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I aslo enjoy Andrew Cusack’s site: cusack.norumbega.co.uk/

I suppose that it would also be beneficial to include information about each blog:

About Norumbega - Andrew Cusack’s site
Norumbega is an online feuilleton and news portal collected from a traditionalist perspective. In the left-hand column of the home page is ‘News of the World’. Here we bring notice of current events in Europe, America, and around the globe. In the right-hand column is ‘Around the Sphere’, our collection of the latest interesting posts and entries from around the blogosphere. The middle column is the heart of Norumbega: our collection of feature articles updated (hopefully) every fortnight.

Norumbega is an entirely amateur effort and no one involved in its production is paid for their contribution.

What is a ‘feuilleton’?
Originally, feuilletons were the sections of continental newspapers that were devoted to criticism, art, history, science, or light literature. The first feuilleton was started by Julien Louis Geoffroy and Louis-François Bertin (“Bertin the Elder”) in their Journal des Débats (printed from 1789 to 1944). As the 1911 Britannica remarked of the feuilleton, “it consists chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles; and its general characteristics are lightness, grace and sparkle”.

Norumbega aims to revive the spirit of the feuilleton by ignoring the heavy fatuousness that marks journals of greater import and instead looking at the world from a serious yet light-hearted traditional perspective. Through its three main components, Norumbega aims to enlighten and inform its readers irrespective of the arbitrary distinctions of “Left” and “Right”, of tribe and faction, that mar both print and online outlets. Norumbega aims to be cosmopolitan rather than nationalist or globalist. Above all, Norumbega aims to hold fast to that which is good and true.

What is the origin of the name?
Norumbega is the name given to an ancient and mythical city which rested on a great bay at the head of a great river in the New World. It first appeared on maps in the first half of the fifteenth century and had largely disappeared from them by the end of the seventeenth.
 
SJP said:
I aslo enjoy Andrew Cusack’s site: cusack.norumbega.co.uk/
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Great site, SJP! I love the pics too. I often find myself gravitating to foreign sites in order to get away from this liberal vs. conservative, Republican vs. Democrat dichotomy we seem to be stuck in here. Sometimes we get so bogged down in left wing/right wing ideologies that we can’t think straight. I prefer a traditionalist standpoint–how would the people of past generations have approached a certain issue? European and Latin American conservative parties, with their deeper ties to the past, usually have a better grip on this perspective than do our so-called “conservatives”. For example, foreign traditionalist parties have little trouble with the concept of caring for the environment, whereas ours promotes the idea that you can pollute the air, water, and soil all you want and anyone who says there may be a deleterious result is labeled as a “tree-hugger” and “ecofreak.” Similarly, anyone who promotes the moral values held by our ancestors for milennium is called a “Nazi” and a “fundamentalist extremist” by the Left. I think trashing both of our leading political parties on grounds of simple incompetence and demagogic hate-mongering would be good start to get our country back on track.
(Sorry-that was a longer rant that what I had planned on typing when I started.)
 
WDTPRS is the only Catholic blog I read regularly. Irregularly, I’ll catch others from New Advent’s news stories or from a link from Father Z.
 
SanJudas said:
Great site, SJP! I love the pics too. I often find myself gravitating to foreign sites in order to get away from this liberal vs. conservative, Republican vs. Democrat dichotomy we seem to be stuck in here. Sometimes we get so bogged down in left wing/right wing ideologies that we can’t think straight. I prefer a traditionalist standpoint–how would the people of past generations have approached a certain issue? European and Latin American conservative parties, with their deeper ties to the past, usually have a better grip on this perspective than do our so-called “conservatives”. For example, foreign traditionalist parties have little trouble with the concept of caring for the environment, whereas ours promotes the idea that you can pollute the air, water, and soil all you want and anyone who says there may be a deleterious result is labeled as a “tree-hugger” and “ecofreak.” Similarly, anyone who promotes the moral values held by our ancestors for milennium is called a “Nazi” and a “fundamentalist extremist” by the Left. I think trashing both of our leading political parties on grounds of simple incompetence and demagogic hate-mongering would be good start to get our country back on track.
(Sorry-that was a longer rant that what I had planned on typing when I started.)
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I don’t know what I would do if I had to rely on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX etc. for news… I would probably begin by falling into a state of deep depression.

No need to apologize about the rant, I quite enjoyed it!
 
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