Israel's Gaza Quarantine

Gaza as it exists now is in the thrall of Hamas and is therefore afflicted with a fever that promotes the genocide of world Jewry. Israel's blockade of Gaza is limited to supplies of war or those materials with dual uses that could facilitate the construction of fortifications, tunnels, or bunkers. As Barack Hussein Obama meets today with Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, Obama demands that the Jewish state lift all restrictions on what the Jewish state permits into the terrorist-controlled enclave- really. It has long been said that if the Arabs disarm, there would be peace, and if the Jews put down their weapons, there would, in short order, be no Jews. This has never been more true than the situation that prevails at this moment. The West is portraying Israel as Goliath with huge boot on the throat of infant Palestine rather than the reality that Israel is still David under the guns of a half a billion Arabs and a billion and a half Muslims now joined by the growing menace of Persian nukes emanating from Iran. Do not pity the poor Palestinians who have rejected every offer of peace up to and including Ehud Olmert's offer of 95% of the West Bank and continue incitement to murder Jews unabated. If Israel were to follow President Obama's diktat and clear the path to Gaza, does anyone doubt that all sorts of munitions would enter that territory to be turned against the Jews? If Israel concedes to Obama, a virtually endless supply of Kassams to launch at Israel would be bound to be constructed in the Gaza Strip and more accurate and destructive Katyusha rockets would be supplied through the newly opened Gaza port. Hamas has always used any weapon at its disposal to attack Jews and also, incidentally, has American blood on its hands as well, including in all likelihood, the three State Department security personnel murdered by a roadside bomb in Gaza on October 15, 2003. If Israel removes impediments to Hamas acquiring arms, they will be directed against Israel and Israel will be bound to respond to defend herself from the reinforced Hamas. Israel will retaliate. Ironically, if Israel complies with what Obama is pressing them to do, and implements Obama's suggestion that free access to and from Gaza somehow advances peace, Obama is actually assuring a regional war where Iran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, will jump in to the fray, certainly aided by Syria and this might well be the spark to ignite many of the rest of the Arab states hostile to Israel to have a go at the Jewish state, who they feel they have successfully weakened with their campaign to delegitimize and isolate the tiny democracy.

Our Constitution's Enemy

Does enough common sense remain in the United States Senate Republican delegation to do what is necessary (a filibuster) to thwart the rise of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court? We are not talking courage here on the part of the GOP, merely rejecting a candidate for the court more manifestly unqualified for our highest court than roundly rejected George W. Bush prospect Harriet Miers. At least Miers was not a partisan hack bent on undermining the Constitutional basis of our government by judicial fiat. Kagan has stated arguing before the Supreme Court that the Federal government has the authority to ban pamphlets. This position is a direct assault on the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. If pamphlets are subject to such restriction- what about books, newspapers, debate of all sorts on the Internet? As to the right to keep and bear arms as propounded by the Second Amendment, Kagan had the nerve to compare the National Rifle Association, an organization that reverences our Constitution and laws, to the Ku Klux Klan. Obviously, Ms. Kagan has little respect for either of the first two articles of our Bill of Rights. Kagan is an opponent of the freedoms and immunities afforded by Natural Law and codified in the US Constitution that have made us America.

The Final Fourth

A whirlwind has arisen to extinguish the flame of liberty/ Heard with martial drumbeat since the Yorktown victory/ To quiet into silence the heart of man that yearns to beat free/ These rights should never be forsaken as they redound to us from on High/ And to preserve them, men have gladly paid the price and watched their brothers die/ To wrest these natural rights from George- a foreign king/ Was bought in bloody battle and no easy thing/ Not communal rights descended from some book/ From socially just intentions or giving Marx a look/ Will those in ivory towers who have mocked it for so long/ Still be laughing at it when liberty is gone/ Once freedom vanishes that they seem to scorn/ Will they see the error in their ways and our lost liberty mourn?/ Those who hid behind her shield but never bore the cost/ Yet used the license granted to saw it to the ground/ Will reckon only memory when what is lost can not be found/ 'Twas just an oft repeated fable told to children with glee/ When freedom has done passing into history/ Stop the tyrants now/ Before our fate is sealed/ It is not yet cast in stone/ We can still be healed/ Take the message here revealed- Shine bright this beacon liberty/ Stand fast this blood-bought honor/ Let this not be the last vestige of a nation great/ Remembered only with sorrow.

Steve Cohen: Defeatist

Steve Cohen, one of the members of the United States House representing the Memphis, Tennessee area and a Democrat, showed his true colors yesterday, which are white as in the flag of surrender and yellow as in a coward of the lowest order. Cohen echoed what we heard as the the Bush/ Petraeus troop surge was taking place from the then and current but soon to be replaced US Senate majority leader Harry Reid (Democrat, Nevada), then in the context of Iraq but now in regard to Afghanistan- that "the war is lost". If this attitude had prevailed when Bush authorized the surge, Iraq would likely now be in Iran's hands as Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army would have mobilised the Shia majority of Iraq into confederation with their nuclear bomb seeking brethren in Iran (or Iraq could have descended into utter nihilistic terrorist chaos with ethnic strife escalating into total open warfare between the Kurds, the Shia, and the Sunnis who would be aided by the Saudis and in common cause with al-Qaeda). If Cohen/Reid type of thinking had won the day in World Wars I or II, the United States would obviously have been defeated. When ever we have suffered reversals in earlier campaigns, when we have faced setbacks as is inevitable in every endeavor (as we are fallible as human beings), when the going got tough as happens every time troops are forward deployed where people are doing their best to kill them, we have persevered. If a change in tactics or strategy is necessary, by all means do all that is possible to create conditions for victory. If rules of engagement (ROE) are too restrictive and bind and endanger our troops, free them up to fight. It is an abomination to deploy forces and then tie their hands or make them fight with inferior tools and shortages of men and material. We must call upon our NATO allies to follow through with their commitments where they have been trying to work on the cheap and free the ROE where air, close air, and artillery support can perform the role they have traditionally played since the US entered World War II to overcome the adversaries' advantages of knowing the terrain and hiding within the local populace. Our concern to avert civilian casualties is being cynically used by the Taliban to do our troops on the ground great harm. We should have no pity for the Afghan people who sat by silent and allowed al-Qaeda to marshal the forces for the September 11, 2001 attacks on Afghan soil and gladly send opium poison to the rest of the world. The Afghans are no more innocent than the German or Japanese people who we directed our righteous wrath against during World War II. Why should we care more for their welfare than they do themselves? William Tecumseh Sherman, who ravaged much of the Southern part of our own nation during the US Civil War, said famously "war is hell". Let me amplify that, war is not a lemonade social but the most difficult endeavor on which man can embark and there is only one way to wage it- ruthlessly.

The Great Recovery

Not since the halcyon days of Herbert Hoover have we seen such glorious economic news. The number crunchers who fix the outcomes to make the Obama administration look good actually said unemployment was down two-tenths of one percent in a month where 125,000 jobs were lost and more than six hundred thousand unemployed simply gave up the job search or settled for marginal employment. How much more of this Obama prosperity can we afford?

Another Artless Dodger

It is Obama's lobster boil and we who love freedom are all his luscious little crustaceans. And the latest chef to join the lineup of liberty robbers and cook US is Elena Kagan, almost certain to be confirmed to her place on the nation's highest court unless she burns the American flag at her Senate hearings. Kagan's performance has been an abysmal insult to thinking people. She proclaims she does not know what "progressive" means, yet she is somehow fit to judge on the nation's Supreme Court. Her answers have been cagey. She has been evasive not about how she would rule on cases that could come before the Court in the future but on virtually every question a Republican Senator has asked her while she has been massaged and stroked by her Senate Democrats who are in her corner and have her back, not allowing the GOP to really press Kagan. Kagan is so unctuous that I have had to shower after watching the hearings and she is contemptuous of the public and the process with answers that are insults- do not insult our intelligence, your slipperiness is not artful, it just makes you and the President who selected you look like idiots. But any Obama high court choice will be a doctrinaire leftist sent up to hide these views that are anathema to much of the electorate at Senate confirmation hearings. Elena- you may portray yourself as an insouciant ignoramus to get by and stand over us as you rule from the bench pushing abortion on demand and banning our guns, but you have not fooled anybody, America knows exactly what you are.

Leaving Space Behind

Barack Hussein Obama promised in his campaign for the highest office to be the "science President", emphasizing what he saw as his difference with George W. Bush who was lampooned as something of a Luddite. One of the areas of science where great progress had been made by the United States has been space exploration. America is the only nation to have put men on the moon, has led in the development of satellite technology, and there have been numerous subsidiary benefits from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranging far beyond Velcro and Tang. Yet our so-called science President is gutting NASA, limiting resources dramatically for future space exploration and a return for man to the moon, and all but destroying the prospect of a manned mission to Mars, all while killing the Space Shuttle program and leaving the thousands of workers associated with it, particularly those in Florida, jobless or in retraining programs with no real prospect of finding other employment in the teeth of the Obama recession which some are euphemistically calling our jobless recovery. The original purpose of America's entry into the space race was of course national defense, embarked upon after the Soviet Union gained an early advantage by launching Sputnik. Now, the United States is contracting out all our journeys to the International Space Station to the Russians, the very same nation who we have just accused of spying on us. And it only gets worse from there with the Obama administration pursuing space cooperation with Communist China who already used contacts with President Clinton's administration to gain Loral technology that was supposed to be for peaceful space research to accuracize her missiles and create MIRVs, in this case multiple independently targeted warheads attached to one intercontinental ballistic missile. So we will be sharing our most high tech advancements with a nation Red China which is definitely seeking regional domination and may well be after world hegemony. It is uncertain what China will be giving us in this relationship as they are clearly several generations of technology behind us, so they have everything to gain and nothing to lose in a space partnership with America. Obama is about to give away our technological advantage.