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One of my favorite arrangements of Greensleeves. So hauntingly beautiful.

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Andrew Peterson - “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”

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Andrew Peterson - Behold the Lamb of God 10th Anniversary 2-disc Set - Amazon.com Music

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By the way, to the person who sent the question on transgenderism, I neglected to say that the subject of gender roles is indeed  a devastating problem for that movement; I agree with you. We have discussed it here before. Liberals have argued for decades that there are no non-physiological characteristics that define the sexes, and that all such classifications are arbitrarily constituted and worthless. All there is, is individual preference. So when you assess someone to determine whether they are actually “transgendered” what are you doing? You are apparently attempting to determine whether the person earnestly identifies with one lingustic term that signifies nothing in particular, rather than with another lingustic term that signifies nothing in particular.

More accurately what the  traditional liberal position does is undermine any  professed right to deprive the labels “man” and “woman” of their status as sex markers.

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Donald Trump: Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

Submitted by Tyler Snodgrass.

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George Owell: Animal Farm

Reader Submission: Title by Tyler Snodgrass.

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Homer’s Odyssey

Submitted by Ken Schultz.

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Per Webster dictionary, the definition of a “Living Wage” is “a wage sufficient to provide the necessities and comforts essential to an acceptable standard of living.” [a]  But the proposed “Equal Pay Act,” requires that people in the same workplace “be given equal pay for equal work.” [b] These two standards, while simultaneously being adopted by leftists, contradict one another quite easily. After all, all one needs to warrant a higher living wage is a larger household budget, which can easily arise if one individual chooses to have a large family and a stay-at-home spouse. Does that mean said individual should NOT be paid equally to his/her counterparts? [a] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20wage [b] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/equalcompensation.cfm

[redbloodedamerica]

There are probably an endless amount of possibilities that contradict the notion of a living wage because individuals all inherently live differently.  It’s all giant guesstimates using aggregate and averaged macro data.

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“The division of blame for the ugliness of these [judicial appointment] fights is not equal. Yes there’s hypocrisy on all sides of the aisle as the tables spin around and around. But philosophically this is a world liberals created. They have invested in the courts power the framers never intended. Their doctrine of the living Constitution has given, in theory, an open-ended warrant for courts to do whatever they want. People lament the rush of money into politics, but that money is made necessary by a government that has evermore control over the economy and peoples’ lives. Similarly, when we turned justices into monarchs, we increased the incentives for people to care much more than they should. If Scalia’s interpretation of the Constitution held sway in the land, the Court and the government would have much less power over our lives. And that, more than anything else, explains why the left hated him so much.”

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Guilty.

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The first thing Snape asks Harry is “Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’ and wormwood means ‘absence’ and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow. If you combined that, it meant ‘I bitterly regret Lily’s death’.

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Despite the utopian rhetoric of the language of “progress” as it relates to sexuality and gender and family, can we really pretend that the culture around us is an increasingly safe place for women or for their children? Despite the promise of women’s empowerment, the Sexual Revolution has given us the reverse. Is it really an advance for women that the average adolescent male has seen a kaleidoscope of images of women sexually exploited and humiliated in pornography? Is it really empowerment to have more and more women economically at the mercy of men who leave them and their children, with no legal recourse? The adolescent girl facing the pressure to perform sex acts on her boyfriend, or else lose him, what is this but the brutal patriarchy of a Bronze Age warlord? All of these things empower men to pursue a Darwinian fantasy of the predatory alpha-male in search of nothing but power, prestige, and the next orgasm. That’s not exactly a revolution. (171–72)

Russell Moore