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The Coming Election

In my years on Mother Earth and in all of my voting career, I have never faced such an election as this one coming 7 November 2006.

Every choice has been the toughest choice I have faced as a voter.  I accept that it is profoundly moral to be fully involved politically as a citizen of America and a rational person.  Yet, choices have been only from "very bad" to "worst."

I have welcomed every bit of input I could find to help clarify the murky mess.  Until now, I had found nothing that was useful.  Right, Left, Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal--these mean nothing any more, except that all advocate the total opposite of reality, reason, rights and individualism, freedom and capitalism.  In psychiatry, we referred to a situation as a "double bind."  That meant that someone was compelled to do something that could not be done or should not be done.

That is how this election shapes up.  I must choose, but how?  Thankfully, some intellectual help arrived, and these are reprinted for the benefit of anyone who wants to be able to see through the thick muck of this election.

Reading these in order from parts I to III is best.

The Coming Election I

This is the first of three articles concerning the 2006 elections.  The two following articles to some extent depend on this one, but all articles stand on their own merit.  The chances are that you will not have read articles like these unless you frequent their source.  You certainly cannot afford not to read these now.

The Coming Election II

Here is the second of three articles published elsewhere but bring uniquely valuable thinking to the table about the pending election.

The Coming Election III

Here is the third of three articles presenting thoughts about the 2006 election of a kind that should command your attention.

Hot Dog!

I must confess that I had another one of those birthdays yesterday.  Man o man, I really appreciate that old Yiddish saying:  "Ve grow too soon old and too late schmart."  When I first encountered this adage as a youth, it meant little.

October 23, when you get to looking for famous people birthdays and dates of famous event, comes up really short.  I took some comfort in the fact that Johnny Carson and I shared the same birth date.  Otherwise, it seems that history took a holiday on that date.

Then came THE discovery, one shared by a very exclusive and elite minority of humans.

6th Column Against Jihad Reawakens!

The season has changed, and the summer work must end. Happily, this "forces" us back to the computer and to blogging and working our website. We haven't fully awakened The New Enlightenment and Nous America, but the alarm is sounding for them. We have awakened our website, 6th Column Against Jihad, and we have some really good, new stuff:

NEW FOR FALL (OCTOBER) 2006

From the Editor (a new information page), including Stop Letting Islam Make You Live Defensively*

From George Mason, A Damned Good Question: Can the West Defeat the Islamist Threat?

From Cubed, The "Just War" Theory - A "How-to" On How Not to Win

From Jacob Thomas, Is Islam a Tolerant Religion? Parts I, II, and III

From Jane Scully, Hatred of the Angels, Chapter 9: Faith Police and Chapter 10: Central Prison (Hatred of the Angels is an original novel about Eurabia, of tomorrow)

From Mark Alexander, This is no way to win a war! Weakness, cowardice, and damn lies from the leader of the free world!

and

on the same page, From Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch, 95 Things That Fuel Muslim Extremism*

Commentary, Just War Theory in Action

Commentary, Not Forgetting 11 September 2001: War* by Bearster (from 2001) and 11 September 2001 + Five Years*

From Henry Mark Holzer, They Dare It Call It Treason (Finally)

And, as always, outstanding daily analyses on Sixth Column.

Resuming active posting on blogs The New Enlightenment and Nous American

{* We are experiencing some link and anchor difficulties for those articles having the "*." All articles can be reached by scrolling down the page below the leading article.}