Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Birth of British Music - Part 4 - Mendelssohn, The Prophet
In the final program, Charles Hazlewood looks at Mendelssohn, whose music embodies
the sound of the Victorian age. Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer
Night's Dream captured the Victorians' fondness for fairy stories, and
he pioneered the use of a new conductor's tool - the baton. Hazlewood's
journey includes a trip to Birmingham Town Hall, where a massed choir
performs extracts from Mendelssohn's iconic work Elijah.
Friday, December 14, 2012
America’s Growing Government Class
From The Center for Vision & Values
By Paul G. Kengor
The latest unemployment figures are again depressing, but not for the usual reasons. They provide further confirmation of Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of America, specifically through his creation of a growing government class.
The numbers show a massive increase in government jobs created over the last five months—621,000, to be exact, dwarfing private-sector job growth. Those new government jobs account for a staggering 73 percent of overall job growth. In all, 21 million citizens now work for government, out of 143 million employed in America, or one in seven Americans.
The numbers show a massive increase in government jobs created over the last five months—621,000, to be exact, dwarfing private-sector job growth. Those new government jobs account for a staggering 73 percent of overall job growth. In all, 21 million citizens now work for government, out of 143 million employed in America, or one in seven Americans.
Obama Moving To Criminalize Criticism Of Islam
From The Western Center for JournalismBy Chris ZaneThe whole “conspiracy theory” of the Obama administration being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, purging government documents critical of Islam, and seeking to criminalize the criticism of Islam is just that—a conspiracy theory—isn’t it?
Sadly, it isn’t.
If you simply pull back the curtain and look at what Obama has been doing in plain sight—inviting groups convicted of terrorism into the White House, having Muslim Brotherhood members within the State Department, purging training materials of anything critical of Islam–you would find that this whole “conspiracy theory” goes by another term: the truth.
How America got to this point and whether we can return to that Shining City on a Hill instead of on our way to the trash heap of history remains to be seen.
I have a feeling the American people, as they have done in the past, will rise up and take back this country…
The Twelve Days of Christmas . . . Haven't Started Yet!
From About.com
By Scott P. Richert
Perhaps it's been going on my entire life, but I first noticed the
phenomenon a few years ago. Starting on December 13 or 14, depending on
how mathematically/calendrically challenged the particular blogger or
business is, the countdown to Christmas begins: "On the First Day of
Christmas [we put this on sale | I recapped the top stories of January | etc.]."
Except, of course, that December 13 is the Feast of Saint Lucy and December 14 is the Feast of Saint John of the Cross, and neither day is the "First Day of Christmas," because they both fall in Advent.
The Fall of the House of Labor
By Patrick J. Buchanan
In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor.
Knowland’s plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland’s career was over, and the Republicans were decimated nationally for backing right-to-work.
Badly burned, the party for years ran away from the issue.
Knowland’s plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland’s career was over, and the Republicans were decimated nationally for backing right-to-work.
Badly burned, the party for years ran away from the issue.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
A Traditionalist Avant-Garde
We love The Economist almost as much as we love to see the secular media confounded by all those zealous, young, counter-cultural Catholics. They just can't figure it out!
It’s trendy to be a traditionalist in the Catholic church
From The Economist
Smells and bells galore
SINCE the Second Vatican Council in 1962, the Roman Catholic church has striven to adapt to the modern world. But in the West—where many hoped a contemporary message would go down best—believers have left in droves. Sunday mass attendance in England and Wales has fallen by half from the 1.8m recorded in 1960; the average age of parishioners has risen from 37 in 1980 to 52 now. In America attendance has declined by over a third since 1960. Less than 5% of French Catholics attend regularly, and only 15% in Italy. Yet as the mainstream wanes, traditionalists wax.
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