Israel's Detractors

There is something grotesque about people living thousands of miles away, in safety and comfort, loftily second-guessing and trying to micro-manage what the Israelis are doing in a matter of life and death.

Thomas Sowell

We Have Reached This Point

Destruction of Family

In America today, to object to sexually immoral activity and lifestyles is, culturally speaking, to engage in evil. Failure to affirm sexual immorality, such as homosexuality or “transgenderism,” as legitimate and wholly appropriate expressions of human sexuality is seen as “hate.”

Making matters even more convoluted was the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling redefining marriage to include homosexual relationships. This fundamental redefining of what constitutes a nuclear family has only fueled social confusion and moral rot. Now, even recognizing the basic binary nature of sex is controversial.

Thomas Gallatin, The Moral Erosion of the Nuclear Family.

Christian Foundations of Our Law

One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. I verily believe that Christianity is necessary to the support of civil society.

Joseph Story

Fools

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Erasmus, 1509

The REAL LGBTQ+++ Agenda

Many Americans have come to see in recent years that the LGBT agenda was never about love and tolerance, but about forcing every imaginable type of perversity and debauchery in our faces.

Even children have not been exempt from this. In fact, a strong argument could be made that they were the ultimate target of that perversity and debauchery.

After the LGBT movement gained cultural acceptance and even dominance, it redoubled its efforts to evangelize children. Paul Lynde’s Uncle Arthur from “Bewitched” might have been a modest early attempt to win innocent youth, but as time passed the movement got more creative and aggressive, eventually booting up events specifically targeting the family.

Josh Manning, Graphic: Pro-Family Org Infiltrates 'All Ages' 'Pride' Event, Captures Sick Things Really Going on Inside

Read the whole article if you have courage enough to see the example. Disgusting is too weak of a word for this.

It’s the People Who Advance Civilization

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.

Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.

Thomas Sowell

College Educated?

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitude.

Thomas Sowell

"Social Problems"

Much of what are called “social problems” consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing.

Thomas Sowell

Do You Consent to Evil?

Consent to evil a little, and a great evil will overwhelm us, till no tongue crying out against it will be heard any more. That of which we should have been master will be the master of us. No shame or remorse will save us then. Therefore consent not to this evil at all.

Alan Paton, cited by Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two: 1933-1951, pg.772

Beware of Indoctrination

When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side, and you will not get me on your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to me already. A people lives forever. What are you? You will pass on. You descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”

Adolf Hitler, 11/6/33, Elbing, East Prussia.

Doesn’t this sound like LEFTISTS and Democrats today? Public schools and colleges have been indoctrinating our children to their side.

Wokeness

Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet  nurturing needs."

William Meijer

Very Important Advice

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

"Pride" Month

What started out decades ago as the statement, “What we do in our bedrooms is our own business,” has now morphed into, “Celebrate the many ways we indoctrinate and transform your children into our own image and devious lifestyle.”

Albin Sadar, Can the ‘Pride’ flag celebrate other ‘deadly sins,’ as well?

The Abnormal Cannot Be Normal

The abnormal is not the normal just because it is prevalent. For example, the mutilation of children is not “gender-affirming care.” Anti-white racism is not “anti-racism.” Illegal migrants are not “undocumented ‘new neighbors.’” A bisected cow in a tank of formaldehyde is not an important work of art.

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

The Lack of Common Sense in Today's Culture

Is it common sense to open the borders of your country and then to spend truckloads of taxpayer dollars to feed, house, and nurture the millions of illegal migrants who have poured in? Is it common sense to sacrifice competence on the altar of so-called diversity? To allow politicians to bankrupt the country by incontinent overspending? That’s the start of a list one could easily enlarge.

In the cultural realm, is it common sense to celebrate art that is indistinguishable from pornography or some other form of psychopathology? Is it common sense to rewrite history in an effort to soothe the wounded feelings of people who crave victimhood? Is it common sense to transform higher education from an institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the highest values of our civilization into a wrecking ball aimed at destroying that civilization?

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

What Is Common Sense?

At the beginning of his Discourse on Method, René Descartes said that common sense was “the most widely distributed thing in the world.” Is it? Much as I admire Descartes, I have to note that he was imperfectly acquainted with the realities of 21st century America. If he were with us today, I am sure he would emend his opinion.

After all, is it common sense to pretend that men can be women? Or to pretend that you do not know what a woman is?

Restoring American Culture

Roger Kimball, Imprimis 2/25, Hillsdale College

There Are Things You Just Can't Pick

How the Ancient World Knew There is a God

A century before Christ, the great Roman writer Cicero said, "When we see something moved by machinery, like an orrery [mechanical model of the planets] or clock or many other such things, we do not doubt that these contrivances are the work of reason; when therefore we behold the whole compass of heaven moving with revolutions of marvelous velocity and ... perfect regularity ... how can we doubt that all this is effected not merely by reason, but by a reason that is transcendent and divine?"

So when Paul wrote the book of Romans, his audience knew as well as we do that the cosmos gives evidence of a mind that is "transcendent and divine."

Cicero concludes, "You see not the Deity," yet "by the contemplation of his works you are led to acknowledge a God."

Nancy Pearcey

How Comes Tyranny

If you demand that a man betray his conscience, you have eliminated the only moral basis for his fidelity to the rule of law, and have destroyed the moral foundation for democracy.

President James Madison