On...Fractures, real or imagined

With the solid control of the Federal government the Democratic Party appears to be in a solid position and can pass what they will for they have the numbers. And they are starting to act like the teenager who has gotten hold of their parents' American Express Gold Card. The spending, short and long term, is only beginning. They want to do everything and everything costs money. Personally I can't understand the basis of it, but I can of course only watch and shake my head.

Maybe everyone should just spend like the Federal Government. Not only personally but as a nation. Republicans shouldn't even pretend they care about slowing down the nanny-state and join the party. Why should anyone be responsible? It's just other people's money. Screw the rich, damn them, take what they got and give it to the speculators and the lazy and the incompetent capitalists and the unlucky. No failure. Everyone's a king! To quote Helen Lovejoy "Won't someone please think of the children?!"

This isn't where I was planning on going, but I haven't blogged in a while though I've had a lot of ideas. The main focus was on the possible factions within the Democratic Party regarding the Energy and Green Agenda. Specifically the Clean Coal War that is brewing. I've seen the billboards all over West Virginia and elsewhere. This is clearly opposite of the California-East Coast Greenies. See the Coen Brothers Anti-Coal Ad HERE.

See this ARTICLE from the WSJ which further articulates the message. Maybe just wishful thinking for the GOP. They are equally fractured. If we are still in economic hard-times in 2012 get ready for a third party run. Bloomberg the stage is set.

On...National Review's Top 25 Conservative Films

I haven't posted because I've been both in Hilton Head and sick. Great combo, but I've come across this list that is like any good list because it instills debate. There are a few surprises here. Ultimately I wished they would have had the authors write more than a paragraph for each.

I certainly agree with the Whit Stillman selections. Why won't that guy make another movie?

NATIONAL REVIEW

On...Happy Birthday Abe

Happy Birthday!

Today marks the 200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln (and with the possible exception of George Washington) our most beloved and often misunderstood president. Myth, legend, and historical truth are bound to get blended in popular culture, especially about someone so large in our history and who died so tragically at 56 years old.

Even for someone like Lincoln his life can be narrowed down to a few key facts. Because he is so honored (outside some of the more extreme state-rights Lincoln haters and the homosexual myth-mongers) is his legacy is battle over by both sides of the political aisle. Lincoln was a Republican so obviously there is a strong connection.

However I find it very curious that he is embraced so much on the left, especially now of the Obama Adminstration. From Lincoln to Obama news stories and so on. Wow, how history can be mixed about. Understanding and reading Lincoln would give a little clearer view of what Lincoln believed in. I don't pretend to speak for him but he was a true devotee of Natural Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Again and again in speeches he denounced those who believed in Might makes Rights. Our natural rights give us might he often said. He also believed in how people "ought" to live harking back to Socrates and Cicero and the Enlightenment. And as a railroad lawyer he also understood the need for expanded commerce and the freedom from government intervention. [granted his protective tariff stance was a product of a young industrial nation] And his firm belief in truth and justice saw him through the darkest days of the Civil War, especially when he made the wrong decisions.

So as another day in our Republic's history passes let use it to encourage a reexamination of our history (the a more accurate Lincoln) and of the better angels of our nature.

On...Buying your own Island

So you want to own an island?

There's a website for that. You can create your own utopia in the South Pacific and reenact Lost or you can buy islands in Africa off the coast of Mozambique or even retire to an island with a 19th century fort on Lake Champlain in NY. It can all be yours. And what's truly amazing is that prizes aren't that outrageous for many of them. Crazy stuff.

Check it out. HERE

On...PJ O'Rourke...Funny Guy

I've always found P.J. O'Rourke funnier when Democrats are in power. Most of the stuff he wrote in the nineties was hilarious. Well the Dems are back or as he puts it the killjoys are back. Complaining about everything. The sky is falling henny-pennies. But it makes good fodder.

See his latest piece from the Weekly Standard Here

My favorite book of his is Eat the Rich. Highly recommended. Wow I just realized it is 10 years old this year!!!

On...The Normalization of Evil

Calling Evil Evil

The following is a link to an article from the father of Daniel Pearl who was murdered 7 years ago. I believe it is a powerful piece and full of questions too many Americans and for that matter people in general would like to ignore. It is also one of the reasons I cannot stand with the Left. I know not everyone on the Left or left-leaning are the people Mr. Pearl talks about but it is too many of the Left that grab the microphone and protect murderers and butchers and call it tolerance and call for police action instead of the savage wars of peace--those same self-righteous guardians of peace who denounce the Jewish state and all it stands for. As for me I stand with Daniel Pearl and his family and Israel and Western civilization and democracy and liberty. Those who know the depravity of man and study the history of man know the dark abyss of man's heart and why it must be given no mercy. When it grasps the sword of war and will not listen to reason it must be cornered and eradicated or at least isolated and caged. Though the former is preferable.

Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil

When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?