practices of conciliarism by claiming that those responsible for their promulgation and institutionalization enjoy the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven. Those Catholics who only remember the good qualities of John Paul II, and he certainly had good qualities, he indisputably had good qualities and said Catholic things, may want to read this 2010 article in Chiesa Viva by Fr. Luigi Villa. The English translation is a bit rough, but it is…

ACCORDING to CNN, the Vatican has confirmed reports of a phone call to an Argentine woman by “Pope” Francis:

Julio Sabetta, from San Lorenzo in the Pope’s home country, said his wife, Jacqueline Sabetta Lisbona, spoke with Francis on Monday.

Jacqueline Sabetta Lisbona wrote to the pontiff in September to ask for clarification on the Communion issue, according to her husband, who said his divorced status had prevented her from receiving the sacrament. (more…)

A READER writes:

My name is Chasity and I’ve been an avid reader of your blog for years now. I am 27 years old and am a housewife and mother. My husband and I will celebrate eight years of marriage in a couple of weeks. We have one son, who will turn seven in June. He was born with a cleft lip and palate and will undergo further surgeries as he gets older. He was also diagnosed with OCD and Autism in the last couple of years.

I wanted to write and tell you thank you for writing this blog, as it has been a tremendous comfort to me over the years. I’ve always been told that I should have put our son in day care to help my husband support our family over the years. Some people have even asked me why I haven’t institutionalized him, since he’s so “high-maintenance.″
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