The Freedom Robbers

The world is once again at a crossroads. Beauty pageant contestants who defend normality are pilloried and hounded relentlessly by the homosexual-supporting cabal that is the mainstream media. An innocuous American talk show host is banned from England. Wahhab fanatics are permitted to spout all manner of incitement against infidels and so-called apostate Muslims on soapboxes in European capitals, but Mike Savage is simply too dangerous with his "borders, language, culture" idea to be tolerated in the country that spawned the Shoe Bomber and the 7/7 murder spree. The world cowers before Islamist expansionism that seeks to subjugate, convert, or murder. America, the storehouse of liberty, is reduced to an apologetic, socialist enterprise mimicking the European countries from which so many Americans or their progenitors fled. The world embraces promoters of abortion on demand, euthanasia for the weak and inconvenient, a life of homosexual promiscuity that leads to the spread of disease and hastens death, but God-forbid a Miss USA runner up have discreet photos taken as a model which is her occupation or a radio host warn homosexuals that they should rally against Iran which is hanging their Persian brethren from cranes-perversion and forced submission to Islam are perfectly acceptable-only speaking against them is an intolerable act. Where is Tom Paine when we need him?

Feeling Their Oats

I dare not make a blanket statement about public employees, as I realize that in every large organization, there are dedicated people, but their morale must really be sapped when because of the structure of government employee unions, they see those who are derelict, compensated equally, if not more, advanced when they do not merit promotion, and minority status or national origin, confer preference over hard work and ability (affirmative action). Today, for the second time in three months, our city's recycling program has been haphazard and left refuse strewn over my yard and more important, blowing around the street I live on which happens to be a US Highway. They have created a road hazard and a danger for me when I had to dart around traffic to abate it. If I had tossed newspapers to blow into oncoming traffic, I would have ended up in environmental court and deserved it. The attitude when I called the city was to either mock my predicament or give me the call another number runaround. This is what happens when public employees are no longer public servants but view themselves as our lords and masters with an ironclad tenure of a job for life with a progressive mayor who backs them, right up to a US President who feels if you are not a part of the team pulling with him in your government or union job, you can go screw yourself. It is a shame that our formerly great nation is devolving to the extent that you need a writ of mandamus or a media crew by your side to get public workers to do the job that you are being bled dry for with your tax payments.

Recipe for Disaster

The Obama administration is going to display strength and an iron will. Obama will not direct the might of America against the murderous Sudanese regime. We will not send forces in to thwart the Taliban in Pakistan. US troops will not overturn the last Stalinist outpost with its cult of personality starving millions in North Korea. The US will sit silently as Iran develops a nuclear weapon apace with the avowed intention of destroying Israel, according to Iran's chief of staff as he recently stated in "eleven days". America will never flex muscle in Latin America as the freedom crushing forces of Hugo Chavez and the Reds crawl across the continent, accomplishing what they were never able to do with the backing of the Soviet Union. Where America will show her mettle will be against the tiny Jewish enclave with its democratic principles, its polyglot status having welcomed refugees from all over the world, even Muslims fleeing Darfur, and its tolerance which permits vigorous opposition parties, even Arab ones, all groups access to their religious sites, and even homosexual "love parades" that rival Berlin's, this bastion of Western values in the vast desert of Arab tyranny. If Israel does not dance to Obama's tune, committing slow suicide by welcoming the creation of a hostile entity dedicated to overcoming the rest of the Jewish state and refusing to recognize it as a Jewish state from the start, Obama will squeeze Israel to death. Obama can actively strangle Israel, he may allow Iran to finish off the "Zionist enterprise", he may permit Israel to be extinguished in dribs and drabs by simply having the US delegate abstain or not veto progressively more crushing measures enacted against Israel by the United Nations. US Jews who widely supported Obama who have any affinity for Israel allowed themselves to be deceived by the close relationship Obama enjoyed with his Jewish aides, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. These men are witting or unwitting kapos who place their highest loyalty to their boss, not to any nation, the US or certainly not the Jewish state. Israel's only option is a first strike to incapacitate the Iranian menace, whether or not Netanyahu agrees to the creation of a Palestinian state and initiates the piecemeal destruction of his own country or stands strong and maintains a sovereign Israel in defensible borders, refusing to place a knife at her own heart.

Nashville's Convention Center

The city of Nashville (the author's hometown) is proposing a new convention center with a cost estimated at half a billion dollars (which will surely be exceeded). This expenditure at a time of economic contraction is foolhardy. Las Vegas with every attraction in the world can not sustain convention business and tourism. How can Nashville, without even a theme park hope to compete with the Orlandos and gambling capitals of America and the world? This over-ambitious project will create some temporary construction jobs, largely no doubt, filled by illegal aliens who dominate the construction industry here (the labor pool for construction, anyway). This may seem like inside baseball for non-Tennesseans, but inevitably Federal dollars are diverted for a project this enormous. Besides, this sort of New Deal stimulus spending will spread all over the nation unless we stand in the way now.

Incitement and Lies

Freedom House has reduced Israel's rating from free to partly free in that organization's latest assessment of freedom of the press. It is remarkable to me that Israel allows in consistently anti-Jewish reporters along with the young troublemakers of the International Solidarity Movement who make it a point to provoke Israeli security forces by participating in illegal assembly and rioting. I do not see robust reporting taking place against government interests in any Arab or Muslim country. Iran has even recently imprisoned an American reporter of Iranian extraction for imagined espionage. Read Haaretz with its consistent criticism of any Israeli action of self-defense and an editorial policy that delegitimizes the Israeli state and then try to say Israel's press is not free.

The Short Fall

Often when a society succumbs to a revolutionary movement, an epic struggle is involved (or a myth of one is created). Russia only turned red after Lenin was exiled, made his way back, and overcame a Tsar and then the Mensheviks to consolidate power. Mao Zedong had his long march and his battle with the nationalists of Chang Hai Chek and his Kuomintang. Castro fought his way out of the mountains and into power with Che at his side. The Ayatollah Khomeini made his way back from banishment in Paris to declare the Islamic Republic. All our harebrained Hawaiian had to do was win (steal) an election. Note: I am thinking about rechristening our less than glorious leader "the half-baked Hawaiian" because his lack of preparedness for office has been manifested in his being rolled by foreign leaders at each of his international confabs or "the ly'in Hawaiian" because of his broken promises about bipartisanship, good government (a cabinet of tax cheats), and openness.

Two Different Worlds

I am a reader (and occasional editorial contributor) of the Jerusalem Post. I could not help but to remark on two stories that have appeared there in recent days. One story reports that Israel is ignoring illegal Palestinian construction rather than dismantling it as they so often have done with Jewish building (perhaps not wanting to inflame world sensibilities and the already hostile international press) which can be readily contrasted with what happens when Jews build in the so-called occupied territories, so called because Jew-baiters and their self-loathing Jewish peacenik accomplices call them occupied. If natural growth occurs in Judea and Samaria, families grow with children being born necessitating a bedroom addition, a young couple marries and moves out of the homes of parents into a house of their own, a Jew who has made aliyah is joyous because she has had a family member perhaps from the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former Soviet Union) join them but now requires someplace larger, peace patsies like Peace Now document this as colonialist expansionism and present it to the world as an act of aggression against the Palestinians. The Palestinians hold up this burgeoning which would be deemed normal and celebrated as progress any where else in the world as a crime against humanity. Even the US State Department chimes in with the bloom of new or expanding Jewish life on G-d given land being called "unhelpful" or a violation by Israel of past agreements and an obstacle to peace. When a so-called settler builds a shed, I'm surprised if the Security Council does not call a special session to abhor this reprehensible act. Let me now contrast this report with the story that actually appeared first. Anwar Brigith, a 59 year old Palestinian, is to face the ultimate sanction-death-for selling land to Jews. While this has received some coverage, there seems no great outrage in world public opinion which would surely be hysterical if Jews had a law mandating death for their brethren who had commerce with Muslims. How can there be any peace with so pervasive a genocidal and uncompromising mindset ( as Brigith's plight illustrates) on the Palestinian side? Why is there an international fetish against Jews who build, but virtual silence about Arabs who destroy?