BRUSHFIRES OF FREEDOM

"We refuse to 'get it,' and you can't make us!"

Three events this last week of June of 2007 point out utter pitifulness in the UK and America.

First, in the UK, two London car bombs were detected and neutralized before people could be harmed on Friday, 29 June.  Second, the following day, two "Asian-appearing men" ran a burning suv into the front of the Glascow, Scotland airport.  Everything coming from England on the news has the talking heads speaking of persons from the "Indian subcontinent," perhaps, and "al Qaeda," perhaps.  No one is being caught dead naming the obvious.

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Few things take the pleasure out of day quite like the daily news, national and international.  Much of the daily email falls into the same category.  However, I was honored to receive what surely is the greatest, get-rich-instantly plan on earth, and it came by email.  I won't spoil it by over-hyping it.  It speaks for itself.

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Boy, Did These Chickens Come Home to Roost!

The op-ed page of the New York Times for Sunday, 17 June 2007, carried an article that was one of the best illustrations of the effects of philosophy that I have read in quite some time.  By "philosophical," I mean what Lord Bolingbroke meant when he wrote in 17th century England, "History is philosophy teaching by example."

The op-ed was entitled "Where the Arts Were Too Liberal" and was written by Michael Goldfarb, who has worked extensively with National Public Radio.  He writes from a decidedly modern liberal (Left) perspective but has retained more objectivity than most modern liberals.  What he writes should be an exceptionally useful teaching example in objective university philosophy courses (which eliminates most of them).  Most university philosophy departments are strongly akin to the philosophy that killed Antioch College, the subject of this op-ed.

REVIEW: god is not Great

[Hitchens, Christopher:  god is not Great, How religion poisons everything; Twelve, Hachete Book Group USA, NY; 2007; ISBN-13 = 978-0-446-57980 and ISBN-10 = 0-446-57980-7]

The publisher's summary states that this book is "A case against religion and a description of the ways religion is man-made."  Although accurate, this summary just does not tell you how much fun this book is to read.  I want to tell that, and more.

[Continued on The New Enlightenment]

THE KEYSTONE TO THE BUSH LEGACY: IRAN

The Executive Branch of the United States of America government has an unenviable track record regarding Iran.  It spans the administrations of Jimmy Carter and EVERY president through to George W. Bush.  It is "uneviable" because it is a moral travesty.  Every president from Carter on has acted with moral cowardice toward Iran, and that includes the mighty Ronald Reagan.  However, none has done worse than George W. Bush.

Why Are We Letting Islam Exist?

Yes, that title question is meant to be provocative.  Yes, there is doubtless no way that we can stop Islam from existing.  However, and yes, there are rational ways to isolate Islam, essentially neutralizing it, somewhat similar to the "wisdom" of the body in isolating foreign bodies.

Rational men and women should not be bothered with something as irrational as Islam.  They should sequester it and do whatever is needed to render it harmless to themselves and their values.  Then, they should inflict the worst possible punishment on Islam and all its adherents:  They should ignore Islam 100% and require Islamists have only themselves all the time.

Great Westerns for Television: Gunsmoke

My pace of life picked up very significantly about the time the B western movies died away in the mid-1950s. What I had time left for were radio dramas, which still existed and were very entertaining in the mid-1950s. My favorite then and now remains the original radio series Gunsmoke.

Radio Gunsmoke started in 1952 and ended in 1961. I feel damned lucky to have caught so many of the broadcasts at the time. Even now, I still love listening to their reruns whenever I am lucky enough to find an "old time radio" series being rebroadcast on radio these days. William Conrad was Matt Dillon, and he was terrific. What a voice and dramatization of the spoken language he commanded. He would have been a magnificent Matt Dillon on television except for one thing--he had a major body weight problem, which James Arness, the one and only television Matt Dillon, never had.

Still, if you are too young to have enjoyed radio dramas, you missed the exhilarating exercise of your imagination. If you are a child of television, you have no idea what you missed, and you probably never will know the thrills that those with radio only knew through art via the radio.

As those magnificent B western movies went into history, the new medium of television treated them as though they were manna from heaven. The new medium of television really started out trying to figure out just what it was. Everything was a novelty to television. We have all seen myriad kinescope recordings of the early live variety shows and the earlier recorded live dramas. Television enjoyed no sophistication in its infancy, so it turned to movies to fill in for all the lacking original programming.

[Continued on Nous American.]

Some Thoughts About the Immigration Problem

From: The Neglected Truths of the Immigration Debate:

1. Any plan that can't be enforced is no improvement.

2. Poor and unskilled immigrants are expensive for the rest of society.

3. A large supply of unskilled immigrant labor benefits some groups and hurts others.

4. The is nothing wrong in insisting that immigrants serve American interests, not vice versa.

5. Citizenship is precious, and carries with it serious obligations.

6. Border security is well within our grasp, and is a precondition for the success of other immigration changes.

7. Successful reform will come on step at a time, not all at once in a comprenesive package.

There are other solutions besides mass deportation that seems to be "troubling to so many" who wish to force a transformation of the United States:

1. Attrition through enforcement;

2. Strict enforcement of immigration laws;

3. Cracking down on fraudulent social security numbers and other false identification;

4. Reducing benefits for illegals;

5. Being vigilant about visa overstays;

Possibilities:

1. Taxing remittances;

2. Reforming the anchor baby provision of the Fourteenth Amendment;

3. Reversing Plyer vs. Doe, the Supreme Court decision forcing public schools to educate alien children

It would take a lot of guts to apply any one of these measures. It not likely that our pandering, gutless politicians will follow through.

Being Uplifted

The centennary of John Wayne came so close in time with the anniversary of D Day that they seem spiritually connected as one flowed into the other.

Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics, and Encore Westerns reran a number of John Wayne movies.  Some get little showing these days, but he did a number of patriotic themed movies during World War II, and, of course, for the rest of his career.  A few of those WWII movies were new, but they had stellar casts, good scripts, and heart-felt acting.

In addition, History Channel, the Military Channel, and other history related "cable channels" ran a number of programs related to World War II.

There Is No Birthright To Citizenship For Children Born to Illegal Aliens In The U.S.

Whew! It appears that our national sovereignty has received a slight respite!

While we are catching our breath, crossing our fingers, and trying to drum some sense into our legislators (Bush is hopeless), let's consider what the Fourteenth Amendment REALLY means.

I have blogged on this subject before, and in 2002, Robert Locke published an enlightening article in Frontpage Magazine. Now, June 8 2007, in The Patriot Post, there is another very fine discussion of the meaning of this Amendment.

In short, both articles document the fact that the children born to people who are illegally in the United States, the "anchor babies," are not American citizens.

The whole issue revolves about the phrase in the Amendment which reads "...subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

This phrase was inserted precisely to avoid the problem of "anchor babies" that we are experiencing today. Please read both articles - today's from The Patriot Post, printed below, and the one from Frontpage.mag.