KIDIST P. ASRAT has an excellent post at Reclaiming Beauty on Anu Bhagwati, the feminist activist and former Marine who is in the news campaigning against the misogyny of the American military. The strange spectacle of a daughter of Indian immigrants lecturing the nation about the wholesale evil of historic military protocols has what is in many ways a very familiar background story. Here is a perfect symbol of multicultural America and its nihilistic elevation and worship of the alien other.

Bhagwati’s childhood was characterized by the typical Asian focus on educational success. Her parents, professors at Harvard and Columbia, had attained prominence not long after they came to America in the 1960s. (more…)

TWO machete-wielding black Muslims beheaded a man, believed to have been a British soldier, on a London street today and one of the men is apparently recorded on video with blood-soaked hands, saying, “You people will never be safe.”

David Cameron called the attack “truly shocking.” He is lying through his teeth. No one who knows the slightest thing about Islam would consider this attack shocking. Such beheadings were ordered by Mohammed himself. Here’s a news account in the Express. From the story:

A Whitehall source claimed the men were heard to shout ‘Allah Akbar’ as they attacked the victim in broad daylight.

The incident occurred near the headquarters of the Royal Artillery. Cameron is also quoted as saying:

“We have had these sort of attacks before in our country and we never buckled in the face of them.”

It’s true. The British government has never buckled before the obvious danger posed by Islam in Britain.

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THE French organization Manif Pour Tous issued a statement this week on the occasion of the promulgation of the Taubira law legalizing same-sex “marriage.” It called on opponents of the law to attend this Sunday’s rally and vowed to continue until the law is repealed. From the remarkable statement:

Today the law is official. Has the last word been said? Must hope vanish? Is defeat definitive? No!

Our opposition movement, an immense groundswell, will not stop, for the simple reason that it is born of a profound, innate refusal of a law based on the lie that makes believe that a child could have two men or two women as parents.

Contrary to what has been said – another lie among many – this law concerns all Frenchmen because every human being, tomorrow, will be vulnerable to being deprived of a father or a mother.

Our movement is the profound expression of what a tremendous number of Frenchmen are feeling: the succession of generations, the future of humanity, can only be founded on a recognition of the reality of Man.

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A translation of the suicide note of Dominique Venner, a French intellectual who opposed liberalism, can be found at Occam’s Razor. Venner shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame yesterday. At Chronicles, Srdja Trifkovic gives an account of the French man’s life in Dominique Venner, a French Samurai. 

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MICHAEL RUSKIN writes:

  HOW MANY buffoons can the progressivist Catholic Church accommodate? Here's one more at Tradition in Action.

DON VINCENZO writes:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is a politician whose role in pushing through the legalization of homosexual marriage, including making knowingly false guarantees about the exemption of religious institutions from the law, is second to none. But it has not kept him from receiving the approval of the famously pandering prince of the Catholic Church, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York and Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). (more…)

ALAN writes:

SAM writes:

Regarding your post on the rally in Tbilisi, I recently passed an incredibly pleasant six months in the Republic of Georgia. It’s the kind of place where pretty churches adorn every other street corner and every other hilltop. When a Georgian, regardless of age, passes or catches sight of one of these lovely places of worship, he stops to cross himself piously. Young women act sweet, dress stylishly but modestly, marry young, and dream of children. Young men marry as soon as they find a job (not easy) and the new family usually moves in with his parents. Divorce is rare. Laziness and alcoholism are their great national sins, and they admit it. (more…)

THE New York Daily News last week reported an unpublicized whites-only graduate fellowship at Columbia University, and the news quickly spread throughout the country that J.P. Morgan, the bank which oversees the fund, and the university have gone to court and asked to remove the whites-only clause.

The intentions of Lydia S. Roberts, a wealthy Iowa widow who bequeathed her entire estate of $500,000 to Columbia in 1920 to set up the graduate fellowship, will likely be discarded in Manhattan Supreme Court and her wealth used for purposes other than those she specified. You might call this theft, but if it is, it’s not a new type of theft. Many of the people who bequeathed their hard-earned wealth to American colleges and universities surely never intended to subsidize students from Saudi Arabia or China or to deny financial assistance to applicants purely because they are white.

Fortunately Mrs. Roberts does not have the ability to object. If she were somehow brought back to life, she might ask some embarrassing questions about the tens of thousands of students who receive scholarships reserved for nonwhites every year. She might not understand that the vast white intellectual underclass, faced with crushing debt and dim prospects, represents a form of justice. But then she was the product of an un-enlightened era.

Mrs. Roberts has been posthumously educated.

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AT his blog Upon Hope, the Australian Mark Moncrieff writes:

[W]e see all around us a world in which people who are in the prime of life are lonely. Not for a short time or because of some unfortunate circumstance, but in what seems a permanent state of affairs. The most worrying aspect is that it seems to affect every social class and both sexes. You yourself may be lonely, I bet that you know someone who is. Someone who in theory is in the prime of life, with quirks but nothing seriously wrong with them, in other words a perfectly normal person.

Why is loneliness such a large factor in modern life?

One major reason, in my view, is that radical equality creates sameness and homogeneity. When the vital distinctions between people disappear, they become indifferent to each other and alienated in deep and fundamental ways. Furthermore, the worship of speed and energy and the idol of busy-ness create no time for spontaneity and informal connection.

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ADAM writes:

The attached graphic is from an email I received from the alumni association of my university. This was one of the news items in the alumni newsletter I receive regularly. It was advertising a networking mixer specifically for “LGBT” alumni. I found the name of the event quite appropriate: LGBT Devils’ Pride Chapter Mixer. Of course, it is referring to the Sun Devils — the name of the university’s football team. (more…)

IN a discussion of nullification at the blog economicharmonies, Terry Morris responds to the following statement, which was probably originally made by someone noteworthy, but is of unknown origin:

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DANIEL S. writes:

Russia Today has an article about clashes between Orthodox Christians and homosexual protesters in the country of Georgia. What caught my attention was a passing acknowledgement that the acting U.S. ambassador Bridget Brink was present at the protests. Presumably she was present in a show of solidarity with the homosexual activists. (I cannot imagine she was there to support the Orthodox Church.) Which raises a further question, what role did the U.S. embassy and other American “NGO”s play in organizing and funding this rally in recognition of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia? The American state department has played a leading role in funding and organizing for homosexual “rights” across Eastern Europe. Why is this not an issue among supposed conservatives in America? Why don’t they protest against American tax dollars being used for moral subversion in other Christian countries?

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AN ANONYMOUS READER writes:

First, thanks for your website. I donated once, but due to my strange name you thought I was a man, but I am actually a woman in her mid-20s.

I’m writing about your post on the transgendered vs. feminist controversy that broke out at Portland State University. I think this story is extremely revealing, and you’re not approaching it quite the right way. Let me explain!

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  SINCE its creation six years ago, the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), which represents feminists in the military and supports the idea of women in combat, has become an influential and well-funded lobbying group. Its director, Anu Bhagwati, a graduate of Yale and former captain in the Marines, is a media celebrity, appearing on many major news shows and testifying before Congress, decrying the systematic inequities of military life. Bhagwati is especially visible now that sexual assault in the military is the pervasive topic of the day. Concerning that issue, you may wonder why anyone, man or woman, is in the armed forces who is not capable of defending himself from assault. You may also wonder why an Asian woman has such power and influence over our military. (Can you imagine an American woman of comparable influence with regard to the Indian or Japanese military forces?) But if you do, you are not in step with the mission of our armed forces, which is on some levels not to protect America, but to fight it tooth and nail and raze its historic culture to the ground. The military has become our enemy. The latest success of SWAN is the Military Justice Improvement Act, which was introduced in the Senate yesterday. The bill would restrict the jurisdiction of military commanders over sexual assault cases, many of which would be determined by "professionals." According to SWAN's press release, “The current commander-based system is…