THE Rev. James Jackson writes: With the beautiful paintings you’ve been posting lately, I thought you might enjoy this poem.   TO AN OAK TREE            — E.C. Wells Three hundred changing summers, winters too, Since first the quivering sapling struggled through, A hundred thousand days since you were born, And took to earth from [...]

  EMILY HALL writes: A very good friend of mine recently introduced me to your blog. Since then I haven’t gone a single day without perusing your archives. I am writing for two reasons. The first is to provide you with a link to my blog in which I have mentioned you. The second reason [...]

  CHRISTINE LAGARDE, the French finance minister just appointed to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund, told journalist Christiane Amanpour last October, in a remark typical of the Feminine Superiority Complex, that women are more suited to major financial deal-making because they ”inject less libido and less testosterone into the equation. … It helps in the [...]

  WRITING AT VFR, Sage McLaughlin responds to a commenter who says that blacks were better off under slavery than they are in communities that are violent and chaotic. McLaughlin writes: American blacks after Reconstruction and before the civil rights era made fantastic progress in terms of education, productivity, and overall well-being.

  LAWRENCE AUSTER writes about a Philadelphia journalist’s reaction to the flash mob that injured her friends. Unable to address the glaring racial aspect of the attack, the woman is left with platitudes. Auster makes the wry observation: She wants to crochet [a gift for her hospitalized friend] because as a liberal writer living in liberal [...]

  JAMES P. writes: One might imagine that nursing mothers have no business in law enforcement, but no, according to The Washington Examiner, there are enough of them that the Washington D.C. police department has a “Lactation Accomodation Policy.” The officers were until recently permitted to do office work during their months nursing, but now they have been [...]

  EASTERN CHRISTIAN writes: This is in response to something you stated in the thread “Does Race Have Meaning?” Your line is,   The absolute truths of Christianity need to be guarded by the white European-descended people because only they possess a strong penchant for absolute truths, as Robert B. argues. In order to flourish in [...]