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None Dare Call It Ethnic Cleansing
“For Israel, the endgame has always been ethnic cleansing, a comprehensive erasure of the native population,” Mike Whitney at The Unz Review duly notes — King Bibi’s Land Grab. Continue reading
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Academia Cannot Define Its “Bedrock Value”
“What does it mean?” Nicolas Langlitz at The Chronicle of Higher Education asks — How ‘Diversity’ Became the Master Concept of Our Age. Continue reading
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What Al Gore’s Internet Hath Wrought
The Independent reports — Blinken blames TikTok and social media for disrupting Israel’s narrative of war in Gaza. Continue reading
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Another Huge Biden Lie Exposed
Snopes call this “false” — Fact Check: Biden Told Story About Being Arrested as a Kid While Standing with Black Family as People Protested Desegregation. Here’s What We Found. Continue reading
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Hildegard of Bingen’s Caritas Abundant in Omnia, De Spiritu Sancto, O Virtus Sapentiae, & O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti Performed by St. Stanislav Girls’ Choir of the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium, Directed by Helena Fojkar Zupančič
The second of the above hymns by “the esteemed Doctor of the Church… “features a rarely heard medieval instrument called the hurdy-gurdy — as fun to play as it is to say,” J-P Mauro at Aleteia writes — A hymn from St. Hildegard with real medieval instruments. Continue reading
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Hippie Apes Have Their Manson Moment
“Males engage in more acts of aggression than chimps,” we read of this species who “live in matriarchal societies [and] engage in recreational sex,” in this EurekaAlert! Science News Releases report — Bonobos aren’t as peace-loving as we thought. Continue reading
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William Harris’s Bring Us, O Lord God Sung by Tenebrae, Directed by Nigel Short
This “stunning anthem for double choir was published in 1959… is a staple of Anglican church music repertoire.” Bring us, o Lord God, At our last awakening Into the house and gate of Heaven, To enter into that gate and dwell in that house, Where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, But one equal… Continue reading
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Jewish Terrorist Attack
“Hundreds of armed Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to several homes and cars in one of the largest attacks by settlers this year,” CNN reports — Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze. Continue reading
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U.S. State “Religion” Attacked
Meriting national coverage, as this USA Today report suggests — A satanic temple in flames: The hunt is on for suspect who threw a pipe bomb in Salem. Meanwhile, the hunt does not seem to be on for the suspects in most of these crimes reported on by CatholicVote, which went largely unnoticed by régime… Continue reading
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Globalists Hate Citizenship
“For global elites, countries are merely exotic names for trade zones and labor camps, and citizenship has about as much ethical or emotional significance as a gym membership,” Michael Lind at Tablet Magazine writes — The War on Citizenship. Continue reading
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Trump to Replace Guy Fawkes Day
LifeSite reports — Trump says November 5 will be ‘Christian Visibility Day’ after Biden’s transgender declaration. Continue reading
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Author of Chaos on Our Societal Decline
“We really have reached a point in our societal decline where the wheels are coming off right in front of our eyes,” Michael Snyder at The Most Important News observes — What Will Happen When They Give the Green Light to Millions of Radicals to Cause Widespread Chaos All Over America? Continue reading
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Leftoid Critics Pan Cabrini Audience
At the time of posting, the Rotten Tomatoes lists Cabrini as the top-rated film now showing, with a thumbs-up rating of 97% from the audience and 90% from critics. Some among the latter, however, give thumbs down to former, because, well, they are such better people than you or me. Comparing the film to last… Continue reading
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Livy on Our Southern Border
“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies,” said the Roman historian, quoted by Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness, who suggests, “America is nearing such an impasse” — American Paralysis and Decline. One example of several: We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7 million illegal… Continue reading
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“Expert” Class Collapse
Rod Thomson at PJ Media reports “that the dangerously high influence of ‘experts’ on average Americans’ thinking is collapsing” and “that Americans are turning away from the propaganda poison of the anti-American ‘expert’ class and relying more on their own good senses” — Average Americans Are Snuffing Out ‘Expert’ Gaslighters. Continue reading
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America’s Bishop Speaks
LifeSite reports — Bishop Strickland champions sanctity of life, turning America into ‘one nation under God’ at CPAC. Continue reading
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The Honorable Tulsi Gabbard, Reactionary Radical
Two-thousand six’s Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front Porch Anarchists by Bill Kauffman comes to mind with this hit-piece from The Daily Beast attacking the former “rising star in the Democratic Party…. whose embrace of America First-style foreign policy and ‘anti-woke’ politics have defined her rightward drift” — Tulsi Takes MAGA… Continue reading
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States
“[T]he Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men… In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners.” — Henry Adams, self-described “conservative Christian anarchist,” a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him.”
Weltanschauung
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” — G.K. Chesterton
“To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself.” — Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood “the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.”
“The Gospel revelation alone has permitted us to succeed in reaching a coherent interpretation of myth and ritual and of human culture in its entirety…. The resurrection of Christ crowns and finishes both the subversion and the unmasking of mythology, of archaic ritual, of everything that insures the foundation and perpetuation of human cultures. The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need to understand their moral responsibility with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and to all the false religions.” — René Girard in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Politics
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“In pre-imperial America, conservatives objected to war and empire out of jealous regard for personal liberties, a balanced budget, the free enterprise system, and federalism. These concerns came together under the umbrella of the badly misunderstood America First Committee, the largest popular antiwar organization in U.S. history. The AFC was formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of a second European war that many Americans feared would be a repeat of the first. Numbering eight hundred thousand members who ranged from populist to patrician, from Main Street Republican to prairie socialist, America First embodied and acted upon George Washington’s Farewell Address counsel to pursue a foreign policy of neutrality.” ─ Bill Kauffman in Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
“Libertarian isolationism draws its adherents from both the left and the right. According to the libertarian isolationist interpretation of history, the U.S. changed from a decentralized republic into a militarized, authoritarian empire in the late 19th century, when the Spanish-American War made the U.S. a colonial power and trusts and cartels took over the economy. Every president since McKinley, they believe, has been a tool of a self-aggrandizing crony capitalist oligarchy, which exaggerated the threats of Imperial and Nazi Germany and Japan and the Soviet Union and communist China and now of Islamist terrorism in order to regiment American society and divert resources to the bloated ‘military-industrial complex.’ If the libertarian isolationists had their way, the U.S. would abandon foreign alliances, dismantle most of its military, and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesses and small farms.” ─ Michael Lind in The five worldviews that define American politics
Economics
“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke
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