Diana West Weighs In Again -- PTS

Diana West, who has been arguing for sometime that we should leave the Middle East entirely, seal off our country's borders and economy from Muslims from the Middle East now has an ally  for her position in  a prominent British Labor politician, Kim Howells, who made news in Great Britain this week with a proposal summed up under the Guardian headline: "It's time to pull out of Afghanistan and take the fight to Bin Laden in Britain."  As Diana says, coming from a former Foreign Office minister who has supported the war in Afghanistan, "this proposal is guaranteed to crack the UK war debate wide open, something that has yet to happen in the US". Read her article here.  In another recent article here, Ms West discusses the evolution of the current administration's policy regarding jihad and the Islamic faith, the US military's embrace of politically correct diversity in the army, and concludes Americans are at serious risk.  

Obama Hates America

American Spectator columnist Mark Hyman describes here, why he believes Obama viscerally hates America.  It seems quite clear, based on his past associations and what he wrote in his autobiography, that he does truly despise America.  Many warned from the  beginning of Obama's campaign for the presidency that not enough was known about his past, and what was known was deeply concerning.  Hyman has catalogued all these incidents prior to and since his election that lead him to the conclusion Obama truly despises America.  It is difficult to imagine how Obama supporters can refute this devastating recitation of evidence, to be sure they will try.  Obama is a fraud, a narcissistic strutting peacock, whose election to the highest office in the land will haunt this country for at least three more years.  The damage he is doing and can do is incalculable.  He and his administration must be resisted.

ADDED 5/16/10:  Victor Davis Hanson lays out his view of Obama's career here, rise to the presidency, and more.  The comments section of this post is an interesting read in that there are lots of theories as to what O is up to, how he got where he is, and what is going to happen in the future.

Pelosi/Obamacare what's really in the just passed outrageous bill -- PTS

The Wall Street Journal reporter Betsy McCaughey tells us here, what's in the bill just passed in the House.  Horrifying, unless you're a socialist or a government employee.  Forgive me, I repeat myself.  This bill has no redeeming features whatsoever. None.  While healthcare reform is necessary and desirable, the creation of 111 new bureaucracies to administer rules, regulations and prices is not the reform we need.  Market based incentives, beginning by eliminating the employer based third party payer system we now have, creation of HSAs for everyone, allowing interstate insurance company competition, tort reform with teeth, and cleaning up the fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid are a few starters.  Not one of these reforms are in the monster program created by the socialist in the WH and the HoR.  The Democrats are insane.

The Horror and Lessons of Communism -- PTS

 Click here, for a fascinating blog by C.J. Rummel, a political scientist of great repute (taught at Yale, among many other "elite" schools).   His subject is demotics or the murder of human beings by oppressive regimes, mostly communist.  This enlightening blog is replete with charts that provide the specific numbers of deaths caused by the various totalitarian regimes over the past century of the experiment with communism.  Mr. Rummel has written extensively on warfare, it's causes, results, and avoidance.  It's no surprise that he offers extensive evidence that democracies rarely, if ever,  attack one another and are, by far, the best antidote to general warfare.  His home page provides access to much of his work over many years in the study of war and it's cause.  Fascinating stuff.

The Left and the Hasan outrage -- PTS

In his most recent article here, J.R. Dunn, a regular contributor to The American Thinker emagazine, has captured the essence of the reaction of the leftmedia, its ennablers and assorted fellow travelers, to the Muslim Hasan's murderous rampage at Ft. Hood.  Dunn does a first rate job of providing the history of the leftists in this country dating back to the '50's McCarthy era and the "witch hunt" atmosphere then that gave them the "cover" ever since to undermine the legitimate efforts of various Republican administrations to provide for the security of the American people.  His message is a call to arms for those of us not infected with the deadly virus (pacifism, anti-Americanism, socialism) of the left to stand up to them, shuck our normal reluctance to be abrasive and confrontational, take down names and numbers and begin to call them out.  Much like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are no doing on their radio and TV programs.  No more Mr. Nice Guy.