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of nullification at the blog economicharmonies, Terry Morris responds to the following statement, which was probably originally made by someone noteworthy, but is of unknown origin: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

ED HUNTER writes:

The family of the accused Boston Bombers entered the U.S. claiming “asylum.” Like so many other “refugees,” the Tsarnaevs immediately went on welfare, and then flew back and forth to Russia for visits. How could they be escaping a life-and-death situation if they were returning to their home country for extended stays?

This is one small incident in a giant scam called Refugee Resettlement which is run by the State Department and originated in the Refugee Resettlement Act of 1980. The federal program has settled tens of thousands of Somalis, Nigerians, and Muslims in small towns in Minnesota, Vermont, Tennessee and elsewhere, which of course destroys those communities forever. After decades many of these refugees remain on welfare, suspicious and resentful and dedicated to building in America the same failed culture they supposedly left behind. In this assault on our civilization, the U.S. taxpayer has had no vote, but he must, of course, pay the costs in terms of welfare, terrorism, endless expanded security. (more…)

THIS cross, which was designed by the Italian sculptor Lello Scorzelli, has been carried by six popes: Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVII and now Francis I. At Tradition in Action, Marion T. Horvat examines the history and meaning of the cross, with its contorted, grotesquely emaciated body and claw-like hands. Admirers of the cross say it conveys the suffering of Christ. It would be more accurate to say it conveys meaninglessness, animal resignation and despair. The cross was first used at the closing of Vatican II in 1965, a fitting end to an event that did so much to drain the sense of the sacred from the world. It is reasonable to argue that in Vatican II, Christ underwent a second crucifixion. But it didn’t look like this. He will rise again from the tomb of the Revolution.

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WHILE the French police have harassed, beaten and whisked away peaceful protesters against the new same-sex marriage law, including a group of young people who were walking down the Champs Elysées recently without signs or banners, they did little when hoodlums descended on the Champs Elysées and the Trocadero on Sunday after the Paris Saint-Germain soccer club won. The soccer team, according to French writer Bernard Antony, was “formerly Parisian but now [is] owned by the Islamist State of Qatar.” Antony called Sunday’s riots “a barbaric rampage obviously engendered by the most total racist contempt for France and the French.”

Tiberge at Galliawatch has a number of important posts. She writes:

Some readers have suggested that this week-end’s rampage was part of a pre-programmed attack on France by Islamic forces, and other enemies of France. Manuel Valls [the Minister of the Interior] has ridiculously tried to compare the violence to the incidents that have occurred during the Manif Pour Tous. For him there is no difference. (Actually, there IS a difference: the Manif is much worse in his way of thinking, but he cannot quite bring himself to say that publicly.)

The passive, unperturbed, unmovable indifference at the highest level of government today is not very different from the passive unperturbed complacency of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in 2005 when the ghettos rampaged for days on end (October 27 – November 17 approx.), setting the stage for all future rampages, accelerating the Islamization of France, and forever paralyzing the police, under permanent orders to treat the vandals gently.

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AT VDARE, Susie Green suggests what the late Lawrence Auster would say to the current immigration bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. From the 2006 VFR post, We Must Stop Lying to Ourselves or We Will Die:

The level of lying that has become common in the illegal alien debate is truly frightening and bespeaks an America that has passed some new threshold on the road to self-destruction. (more…)

DON VINCENZO writes:

On April 21, I wrote that U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati would soon decide the case of the Romeikes, a homeschooling German family seeking political asylum. Yesterday, the three-judge panel, including two George W. Bush appointees and one Clinton appointee, denied the Romeike petition, which had enormous popular support among homeschooling families in this country. I was not surprised. (more…)

THE Revolution is so bewilderingly fast-paced it is impossible at times to tell whether you are encountering fact or fiction. Here’s a late-breaking bulletin, which a reader says is true. At Portland State University, a conference intended to be a “comparative critical dialogue” between revolutionaries of various stripes reportedly turned ugly Sunday when two transgender males attacked feminists. The men said they believe in traditional sex roles. According to a website called GenderTrender:

The women were attacked in a coordinated assault as they sat at a table which sold feminist books and literature. The men destroyed the books and marked up the table display with permanent markers. One of the women was also marked up by the men. Predominantly male conference onlookers by all reports allowed the attack to take place, watching in stunned silence. Two males affiliated with the same group as the feminists -Deep Green Resistance- were also in attendance and the “trans women” threw a projectile at the head of one of them. (more…)

  DANIEL S. writes: What has multiculturalism wrought? American-based Muslim leaders of the mosque attended by the Boston bombers have published a Saudi fatwa advocating Muslim husbands strike persistently "disobedient" wives; Britain is seeing the rise of temporary marriages, called mut'ah, among Shi'ite Muslim immigrants; and Sweden has handed out a light sentence to an Iraqi Muslim who brutally murdered his sister for fleeing an arranged marriage. And where is the feminist group FEMEN for all of this? Why protesting against traditionalist Catholics celebrating the feast day of St. Joan of Arc, of course.

WHEN JAMIE PURSLEY arranged for her second cousin, Kristen Broome, to be a surrogate mother for her and her husband, she agreed to let a photographer document the whole process, which included Mrs. Pursley stroking and talking to the belly of the pregnant woman, entering the hospital herself on the day of the birth and acting out the part of a woman who had just delivered a child. She even left the hospital in a wheelchair.

Mrs. Pursley, who apparently showed no concern for how her son may someday view this spectacle, is an extreme manifestation of the feminist view of motherhood as a beautiful hobby. See the photos of her husband, Jacob Pursley, the boy-man who sits on the sidelines of this orgy of maternal lust, dazed and submissive. One can only imagine what emotional retribution he might have suffered if he had not participated in his wife’s fantasies.

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N.W. writes:

In the midst of all the other news out there, your readers may have missed two interesting stories concerning one of the last bastions of manhood in our country, the Marine Corps Infantry.

The first story concerns an investigation launched by Rep. Jackie Speier, the California Democrat who describes the United States military as harboring “a culture that permits and seems to encourage sexual assault and abuse.” Her evidence includes a number of popular Facebook groups which provide an unadulterated glimpse into the hard-charging and depraved mind of your average junior enlisted infantryman.

Fighting men haven’t changed much over the millennia. When they aren’t training, they’re usually fighting, chasing women, or drinking.

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