Monday, February 06, 2017

The Small Nation Manifesto by Thomas Naylor

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power. Leopold Kohr Breakdown of… »

Anatomy of a Gunfight

A Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

Not with respect to the question of patriarchy and republicanism, as having women in charge of a police force would be bad, but with respect to diminishing the power of the state and bringing about institutional paralysis. Or would women police chiefs be more likely to escalate to the use of violence?

Peter Hitchens: Which of These PC Plodders Will Be Britain's Next Top Cop?

Meanwhile, in the States: Growing Number of Women Leading Police Departments, like the new chief for Oakland PD.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Saturday, February 04, 2017

Sarah Silverman is Delusional or a Liar

She thinks the military would support her and her ilk?



Opens Next Weeeknd

CWR: Is Liberal Democracy Closer to Communism or Catholicism by Jerry Salyer

Friday, February 03, 2017

Their Finest



It's probably accurate that there some sort of feminism was voiced during the war.

Katie Melua, "The Closest Thing to Crazy"

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Why Saint Thomas Aquinas Opposed Open Borders

Something that needs to be appropriated by modern Roman Catholic social teaching.

The gloss on the passage by the former LC Thomas Williams isn't that good. (He does not include political friendship as an integral part of the common good, and that is perhaps the most significant factor in examining the motives of those who seek to become "citizens" -- how many do so for the sake of economic benefit, or with an anti-white mentality?)

Trump names Neil Gorsuch as Supreme Court nominee

Monday, January 30, 2017

Who is Google honoring today? Fred Korematsu

the doodle - Korematsu Institute

NPR
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SacBee

Because non-citizens from countries on a terrorist watch list are equivalent to American citizens. Or something.

Peter Capaldi Leaving Doctor Who

The damage to the brand has already been done. AICN

Dr. Wilson on Calexit

Calexit: California, Adios!

Scandalous

It includes some prominent Catholic bishops in the USCCB as well. "Christians" oppose helping Christians first

The USCCB is being and will be chastised. When unworthy men are in the episcopate, that is a chastisement.

CWR: NYTimes: Trump creating Christian theocracy; Bishops: Trump against Christian faith

Even the Latin archbishop of San Francisco is compromised.


Know-Nothing Catholics on Muslim Immigration by William Kilpatrick

Sunday, January 29, 2017

John Hurt Passes









Too bad his stint as "the War Doctor" was so short on-screen. Alas he too thought himself to have a responsibility to play the societal conscience, too.

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Les Brigandes



Saturday, January 28, 2017

Tokyo Idols

Screen Anarchy: Sundance 2017: World Premiere Trailer and Poster for TOKYO IDOLS



What are the similarities and differences in South Korea? (China? Taiwan?)

Mass urban society + "beta" inclinations of Asian men + delayed age for marriage --> idol entertainers