Why Light a Candle When You Can Curse the Darkness?
The country is lost and the civilization is dead, but Christians and moral non-believers still have to accept the obligation to do no harm and to uphold what decent order there is.
Yearly Archive: 2020
Archbishop Viganò exposes the Deep Church
just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God.
Thug Lives Matter!
If Leftists really cared about Black lives, thye’d be out protesting the thugs who are far more likely than the cops to kill members of their own race.
Unmasking Lincoln, Part Three: Christophobe, Bigot, and Capitalist Stooge
Lincoln’s admirers have said that he was motivated by a commitment to equality and a respect for African American slaves. The unpalatable truth is that Lincoln’s racial attitudes are closer to those of the KKK than to those of the NAACP. As early as 1837 Lincoln argued that “The Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states.” His Emancipation Proclamation was a strictly political act designed to appeal to European liberals. In fact, it only applied to slaves outside Lincoln’s jurisdiction, not to slaves held in...
Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Classicists
The Society for Classical Studies condemns the relentless horror of police brutality and murder of black men, women, and children, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and Rodney King, to name just a few of the victims.
May–the Forgotten Month
Duke of Wellington, Robert Browning, Edward Gibbon, Justinian the Great, Meredith Wilson, Pietro Bembo, Alexander Pope, Wild Bill Hickock, Patrick Henry, Benny Goodman
Wednesday’s Child: Signs of the Times
Omens are plentiful these days. As reported here a year ago, the Oak of Mamre, in whose shadow Abraham invited the angels to rest in Genesis, is all dried up. Now a red calf born in Jerusalem has “undergone extensive examination by rabbinical experts” who have concluded that it is indeed the Red Heifer of biblical prophecy….
Memorial Day: To Keep or Discard?
In this episode, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day. Dr. Fleming first explains his opposition in general to these sorts of government sponsored fake holy-days, then specifically why he opposes Memorial Day like most federal holidays.
Off the Shelf: The Great Gatsby
In this episode of Off the Shelf, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss what is often pushed onto today’s high schoolers as a candidate for “The Great American Novel.” They start the discussion by examining whether there is such a thing as “the” Great American Novel and then delve a bit deeper into a book that pleasantly surprised both of them on what was a third or fourth read.
Mark Levin, a True Conservative
What, it can’t be! Mark Levin having something nice to say about Confederate war heroes? Not at all. What a relief, when he explained that the Democratic Party was the party of evil, the party of slavery, and thank the almighty for the Union heroes who crushed the Southern Democrats, whose children would go on to join the clan, impose Jim Crow, and Lynch completely innocent black men.
