ALAN writes:

One day at the library, I happened by chance to see a new book about Tammy Wynette.  It caught my eye because I enjoyed some of her songs long years ago.  She made the mistake of trying to balance too many things: Marriage(s), homemaking, and a professional career.  But to some extent she was a traditionalist-minded woman. “Stand By Your Man” was not exactly an ode to feminism. Late in her life, she was not favorably impressed by contemporary music and wondered what had become of the classic, prettier, more restrained country-western music she had heard and grown to love when she was growing up and for some years after.

I picked up the book on the naive expectation that it was about Tammy Wynette. I was wrong. On one level, it may be that.  But on another and more brazen level, it is a screed using her life and career as a pretext for helping to advance revolutionary ideology and vocabulary. (more…)

The Female of the Species
––Rudyard Kipling

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
’Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale –
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man, a bear in most relations – worm and savage otherwise, –
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. (more…)

MICHAEL SMITH was brimming with high expectations when he became a public defender in a large city in the South.

He describes his brutal lesson in reality:

If you tell a black man that the evidence is very harmful to his case, he will blame you. “You ain’t workin’ fo’ me.” “It like you workin’ with da State.” Every public defender hears this. The more you try to explain the evidence to a black man, the angrier he gets. It is my firm belief many blacks are unable to discuss the evidence against them rationally because they cannot view things from the perspective of others. They simply cannot understand how the facts in the case will appear to a jury.

This inability to see things from someone else’s perspective helps explain why there are so many black criminals. They do not understand the pain they are inflicting on others. One of my robbery clients is a good example. He and two co-defendants walked into a small store run by two young women. All three men were wearing masks. They drew handguns and ordered the women into a back room. One man beat a girl with his gun. The second man stood over the second girl while the third man emptied the cash register. All of this was on video. (more…)

  

AMELIA writes:

I have read your blog for many years now and have appreciated your thoughtful posts and comforting wisdom throughout the many different seasons of young motherhood and the homeschooling years. Now that my homeschooling years have come to a close, I am saddened to be surrounded by people pressuring me to go “make something of myself” at every turn. My husband is not interested in me returning to paid employment and appreciates the work I do in our home as well as what I do for our community. I have been running a home economics club for young people for several years now and also support two different charities in our community. Between these efforts, my social life, and my home, I am plenty busy and fulfilled.

How does one turn off the noise of the peanut gallery at this stage of the homemaker’s journey? How does a new empty-nester prepare for this new chapter of mean remarks and advice? It seems mighty different than the unkindness and confused questions I experienced during my baby, toddler, and homeschool years.

Thank you kindly for your advice. (more…)

An "orchestrated 'White rebellion' that was designed to make Whites look like reactionary, barbaric fools who are easily duped by 'fake news.'" Below, police deliberately shepherd "far left" protestors in Liverpool to confront "far right" protestors.    

 TEAM WOMAN is off to a roaring start. Remember, a woman can do no wrong. A vote against her is a vote against every woman who ever lived.  

"At His Transfiguration Christ showed His disciples the splendor of His beauty, to which He will shape and color those who are His." - St. Thomas Aquinas  

"THE Apostle Peter, therefore, being stirred by the revelation of these mysteries, despising things worldly and scorning things earthly, was carried away by a certain excess of mind to the desire of things eternal; and, being filled with rapture at the whole vision, longed to make his abode with Jesus in the place where he was gladdened by the sight of His glory. And so also he says: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us set up here three tents, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. But to this proposal the Lord made no reply, signifying that what he asked was not indeed wicked, but irregular; since the world could not be saved except by Christ's death, and by the Lord's example in this the faithful were called upon to believe, that, although there ought not to be any doubt about the promises of happiness, yet we should understand that, amid the trials of this life, we must ask for power to endure, rather than for glory." --- Sermon of St. Leo, Pope (from the Roman Breviary)  

AT that time, Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow.  And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. And the disciples hearing, fell upon their face, and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them, Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes saw no one but only Jesus. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead. --- Matthew, xvii 1-9  

"PROBLEM, reaction, solution." The goal of the Southport hoax is to demonize "far-right extremists" and implement more intense government surveillance and security measures. Those in power want engineered civil unrest so they can prevent true civil unrest.  

FROM Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson (1787):

 [T]hey should continue with their parents to a certain age, then be brought up, at the public expence, to tillage, arts or sciences, according to their geniusses, till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age, when they should be colonized to such place as the circumstances of the time should render most proper, sending them out with arms, implements of household and of the handicraft arts, seeds, pairs of the useful domestic animals, &c. to declare them a free and independent people, and extend to them our alliance and protection, till they have acquired strength; and to send vessels at the same time to other parts of the world for an equal number of white inhabitants; to induce whom to migrate hither, proper encouragements were to be proposed. It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expence of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.—To these objections, which are political, may be added others, which are physical and moral.

[…] (more…)

"ONE of the worst effects which Adam’s sin produced in us, was its blinding our reason by means of the passions, which darkened the mind. O how miserable is the soul that allows itself to be ruled by any of the passions! Passion is a vapour, a veil, which will not suffer us to see the truth. How can he fly from evil, who knows not what is evil? Our mental obscurity increases in proportion as our sins increase." -- St. Alphonsus de Liguori  

THE suspect in the alleged Southport stabbings is a confirmed actor. From The Daily Mail:

Footage unearthed by MailOnline shows Axel Rudakubana, then aged 11, emerging from the Tardis in David Tennant’s trademark trenchcoat and tie – before urging the nation to help children by getting involved in fundraising.

The clip featuring Rudakubana, filmed in Blackpool in 2018, was deleted earlier today by both the BBC and the Ology child talent agency that represented him. (more…)