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Born Out of Due Time / Feature / Fleming

8 Nov, 2018

Born Out of Due Time, by Ched P. Rayson, I: The Think Tank Murders, Chapter Thirteen

Listen, Smith.  Cut the crap.  I heard some things.  You bin talkin to Mario and crazy Cheech, ’n so?  They’re nothin but trouble.  For Mr. Wright’s sake and the folks over at Veritas, I’m gonna pretend you weren’t assin aroun with me.  They’re doing important work there, it could put this town on the map. We don’t need a smart-mouthed stranger comin in to mess things up.  Capish?

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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

7 Nov, 2018

Reaching the Boiling Point

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The change-over in the House was predicted by pundits from the day of Donald Trump’s election and therefore means very little.  Nonetheless, it does show that the American electorate–it is hardly possible to speak of Americans as “a people”–is not only divided by class and region and race but even segments that supported Trump two years ago failed him.  A cynic might say it is because America’s blue-collar class and Middle Americans in general are fat, stupid, and cowardly, and cynics are generally right.

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Fleming / Free Content

6 Nov, 2018

Religio Philologi: The Gentile Church, B:

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Ignatius warned against one of the perennial temptations—to impose Jewish customs on the Church: “It is absurd to profess Christ Jesus, and to Judaize.  For Christianity did not embrace Judaism, but Judaism Christianity, that so every tongue which believeth might be gathered together to God.” [Magnesians 10] Ignatius also warned against the poison of heretics who denied the reality of Christ’s passion. [Trallians 11]

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Fleming / Free Content

3 Nov, 2018

One Flesh in Law. POB II, Chapter 4: Husbands and Wives, B

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In the Anglo-American tradition of Common Law, the status of wives was defined by the principle of coverture, which meant that the wife’s legal identity was merged with that of her husband.   When Hamlet is taken to task for addressing his stepfather as “mother,” he replies: “Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother.”  As Blackstone observes: “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law…the very legal being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated.” 

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Feature / Fleming / POB II

1 Nov, 2018

Properties of Blood, Vol. II, Chapter III: “The Law’s A Ass.”

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Feminists, looking back at the traditional sex roles of 19th and 20th century Europe and the Americas, have often written sneeringly of “the patriarchy,” as if the insertion of the definite article confers an academic anathema upon the word.  Anti-feminists have responded by explicitly defending patriarchy or by discussing male dominance in terms of the rigid hierarchy of baboons.  But human social life has little in common with that of the boorish baboon, and “patriarchy,” as the word suggests, refers properly not to the virtually universal human tendency toward male dominance but to societies in which the fathers and senior males rule over the family and tribal structure with sovereign authority.   

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Fleming / Free Content

31 Oct, 2018

Religio Philologi, The Gentile Church, A

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Building The Gentile Church The early Church faced many grave crises and challenges, many of which can be summed up in one question: What kind of Church was it to be?    This question was first posed as a set of alternatives:  Was it  to be a Judeo-Christian Church limited to Jews, including Gentile converts to Judaism, or a Christian Church liberated from most of the peculiarities of Jewish law and custom?  But a second part of this question was whether this Church was to be a sect alienated from everyday life, like the Essenes, or an institution that existed in...

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Fleming / Properties of Blood

31 Oct, 2018

Properties of Blood, II: 0, Part C. The Indestructible Family

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The family is universal, an inevitable institution created out of our very nature.  Governments did not invent it, and most, if not all state interventions into the family are destructive.  This is clear, not just from the policies that undermine family autonomy–compulsory schooling, laws on delinquency and child abuse, no-fault divorce–but even more from tax policies that confiscate (in my own case) over half the family’s household income to waste on pernicious follies like orbiting Defense systems and the subsidies for indolence, crime, and illegitimacy which in polite usage are called Welfare

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Feature / Fleming

30 Oct, 2018

Born Out of Due Time, by Ched P. Rayson, Chapter Twelve

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There are people in this town who’d like to see Mac Ross out of a job so they could get their hands on whatever they think he has got going.  They could have hired you.  Who knows?  Maybe you only meant to scare them so that you could gain their confidence by playing detective.  How the hell do I know what goes on in someone like you—a loner without friends or visible means of support?  I already have a report on my desk that you beat up a teenager in a men’s room, while you were attacking a teenage girl.”

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Fleming / Free Content

24 Oct, 2018

Trump and the Invasion

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This is the basic fact of American life that conservatives refuse to understand.  The American ruling elite and the poor chumps who emulate them hate everything this country ever was.  For 40 years high school history teachers have regaled their classes with attacks on white men who enslaved negroes, oppressed women, massacred Indians, and insulted Jews.