Sultan Knish: Who Can Count the Dust of Jacob

“The battles today are new, but they are also very old. The weapons are new, but the struggle is the same. Who will remain and who will be swept away. Some 3,000 years ago, Judge Jephthah and the King of Ammon were exchanging messages not too different from today’s diplomatic communiques. The King of Ammon demanded land for peace and the Judge laid out Israel’s case in a message that he knew the enemy would hardly trouble to read before going to war.”

Source: Sultan Knish: Who Can Count the Dust of Jacob

The misogyny behind Obama’s Title IX order re trans people in public schools — by guest blogger Lulu

“Compassion is in order for anyone who suffers from some kind of body dysmorphic disorder. Still, we don’t treat an anorexic who thinks she is fat with the assurance that she is right, and then help her to lose more weight:”

Source: The misogyny behind Obama’s Title IX order re trans people in public schools — by guest blogger Lulu

[MEME] Obama’s Title IX edict turns real life into a bad joke

“But here’s my historic truism: The cultures that thrive are the ones that centralize traditional gender norms, and marginalize deviations from those norms. Healthy cultures (as in “not ISIS,) can refrain from persecuting people whose sexuality exists on the margins, but they keep their cultural focus on heterosexual family units. Unhealthy or dying cultures, whether Rome at the end of its days, the Weimar Republic at the end of its days, or the utterly corrupt Ottoman court on its long, sick slide, are the ones that deliberately celebrate deviancy and marginalize the heterosexual family model.”

Source: [MEME] Obama’s Title IX edict turns real life into a bad joke

Diversity Sucks

“It’s the fundamental defect of all egalitarian ideologies. The diversity advocates assume that all people are the same, when they are clearly not the same. Thousands of generations of evolution have hard wired humans to seek out those who are most like them. Trust is highest with our kin. Social structure like churches, and civic communities are built on trust. Throw a bunch of strangers from different tribes together and they are not going to build a community.”

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