Nationalized banking, nationalized automobile manufacturing, socialized medicine, socialized energy production, community organized voting, property rights down the commode, environmentalist eco-diversity global warming zealots prosecuting government of the lawsuit for the lawsuit and by the lawsuit, you can’t do or say anything without upsetting some hyper-sensitive aggrieved victim-in-waiting, history re-written by the volume on a daily basis, and the public square dominated by the anarchistic rules for radicals.  The cruel irony is that our elite leaders are doing all this in the name of the public good.  One wonders just how much dope they smoked for all this nonsense to seem reasonable to them.

Oh, and memos to David Letterman, Conan OBrien, 9 News, and Bill OReilly:  I turn all your shows off whenever you deliver propaganda.  Sometimes I’ll get to see a whole 30 seconds of one of your programs before that happens.  That’s Ok.  I need the sack time more than I need your nightly political re-education.  I guess the segments of your audience who consider propaganda to be news-worthy or entertainment are an easy-sell for your advertisers.

July 07, 2009, 4:00 a.m.

I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin
The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again.

By David Kahane

One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines.

Even worse was the glaze of horror on the phizzes of the assembled heroes of the Mainstream Media. Andrea Mitchell — yes, the very same Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, whose employer saw no conflict of interest at all when she married then Fed pooh-bah Alan Greenspan — stood there gaping like a frog while the rest of the assembled Finemans and Matthewses and Olbermanns scurried around like roaches when the light gets turned on: What the hell just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley. [Read more…]

…was the vote in the Senate against shutting down Guantanamo, however Obama won’t stop lobbying his case.  Perhaps Obama is not so realistic as many think.

Obama Speaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cheney Speaks

The force you must exert to survive is defined by your enemy, in this case, an enemy that views civility and individualism as weakness and infidelity.  So the dilemma is to uphold your own civility and be harmed or killed, or do what’s necessary to defend yourself so that you can survive and perhaps achieve civility.  Our enemies impose this dilemma on us, fully cognizant of what such dilemmas do to our media-enhanced national discourse.  Under the conditions we must accept as targets of the Islamist war, we cannot have both absolute civility abroad and guaranteed survival at home.  Pretending that we can is a prescription for our own annihilation.

Cheney is right to draw attention to the progressive’s redefinitions of terms related to the war, as if a few semantic adjustments on our part will make us materially safer.  The progressive’s fallacy in this case is to assert that because we must use barbarous tactics to defeat a barbarian enemy, we also do not value civility.  Of course we continue to value civility.  Why else would we do whatever we must do to reestablish conditions where we can enjoy it again?

Ironically, the progressive message–that Americans don’t value civility–is likely to come from a 20-something between sips of a hot latte’ at Starbucks with their Prius/mobile bike-rack parked in the lot.  Today, national policies issue from brains washed clean of analytic capacity, the naive graduates of America’s progressive universities who march in lock-step conformity and smug superiority in Ward-Churchill-inspired fantasies of the perfect present we could have had if only Bush hadn’t stolen the 2000 election.

Obama readily throws much of what America did in response to 9/11 under the bus to garner the approval of this or that 3rd world dictator or European socialist.  But consider the many people we’ve met in Asia who are amazed at the restraint shown by America in response to 9/11 when we didn’t drop nuclear weapons on the countries harboring, sponsoring, and emulating Islamic terrorism.  Had China been attacked the way the U.S. was on 9/11, the crater where Afghanistan once stood will still be smoking.

The Little Red Wagon That Can – What I saw at the Tea Party

by Andrew Klavan

“These are the same people who rushed en masse to cover Cindy Sheehan and a dozen or so antiwar protesters in Crawford, Texas, rechristening that sad, emotionally unpredictable woman with two of the most cherished words in the English language: Peace Mom. But what was their attitude when thousands of ordinary people gathered in defense of their rights all over the country? “Just move on, folks, nothing to see here.”

“Tea Party Movement”–the new Weather Underground?

The left needed to declare the war on terror over so they could free up the word “terrorist” to label conservatives, otherwise known as “rightwing extremists” by leftists, fascists, socialists, communists, social democrats, green reds, religious fundamentalists, islamists, various assorted totalitarian thugs, pirates, daily kos readers, george soros contributors, ward churchill clones, and other social defectives.

On April 13th, 2009 at 6:55 pm, Special K said:

The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about “right-wing terror groups”–kind of ironic that it came out just days before the TEA protests. [Read more…]

James Piereson  – Punitive Liberalism

“From the time of John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 to Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976, the Democratic party was gradually taken over by a bizarre doctrine that might be called Punitive Liberalism. According to this doctrine, [Read more…]