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  • The normalisation of savagery

    10/31/2023 7:52:45 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 25 replies
    spiked ^ | 10/31/23 | Brendan O'Neill
    Since the Hamas pogrom of 7 October, there’s been a storm of commentary on how unhinged campus culture in the West has become. Politicians and writers are bewildered that at universities where it’s a ‘microaggression’ to ask someone where they are from, and where you can be subjected to a Salem-like grilling for wearing an offensive Halloween costume, actual genocidal violence doesn’t seem to bother people. The same fresh-faced Maoists who will weep and stomp their feet if you say ‘women don’t have penises’ have collectively shrugged their shoulders over the mass murder of Jewish women and children. Some have...
  • The RFK Jr. Tapes

    04/25/2023 7:57:59 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 17 replies
    Tabletmag.com ^ | 4/24/23 | David Samuels
    I first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 at the door of my ordinary suburban home in the company of a friend from Harvard named Peter Shapiro, who was running for a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly. I was 9 years old, and not particularly thrilled about our family’s recent move from Brooklyn to a street of empty suburban lawns whose nearest point of interest was a candy store a mile or so down a steep hill. The two polite, handsome young men in navy blazers, both in their 20s and...
  • The Barstool Bros’ Split Over Abortion Could Determine the Future of the GOP

    07/23/2022 8:50:22 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 9 replies
    Politico ^ | 7/22/22 | Derek Robertson
    The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade inspired an outpouring of grief, anguish and political opprobrium from feminists and abortion rights supporters. [Including from] Dave Portnoy, the media mogul and Barstool Sports president better known for his viral pizza reviews, unrepentant aggro-masculinity and social media trolling than for pro-choice activism (or, for that matter, critique of originalist legal theory). Last summer, I wrote about how Portnoy’s particular brand of transgressive boorishness served as an inspiration to Republican politicians eager to capitalize on the backlash to newly established progressive social norms around things like gender pronoun usage and diversity, equity...
  • Larry Storch Dead: F Troop Actor Dies at 99

    07/08/2022 1:50:58 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 48 replies
    Variety ^ | 7/8/22 | Pat Saperstein
    Larry Storch, the comedic character actor who also did voiceover work and impressions and was best known for his role as Corporal Randolph Agarn on “F Troop,” has died. He was 99. His family released a statement on his Facebook page, saying, “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news our beloved Larry passed away in his sleep overnight. We are shocked and at a loss for words at the moment. Please remember he loved each and every one of you and wouldn’t want you to cry over his passing. He is reunited with...
  • An Alumnus Story: Going Home, and Finding Woke

    12/17/2021 10:07:39 PM PST · by jocon307 · 7 replies
    National Review ^ | 12/08/2021 | Robert Agostinelli
    Recently, I went home again, to Rochester, N.Y. It had been a while, but, venturing back for family reasons, I took the opportunity to visit my high-school alma mater, Aquinas Institute, from which I graduated in 1972... Long held in high regard locally, Aquinas is a Roman Catholic school founded over a century ago, named after, and based on the teachings of, the learned saint, the “Angelic Doctor.” While a student there, I had the singular good fortune of being mentored by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Famous for his national television show, Life Is Worth Living, the great patriot and...
  • The New York Times’ Jake Silverstein concocts “a new origin story” for the 1619 Project

    12/01/2021 4:50:38 PM PST · by jocon307 · 26 replies
    World Socialist Web Site ^ | 11/24/21 | Tom Mackaman
    On November 9, the New York Times published a new defense of the 1619 Project by Jake Silverstein, editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine (“The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History”). Silverstein’s purpose was to prepare public opinion for the release of a book version of the project titled The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, which was released on November 16. The original magazine edition, masterminded by Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, suffered devastating criticism after its release in August 2019—criticism that began with the WSWS. Silverstein has staked his reputation on the 1619 Project....
  • TREY MANCINI HITS ONE FOR MO

    07/29/2021 5:21:27 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 8 replies
    Powerline ^ | 7/29/21 | Paul Mirengoff
    As a kid I used to read stories about how Babe Ruth (or was it Ted Williams, maybe both) visited a terminally ill child, promised to hit a home run in his honor in the next game, and delivered. Were these stories true? I don’t know, but I enjoyed them. Something close to this scenario occurred in Baltimore last night. Trey Mancini plays first base for the Orioles. ... Mancini missed all of last season. He was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer and underwent surgery and lengthy recovery/rehabilitation. During the rehabilitation process, he got to know Mo Gaba, a terminally...
  • The boy Rae Carruth couldn’t kill is now a young man graduating from NC high school

    05/27/2021 11:42:26 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 6 replies
    ...The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school. Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall and holding onto the arm of his favorite...
  • Roy Den Hollander may have been hunting foes after cancer diagnosis (suspect in Judge Salas attack now also suspect in Marc Angelucci murder)

    07/21/2020 3:13:38 AM PDT · by jocon307 · 35 replies
    New York Post ^ | 07/20/20 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Tamar Lapin
    The men’s rights lawyer suspected of gunning down the son of a federal judge may have been hunting down enemies after being diagnosed with cancer — and may be linked to the July 11 California slaying of another attorney. Roy Den Hollander — who allegedly stormed the North Brunswick, NJ, home of federal Judge Esther Salas — was found dead from an apparent suicide early Monday in Sullivan County, about two hours drive from the judge’s home....... Authorities are also investigating a possible link to the shooting of attorney Marc Angelucci, who was shot at his California home earlier this...
  • Kindness Yoga called out: Weakened by coronavirus, 9 studios close after Instagram campaign exposes rift over race

    07/07/2020 8:10:01 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 58 replies
    The Colorado Sun (via Instapundit) ^ | 06/29/20 | Jennifer Brown
    Patrick Harrington is sitting on a rock high on a hilltop...his head in his hands. The owner of Kindness Yoga, and one of the most well-known yogis in Denver, is struggling to piece together the words to explain what happened — in the span of a week — to his once-stellar reputation and his 19-year-old business. He is stunned, though remorseful. He is eager to speak up, yet on edge for fear of saying anything that could make all of this any worse. Harrington, a straight, white guy who expanded Kindness to nine studios and 160 employees across metro Denver,...
  • Exposing the Hoax

    05/30/2020 9:06:58 AM PDT · by jocon307 · 21 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 05/28/20 | Andrew C. McCarthy
    No need to build to a crescendo — let’s just say it: The Trump-Russia investigation was a politically driven fraud from beginning to end. It was opened on false pretenses, sustained by investigative abuses, and will undoubtedly end in recriminatory angst, which is what happens when the kind of accountability the victims demand does not, indeed cannot, come to pass. Worst of all is the damage wrought, though even that isn’t fully understood. Obama administration officials exploited the awesome national security powers that we trust our government to use for counterintelligence operations that safeguard America from jihadists and other foreign...
  • Teens Charged with Murder of Health Care Worker who lost Dad to Coronavirus

    05/04/2020 11:18:04 AM PDT · by jocon307 · 28 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 4, 2020 | Amanda Woods
    Two teens have been charged with the unprovoked, fatal stabbing of a British health worker who was ambushed just days after his father died of coronavirus complications, according to a new report. David Gomoh, 24...who worked Barts Health NHS trust, was targeted in a random attack...according to initial reports. Muhammad Jalloh, 18 and a 16-year-old boy who was not identified because of his age were charged with murder Sunday, The Guardian reported.
  • An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project

    11/30/2019 5:20:16 PM PST · by jocon307 · 38 replies
    World Socialist Website (wsws.org) ^ | 11/14/19 | Tom Mackaman
    Q. What was your initial reaction to the 1619 Project? A. Well, I didn’t know anything about it until I got my Sunday paper, with the magazine section entirely devoted to the 1619 Project. Because this is a subject I’ve long been interested in I sat down and started to read some of the essays. I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history. And slavery in...
  • America's Delusional Elite is Done

    10/26/2019 10:42:14 AM PDT · by jocon307 · 35 replies
    The American Mind ^ | 10/22/19 | Bronze Age Pervert
    I want to thank Claremont for the opportunity to reply to Michael Anton’s review of my book Bronze Age Mindset. Since at least 2015—but in fact from before Trump ever came along—there has been a tremendous intellectual disturbance or ferment online...that has escaped the notice or surveillance of the mainstream media, the literary and pundit-political establishment, and all those who imagine themselves gatekeepers of public taste and opinion. Trump’s campaign beginning in 2015 brought this countercultural phenomenon to view of the authorities, who have been struggling to understand it and contain it ever since. What are the “crazy Pepe frog...
  • Request for recommendations for home Sunday School lessons

    09/24/2019 6:57:16 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 67 replies
    Myself | 09/24/19 | jocon307
    I'm looking to find a syllabus that I could use to do Sunday School via teleconference with my grandson(s). File under: 21st Century Headlines. I have 2 grandsons, the older one is almost 7, so I'd be starting with him. The little one is only 2, so maybe just get him to do an art project or something for now. I'd be willing to spend some money to get a quality product I googled this and there were SO MANY ads that came up! Of course that made me happy, but I feel a little overwhelmed. So I figured I'd...
  • The Red Decade, Redux

    06/23/2019 8:26:57 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 51 replies
    City Journal ^ | Spring 2019 | Harry Stein
    It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941. That in The Red Decade author Eugene Lyons was, in fact, describing the Communist-dominated American Left of the Depression-wracked 1930s and 1940s makes his observations even more meaningful, for it is sobering to be confronted with how little has been gained by hard experience. The celebration of feelings over reason? The certainty of moral virtue? The disdain for tradition and the revising of history for ideological ends? The embrace of the latest definition of correct thought? Lyons was one of...
  • FORMER KEY MUELLER WITNESS GEORGE NADER, ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES

    06/03/2019 9:39:58 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 42 replies
    CNN via Instapundit ^ | 06/03/19 | Adam Levine, Marshall Cohen, Eric Orden
    George Aref Nader, who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, was arrested on child pornography charges Monday in New York, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Nader was arrested upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport for "transporting visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct." He previously pleaded guilty to the same charge in 1991, the Justice Department said. If convicted, he faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years.
  • By Banishing the Work of Great Artists We Are Punishing Everyone

    01/20/2019 3:13:37 PM PST · by jocon307 · 12 replies
    I have a new fear. And this one’s a doozy. Having weathered more than one social-­media s- -t storm, I’m one column away from the round of mob opprobrium that sinks my career for good. A single unacceptable sentiment, a word usage misconstrued, a sentence taken out of context suffices these days to implode a reputation decades in the making and to trigger ­McCarthyite blacklisting. But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review...
  • The 2018 Election-Night Scorecard

    10/18/2018 8:12:51 PM PDT · by jocon307 · 15 replies
    Election Day is just under three weeks away, and the contours of the political landscape are growing clearer. Democrats are poised to make major gains in the suburbs, putting them in commanding position to retake the House majority. The biggest unknown is whether Democrats will ride a huge anti-Trump tidal wave, or whether late Republican engagement can limit their losses. In the Senate, the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation nationalized the election in the red-state battlegrounds, significantly boosting the fortunes of several GOP challengers. Last month, Democrats looked like they could cut into the GOP’s razor-thin 51-49 majority...
  • This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! (Obligatory - needs to be posted here.)

    11/29/2015 2:19:57 PM PST · by jocon307 · 11 replies
    This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt "victimized" by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable. I'm not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims! Anyone who dares challenge them...