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And I am using the expression "bless [their] heart" in both senses that Americans in the Deep South use it! 🤣 See - charlestondaily.net/bless-yo…
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Camille Paglia, essentially, has the last word on the Cornell 7.
Don’t dive into the sea and act surprised when you get wet.
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In the wake of the MeToo movement, a disturbing consensus has emerged that the protections afforded by our criminal justice system to those accused of sexual misconduct are a drag, an outrageous inconvenience to be subverted by relocating the litigation of rape into the realm of social media wherever possible.
@katrosenfield on the 'Cornell 7'
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Léon, les Thénardier : un mariage, un enterrement
Les Thénardier se sont collés au pape Léon comme on se colle à un dernier témoin de moralité, non pour s’en instruire, mais pour qu’il signe, d’un regard, la respectabilité qu’on n’a plus le temps de mériter. Ils n’ont pas prié. Ils se sont placés. C’est déjà une forme de liturgie : celle du cadre.
Le malheur, c’est qu’à côté de lui ils n’étaient même plus contestables : ils étaient petits. Pas petits comme on est humble. Petits comme on est mesuré par une présence qui n’a pas besoin de vous. Lui avançait avec cette simplicité un peu terrible des hommes qui sont toute leur mission. Eux avançaient avec cette application des gens qui savent que la photo durera plus longtemps que leur crédit.
Chaque geste était de trop. On eût dit deux figurants très bien habillés, arrivés en avance à un enterrement dont ils croyaient encore être les mariés. Ensemble, ils formaient ce que le pouvoir produit de plus cruel : un couple encore habité par l’idée qu’il représente quelque chose, alors qu’il ne représente déjà plus que le besoin d’être vu à la bonne place. La justice immanente leur avait envoyé un pape lumineux. C’était presque délicat. On ne les a pas humiliés. On les a seulement laissés se tenir debout dans leur vide obscur.
Le Vatican, sans élever la voix, leur a fermé quelques portes. Pas d’aparté à Notre-Dame. Pas de visite d’État. Un voyage apostolique, c’est-à-dire : vous n’êtes pas le centre. Les Thénardier ont souri. Ils excellent à cela. Le sourire est leur dernier sacrement. Il absout tout, sauf le ridicule, et encore : le ridicule, chez eux, demande l’absolution à la photographie.
Puis vint la messe. Celle qu’on ne ferait pas, au nom de la laïcité. Celle qu’on a faite, au nom de l’agenda. Il y a des revirements qui relèvent de la tactique. Celui-ci relevait de la faim. S’asseoir au premier rang, après avoir fait de la mort une prestation encadrée par la loi, devant un homme qui vient de nommer cette prestation pour ce qu’elle est : on peut appeler cela du dialogue. On peut aussi y voir cette ironie un peu noire des fins de règne, où l’on va chercher l’éternel pour sauver la semaine, et où l’on quitte l’église avec le sentiment d’avoir enfin été vus par Dieu -ou, à défaut, par les caméras, ce qui, dans leur théologie, revient au même.
Ils n’ont pas trahi une foi. Ils n’en avaient pas à trahir. Ils ont seulement révélé le fond de leur tactique : tout convertir en voisinage utile. La soutane, la cathédrale, la bénédiction, la foule, Metz au dernier jour. Tout cela n’était pas un horizon, c’était un décor. Et dans ce décor, les Thénardier n’étaient pas des croyants égarés. Ils étaient des aubergistes qui ont reconnu, trop tard, que le grand voyageur ne logerait pas chez eux. Il a seulement accepté le vin d’honneur. C’est déjà beaucoup.
Le pape est parti. Il a laissé derrière lui ce silence légèrement accablant que font les êtres dont on a voulu se servir. Les Thénardier sont restés sur le tarmac, artificiels, remerciants, déjà seuls. On ne les oubliera pas pour ce qu’ils ont dit. On les retiendra pour cette chose plus rare : avoir réussi, par simple proximité, à paraître encore plus vains qu’ils ne le sont, ce qui en soi est une forme de miracle.
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The video music awards were last night. Congrats to all the winners but this was the best music video of the year and it wasn’t close.
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Nikole Hannah Jones seems to have been caught between a rock and a hard place: to protect her child by putting her in high-performing schools but risk looking like a hypocrite or to live consistently with her ideology, no matter how wrongheaded, and risk damaging consequences, mainly to her daughter. It looks like the mother decided not to take the reputational hit personally, but outsourced her virtue signaling to her daughter, who then subsidized her mother's status among their precious circles by taking the hit herself.
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Thomas Aquinas on the nature of Islam from the beginning:
“The point is clear in the case of Muhammad. He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men.
As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity. He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the contrary, Muhammad said that he was sent in the power of his arms [weapons]—which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants.
What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning. Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Muhammad forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law.
It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his words believe foolishly.”
—Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles I.6
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This is a brutal but an entirely fair and well articulated dysology.
Gloria Steinem—Mother of “Reproductive Freedom”—Dead at 92
Well, now she knows.
In addition to Ms. Magazine (that nobody reads), Gloria Steinem left behind whole generations of abandoned women, fatherless children, and aborted babies.
She was enthusiastically not Christian, but since we are told that has little bearing on salvation anymore, I don’t know whether Father James Martin will eulogize Gloria Steinem for her holiness or not. (While we wait for America magazine’s verdict, let’s ask God to have mercy on her soul.)
Ms. Steinem identified as a pagan who “saw God in all things” and, not surprisingly, was “very spiritual.” The feminist activist regarded religion as “patriarchal,” especially the monotheistic religions she delighted in denigrating.
Even the religious aspects of her Judaism were a bit much for her, which is why she gravitated toward the “more mystical” Kabbalah and the Shechinah – the “female aspect of God.”
The one incontrovertible dogma of Ms. Steinem’s credo was that the women of yesterday--who for a thousand years had ruled the world by rocking the cradle--were a gaggle of losers who knew nothing and contributed even less.
And what about our current traditional Catholic mothers and grandmothers? Well, Ms. Steinem tried to help them “throw off the shackles of yesterday.” Her war on Christian marriage was epic, and it meant that women could finally be liberated from men who’d taken oaths of fidelity to them.
Our grandfathers had promised to uphold their end of a contract with our grandmothers until “death did them part.” It was a model as old as history, and it had worked pretty well for thousands of years across all cultures and religions.
My Irish Catholic mother ended her days surrounded by hundreds of children and grandchildren. She never saw the inside of a nursing home, never stopped loving life, and her relationship with her cherished husband of fifty years meant he didn’t either. Poor simple fool, she just refused to be liberated into letting any man use her without first taking a vow to be accountable in the eyes of God.
My mother loathed Ms. Steinem’s feminist revolution which she believed was based on a lie. "Far from freeing women," she used to argue, "it wants to enslave us like no other revolution in human history. It’s insulting to call it pagan since the pagans never treated their women so poorly!”
Patterning her life on that of the Blessed Mother of Jesus, my mother was too much of a feminist to fall for Ms. Steinem’s misogynist madness.
With 20/20 hindsight, it looks like dear old Mom had a point. Too many women today are in bondage, alone, objectified, used, and abused while their men got going as soon as the going got tough.
Then there was The Pill that Ms. Steinem and her friends had tirelessly promoted as the great equalizer. In the end, it only succeeded in transforming women into the bruised and confused playthings of men who suddenly had no obligation to women beyond that which a domestic relations officer could pry out of them under court order.
In the end, Ms. Steinem’s revolution left “all” the sexes miserable – but especially feminists who today can’t even define what a ‘woman’ is. What is she? Nobody knows. Where have all the women gone? Nobody knows. They/them can’t even dominate the women's restrooms anymore, not even in stadiums where men get to beat the estrogen out of girls on the basketball court.
Well played, Ms. Steinem. May God be more merciful to you than you were to the women you liberated.
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Dolly Parton and James Ingram - The Day I Fall In Love (1993) 🕊️🕊️
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Three Voices, One Old Song, and a Nearly Perfect Moment
In 1976, on a simple stage lit by warm golden lights, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris sat side by side. Dolly held a guitar, her blonde hair glowing under the lights. The three of them began to sing “Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow” — a classic folk song by The Carter Family.
There was no big orchestra. No special effects. Just three voices blending together so naturally that viewers almost forgot they were watching a performance. Dolly led the melody with her clear, pure tone that still carried the breath of the Appalachian mountains. Emmylou Harris added delicate high notes, while Linda Ronstadt brought depth and emotional weight. Together they created a harmony that made the already melancholic song feel both aching and graceful.
The song tells of longing for someone who has passed, and of the wish to rest beneath a weeping willow. In their voices, that old story was no longer just lyrics. It became a quiet whisper about connection, about the deep roots of American country music — music born from the land, from loss, and from simple love.
That moment was special because it showed Dolly Parton was not only the glittering star with big hair and sparkling outfits. Sitting there with a guitar, singing alongside two friends, she appeared as a keeper of tradition. She played with those signature long nails, yet the sound remained steady and true. There was no need for showmanship; talent simply shone on its own.
Years later the three women would record the celebrated album Trio. But this 1976 performance still holds a beauty of its own: the innocence, the mutual respect, and the love for old songs. They did not try to reinvent the piece. They simply let it live again through their voices.
Today, after Dolly Parton has left us, that footage feels even more precious. It reminds viewers of a genuine Dolly, an artist who always knew how to return to her roots. In the harmony of those three voices, one hears not only music, but also humility and reverence for those who came before.
Some performances make audiences applaud for technical skill. Others leave people silent because of pure feeling. This clip belongs to the second kind. Three women sat there, sang an old song, and accidentally left behind a nearly perfect moment — simple, clear, and still echoing.
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“How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair”
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Thomas Sowell explains how the vision of the anointed lets liberal elites manufacture crises in crime and education that were already improving, push untested government solutions, watch problems explode, and blame complexity instead of their policies. (1995)
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This may seem like small ball but you need to grasp what a seismic shift this is
No previous GOP administration would have ever touched Cofnas with a ten foot poll but the Trump admin is offering a full throated defense in the name of free speech
In politics this is a pitch you watch sail by because the political upside of defending Cofnas is basically zero and it could cost you a news cycle, but the Trump admin does it without blinking because it's the right thing to do
You can be frustrated with the foreign policy decisions, but never let anyone lie to you and tell you that there is no difference with Trump in charge
The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.
The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.
Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.
The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The couple, hailed as heroes by republicans for their “pursuit of freedom”, their “fight against British media, racism and Imperialist colonial system”, ultimately chose to send their children to school in UK and return to UK rural life. Even after their return, they still cannot represent the monarchy, cannot reside in royal residences, and are not provided with government security. Their fans claim to have suffered strokes. And yet, a group of royal fans are still complaining. This is absolutely a victory for the monarchy, proving that some people are nothing outside the system, and that the system is the best brand.
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The tragic case of the young Cambridge professor, Jason Arday, has shed new light on the moral vacuity at the heart of Wokeism.
If I can state the matter abstractly, one should never place relative values in the center of one’s ethical concern. Only absolute goods belong in that location.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values, but only, as the medievals would have said, secundum quid and not in se. That means they are worthwhile sometimes and under certain conditions, but not in themselves.
In contrast, love and justice are absolute moral principles, for they are always applicable, no matter the circumstances.
Wokeism relativized justice (rendering to each his due) and love (willing the true good of the other) and absolutized diversity, equity, and inclusion. The result is the moral shipwreck that we have been witnessing the last ten years.
What makes things even sadder is that lots of people have been profiting off of this moral confusion.
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I hope the Prince and Princess of Wales have their restraining orders in place.
Six years. And after everything, back to Britain they come.
I’m going to say exactly what I think, because the irony is breathtaking.
Harry and Meghan left Britain telling the world they wanted freedom, independence and a life away from the royal system.
Then came the Oprah interview. The Netflix series. The podcasts. Spare. Interview after interview. Revelation after revelation. Private family relationships became public entertainment.
Harry publicly discussed his fractured relationship with William, and the Sussexes spent years criticizing the institution they had walked away from. That history isn’t imaginary.
And through all of it, William and Catherine remained.
They didn’t get to pack up and reinvent themselves thousands of miles away. They stayed. They worked. They raised George, Charlotte and Louis under an extraordinary spotlight and carried the responsibilities that come with being the future King and Queen.
And now, after six years of building a new life that was supposedly going to show everyone just how unnecessary the old one was…
Britain is home again.
Sorry, but I find that spectacularly humbling.
Not a triumphant royal return.
Not a restoration to royal duties.
Not a return to a palace.
According to the current reporting, they’re coming back as private citizens, with no return to royal duties and no royal residence.
After all that noise, all those grievances and all those bridges burned, the institution carried on without them.
The monarchy survived. William and Catherine survived. Britain survived.
And apparently California wasn’t the ending after all.
I have no issue whatsoever with Harry rebuilding a relationship with his father. I hope the King gets to enjoy his grandchildren. The children are innocent in all of this and deserve loving relationships with both sides of their family.
But forgiveness does not require collective amnesia.
You don’t spend six years throwing matches at bridges and then stroll back across the ashes expecting everyone to pretend there was never a fire.
They wanted out. They got out.
And now they’re coming back.
If that isn’t one of the greatest ironies of the entire Megxit saga, I don’t know what is.
Sometimes the grass on the other side isn’t greener. Sometimes it’s just farther away from home.
#PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle #PrinceWilliam #PrincessCatherine #RoyalFamily #Megxit #BritishRoyalFamily
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OP-ED: Once Massachusetts hunted witches. Now the witches hunt infants moments from birth. Governor Healey’s new law makes it legal. @KeenanPeachy explains:
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