05.29.08
Last Sunday at Obama’s church
A lot of good it did for Rev. Wright to retire.
Why we call them Freedom Haters – today’s edition
Memo to the American people: Before you return this slug posing as a human being to the Speaker ofthe House postion, remember that whether you deserve a secure, free and happy future depends on whethr you come to your senses.
05.26.08
Think about this next time you’re filling up at the pump
Herman Cain on the fate of Senate Bill 2958. And kudos to Mary Landrieu for having the courage to beak ranks with her Freedom-Hater party on this one.
05.24.08
Two cheers for cheer
Another opinion writer who is definitely in the pantheon of top practitioners of that craft (see invitation in post below to kick around who might comprise the top five) is Roger Kimball. To scroll down his posts at Pajamas Media is to have your sense of the gorgeousness of truth sharpened.
A recent piece of his has as its thrust a reconsideration of recent conservative gloom about conservatism’s prospects. He offers another view, but, as one would expect from a towering giant of a wordsmith, he does much more. He offers, for example, a consideration-warranting look at where conservatives on one hand and Freedom-Haters on the other find levity and pessimistic prospects in life.
A technique marvelous writers sometimes use is the placement of a quote from another great writer in their work that is an irreplaceable gem. Kimball has done that here with this nugget from Lord Falkland: “When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
05.23.08
What should be obvious is screamingly obscure
Once again, the GOP prez candidate shuts the blinds against the light beams of common sense trying against all odds to stream in.
Think about it.
He’s chiming in with the preening Stalinists who have a majority in Congress and are going to run it outright come January. A few lone legislators that no one gives a diddly about are all that’s left in the struggle to hold utter madness at bay.
Send this to every smart person you know, even if they’re still willfully wallowing in stupidity because they think it’s somehow clever.
It’s very late in the day, people. Have a good time in your personal lives. Have a festive summer. We’re all going to be doing some big-time adjusting to a very unfamiliar way of operating all too soon.
05.20.08
Opening Pandora’s Box in California
When looking for moral clarity, you can’t do better than Dennis Prager. Today, he lays out the scope of magnitude of the California Supreme Court’s recent decision on gay “marriage.”
05.19.08
Stuff this in your pie-hole, Big Al (but save a little for the two Freedom-haters and the pathetic clown who comprise our three remaining viable prez candidates)
30,000 – count ‘em – 30,000 scientists who say man-made global warming is a bunch of hooey.
Sick and wrong on too many levels to count
A special UN rapporteur is coming to the UN to investigate what role racism might play in the US presidential campaign. Bear in mind that this Senegalese guy is a bigwig in the Islamic world with a record of anti-Semitism. And then there’s the clown from our own government who says that our going along with this shows we’re “leading by example.”
That’s the second time I’ve heard the phrase “leading by example” today, the other being Barack Obama’s assertion to an Oregon crowd that we’re going to have to walk around chilly and hungry. (Well, maybe go around on bicycles.) (See post below.) “Lead by example” is starting to sound to me like it means “invite the world’s scumbags to trample on our freedom.”
We knew he was a hard-core Marxist with an America-hating wife and a racist minister; now he adds fool and ass to his bona fides
He Who Definitely Doesn’t Walk On Water in Oregon, pronouncing on Iran and Venezuela and environmental leadership.
Oh, and on Good Morning America, he tries to delare his wife untouchable.
05.16.08
Possibly the most important column Charles Krauthammer has ever written
. . . and that’s saying something, as you know. The point is that all “peace processes,” regardless of the Secretary of State or US President or UN official who spearheads it, are pointless. The other side has no interest in Israel’s continued existence.
05.15.08
Well, they did it
The U.S. Department of the Interior has listed the polar bear as an endangered species.
We are so hosed.
05.14.08
The common thread
What is the common thread in the last few posts here at BN – Hizbollah’s smackdown of Lebanon’s ineffectual “official” government, the attack on the Ashkelon shopping center, and Ahmadinejad’s latest threats – as well as this news item from Jaipur, India about near-simultaneous bomb blasts that killed 61 and injured 216?
Go to the front of the class if you said “radical Islam.”
Anybody who thinks Western civilization is jauntily rolling along save for the occasional random challenge of a law-enforcement nature is sadly and willfully ignorant of what is going on.
Occasionally, commenters here at BN respond to posts in the various dhimmitude categories with remarkds along the lines of “Oh, lighten up. These isolated instances aren’t making any serious transformations of our culture.” How pathetically blind.
It’s way past time to see the pattern in all the “diversity” / multiculturalism programs in our educational system, the Muslim-women-only days at public fitness gyms and swimming pools, the British prison toilets turned to face Mecca, the Anglican archbishop’s acceptance of the encroachment of sharia into British law, the bathing of the Empire State Building in green light for the end of Ramadan, and so on – and on and on and on.
Let me be blunt. It doesn’t look like our way of life is going to make it. We don’t have the will to resist the above violations, dilutions and affronts, much less rockets or nuclear bombs.
The degree of resolve it would take to seriously address what we face would require a shift in our mindset that I’m not sure we can accomplish. I don’t know that I’m blaming anyone – us, collectively, or any one group or individual. It’s probably just a natural result of the veil of normalcy that’s still draped over our daily lives, which, for all the high fuel prices and economic uncertainty, are still pretty cush by worldwide standards. The worst stuff is still happening “over there.”
I think such canaries in the coal mine as Robert Spencer and Mark Steyn look like skunks at the garden party to the major swath of our populace that still preoccupies itself with pop culture and personal ambition. We’ve seen this set of circumstances before in history. Is it just the nature of things for an ominous threat to be just beyond the periphery until a sudden moment when it appears center stage?
Birthday greetings from the gatekeeper of the apocalypse
In a nice MSM touch of moral equivalence, AP sees fit to say that “threatening exchanges betwee Iran and Israel have intensified since 2005.”
They hate freedom, they hate prosperity, they hate the idea that we might survive another 50 years
The Dems say no to domestic drilling.
05.12.08
Sometimes the guy I’ll be voting for comes across as downright stupid – today’s edition
He’s doing a “climate change tour,” and he’s going to speak to the anti-American reconsquista group La Raza. Michelle Malkin has the full skinny on both debacles. (The La Raza story is the top link in the “Related” column on the right-hand side.)
