PETER F. writes:

I am a regular reader of your fine website, and have been meaning to write to you for some time. Some recent comments concerning the feminization of the Armed Forces finally moved me to action. If you’ll bear with me through some background information, I think you will find my story both interesting and relevant to the subject.

My late father was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Second World War and the early Cold War. However, for a number of reasons, I did not go into the military as a young man. (more…)

HERE is another excerpt from Robert S. Oculus III’s The White Book. (See previous excerpts here and here.) This section, titled “Black Run America,” includes a familiar description of the status-seeking behavior of white liberals, a phenomenon that has been noted and talked about for years.

“If I had a hammer…” the old song goes, “I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.”

Dr. King’s Dream is a hammer. But it is a sledgehammer, and one that has been used since the 1950s to smash the old America into pieces — in the name of love, freedom, and justice, of course.

Who held that hammer? Again, it wasn’t the blacks as such, nor the Jews. There weren’t enough of them around. No, the arm holding that hammer is white  —  the hand of the Revolution that has slowly but surely overthrown the American elite over the course of the past two centuries.

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THOMAS writes:

First of all, I would like to apologize if I start to ramble, or if my thoughts seems disorganized. I am an engineer by trade, and am unused to expressive writing.

I am a husband and a father of two small children. I am a 12-year veteran: eight years active duty, four years reserves. I was raised to be patriotic, honest and loyal by my wonderful parents. I am trying to do the same with my own children. And yet, at every turn I am confronted by a culture and a government that wishes to destroy all I cherish. For example, my former military profession, submarines, which helped win the Second World War and the Cold War, is being systematically destroyed by the introduction of women. All this is being done not only with the acquiescence, but with the enthusiastic support of military “leadership” that swore an oath to defend the country and their fellow servicemen.

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HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara tells People magazine she hopes Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016, because Mistress Hillary is “unbelievably accomplished.” At what?

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DON VINCENZO writes:

Bishop Thomas Tobin, of Providence, Rhode Island, recently informed a group of Young Republicans that he had become a registered Republican after dissolving his long and, in my judgment, inexplicable association with the Democratic Party. The bishop’s statement and its implications only strengthen my conviction that the Church in the West has lost its way. From WPRI News:

Bishop Tobin claimed, “The a-ha moment for me was the 2012 Democratic National Convention.(Emphasis mine.) It was just awful,” Tobin, 65, told the Young Republicans during an event at the Holy Rosary Band Society Hall in Providence”

Why has the bishop appeared before a political group to explain his changing parties? The bishop’s role is to serve as the spiritual shepherd to his flock, which in this bishop’s case includes 147 shrines and parishes throughout the state.

In admitting to changing parties, Bishop Tobin also revealed a mindset operating in far too many bishops in the U.S.: they have been inextricably involved in political action, often in the case of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens, or in the name of “social justice,” which kept him a registered Democrat for forty years, but not an effective bishop.

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FROM this post at the Council of Conservative Citizens:

The trial is underway right now for Mona Yevette Nelson. She is a black woman who allegedly kidnapped a white child and tortured him to death with a blowtorch in Houston. There has never been any serious media coverage of this case.

The trial started this week, and it has only registered a tiny blip in the local news. Only one local media affiliate, KTRK Houston Channel 13, even appears to be covering the trial. Other Houston media outlets only published tiny blurbs that the trial has started, but none of them even mentioned how the boy died.

If the races had been reversed, this would be the biggest media event in the Western world. People in Finland would be hearing about the “racially motivated torture murder” in every gruesome detail. Scores of media vans would be lined up and down the street in front of the courthouse. (more…)

U.S. SGT. KATHERINE PAPKE of Anniston, Alabama was charged with manslaughter this week for leaving her four-month-old infant in the car while she was at work. See the Daily Mail’s report, which includes a police photo of the visibly devastated mother. Said her attorney: “She’s a working mother who just got off maternity leave. She thought she had dropped off the child at daycare. It’s important that people know that. No words can describe how she feels.”

Papke is a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army. She had left her daughters at school and then worked for five hours at the McClellan Readiness Center before returning to her car, parked in the heat, and discovering her son in the back seat. It’s a heart-wrenching story, an extreme example of the routine neglect of children in a world where motherhood is a secondary job. No woman can take care of an infant and two other young children, manage a home and work for the Army while retaining her focus. Millions of lesser disasters and forms of neglect happen every day, all at the expense of children who are moved around like burdensome packages. The Army — and feminists who have cheered for this — are complicit in this crime.

In news stories such as this, no one — not the police, not the family, not friends, not neighbors — says the obvious. No one states the simple truth that this is an insane, unworkable and dangerous model for family life.

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DEAN ERICSON writes:

People have expressed amazement at the media frenzy condemning a Missouri State Fair rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask. Rush Limbaugh said it’s because the left has thin skin and cannot stand to be mocked. How else to understand a firestorm over a rodeo at an obscure event in fly-over-land? It’s this: The national media, which is the propaganda arm of the revolution, saw in this yet another opportunity to demonize traditional Americans as morally illegitimate. “Racism” is like kryptonite to most trads and whenever it’s waved in our faces we roll over and wet ourselves, as can be seen in the humiliating abasement of every responsible party in Missouri, who vow to send rodeo clowns to sensitivity training and promise our moral betters it will never happen again.

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  FROM an essay by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is celebrated today: It is my opinion that this glorification of Our Lady at her resurrection and assumption had an effect on earth and nature. As at Fatima when the sun changed its colors and danced, twirling toward the earth to confirm the words she spoke to the children, on the day of her assumption, I imagine the sun was shining with a special glorified light, the air was exceptionally pure, and all nature was immensely joyful. The face of Our Lady before her assumption would have shined with increasing brilliance expressing the great love of God she was feeling, her eagerness to be with Him, and a presentiment of the joys she would shortly have. I think that the last day of Our Lady on earth in a certain sense represents the transfiguration of Our Lady; it was her Tabor. The persons who were with her and saw her would never forget that day for the rest of their lives.

THE website Those Who Can See has a lengthy and very informative post on statistics pertaining to black criminality, which is high in most or all countries where blacks have a significant presence, even nations where Africans were never colonized or enslaved. As the above graph shows, the crime rate of blacks in the U.S. has increased dramatically since the era of segregation. Black crime is born out of a “very violent past in this country” and a “very difficult history,” Obama contended after George Zimmerman was acquitted. Perplexingly, incarceration rates have soared the farther we are from that violent past. Also, if tough sentencing is the problem, as Eric Holder maintains, then why haven’t whites seen a comparable increase in incarceration rates? It must be that “history of racial disparity in the application of our criminal laws.” (more…)

JAMES N. writes:

The teaser for a New York Times story on demographic crisis in Germany reads:

As German towns work to hide the emptiness, demographers say a similar fate awaits other European countries, with scary implications for the economy.

As Europe dies, as the 3500 year epoch of our people comes to an end, the New York Times worries that it will be bad for the economy.

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  MY email account is temporarily inaccessible. Outlook is experiencing a widespread outage.

THE owner of a Swiss boutique has refused to be intimidated by Oprah Winfrey’s accusation that she experienced a racial insult in her store. According to The Daily Mail, Trudie Goertz said,

I don’t know why she talked of racism. I am sorry, but perhaps she is being a little over-sensitive here. Maybe she was somewhat offended because she was not immediately recognized in the store.

This was an excellent response after the store owner’s initial apology. Oprah complained publicly that a clerk at the Zurich boutique suggested she might not be able to afford a $38,000 purple crocodile handbag. This proved that “racism is still an issue.” (No one, except animal rights advocates, appears to have criticized Oprah for her interest in such an expensive and garish purse.) Oprah subsequently apologized for making it an issue. But the clerk is in seclusion in fear of “public hatred.”

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ACCORDING TO the Getty Museum, graffiti is no different from the highest achievements of Renaissance art. David Brafman, the rare books curator at the Getty Research Institute, writes:

The art of graffiti—and the artists who practice it—craft letterforms, draft perspective, and merge line, color, and form with the same techniques employed by Renaissance masters like Albrecht Dürer. Now the work of graffiti and tattoo artists—just like those of Dürer—are part of the Getty’s rare-book collections via a monumental, 150-artist collaboration called LA Liber Amicorum, more popularly known as the Getty Graffiti Black Book.

Mr. Brafman is, to borrow a phrase used by the commenter Alan, “drenched in mendacity.”

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ALAN M. writes:

In reading this about the Swiss national anthem, I was struck by the following quote:

“Officially the anthem is a psalm, a prayer, but of course we have an open society, religiously neutral. We have atheists, no single god, so this anthem is a difficulty.”

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  EVERY anti-discrimination law is a law that mandates discrimination. This is so obvious it's almost painful to have to point it out, but many people don't seem to get it. Mark Moncrieff at his blog Upon Hope explains in simple language the "discrimination of anti-discrimination."