…but I would vote for Herman Cain over Barack Obama.
Just to be on the record. And not to imply that Mr. Cain is my first choice. I hope that this comment doesn’t just increase my racism.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Born In The USA
…or at least, if not there, bin Laden’s ideas were born in the West.
Not surprising, really. Most ideas that kill millions were born in the West. The West has nurtured both great good, and great evil.
For example, where do you think that Pol Pot got his ideas? In Cambodia? Nope. In Paris. Just the place to marinate in the moldering monstrous themes of Rousseau and the Terror.
While Marx was a westerner, he fermented his deadly memes and wrote his most damaging works in London, a city that has had Marxists as mayor in recent history. Even Mao, perhaps the greatest mass murderer in history, was influenced by him.
What is particularly poisonous about radical Islam is how it has wed the ancient warmongering of Mohammed with more modern totalitarianism (though in a sense, you could say that Mohammed, with his intrinsic melding of religion and state, invented totalitarianism), and how comfortable the left seems to be with it, decrying “apartheid” in Israel, a nation that has Arabs in its legislature, while ignoring the true gender apartheid of the Arab culture. The alliance between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and national socialism in Germany during the war was not isolated, or a coincidence.
[Via Ed Driscoll, who has more links]
But Don’t Call Them Un-American
SEIU goes full commie:
A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart.
And remember, the head of that organization was the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House.
“Just Like Nixon Reached The Moon”
That’s how Obama got bin Laden. It is one of the ironies of history that it’s Richard Nixon’s name on the plaque at Tranquility Base, because he happened to have become president a few months before the flight. Of course, it would be a stronger analogy if bin Laden had been captured two years ago.
There Goes Another Hundred Million
The next (and penultimate) Shuttle flight is now no earlier than May 16th.
John Shannon said last year that it costs about two hundred million a month to extend the program, so this two-week delay cost another hundred million dollars (note that four months of that burn rate would provide enough resources for another entire SpaceX). That assumes, of course, that this delay will also push out the the schedule of the final flight. I don’t know enough about KSC flows to know if that’s the case, or if they can be parallel processing Atlantis, currently scheduled for the end of June.
It’s Definitely Hitler
Richard Littlejohn tries his hand at my game:
This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the news for today, May 1st, 1945, read by Alvar Liddell. Confusion continues to surround the last moments of Adolf Hitler, who died yesterday in his bunker in Berlin.
Incredibly, the world’s most-wanted man had been living in the heart of the capital of the Third Reich, in plain sight of millions of Germans who maintain they were not supporters of the Nazis and had no knowledge of the Fuhrer’s crimes again humanity.
It’s not bad, but the biggest problem with it is that we actually had no knowledge of Hitler’s fate that early. I don’t think that the west discovered what had happened to him until November, and in the interim there were many rumors that he was alive and regrouping with other diehards in some last bastions in Germany (this also helped feed the Werwolf movement). My version has the history much more accurately.
America’s Persistence
Thoughts from Austin Bay. Also, the kids are all right.
Asking The Important Questions
What should denizens of Wyoming be called?
Is This The Death Of Journalism?
Well, I’d like to think so, but on the evidence, if it is, it’s got more lives than a cat. On the other hand, it doesn’t bode well for the future of CNN.
Why Does Eric Holder Still Have His Job?
The gun running scandal in Mexico just gets worse and worse. Of course, I’m amazed that he was confirmed in the first place. The Republicans shouldn’t have rolled over the way they did, even if they didn’t have the votes.
[Late morning update]
Here’s more from Michelle Malkin.
Also, what did he know, and when did he know it? Just how much damage could this do to the administration?