ADITYA B. writes:

I discovered your blog through VFR and am an avid reader of both. I consider Lawrence Auster my guru as he is primarily responsible for the evolution of my weltanschauung.

I admire your prose and insightful commentary on what passes for modern culture. Your ability to dissect the zeitgeist and leave it bare is almost unparalleled. Therefore, I want to ask you whether you believe that women like Valérie Trierweiler, France’s First Girlfriend, have any sense of self-awareness.

Do these women realize that most non-whites regard all white women as nothing more than a piece of meat? And when confronted by one who looks like she can accessorize her dress with a lamp post and a public defender, most non-whites will not only not take her seriously, they will not take her husband, companion, escort, whatever they call ’em nowadays seriously. In her case, her country will not be taken seriously as most non-whites are going to conclude that it is a land of prostitutes, and indeed, they even put one on the highest pedestal of power. (more…)

PRIYA writes: 

As a Hindu expatriate who had been exposed to only the modern U.S., it’s a pleasure to read your views on traditionalism. What has prompted me to correspond was the discussion in the entry, “When Will Women Rule Everything?” — especially the views expressed regarding Hindu culture and the role of women.

Jane S. writes, “For thousands of years, Hindus had a custom known as “sati,” where a woman who outlived her husband was expected to burn herself alive on his funeral pyre.”

Sati was completely voluntary. If it was forced upon Hindu women for thousands of years, as Jane claims, Hindus would have been finished as a civilization long ago. (more…)

THE New York Times reports the facts, suggesting they are cause for celebration and that the new demographics amount to just retribution against guilty whites. The news, writes Sabrina Tavernese, is “a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration.” But the real kicker is this. While heading for minority status in America, whites must do ever more to help “minorities,” Tavernese writes. In other words, even when nonwhites become the majority they will not lose their “minority” status and will remain morally superior to whites in the eyes of liberal America.

As long as whites remain more successful than nonwhites, they will be the official majority. That’s the real news. And thus whites are duty bound to redistribute wealth into government aid for nonwhites, whose relative lack of success is entirely due to inadequate schools.

Tavernese reports:

After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history. (more…)

VINCENT C. writes:

On May 6, the anniversary of the barbaric sack of Rome in 1527 by the forces of Charles V, the Swiss Guard took their annual oath of fealty to the pontiff, with an extended three fingers – signifying the Trinity – inside the Vatican walls.

Whenever one enters through the portals into the Vatican from the street, two halberd-bearing Swiss Guard are there to check who enters. The Swiss Guard has a certain personal meaning for me, for while I was assigned to the U.S. Embassy to The Holy See, I dealt personally with its head and his staff whenever there was a high level U.S. official who would visit  the  pope. (more…)

DANIEL S. writes:

From Russia Today:

Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money has been spent forcibly sterilising Indian women. Many have died being mistreated, causing outrage from those who suspect Britain simply wants to curb the country’s population for ulterior motives. RT’s Priya Sridhar has the details of this controversial program.

Video here.

[NOTE: A reader below raises serious questions about the accuracy of this report.]

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ALAN writes:

Whenever I think of modern culture, the word that comes immediately to mind is: Decadence. Whenever I think of my mother, the word that comes immediately to mind is: Decency. Two things could not be more unlike.

My mother never enjoyed a moment of fame, fortune, or glamour. She lived quietly by the untrendy, unglamorous virtues of self-discipline, self-restraint, hard work, responsibility, and loyalty to her family, home, and friends. Neglect, evasion, excuses – no such things ever existed in her character or her vocabulary. She did her job in life. She minded her own business and never tried to mind anyone else’s. (more…)

MY great-great grandmother, Catherine Garvey, was born in Castleblaney, Ireland in 1816. She married, moved to America, had seven children (two of whom died in infancy) and took care of her home in Pennsylvania. She became a widow at the age of 60 when her husband fell down the stairs in the middle of the night.

Catherine Garvey died in 1905 at the home of her daughter. She was 89. Her obituary in the Scranton Times contained a brief description of her life that is worth contemplating this Mother’s Day. It read in part:

Mrs. Garvey’s character was noble and grand. She centered her affection upon her family and made the circle of her home the embodiment of virtue and happiness and in her dealings with her neighbors she was always kind and charitable. (more…)

ARETE writes:

I too was disturbed by the photograph on the cover of Time. That was the point of it. This was a very direct frontal attack on motherhood and I will explain why.

Now, thanks to one of the biggest magazines in the country, millions have a negative first impression of breastfeeding. If Time just needed a visual they could have chosen a beautiful painting by any of the masters but they chose this awful photo on purpose. This picture equates nursing with perversity! This is an attempt to make mothers who have normal, close nursing relationships of one to two years look like perverts and extremists. Whatever handful of mothers there are who breastfeed children of three are not doing so in tank tops in front of millions. (That looks like a photoshop job to me anyway … that child is huge!) (more…)

DUE to a formatting problem, the discussion in the previous entry about the Time cover of a mother breastfeeding her older child in a provocative pose is continued here.

Mary writes:

Funny how this dovetails so nicely with Elizabeth Badinter’s recent statements. Hmmm…one might even get the impression that there is some kind of unified message being presented in the media. (more…)

BUCK writes:

TONY at Catholic Phoenix made the announcement last week:

In a move already denounced by Catholic bishops & other leading religious conservatives, St. Sincerus University, the nation’s 84th largest Catholic university, has invited Satan to deliver its commencement speech later this month. (more…)