STEPHEN writes:

With regard to yesterday’s post on the “Meditations of Nicolas Goméz Dávila,” I would like to offer one small correction to what your correspondent (Peter S.) wrote, or at least prevent a potential misunderstanding on the part of your readers. Goméz Dávila wrote well over 3,000 aphorisms — the total is, I believe, somewhere around 14,000. Rather, I only translated approximately 3,000 of his aphorisms into English on Don Colacho’s Aphorisms.

Laura writes:

So you only translated 3,000 of his aphorisms? That’s all? 

Seriously, that is impressive. Congratulations and thank you for your effort. In celebration, I’d like to post a few of my favorite of Goméz Dávila’s aphorisms on love: (more…)

MICHAEL D. writes in response to this entry:

The last occasion when the United States attacked Libya was in 1986 in Operation El Dorado Canyon. This operation consisted of a series of air strikes by air force and navy strike aircraft where they struck regime targets in Tripoli and Benghazi. President Reagan announced the operation to the public while the planes were in the air – the strikes were in reprisal for a bomb attack by Libyan terrorists on a nightclub in Berlin that was packed with many U.S. servicemen and civilians at the time. (more…)

I REALIZE military commanders are under certain restrictions when coming up with code names for strategic operations, but still it is embarrassing to see an armed conflict assigned such a silly, euphemistic term in the news as “Operation Odyssey Dawn.” Even if military personnel refer to it as such, is it necessary for the public and journalists to accept the term? The rash mindlessness and indefinite purpose of this country’s attack on Libya, launched without Congressional approval, is sickeningly highlighted by the sentimental name. Ed O’Keefe in The Washington Post says the phrase sounds like “the title of a rock album, video game or — as some have suggested — the name of a pornographic movie star.” (more…)

  PETER S. WRITES: Today marks the completion of a multi-year informal translation project of the aphorisms of Don Colacho.  A profound reactionary intellectual, his observations, while no doubt acerbic to some tastes, are full of penetrating insight regarding the modern condition and the eclipse of the sacred.  Of the nearly three thousand aphorisms authored by him, I offer a few here by way of example:  We do not invoke God as defendants, but as parched lands.  Today the individual must gradually reconstruct inside himself the civilized universe that is disappearing around him.  I do not belong to a world that is passing away; I prolong and transmit a truth that does not die.  The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are waning; the world's future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

TODAY is Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday. Celebrate by listening to this beautiful version of the Bach Concerto in F minor, with Claudio Dauelsberg on the piano.

Bach means “brook” in German. Beethoven said, “Not Brook, but Ocean should be his name.”  Bach is a vast and glorious sea that stretches to the horizon.

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KILROY M. writes:

This from NineMSN in Australia brought a smile to my face: “Casey’s father Colin said he was proud his son has finally stood up to the bullying, and the support Casey had received had already changed his son’s demeanour and self-esteem.”  (more…)

  SEE The New York Times's remarkable slide show of the aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan.

  LAST WEEK, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Samantha Powers, of the National Security Council; and Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, were all influential in convincing President Obama to order up military plans for an attack on Libya. The New York Times describes their efforts to convince the president on the necessity for intervention.  Suffragists and feminists often claimed that women would bring world peace if they could only get the reins of power. That's because suffragists and feminists misunderstood how a powerful woman might react to a supposed "humanitarian crisis." It's not excessive aggression that drives women to unnecessary war, but excessive compassion.

IN THIS previous thread, Van Wijk writes:

It is no secret that the majority of American Jews are leftists; so are a great many whites. Since leftist Jews are in most cases racially and culturally white, and since they are too few and pacifistic to pose a physical threat, they can be lumped in with white leftists as a whole and dealt with in the same manner. The problem with the Jew-haters is that they tend to ignore or play down the danger posed by demonstrably violent peoples. Solve the problem of Jewish influence, they say, and all other problems will solve themselves. Every time I’ve asked a Jew-hater what to do about Mestizos or Muslims, the response has been that they can be dealt with “in a straightforward manner.” No one but the Jews are on the Jew-hater’s radar, and Jews are (naturally) responsible for most of the evil in the world. …. Since Jewish influence looms large in the mind of the Jew-hater and can never be resolved while there is a single Jew in the land, to engage them is to be drawn into what Mark Richardson calls an “intellectual cul-de-sac.” (more…)

EARLIER THIS week, I recommended a new website Faith and Heritage.  I regret my hasty enthusiasm for a new venture. Disappointingly, Faith and Heritage is beset with the same viral tendency that afflicts many sites that defend white heritage: anti-Semitism.

In a review of the movie Social Network, the blogger “Generation 5” writes at Faith and Heritage:

Zuckerberg is a particularly pathological character, of course, but he is an extreme archetype of Jews, particularly those hailing from Eastern Europe where the hatred of Gentiles was most acidic. If the Winklevoss had inherited some of their ancestors’ old-fashioned anti-Semitism, they would have known that it’s generally a bad idea to do business with Jews. Lacking the Christian sense of fair play and good sportsmanship (that even nominal, cultural Christians like the Winklevoss still largely possess, and reinforced through athletics), nursing resentments against our culture and people, the temptation to cheat is almost impossible for them to overcome. The lesson for Christians is simple: avoid dealings with Jews, for they are too risky.  (more…)

THE DISCUSSION about white nationalism, which began here, continues below.

Boris S. writes:

The essential difference between the so-called “white nationalist” tribalism and the organization of Jews, which the “white nationalists” seek to emulate, is that the Jews point to a common four-thousand-year-old religion, with a shared culture, historical memory, and transcendental hopes. The “white nationalists,” on the other hand, want to impose a totally new tribal organization, invented out of thin air, on a group that has never constituted—that is, never saw itself as—a single nation, people, or tribe. “Whites” are not, and never have been, a people, in the sense that one speaks of the “Jewish people.”  (more…)

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes: 

A number of the reader comments in the post on free trade struck me as clear-sighted. Take, for example, this one:

 “[T]he U.S. and other Western countries are importing goods from other countries that are cheaper than we can produce not because of any natural comparative advantage, but because those countries do not have the same laws and regulations regarding such things as environmental regulations, workplace health and safety, minimum wage laws and the like. To the extent that such laws and regulations are morally necessary (some but not all cases, in my opinion), we are getting cheap goods at the moral cost of patronizing companies, which treat their workers and environment in ways that we have deemed wrong and would not tolerate at home.” 

The “Free Trade” argument has always seemed to me grossly reductive. It says, in effect: “Look here, we can manufacture a doohickey for x dollars whereas the Laputans can manufacture it for 1/2x dollars; therefore let us stop manufacturing doohickeys so that we may buy them more cheaply from the Laputans.” (more…)

DAVID LEE MUNDY writes:

I wonder how many of the Fukushima 50, those risking their lives at the breached nuclear facility, are women?

Peter S. writes: 

The apparent answer is none of them. (more…)