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For Love of Province, Not Country

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:35:08 -0500

Iraq’s al-Anbar and al-Diyala turn on a sectarian dime

Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid

The Democrat and Media obsession with the lack of “political progress” in Baghdad proper serves greatly as a hammer with which to bash President George W. Bush, his policy and fellow Republicans. But it exhibits also their woeful misunderstanding of what is happening, and needs to happen, if the Mesopotamian Democracy Project is to ultimately be a success.

Certainly the Democrats (and many of us cynics would say the Media) have chosen to highlight the area of least improvement to minimize and turn attention away from the successes of the Surge, as a part of their ongoing shameless political exploitation of our armed men and women at war.

The Left’s Elvis Presley-Class President Approach to Governance

Mon, 14 May 2007 16:01:11 -0500

“Treat me like a fool, treat me mean and cruel, but love me”

Looking Like a Night Out With Former Boss Tip O'Neill

This week’s Chris Matthews Show, political television’s answer to Jerry Springer, was but the latest example of the preeminent preoccupation of the Media and the Left (please, again, pardon the redundancy) with popularity. A “PLEASE sign my high school year book” nervous giggly-ness thinly veiled behind the tarnished veneer of their lazy man’s approach to reporting and governing, the poll.

(Clinton)'s was a profoundly sorry Administration, for any slight, real or imagined, that his wretched nation had in the past perpetrated.

Matthews, in discussing the looming departure of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, breathlessly proffered that he “entered office as one of Britain’s most popular Prime Ministers ever, and he remained so until his numbers plummeted when he became one of President George W. Bush’s staunchest allies in Iraq”. The roundtable discussion than became a panting fest of jubilant revelry at the political passing of one of our nation’s great allies in time of war.

That these supposed Media seers would so rigorously adhere to this partisan search for utterly worthless global popularity, while steadfastly ignoring Blair’s and Britain’s assistance with the heavy lifting that comes with the battle, reveals little but the sophomoric approach the Left has towards international opinion of the United States.

The Solution to Militant Islam: An Infusion of Liberalism

Tue, 8 May 2007 11:06:26 -0500

Death by a thousand multi-culturalisms

Public Bypass Service

My compatriot Mohamed Elibiary and I were on April 25th privy to a Congressional screening of Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.’s film Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center. Such a select showing was necessary because the Public Broadcast System (PBS), which saw fit to fund its production, deems it unfit for an appearance on its airwaves. PBS is now holding the product hostage, not allowing Gaffney to take it to anyone else with a broadcast license. His only option for its airing is before relatively modest, piecemeal gatherings such as this.

The picture introduces and juxtaposes practitioners of Islam in various European, Canadian and American cities who are outspoken in their antipathy of murder and mayhem in the name of their faith with fundamentalist, Jihadist, Islamist Muslims who reside in their respective locales. The former are, of course, under threats of death and must endure round the clock protection from the latter and others of their ilk.

It is a middle of the road, unideological presentation of their stories, and one is left utterly flummoxed as to why it has been universally spiked by PBS.

Virginia Tech and Pelosi’s Syrian Trek

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:29:57 -0500

The Left’s antipathy to violence, even in self-defense

Ronald Reagan Knew To Stand Up to the Bears of the World

Anyone who has ever been in any sort of physical confrontation, or understands even the rudimentary basics of how one transpires, had to be left wondering how one man, armed with but two guns, was afforded the opportunity to wreak the sort of murderous havoc that was inflicted by the sanctimonious yet self-loathing ass in Blacksburg, Virginia last week.

Many, such as former Senator, current actor and potential Presidential candidate Fred Thompson, have asked as much. The answer lies in part in that to which these analyses have pointed; were one (or more) of these students or professors also armed, the incident would more than likely have ended much sooner and far less egregiously.

But wanton gun avoidance is but a part of the larger problem, which is the all-encompassing aversion to violence, in even the righteous act of self-defense.

The History of Oil in the Middle East and a Prospective Future Without It, Part I

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:27:05 -0500

Alternative fuels, Liberal nostrums and the law of unintended consequences

As of Yet, Nowhere Near the Answer

Let us take as a wistful notion that the miraculous were to occur, and that tomorrow we were to awaken in possession of a new energy source, one that with little to no transitional pang could immediately replace the petroleum upon which we now so stringently rely.

A great new day surely will have dawned; but, so too a brave new world with which we would have to deal. What to become of the Middle East states whose sole or primary source of income stems from that which lies beneath their feet?

As always, to best attempt to prophesize that which is to come one must more fully grasp that which has passed. The parts of Asia that sat upon the number one commodity of the 20th Century have become the singular focal point and launching pad of global evil at the dawn of the 21st. As a result, our attentions have only now been brought there, after having spent the better part of the last one hundred years staring at and down the Russian Bear to their north.

The riches that attend to the bringing of such petroleum abundancies to market should long ago have had the entire region awash in cash, with a living standard that would find ours Spartan by comparison. But as we know, this is hardly the case.

A Pro-Life Gun Nut’s Case for Rudy Giuliani, Part IV

Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:27:27 -0500

Historical lessons unlearned and rightful repudiations earned

Three Chronological Moments From the John McCain Campaign

We have now, after Parts I, II and III (to be found here, here and here), reached the crux of cruxes as to why Rudy Giuliani is in the Republican primary lead, ascending in popularity whilst fellow Viables Mitt Romney and John McCain wallow unmoving (the former) or are in the process of faltering or, worse, imploding (the latter).

Of course, the dearth of one or more Viables of a true Conservative nature is of tremendous assistance to these three ideologically imperfect volunteers, but the longer we go without one enlisting the more resolute the base will become about their individual choices amongst those from whom they have to choose.

First and foremost, the Elephantary primary deciders know that foreign issues trump those domestic, certainly so when we are faced with a resolute enemy therefrom that seeks our destruction (as we almost always are; Bill Clinton was fabulously fortunate in his Presidential timing). Unlike the current Democrat Congressional majority, these voters are not at all unclear as to whether this is a global War on Terror (it is) or merely President George W. Bush’s flight of Islamist fancy (‘tis not).

A Pro-Life Gun Nut’s Case for Rudy Giuliani, Part III

Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:12:49 -0500

Wrong and straightforward trumps disingenuousness and disinterest

And They Are Off (Congressman Tom Tancredo the UnViable at Left)

After analytical Parts I and II (to be found here and here), there are two remaining facets of Rudy Giuliani’s record and disposition, juxtaposed with his those of his Viable co-primaryists Mitt Romney and John McCain, that serve to explain his large early lead.

The first of these is his uncomplicated admission of his incorrect positions, most specifically his stance on the act of aborting unborn babies. When queried thereon, he directly acknowledges his Elephantary differences on this vital base issue, but then goes on to point out his like-mindedness on a whole host of related matters, amongst them judicial activism and tyranny and the right of the people to decide these sorts of things for themselves.

A Pro-Life Gun Nut’s Case for Rudy Giuliani, Part II

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:44 -0500

Prospectively desirous of making him Mayor of Baghdad

I Hear You

Essayist’s Note: This series was meant to be an explanation, not an exposition.

I received a great deal of response to Part I of this effort, most of it from angry Conservatives disgusted with the Republican primary lot (a pox on all their houses of cards, as it were), and many others making the case for others amongst the un-UnViables (mostly for Mitt Romney; very few Conservatives are these days going to bat for our beloved Media hero John McCain).

Some even bravely chimed in for Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter and even Mike Huckabee (although those for the latter may merely have been former employee Dick Morris and his disciples, and Jenny Craig).

Nearly all of it expressed anger with me for defending the indefensible, that being a pro-choice, gun controlling, illegal immigrant sanctuary-providing, pro-marriages (if not pro-gay marriage) Gotham escapee.

Which I, of course, had not even yet done, save for tacitly in the title.

The Latest Pitch for Border Capitulation

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:26:44 -0500

“Madame Speaker, it is Mexico on Lines 1, 2, 3, 4, …"

No No No, Your Fingers, JUST Your Fingers

Let your fingers do the walking, and then utter the utterly fatuous phrase “I support comprehensive immigration reform.” Herein lies the crux of Chapter One, entitled “One Minute and Five Words”, of a ten-part, ten week South of the Border marketing thrust aimed at inciting Mexicans to pressure America into wholesale dominion submission.

This first episode features actual cellular telephonic dialing whilst the numbers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Florida Senator and Chairman of the Republican National Committee Mel Martinez are delivered in verbal slow motion. All the better to serve as audio and visual aides (for those apparently barely able to stride and chew Stride simultaneously) to entice citizens of Mexico to contact leading members of the United States Congress to lobby them, and thereby us, on how we need to fundamentally change how we address the enforcement of our shared border to better suit their desires.

A Pro-Life Gun Nut’s Case for Rudy Giuliani

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:03:16 -0500

Why The Mayor is acceptable, and the other flawed Republicans are not

Part I

Editor's Note: To avoid singular incessant meandering into periphrastic oblivion, we have halved this analysis of the current Republican Presidential Primary field.

Bereft Only Of The Powdered Wig

Let us at the outset address the obvious.

William F. Buckley, the Founding Father of the modern ideology, once said “You are either conservative, or you are a Conservative”. Meaning you have some of the appropriate tendencies, or you are a fully formed member of the movement.

I am decidedly all-in, in Texas Hold ‘Em parlance. The moment former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich enters the Republican Presidential primary, there I will be. Solid but undistinguished Conservative former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is now also flirting with the notion, but he does not fan the ideological flame the way Gingrich does, and I do not see him galvanizing the vaunted base the way Newt would.

The Audacity of Obama's Church

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:21:11 -0600

Racial identity politics with a religious chaser

The Baskin-Robbins Man of the Moment

Illinois Democrat Senator Barrack Hussein Obama is, of course, the Media Darling for President this next go ‘round, at least du jour and for the moment.

He is a man of inordinately limited experience, but that by no means serves to dampen the enthusiasm and in fact could not matter less to the Jurassic Press charged with providing the information We the People are to use in doing the choosing.

He is, however, a man of much ballyhooed heritage, being the progeny of a black Kenyan father and an Irish mother. Lacking a substantive political past, it appears the Media has chosen to instead focus on his biological one.

Obama is undoubtedly more than happy for the distraction. ...

Two Better Names For the Incredibly Misnomered "Employee Free Choice Act"

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:41:16 -0600

Alternative, and we posit far more accurate, names for this Silly Bill

Please, By All Means, Go Right Ahead and Vote

The Saddam Hussein Election Imitation Act

One was, in those heady Hussein days, afforded the opportunity to vote for President in Iraq, but you had to put your name and address on your ballot.

The Democrats are now seeking to ensconse just this sort of liberative labor balloting in work places all across the land to better benefit their otherwise ever-dwindling union backers. ...

I Could Have Been A Free Worker

The On the Waterfront Act

For the Marlon Brando movie.

If you have not yet seen this classic, and you are a Conservative, much shame be upon you. How many movies were (or are) willing to cast a trade union and its hierarchy as the villian(s). That this gem was mined in 1954 makes it now prophetic as well as kinetic.

If you are not sure if you have taken this all in, perhaps this dialogue excerpt will ring a bell: ...

College IS For Dummies

Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:17:59 -0600

This is an excerpt from Seton Motley’s Introduction to a book he is co-writing with Luis Corchon entitled College IS for Dummies: How Liberalism, and Rudimentary Sense, Have Laid Low Higher Education. Seton wasted his parents money and his time at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Luis is founder and President of On Call 25/8, a computer and network solutions company; he has been tremendously successful in several technological business endeavors, bereft of any post-secondary education whatsoever.

Education, Meet Knowledge

Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive.

The above is a personal maxim devised, a conclusion reached, while I was still involved (early on, in fact) in the formal scholastic process here in the United States.

I utilize “often”, and not “always”, for two reasons. At the first, universal statements are at all times incorrect and should absolutely never be utilized. At the last, there is a great deal that can be gleaned and gained from an engagement of an official educative system; just not the one we have, as currently constituted, here.

It is an axiom of an accord with, if not exactly identical to, the venerable Mark Twain’s statement, “I never let schooling interfere with my education”.

Three Muslim Civil Wars

Mon, 1 Jan 2007 18:12:36 -0600

And the Liberal intellectual schism and disingenuousness they reveal

Baghdad

Voting From An Undisclosed Location

The Democrats, and the Leftists who bring up their ideological and fiscal rear, have spent the better part of this last year past decrying Iraq as an Islamic inter-intifada with which we have no business and in which we should play no further part.

Some in their ranks, and their Trumpeteers in the Media, have (at the very least partially) misread the results of November’s Republican self-inflicted coup de grâce as the sign of these times for which they seek, an excuse to again execute a Vietnam-esque abandonment of a foreign commitment we have made to people who have put very much more than their electoral lives on the line.

The Symbiotic Conjoining of Liberalism and Militant Islam

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:53:08 -0600

Useful Idiot and Leftist Mascot, in harmonic convergence

Originally published on December 29th, 2006, by Human Events.

Not So Much

We are now five years in to our more pronounced focus on the perverse ideology of the global collective that is the waging of Jihad and the push to Caliphate. There are facets of this, latest bit of Evil that are stridently reminiscent of characteristics of Evils past, and to paraphrase the old George Santayana saw, we who do not recognize history are condemned to repeat it.

The recidivist similarity that most readily leaps to mind is the anti-Semitism and Holocaustic intent of Nazism then and Islamism now. It is more than difficult to delineate quotes culled from Adolf Hitler and his minions circa World War II from those emanating from a whole panoply of mullahs, sheiks and Muslim thugocracy representatives and publications currently plying their Jew hatred all across the planet today.