Now and again a cartoonist hits the nail on the head and draws something that touches on many levels of meaning.   This one from Yaakov Kirschen, whom you can find at http://drybones.com/, is absolutely excellent.   You will recall that a brave Iranian woman protested against the sexist, ...Read More...

  I set forty-two questions for you to ponder over. I chose to set forty-two questions so that I could remind you of an interesting Christmas fact about the number forty-two: to wit, there are forty-two generations given in the Gospel of Matthew's version of the genealogy of Jesus. That is to say, ...Read More...

  ...before I give you the answers here’s a final question. A sort of Twelfth Night bonus question, as it were. Q.  Illuminatingly, who did what with a tree at Christmas in New York City in AD1882? I’ll post all the answers in a few hours time. All together now: ‘Enjoy’.     ...Read More...

  Today is Christmas Sunday and the Feast of the Holy Family, as well as New Year’s Eve. So, as you raise glass in celebration of having survived another turbulent year I thought you might all enjoy another five questions in my seasonal quiz. Answers, as usual, will be on Twelfth Night. You can ...Read More...

  Merry Christmas to all of you who read at NER. If you have an idle moment or two you may care to try to answer some, or all, of my quiz questions. As usual, all the answers have something to do with Christmas. The answers to the ten questions I ask below all have something in particular to do ...Read More...

Just a little something extra for the fourth Sunday in Advent, also Christmas Eve. You can find the first twenty-one questions in this quiz here at NER. Remember, it's all about Christmas.   (1)  When were carols first sung in churches and who introduced them? (2)  Traditionally, when ...Read More...

The answers to all the questions asked below are related to Christmas, or Christmas carols or songs, in some way. (1)   What would cost you around eighty thousand pounds (around one hundred and seven thousand US dollars)? (2)   What was the name of the first song ever broadcast, and who broadcast ...Read More...

God’s message of love is for everyone, and there is no more appropriate a time to celebrate that fact than on the day we Christians have set aside to remember that Jesus Christ was born from a woman as a mortal man in order to give us that message and to be the full, perfect and complete sacrifice to ...Read More...

HAPPY NEW YEAR. Yes, we’re well into Advent and I’m a little behind with that greeting, but better late than not at all. Let’s move on. I have a question for all of you. I mean this question very, very seriously and I really would like all of you to answer it and, if you have the time, give me ...Read More...

Have you ever wondered exactly how those so-called progressives really act? How they exercise their sense of entitlement? How they spend our money? How they look after one another using our money? Well here are two examples from the hundreds of thousands, the millions, out there. First, let’s ...Read More...

  Consider this:   "...the most decorated woman gymnast in Rio is an adopted, home-educated, Roman Catholic who prays the rosary and relies on God and His blessed Mother to help make her the best person and athlete she can be." (The Remnant)   That’s true. Yep, it’s true.   She ...Read More...

Given the events happening in Mohammedan occupied Anatolia and Thrace tonight one must ask the question “Have the Turkish military left it too late?”   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3692693/Turkish-military-launch-attempted-coup-depose-government.html ...Read More...

It’s Independence Day – Will Britain Vote For It? Brexit means: Independence Day, Thursday 23rd June, 2016. When this:   Should get the boot in favour of this:     Since the year 2000 British businesses have stopped investing in the sclerotic EU economies. Since 2008 ...Read More...

Over at forbes.com George Soros is, once again (sigh), reported as having said something spectacularly stupid. Here it is: “The rise of ISIS and the crumbling of the Middle East has created a crisis for Europe, and Soros said German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have erred in opening the country to ...Read More...

Over at www.care2.com Mindy Townsend, in my opinion, tells a lie – a great big whopper of a lie – but she slips it into her text so deftly that it will settle into the consciousness of many of her readers like a subliminal message in a movie or a TV programme is supposed to do. She lied by tacking an ...Read More...

There are many people who keep on telling us that ISIS has nothing to do with Mohammedanism. That is a lie and they make that statement with no evidence to support their untruthful utterance. In actual fact, all the evidence without exception – let me repeat that with greater emphasis on one word: ALL ...Read More...

"In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician  but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance." –  (Lieutenant-Colonel) Eric Clifford Ambler, who made the journey from idiot socialist ...Read More...

I don’t know why, and maybe some of you can help me here, but this   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8   always makes me think of this   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co   as well.   I find both pieces of music to be equally, and very, frightening. ...Read More...

In this article Rebecca talked about the rape and paedophile assault culture in the Islamic State and focussed on the plight of the Yezidis in particular. There is more, much more, that needs to be said about the Yezidi people and what is happening to them still. I also want to tell you about how they ...Read More...

As many of you will have noted from Esme’s report here, earlier today, there is something very rotten in the Labour party in the U.K. today. I’d just like to add my two pennyworth to that report. Also, many of you will be aware from that same report that the U.K. is going through one of its regular ...Read More...

Leo McKinstry, a well-known British journalist and author, in the 'Express' (a popular U.K. ‘red-top’ newspaper) gets it, and isn't afraid to say it, either: From the Express at this page: “Political class in denial over cause of jihadist threat, says Leo McKinstry” “As more than a million ...Read More...

It has become patently obvious that the French and the Mohammedans who also happen to live in France cannot live peaceably together. Obviously, what is required is a two state solution – that is to say that after all the necessary UN sponsored negotiations, that the currently existing political unit ...Read More...

This petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70069 needs 100,000 British votes by the last day of March 2015 in order for the subject matter to stand any chance at all of being debated in Parliament. It needs 10,000 British votes immediately in order to get the relevant U.K. Government ...Read More...