Who Could Have Predicted

Who Could Have Predicted

... that importing Latin American congregants instead of catechizing and evangelizing at home would blow up in American bishops' faces? Peter’s Pence, the annual collection advertised by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as raising money for the charitable works of the pope, is the subject of a class-action lawsuit…
February 19, 202018 Comments
CLs and FSWs

CLs and FSWs

Art by Chris Emerson The great Ethan Ralph takes to his venerable blog once more to decry YouTube's censoring of rising Paleocon star Nick J. Fuentes. The banning of Nick Fuentes from YouTube is generating a great deal of discussion across the broader internet about the future of free speech online and…
February 18, 202027 Comments
Candidate Y

Candidate Y

The confusion among the lovable Gen X bug men over at the Z Blog as to Mayor Pete Buttigieg's generation is typical of blind men groping the tame elephant that is Gen Y. Pete Buttigieg is the millennial candidate in every way. Most likely his support came from his age…
February 13, 202010 Comments
GOP Delenda Est

GOP Delenda Est

We already knew that Conservatives couldn't conserve the little girls' room. Now, the South Dakota GOP proves they can't even conserve little boys, full stop. Legislation aimed at stopping South Dakota physicians from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16 failed to get enough support…
February 11, 20206 Comments
Finding Solutions

Finding Solutions

Yesterday's post sounding the alarm on the student debt crisis caused quite a stir. It was encouraging to see that the overwhelming majority of responses were positive or at least cautiously sympathetic. As a sample of public opinion, this blog's readers track with polls of voters on the issue of…
February 3, 202046 Comments
The Mammon Mob

The Mammon Mob

This blog has covered the Death Cult and its attendant Pop Cult in some detail. Recent interactions on social media surrounding the renewed public interest in student debt forgiveness have made me aware of a third heretical offshoot vying against Christianity for the West's soul: the cult of Mammon. And…
January 31, 202061 Comments
Tea Party Tactics

Tea Party Tactics

The Virginia gun rally has come and gone. Blessedly, my fears of a potential bloodbath went unrealized. Our rulers were hoping for Charlottesville, and instead they got the Joker opening. Most commentators ascribe the event's relative uneventfulness to the sheer number of protesters who showed up. Accounts vary, but we know…
January 21, 202013 Comments
The Kill Box

The Kill Box

Everybody remembers the disastrous Charlottesville rally from back in 2017. Not everybody remembers it the same way. Ask most people, and they'll tell you how a bunch of neo-nazi troublemakers descended on the town and started a riot that ended up getting innocent people killed. The Left loves this narrative,…
January 16, 202014 Comments
Boromir Did Nothing Wrong

Boromir Did Nothing Wrong

Conservatives are fond of invoking the Ring of Power from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a symbol of government power. It's easy to see the attraction that metaphor holds for them. Having raised individual liberty and limited government to cardinal virtues, a talisman of ultimate control fits their image…
January 13, 202022 Comments
Supervillainy

Supervillainy

Ask most people their opinion of pre-democratic societies, and aside from a few D&D nerds, most will decry the monarchies and aristocracies of yore as tyrannical nightmares. The king and his barons--possibly with some oversight from the Church--made all the important policy decisions, and the common man got no vote.…
December 30, 201925 Comments