Why Race Matters by Arnold Ahlert
Posted By Arnold Ahlert On June 16, 2011 @ 12:20 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
On Memorial Day weekend, there were riots in Charlotte, Rochester, Nashville, Miami, Myrtle Beach and Boston. Last Friday, fighting broke out at Brighton Beach in New York City, where five people were shot and a young girl was killed. Flash mobs have been attacking people in Chicago on the streets and on public buses. The common thread? All of the mobs were black youths — and there’s been a concerted effort by the media to ignore that reality. [Read more…]
South Park
giant petrified wood stump
Pikes Peak from the North
once upon a time in the West
and another
and another
another sunset
travel
climbing out of Liberia
Sunday soccer
scene we left yesterday
El Diria
Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica
A Warning to America
A Warning to America
Geert Wilders speech, Cornerstone Church, Nashville, 12 May 2011
Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your midst today. I am happy and proud to be in this impressive church.
My friends, I am here to speak words of truth and freedom. [Read more…]
Here’s hoping for change
In “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” by Gotz Aly, I learned how the national socialists kept the average German citizen content during the war through redistribution of war booty, through socialized medicine, appropriation of wealth from conquered countries, dispossession of European Jews, regulation of banking and industry, and propaganda. Mr. Aly showed that national socialism was a political scheme designed to keep the German lower classes in favor of the regime. And it worked.
In “The Pink Swastika” by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, I learned how the Nazi Party evolved from many socialist and sexualized small groups to become a self-referential inner circle built around Greek concepts of virility, youth, masculinity and ruthlessness.
And I look around today and see that all of the same precursors exist. Go to any ANSWER web site and look at the hundreds of links to other web sites for similar groups, all aggrieved, all willing to use force to redress their own vision of social justice, economic inequality, and sexual inequality. I see how the majority in this country, who I assume are mostly not in these sorts of hyper-politicized groups, nevertheless are now conditioned by several decades of predominantly leftist education and national media.
The national socialists in Germany took several decades to coalesce into a mass murder machine. They didn’t start out killing, they started with a basket of supremacist philosophies and it took a long time for reality to catch up with their philosophies.
It feels like that’s where we are now–in the catch up phase.
Reality is slowly catching up with what have recently become the governing philosophies in America. We won’t get to a terrible end for a while, maybe not for quite a while. But I would really like to see the trend reversed, because where we’re headed currently, with the basket of nationalist, socialist, sexualist, and militant philosophies in control, and with political and economic mechanisms to manipulate the democratic majorities keeping these forces in control, is a dark dead place.
Coincidence is not causation, however, coincidence is not sufficient to explain the evolution of the Nazis. They grew from their component philosophies just as we grow according to our DNA structure. They weren’t pre-determined, but they were heavily influenced.
What hubris to think that we can engage in similar nihilistic, destructive, hedonistic and militant past times, and expect a different result.
But the Greatest of These Is Freedom
But the Greatest of These Is Freedom, The Consequences of Immigration in Europe, By Hege Storhaug
Introduction By Bruce Bawer (translator from the Norwegian edition.)
In recent decades, as Hege Storhaug notes in these pages, those of us fortunate enough to live in the Western world have enjoyed a degree of freedom unparalleled in human history. This freedom did not come easily. It is the product of centuries of struggle — a product of the Renaissance, of the Protestant Reformation, of the seventeenth-century Enlightenment, and of a long series of hard-won reforms in various countries, of which the most notable and influential were probably the American Revolution and American Declaration of Independence, which in 1776 affirmed the then remarkable notion that human beings — every last one of them — had a right to the pursuit of happiness.
Among the things that freedom frees up are human creativity and innovation. Thus freedom has brought with it a remarkable array of technological developments and cultural achievements as well as unprecedented levels of prosperity. [Read more…]
Why Suppress Evidence?
If Obama Is Natural-Born, Why Suppress Evidence?
By JOHN F. GASKI Posted 04/26/2011 05:24 PM ET
Second Of Two Parts
So what of the cumulative evidence against our maybe-president’s citizenship? Let the reader judge the balance and weight of a summary appraisal. (Curious machinations over a crucial piece of evidence, a birth certificate of all things, changed the balance for me.) [Read more…]
Obama birth cert mystery
(click to enlarge images)
You can do this at home with your Adobe Photoshop Elements application. Just open the recently released Obama long form birth certificate and select “images” to pull up the second layer containing selected elements of the composite birth certificate. Then you might consider setting aside the vehement testimonials issuing from the main stream media, and think about the questions they should be asking.
Obama vs. Obama
Victor Davis Hanson
The president gave the sort of scare speech he not long ago warned against, and blasted the income-tax rates he not long ago agreed were necessary — in a context in which he has just presented a budget with a $1.6 trillion deficit of the sort he now says is unsustainable, and has warned about recklessly voting against raising the debt ceiling in a fashion that he himself had once done, in a larger landscape in which he had once damned attacking Middle East countries in optional wars, Guantanamo, renditions, tribunals, preventative detention, intercepts, wiretaps, Predators, and leaving troops in Iraq, and then embraced or expanded all that and more (this list is infinite and includes everything from drilling to campaign financing to earmarks).
These weird about-faces raise interesting questions that transcend the current politics of the deficit: [Read more…]
hoping they change
America, It’s Your Fault! How’s That For Change?
By MARK STEYN Posted 04/08/2011 05:19 PM ET
Hey, it’s the weekend, and everyone’s singing the same maddeningly catchy refrain! Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? Nah, that was last week’s moronic sing-along. This week’s is even perkier! “Paul Ryan proposes to end Medicare as we know it,” sings former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
“It would end Medicare as we know it,” sings Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. “It’s going to end Medicare as we know it,” sings Nadeam Elshami, communications director for Nancy Pelosi. “It does end Medicare as we know it,” sings Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. “I drove all night to watch Paul Ryan e-e-end Me-edi-ica-a-are as we-e kno-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w it,” sing all 24 semifinalists on the Celine Dion round of “American Idol.” [Read more…]
enforcing propaganda
Andrew Breitbart: Courts an Instrument of Leftist Thuggery
by Audrey Hudson
03/24/2011
Politicians and their supporters use interesting tactics to intimidate and silence their critics, from rumor-mongering to editorial cartoons, even dueling pistols.
But the target of a high-profile lawsuit who is also a relentless investigator of the Obama administration says the judicial system is being used to retaliate against him.
“The President of the United States has an unprecedented and uncanny desire to silence those who report the truth about him,” says media mogul Andrew Breitbart. [Read more…]
A Menace To Our Future
Worse than Nixon, Carter and Clinton.
A Scorecard Of Negatives, A Menace To Our Future
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A. ROBBINS Posted 03/16/2011 07:03 PM ET
By any rational standard, Barack Obama gets an F for job performance and should — on that basis alone — either resign or be voted out ASAP before he does further harm. Obama is a strange man who often seems not to be paying attention. Does he have a second job and work for America only part time? Is he real or virtual? Other nations no longer look to America’s mysterious president for leadership. “President Obama stands mostly mute at the sidelines like a perfectly groomed mannequin,” reports Matthew d’Ancona of the U.K.’s Telegraph. So faint and fumbling is Obama that even his hard-core lefty colleagues are forced to avert their eyes in embarrassment. An exasperated Richard Cohen at the Washington Post blurted out the truth regarding the president: “Like a picture hung in the sun, he fades over time.” [Read more…]
stimulus jobs
Collected from: http://denver.craigslist.org/npo/2230001566.html
I wonder how many financial intermediaries there are between the U.S. Treasury and these community organizers — probably not more than a couple.
Reason beats the rabble
Union Members Gang up on a Tea Partier
~and remember to always ~
Look for the Union Label
First the union movement chased American manufacturing over to China, and then it made our government so expensive that China owns it too!
goon squads
watershed events
breaking their oaths of office
I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
5 U.S.C. §3331
WASHINGTON – In a major policy reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage.
Attorney General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration cannot defend the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. He noted that the congressional debate during passage of the Defense of Marriage Act “contains numerous expressions reflecting moral disapproval of gays and lesbians and their intimate and family relationships — precisely the kind of stereotype-based thinking and animus” the Constitution is designed to guard against.
The Justice Department had defended the act in court until now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110223/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage
Barone on Democrat Unions
Longmont pan & Kiowa sunset
Obama agendista
Pre-9/11 Hopelessness (continued)
“The treatment of the Islamists, mostly the Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafists, as a viable alternative to secular and authoritarian regimes was stunning. Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was criticized by liberals in the West, who suggested engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood in order to eventually replace the president-for-life. [Read more…]