May 10th 2008
Patroon Posted under Iraq
Not only did we go to war for oil, Robert Baer explains, we’re staying in Iraq for oil too…
May 9th 2008
Patroon Posted under Politics
This would seem obvious but in this article by Timothy Carney, apparently Republicans haven’t figured this out yet.
May 8th 2008
Patroon Posted under Immigration & Survival of the West
A thought provking article in today’s Takimag about birthrates, immigration and modern warfare. I had written a piece for Etherzone.come a few years ago entitled “Sexual Politics” that was along similar lines.
Remember folks, demography is destiny. All the tanks and machine guns in the world are worthless if there is no one to use them, or as the article explains, has the will to use them.
May 8th 2008
Filmer Posted under Election 2008 & John McCain
Here is a good anti-McCain website. Give it a look. The guy who runs it is in an e-mail group I belong to.
As I have shamelessly stated before, relentless cross promotion is the key.
May 8th 2008
Filmer Posted under NeoCons & Political Philosophy & Conservatism
Here is another good article by Dr. Jack Kerwick who I am really starting to like. He clearly gets it.
Neo-conservatives aren’t the only people to draw philosophical sustenance from the liberal rationalist assumptions embodied in the Declaration. In fact, it is, unfortunately, not with exaggeration that it can be said that the rationalism of Jefferson’s day has come to pervade the political spectrum to such an extent that only its ubiquity prevents it from being recognized…
… modern conservatism — conservatism since the eighteenth century — originally emerged and subsequently developed as an alternative to the political rationalism that was then just proceeding to sweep Europe and its offshoot societies. To this day, I maintain, the only legitimate alternative to a rationalistic style of politics is classical conservatism. Since neo-conservatism is a rationalistic political style, it is not a genuine kind of conservatism.
Dr. Douglas, Alan Keyes, others, are you listening?
May 7th 2008
Patroon Posted under Immigration
In an effort to match Barak Obama in the number of dubious and stupid associations one keeps, World Net Daily reports that John McCain plans on attending the national convention of the Mexican irrendentist movement La Raza on July 14.
Gee John, I think you’re already going to get good number of Hispanic votes this fall, do you really need pander that much? Especially given the fact La Raza has a treasure trove of official statements that’ll top Rev. Wright’s jeremiads?
Oh the stupid things politicans do somtimes. Unless of course McCain believes conservatives are so pistol-whipped into going along with this atrocity because they’re sooooo afraid of Obama.
Now tell me, what are the differences between McCain and Obama again?
May 7th 2008
Patroon Posted under Election 2008
Kudos last night to North Carolina voters for nominating B.J. Lawson, a bonified Ron Paul Republican to the nomination for the 4th Congressional District and re-electing Walter Jones Jr. to the sixth CD. Jones was the only GOP member of Congress to endorse Paul for President.
This is important because while Lawson faces an uphillclimb in a heavily Democratic district, just the fact he won the district puts it Ron Paul’s hands. Given the way the GOP divies up its delegates to its national convention by Congressional District, controlling a district is a big deal and means Ron Paul’s Republicans are going to have influence and power within the party in the future regardless what happens this fall.
Jones’ election is also important to show Republicans that opposing the war, even in a district filled with military bases, is not a political death sentence. Voters do actually respect Congressmen who take a stand even if they may disagree with it (or maybe they privately agree. If they thought Jones was cut-in-run peacenik, wouldn’t the margin have been just a little closer than 2-to-1?).
May 7th 2008
Dostoevsky
… unions actually represented the people who belonged to them.
May 6th 2008
Dostoevsky Posted under Culture & Cuisine
Would you like an order of Orwellian “hate-crime” legislation with that?
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Last week LifeSiteNews.com reported that the McDonalds restaurant chain had put an executive on the board of the U.S. homosexual chamber of commerce. McDonald’s is now attempting to obscure the issue of their support for the homosexual agenda in an e-mail they are sending to those who contact them about the matter.
The first point McDonald’s makes is, “At McDonald’s, we treat all our employees and customers with dignity and respect regardless of their ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or any other differentiating factor.”
While this may be true, it has nothing to do with the world’s largest fast food chain collaborating with an organization that seeks to “advance the ideas and causes of the LGBT business community” (from the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce website), and lobbies the U.S. Congress to enact laws that could be used to repress freedom of expression and religious freedom…
May 6th 2008
Patroon
This was sent to me by CHT reader Donald Hagen. I hope you get a good belly-laugh from it.
May 6th 2008
Patroon Posted under Ron Paul
St. Paul, Minnesota will be the host for the Republican National Convention this summer and the host delegation will contain a significant number of Ron Paul supporters as this article at MinnPost.com explains.
MinnPost.com is a new Minnesota news website with many journalists that have worked in or are familiar faces in the Twin Cities. Check it for news on the Republican National Convention this summer.
May 6th 2008
Patroon Posted under Economics
Kevin Philips explains, in this excellent American Prospect article how Wall Street and both major political parties have gravely damaged the economy.
May 6th 2008
RedPhillips Posted under Election 2008 & Constitution Party & Alan Keyes & Chuck Baldwin
Here is a nice summary of the recent Constitution Party Convention by our new friend Josh Dermer who a couple of us met at the CP Convention.
I am proud to stand behind our nominee, Chuck Baldwin, as we head into this general election season. He proudly and unapologetically supports our platform. He’s a man of integrity who treats even his opponents with the utmost respect. I’m getting increasingly excited about campaigning for Dr. Baldwin this year and I look forward to going around Virginia promoting him as our nominee for president. He’s got my vote–I hope he gets yours!
He will certainly get mine.
May 6th 2008
RedPhillips Posted under NeoCons & Ron Paul & Interventionism
Here are a couple of threads I have been participating in that might be both enlightening and amusing to our readers. The first is a post from a delegate to the GOP National Convention. He was sent a copy of Ron Paul’s new book by a member of my Ron Paul Meet-up group. He blogs about it, and an interesting discussion ensues.
And here our old friend Dr. Douglass goes after us hateful neo-confederates. Did everyone get that? Dr. Douglas is against hate. Killing innocent Muslims a half world away on the false premise that they hate us because of our freedoms is perfectly OK, just as long as we don’t have any of that nasty ol’ hate. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
May 6th 2008
Bede Posted under Cuisine
The morel mushrooms (a delicacy which appear in the Midwest in April / early May) have arrived, and we were fortunate enough to find 100 on our property this weekend, which we prepare in the conventional manner (dipped in flour and sautéed in butter). Bon appetite!
May 5th 2008
Filmer Posted under NeoCons & Political Philosophy & Conservatism
Wow. Here is a great article from Intellectual Conservative by Dr. Jack Kerwick. He clearly gets it.
In conclusion, neo-conservatism really isn’t an expression of conservatism at all. It is a form of Enlightenment liberal rationalism, the sort of liberal rationalism in reaction against which conservatism originally emerged and developed as a distinctive tradition of thought.
Why is this simple truth so hard for some people to understand?
May 4th 2008
Patroon Posted under Europe
This article from UK paper Telegraph that I picked up from Lew Rockwell.com talked about the Lega Nord and their drive to return Italy back into the decentralized form of its past history. Or better yet a nation without a state.
May 3rd 2008
HarrisonBergeron2 Posted under Election 2008 & Humor & John McCain
It’s possible to be both intelligent and insane. And Joltin’ John proves you can be dangerously addled and insane, too:
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
So — the US invaded Iraq in Gulf War I for oil, but Gulf War II was fought for — what, then? McCain clarifies:
“The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction.”
So – McCain’s admitting Gulf War II was a tragic mistake?
Either way, this statement has to harm his candidacy. For that reason, the headline should have read, “McCain’s oil dims hopes” — which is an anagram of “Mission Accomplished.”
Coincidence? We scramble. You decide.