Affirmative Action for Traditionalist Music

Music is an overlooked part of culture, and traditionalists ought to influence it with affirmative action. Start with how close our ears are to our brains and how early ancient organisms responded to sound. Sound stays with most of us for a lifetime. All you need is a few chords, and you go back decades. … More ...

Constitutional Amendment to Prevent Jihad?

Lawrence Auster at VFR (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/_) wonders whether a Constitutional amendment is necessary to prevent jihadists from being allowed to exercise a supposed right to advocate jihadism. The answer is definitely not. The First Amendment, as interpreted somewhat reasonably by the Supreme Court, bars calls to violence (by even jihadists) in the here and now, which … More ...

The Boss Has No Clothes

“Nobody wins unless everybody wins.” “No justice, no peace.” Bruce Springsteen inanities drilled into grammar school children? Yes. See http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/10/bruce_springsteen_rocks_giants.html and http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics/0/57channels.php

These slogans, among unbetter ones, have appeared on a public grammar-school billboard on a main street one block from New Orleans, Louisiana. No doubt Bruce was not the originator, but he repeated them … More ...

Christine O’Donnell’s Discrimination Suit

Dear Mr. Kalb,

Re: Christine O’Donnell’s Discrimination Suit

She is potentially a traditionalist. Here are some facts based on my years of experience dealing with these infernal complaints. Ninety percent have no basis and are dismissed early. O’Donnell’s lasted four years. Why? Was it dismissed without a settlement? We can’t know the answer to the … More ...

Is Obama an Extreme Abortion Proponet

Here is a discussion transferred from Frank Turek’s site. The issue is whether is Obama is the most extreme proponent of abortion:

People have an instinct for murder, which many try to redefine as choice insofar as abortion is concerned. Let’s examine a real-life fact. Nanking. This is a city in China that the Japanese … More ...

I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

Mr. Kalb,

Be sure to check into Frank Turek’s website: http://www.crossexamined.org/

What bothers me is Frank does not nail down his arguments but gets distracted by obfuscators such as Crowell. I mean “I don’t know” is a belief despite Crowell’s arguments. End the discussion there. I expect you could expose Crowell as a nominalist. All … More ...

Anti-inclusiveness

Being unable to respond to the above topic digitably by Mr. Kalb is par for the digital course. So I am forced to create a “new topic,” not.

Mr. Kalb has laid out, as a professor does, his theories in clear detail. You just are not going to get this kind of down-to-earth intellectualism anywhere … More ...

In Search of a Moderate Islam

Dear Mr. Kalb and Fellow Readers,

The parallels of Islam and National Socialism (NS) are intriguing.

“Its mainstays were the doctrines of racial inequality and of adherence to the leader, or Führer; its constant theme was nationalist expansion.” http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0859882.html Muslims believe non-Muslims are unequal and constantly rail against White “devils.” They adhere to a leader, … More ...

Did the Pope Repudiate His Quotation?

Some think the Pope’s quotation still stands. The Pope’s quotation, the basis for the controversy, does not stand. He said, “These were in fact quotations from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought.” He not only withdrew His quotation, He repudiated it. Whatever is standing is undetectable by the … More ...