Bryan Preston at PJ Media puts the latest ratcheting-up of tensions between Iran and the West in stark perspective. The comment thread under his article is particularly edifying. It's a lot like threads that get going here under posts of a foreign policy / national security nature. There are certain types of observant citizens who really think that conservatives itch for war. Preston steps into the fray to basically ask what viable alternatives to the SWIFT sanction exist.
The lessons of history reinforce the indisputability of the maxim that appeasement of rogue powers is the surest way to invite horror onto the world stage.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Leviathan in junior's lunch sack
This is a little bit funny, but mostly chilling. This is for real: a North Carolina pre-schooler has her home-bagged lunch, which consisted of a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice, seized by a federal agent right there in the school dining area because it didn't meet USDA guidelines.
The enemy now demands a look into the nation's lunch bags.
This is war.
The enemy now demands a look into the nation's lunch bags.
This is war.
It's all of a piece
And so the largest school district in Minnesota is changing from its old policy whereby teachers remain neutral in cases where homosexuality seems to be a factor in a student getting picked on ("bullying" in regime-speak) to a new "Respectful Learning Environment" policy. Just when we thought some progress was being made against asinine speeech codes and hate-crimes legislation zeal, we now have a case where a policy gets changed, not because the school district found any evidence that bullying caused six recent student suicides (it didn't), but because a student got up a petition and took in to the school board.
So now we're going to have touchy-feely group-therapy puke-fests when a simple grabbing of Johnny the Jerk by his shirt collar and saying "knock it off" would take care of such situations the way it did for centuries in America. What I'm not finding out from the linked article is whether young Timmy the Transgendered has to curb wearing of his oh-so-fixed-at-not-even-the-age-of-puberty "identity" as a badge that dares anyone to give him the wrong kind of arched eyebrow.
I really like Mitch Daniels, my governor here in Indiana, but I do concur with those who responded to his suggestion that conservatives call a truce in the culture wars that that is not possible. Every development on any level of cultural, economic or national security consideration is occurring along a continuum. (This, by the way, is the one thing that really sets my teeth on edge about talk-show host Neal Boortz. He is so spot-on about most things, but when he sneers at pro-life and pro-normalcy spokespeople, he shows that he's merely fooling himself into thinking he has a consistent core set of values.) Every type of encroachment on your freedom currently taking place is occurring with the same end in mind.
How did we get to the place where we have to use a term like "social issues" anyway? ("Well, I'm somewhat concerned about social issues, but they come down the line after such-and-such.") At what point did the acceleration of change in - make that deterioration of - the norms and conventions and institutions and basic assumptions about human nature we took for granted as the foundation of our culture reach a point where we had a critical mass of the public that was sanguine about it (if not downright enthusiastic), and therefore on the other side of the chasm from those who proceeded through life the, you know, old-school way? The way in which one didn't ever encounter arguments about what was natural or normal or dignified?
This regime and its fellow travellers and useful idiots wants inside your head and inside your soul.
It is so very, very late in the day.
So now we're going to have touchy-feely group-therapy puke-fests when a simple grabbing of Johnny the Jerk by his shirt collar and saying "knock it off" would take care of such situations the way it did for centuries in America. What I'm not finding out from the linked article is whether young Timmy the Transgendered has to curb wearing of his oh-so-fixed-at-not-even-the-age-of-puberty "identity" as a badge that dares anyone to give him the wrong kind of arched eyebrow.
I really like Mitch Daniels, my governor here in Indiana, but I do concur with those who responded to his suggestion that conservatives call a truce in the culture wars that that is not possible. Every development on any level of cultural, economic or national security consideration is occurring along a continuum. (This, by the way, is the one thing that really sets my teeth on edge about talk-show host Neal Boortz. He is so spot-on about most things, but when he sneers at pro-life and pro-normalcy spokespeople, he shows that he's merely fooling himself into thinking he has a consistent core set of values.) Every type of encroachment on your freedom currently taking place is occurring with the same end in mind.
How did we get to the place where we have to use a term like "social issues" anyway? ("Well, I'm somewhat concerned about social issues, but they come down the line after such-and-such.") At what point did the acceleration of change in - make that deterioration of - the norms and conventions and institutions and basic assumptions about human nature we took for granted as the foundation of our culture reach a point where we had a critical mass of the public that was sanguine about it (if not downright enthusiastic), and therefore on the other side of the chasm from those who proceeded through life the, you know, old-school way? The way in which one didn't ever encounter arguments about what was natural or normal or dignified?
This regime and its fellow travellers and useful idiots wants inside your head and inside your soul.
It is so very, very late in the day.
Monday, February 13, 2012
The dangerous regime gripping America's throat
Gene Sperling, the MEC's economic council director, said today at an official meeting that the world needed a "global minimum tax." To make sure nobody "escapes doing their fair share."
These people are making it plain what they intend for our country. They are the enemy and must be defeated.
These people are making it plain what they intend for our country. They are the enemy and must be defeated.
Do they really expect us to take this seriously?
It's budget time in Washington again, and I don't think this one has any more chance of passing than the previous three. The Most Equal Comrade has really doubled down. Class-envy-based tax increases. $11.5 trillion in debt held by the public this year. No serious attempt to commence entitlement reform.
Of course, the spin began over the weekend. In addition to being the spokesman for the regime's position that it is all done with any pretense of upholding Constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom, Chief of Staff Jack Lew did the Sunday shows to try to put one over on the American people about the Freedom-Haters needing to come up with 60 Senate votes in order to pass a budget. He has to know better, right? He was until recently head of the OMB. Either the MEC told him to go out there and act like he didn't know better, thereby opening himself up to charges of pathetic ignorance - fall on his sword, in essence - or the guy really didn't know better. I saw part of his appearance on Fox News Sunday. He's really pretty lame as a spin doctor. Lots of platitudes - he used the word "access" every chance he got - and appeals to "fairness." Not to mention he just looks and carries himself like the quintessential pasty-faced Beltway dweeb.
And so Western civilization steps on the gas and makes a beeline for the precipice.
Of course, the spin began over the weekend. In addition to being the spokesman for the regime's position that it is all done with any pretense of upholding Constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom, Chief of Staff Jack Lew did the Sunday shows to try to put one over on the American people about the Freedom-Haters needing to come up with 60 Senate votes in order to pass a budget. He has to know better, right? He was until recently head of the OMB. Either the MEC told him to go out there and act like he didn't know better, thereby opening himself up to charges of pathetic ignorance - fall on his sword, in essence - or the guy really didn't know better. I saw part of his appearance on Fox News Sunday. He's really pretty lame as a spin doctor. Lots of platitudes - he used the word "access" every chance he got - and appeals to "fairness." Not to mention he just looks and carries himself like the quintessential pasty-faced Beltway dweeb.
And so Western civilization steps on the gas and makes a beeline for the precipice.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
There's no more reconsidering one's view of just who and what these people are
The more I think about what happened last week - the bringing of the FHer-care provision that requires religious hopsitals and charites to offer contraception and abortion to the fore, and the MEC's "attempt to accomodate" them in reaction to the backlash by saying that their insurance providers can do the dirty work instead, free of charge to the policyholders - I cannot conclude anything other than that this regime is evil to its core.
The lie it is selling has many layers:
It posits that there is some kind of right to "reproductive health services."
It posits that extermination a fetal American is somehow some kind of "reproductive health."
It is a further attempt to normalize the notion that it is perfectly okay for government to tell a private organization to provide a particular product and do so at a loss.
It attempts to make the public think that divine law is a mere quirky abstraction that a few on the fringe cling to because they fear the glaring light of modernity.
It attempts to further normalize the notion that the Constitution's separation of powers is a quaint old concept that need not be heeded now that we all know what is "fair" and "just" to do as a matter of public policy.
A line has been crossed, a gauntlet thrown down. It is no longer possible for an American citizen to be ambivalent or "moderate." That's code for throwing one's lot in with a force of darkness and tossing one's honor to the wind.
This is no routine policy disagreement. This is war, and it has come to your street and your heart.
The lie it is selling has many layers:
It posits that there is some kind of right to "reproductive health services."
It posits that extermination a fetal American is somehow some kind of "reproductive health."
It is a further attempt to normalize the notion that it is perfectly okay for government to tell a private organization to provide a particular product and do so at a loss.
It attempts to make the public think that divine law is a mere quirky abstraction that a few on the fringe cling to because they fear the glaring light of modernity.
It attempts to further normalize the notion that the Constitution's separation of powers is a quaint old concept that need not be heeded now that we all know what is "fair" and "just" to do as a matter of public policy.
A line has been crossed, a gauntlet thrown down. It is no longer possible for an American citizen to be ambivalent or "moderate." That's code for throwing one's lot in with a force of darkness and tossing one's honor to the wind.
This is no routine policy disagreement. This is war, and it has come to your street and your heart.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
A development worth noting
So Ahmadinejad uses the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the mullahs' regime in Iran to say that the regime will shortly be announcing major new advances in its nuclear program. Who was in town on a state visit and attanding the rally where he said this? Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza.
Friday, February 10, 2012
"It quite simply elevates government to the level of a religion"
Must-read post by Francis Cianfrocca at Red State on the real implications of the FHer-care mandate-and-extermination-of-fetal-Americans provisions.
Right on cue
Where have we seen this before?
This is getting downright cyclical. The EU and the IMF and Greek Prime Minister Papademos announce to the world, "We've reached a bailout deal! It's very precarious, and it depends on the legislature and the general public accepting further austerity measures, but we're confident we can do it!" Then Greek workers strike and riot and member of Papademos's coalition start to bail. THe EU and the IMF become doubtful and the cycle starts again.
This is getting downright cyclical. The EU and the IMF and Greek Prime Minister Papademos announce to the world, "We've reached a bailout deal! It's very precarious, and it depends on the legislature and the general public accepting further austerity measures, but we're confident we can do it!" Then Greek workers strike and riot and member of Papademos's coalition start to bail. THe EU and the IMF become doubtful and the cycle starts again.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
It's on purpose - today's edition
It's classic Cloward - Piven strategy: push the system to such a point of lopsidedness that it collapses, creating the final condition for revolution.
How else to explain the findings in the Heritage Foundation's report on government dependency?
How long can the government go on devoting 70 percent of its budget to individual assistance programs, doling out benefits per recipient greater than the average disposable personal income, while nearly half of Americans pay no income tax?
The essential question this election year is this: are we human beings, or are we cattle?
How else to explain the findings in the Heritage Foundation's report on government dependency?
How long can the government go on devoting 70 percent of its budget to individual assistance programs, doling out benefits per recipient greater than the average disposable personal income, while nearly half of Americans pay no income tax?
The essential question this election year is this: are we human beings, or are we cattle?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
One of those occurences in our post-modern world that speak volumes about the FHer mindset and the prospects for the West's survival
Get your brain around this: A U.S. Supreme Court justice being interviewed on Egyptian television and saying that, if she were advising a newly formed country on a model to choose for fashioning its constitution, she would not suggest the U.S. Constitution - the one she is sworn to uphold.
The Freedom-Haters grip on America's throat is very tight. It will take quite a force to pry it loose.
The Freedom-Haters grip on America's throat is very tight. It will take quite a force to pry it loose.
This whole article is good, but the money line has legs - today's edition
Bridget Johnson at PJ Media on Eric Cantor's remarks at a jobs forum. Great stuff, but the takeaway line comes from Staples founder Tom Stemberg: "I used to be a Democrat, too, but then I started a business."
Game changer!
Rick Santorum sweeps Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota.
Take that, all you Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome-afllicted, minimum-wage-advocating, AGW-believing, wonky, platitude-mouthing, oblivious-to-the-urgency-of-the-hour establishment types who fear a Republican party that actually stands for what it says it stands for.
I'll tell you what; money's a little tight around here right now, but I'm damn sure gonna find a few bucks to send to the last conservative running for president of the United States of America.
UPDATE: It was indeed a sweep, but it was also a trouncing of the RGS types.
This is huge.
Take that, all you Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome-afllicted, minimum-wage-advocating, AGW-believing, wonky, platitude-mouthing, oblivious-to-the-urgency-of-the-hour establishment types who fear a Republican party that actually stands for what it says it stands for.
I'll tell you what; money's a little tight around here right now, but I'm damn sure gonna find a few bucks to send to the last conservative running for president of the United States of America.
UPDATE: It was indeed a sweep, but it was also a trouncing of the RGS types.
This is huge.
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