Saturday, June 27, 2026

A Letter to Boys

 Try not to choose movies that girls dominate boys or put them in "their place".

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

. . . "If a couple of men in your church are going to set things up for the summer bazaar, ask if you can help. Overhear what they say. Learn. You can learn more things from simply being around men as they talk about God and man, the church and the state, money and things that no money can buy, than you will ever learn at our schools, such as they are." . . . 


Dear Boys in school: Do you sometimes feel that school is like a bad dream? I don’t mean all the classes. But if one of your teachers ever seems to suggest that your sex is responsible for all the bad things in the world, or that the only reason why there never has been a woman Shakespeare or a woman Newton or a woman Michelangelo is that they weren’t allowed to be, and that somehow you too are responsible for this state of affairs, I want you to shrug it away. It’s either a chip on the teacher’s shoulder or some silly notion that she’s picked up from her own schooling, as a dog in the woods picks up burrs. Have you ever said to yourself, while you were having a bad dream, that it was only a dream? Say that. Then look out the window, and remember that there’s a fine world of reality out there, with fresh air and a lot of good fun for boys and girls to have.

"I want you instead to take delight in being boys, as you should. It’s true that men have been responsible for the wars among nations. But then it is also true that men have been responsible for there being nations in the first place. If a bridge is blown up, expect a man to have done it, but the only reason why there is a bridge to blow up is that men have built it. The same goes for every building you see, and every road, automobile, train, airplane, and whatever else is made of metal or stone or wood or glass, and as for plastic, if it weren’t for men drilling for oil on land or in the sea, or growing corn on the plains, there wouldn’t be that, either.

"Have fun. Get your heads out of the smartphones and the computers and go out into that real world and do things. God gave you your bodies for action and for changing the world around you. If you are 10 years old, your big sister and your mother may be stronger than you are. But if you are 15, they aren’t. Enjoy that surge of strength. Make it useful for them. Make it useful for yourself, too. But most of all, put it into action. Climb a tree, build a cabin, explore the woods, get under the chassis of an old car, dam up a brook to make a swimming hole, help your father put a new roof on the barn or garage, chop wood for the furnace, learn how to use power tools to make things with — and learn how to use the old tools also, which we still can’t do without, like the hammer and the ax and the shovel. Do things — have fun!" . . .  
. . . "But by all means, stay away from the porn. It’s wrong, and it will hollow out your soul, like a caustic drug. Do you want to be a loser? No?  Then don’t go to the Land of the Internet Losers. Talk to your father if you need to. He’ll understand."...

More...

The socialist revolution will eat the Democratic Party

 Washington Examiner  

"If Democrats were unwilling to sideline illiberal bigots such as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) back then, what makes anyone think they’ll stand up to the socialists now?"

"In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.

"The next mayor of the District of Columbia is likely to be a Marxist. In Los Angeles, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are battling it out for control. New York has already fallen to a champion of Third Worldism.

"And, for the first time in U.S. history, a significant bloc of Congress will openly hate the country it represents. We aren’t talking about anti-Americanism in an abstract or hyperbolic sense. The Zohran Mamdani slate that swept the Democratic Party primaries is explicit in its aim to dismantle the republic.

"Members of Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the police, prisons, and borders and “seize the means of production,” as the future congresswoman from New York's 11th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier, once argued. The co-founder of a group that called for “nothing short of the total collapse” of the “American empire” with the goal to “eradicate America” and “Western civilization,” Avila Chevalier doesn’t deny she’s a communist. And why should she?" . . .

. . . "The establishment has surrendered to the DSA’s hostile takeover on every front. Establishment Democrats such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had the chance to sideline "Squad" members when they first appeared, yet the former speaker eventually coddled them, perched them on important committees, and appeared on magazine covers celebrating their ascendency.

"If Democrats were unwilling to sideline illiberal bigots such as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) back then, what makes anyone think they’ll stand up to the socialists now?

Major Democrats virtually tripped over themselves to endorse Nazi SS tattoo man Graham Platner in Maine, who is a Mamdanite in all ways save the flannel shirt.

"Democrats are about to send Adam Hamawy, a man who volunteered for an al Qaeda front and spent years being friends with “The Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman, to Congress. Other than a gaggle of outsiders such as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), already on the outs with his party, there is barely a hint of pushback. Indeed, there is support." . . .More...

Democrats are in a civil war—and the far left is gaining ground    . . . “The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time,” Trump posted on social media. “It’s easy to be a Communist—All you have to do is say, ‘I’ll give you everything,’ but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it.”

"He added: “The game is on. Enjoy watching!”

"One of the winners in New York this week, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has drawn particular attention—and criticism from centrists—for attending a pro-Palestinian rally the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel. She has faced criticism for calling for an end to all deportations and the abolition of prisons. She said she regrets her history of social-media posts, which included disparaging comments about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the American flag.

"As Democrats look to 2028, they are considering disparate models for leadership. Those on the left said that a populist agenda, championed by such firebrands as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), can generate the kind of excitement and emotion needed to rally voters behind the party." . . .