Because All Cultures Are Equal. Right?
The full horror of the Aztec ‘skull tower’ revealed: Archaeologists say THOUSANDS of human sacrifices had their still-beating hearts cut out before their heads were severed and added to a monument the size of a basketball court SOURCE: DAILY MAIL Aztec human sacrifices were far more widespread and grisly than previously thought, archaeologists have revealed. […]
While Idiots in the U.S. Talk of Civil War and Try to Provoke It
More than 200 people killed during weekend in central Nigeria-state governor SOURCE: AFRICA NEWS More than 200 people were killed last weekend in violence in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the state governor said late on Tuesday. The latest death toll, up from the police’s previous figure of 86 killed, makes the violence one of the […]
Backbone of America Committing Suicide
Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers SOURCE: CBS NEWS “Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago.” That’s how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today. The unequal economy that’s emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care […]
Is ‘Idiocracy’ Becoming a Reality?
US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low: What’s Behind the Decline? SOURCE: LIVESCIENCE The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, about 3.8 million babies […]
Bishop Barron On: Einstein and God
It was revealed a few weeks ago that, toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein wrote a letter in which he dismissed belief in God as superstitious and characterized the stories in the Bible as childish. During a time when atheists have emerged rather aggressively in the popular culture, it was, to say the […]
Chesterton: On Optimism
As the great G.K. Chesterton wrote: “The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person […]
The Statists are Failing; Central Planning is Not Perfect?
Finland’s Welfare State Has a Massive Baby Problem SOURCE: BLOOMBERG The number of newborns has fallen to its lowest level in 148 years By Raine Tiessalo September 18, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT From You know you’ve got a problem when even the best don’t have the solution. Finland, a first-rate place in which to be a mother, […]
Excerpt from: Outpouring of Life
The anonymous author was a Carthusian monk of a French charterhouse who wrote in the 1940s. Meditation: …We know only too well the selfishness that is paramount in the world. The number of those who know how to give themselves (and want to do so) is not legion. This is because our “being” is so […]
Nearly 2,000 Die During Monsoon Season: American Media Quiet – Obsessed With Ratings
SOURCE:VOX Two weeks of flooding have devastated communities across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Mumbai floods August 29, 2017Imtiyaz Shaikh /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images While all eyes have been on the devastation from Hurricane Harvey in Texas, catastrophic floods have also been wreaking havoc more than 8,000 miles away in South Asia. Unusually heavy monsoon rains over […]
John Quincy Adams on Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam: In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, [ Editor’s Note: Mohammed] combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and […]