Palestinians Venerate Murder

The corpses of Palestinian terrorists including so-called suicide bombers, some held by Israel since the 1970s, were returned to the Palestinians today. The remains were greeted with orgiastic fervor as Palestinians once again demonstrated the Jihadi credo that they "love death" more than the infidel loves life. Their reception of shahid who have slaughtered non-combatants demonstrate one more illustration of corporate depravity wherein their can be no compromise between Islamists and those who revere the inherent order of civilization (such as Israel as the regional representative of Western values). The heart of Islam is too often trapped in a seventh century world where imagined sorcerers are to this day beheaded by sword in Saudi Arabia and Palestinians pray their progeny walk into Jew-laden cafes with bomb vests to detonate themselves into the forever paradise of murdering martyrs who rise to seventy-two virgin heaven soaked in innocent Jewish (or Christian) blood. I see no room for negotiation with this nihilist brand of fanaticism.

All Data Points

Mitt Romney locked in the Republican Presidential nomination last night with his victory in Texas and America's conservatives are now left with the former Massachusetts governor, a committed conciliator and arch-moderate as our Hobson's Choice. I will embrace Governor Romney though as if he is Ronald Reagan reanimated, simply because he has the great good fortune of not being Barack Hussein Obama. Voters are left weighing an overt Leftist who is spending US into oblivion or a midway moderate who does not want to rock the boat too much. I hope America will not allow Obama and his flacks to paint Romney as a capitalist ogre bent on starving the poor but I know the dinosaur media will do their level best to keep Barry in the White House.

Is Spain Next?

With Greece in a shambles and dragging down Europe, could Spain be next? Spain has unique financial weakness because of a national push away from fossil fuels and toward "green energy" that destroyed the manufacturing sector that accompanies the socialist policies already undermining the other European economic basket cases. Spain like Greece may already be past saving and ironically, instead of heeding this warning, the United States Barack Hussein Obama has mimicked the policies that broke Spain, right down to pushing solar and wind energy with massive subsidies while crippling coal and oil with burdensome regulation and onerous taxes. If you see a man drowning because he will not let go of an anvil, you probably should not jump into the water carrying an anvil yourself.

Holding the Gains

Hearing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff talking on ABC's morning show for Memorial Day, one worries if America is being led by those who refuse to take off their rose-colored glasses. With eighty thousand US troops still in country, Afghanistan remains a tinderbox that could still fall back into the hands of the Taliban, particularly if American troops withdraw precipitously. A schedule for our forces exit from a conflict zone can never be set in stone and really should never be published as it only tells our enemies to harass us as we are departing to claim credit for chasing the last superpower away or simply allows adversaries to keep their powder dry until the US military leaves. We do not want all our treasure spent and more important, our blood sacrifice, to have gone for nothing.

America Was Attacked

Somehow, less than eleven years after the event, some Americans are ready to bury their head in the sand. On this Memorial Day, we can not as a nation forget the brutal attack on Manhattan of September 11, 2001, where innocent civilians were slaughtered in the thousands and the assault on the Pentagon that same infamous day. A nation at peace was thrust into our ongoing conflict when we were assailed by atavists from Afghanistan. The United States can never go back to the isolationist complacency it enjoyed on September Tenth, Two Thousand One, just as we never could or should have returned to a December 6, 1941 mindset before Pearl Harbor awakened us from our REM-state slumber. Peace is the dream that is only earned when some of our own heroes rest atop the enemy their sacrifice helped vanquish.

It Worked Once

America's dumbest voters allowed themselves to be sold a bill of goods about "hope and change", once and in sufficient numbers to threaten the nation as conceived by the Founding Fathers, attack First Principles, and erode human liberty not only here in the US but worldwide. Now, Barack Hussein Obama has left his marching through Georgia smoldering tracks across large segments of the economy, ironically, including those he was purportedly trying to help such as the "green" energy sector. Barry has been revealed to those willing to look as a crony capitalist, a phony leader, and a blame-shifter not willing to accept responsibility for any of his own failings but quick to take credit for other people's accomplishments and heroism such as the Navy SEALs in their killing of Osama bin Laden. Now, Obama will welcome the last President Bush back to the White House for the unveiling of the official portrait knowing full well that he and his surrogates will slime W all along the campaign trail. If I were the Bushes, I would decline the invitation but the former First Family will feel bound by tradition to graciously accept the pretend hospitality of the Obamas who obviously utterly despise George W and his country club kinfolk.

America Beyond Broke

A little discrepancy over the actual amount of the Federal deficit has arisen. It is all a matter of arcane numbers and really does not amount to much. Is it a matter of a decimal point, or a comma, or simply millions misplaced? No, nothing like that. Is the issue rising to the level of a billion or billions of dollars (that would really cause concern)? Heaven's no, mere billions does not start to tally the sum- how about trillions more in unfunded obligations that are excluded from the sum thanks to legalized accounting tricks Congress authorized some time back in a glorious CYA- and how about figuring a way to pay when the bill comes due?