The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Friday, June 08, 2007
The Religion of Peace, Part XVII: Wife Beating
Sure, they may be beating their wives... but at least they are doing it reverently...
Labels: Culture War, Islam, Islamic Fascism
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Signing Off Until Sunday...
I am leaving town for my Grandmother's funeral. I'm taking my computer, but I seriously doubt I will have much of an opportunity to post until Sunday night.
In the meantime I want to thank everyone who has dropped in lately, and also to those readers who have offered their kind words. Shoot, I truly appreciate the fact that even one person is interested in what one Texas contrarian has to say. But the fact that so many of you continue to come back for more really does mean more to me than I can possibly express. I hope some of it resonates, because I obviously believe it passionately.
Unfortunately I am also pessimistic enough to think that a large portion of our public is similar to those kids who were shot execution style, (apparently..) without resisting at Virginia Tech: only in this case the "massacre" in progress is of the very idea of the United States that our brilliant Founders conceived, and of Western Civilization itself. The hour for our country and the West is late and our enemies are at the gates. But we can--and we must--still win this dual-front war: the one for the soul of our Nation and the other for keeping our World from plunging head first into a Dark Age that could make the previous Dark Ages pale in comparison...
There are evil, but intelligent and highly dedicated people out there who are determined to send most or all of us to a hell on earth that would make Dante cringe. Too, there are power-hungry hypocritical sociopaths in the halls of power in our Congress that would--in an instant--send us collectively down the same "toilet" in which Europe is presently being flushed unceremoniously as a bankrupt cultural experiment--yes, we too can go bankrupt: as did the Soviet Union; and as the welfare state in Europe is about to do.
And then there is the much larger group of well-meaning people out there who in their naive and Utopian dream world are in the process of unwittingly destroying the very foundations of the United States of America and all it stands for. The Generals in this War against all that is good about this nation have names like Pelosi and Reid and Sharpton and Jackson and Leahy and Murtha and Kucinich. Names destined to go down in history as "the destroyers", that is if we cannot win enough hearts and minds to turn this tide. But the foot soldiers are friends of ours, only they for whatever reason are not seeing the world as it IS. They are seeing an illusory dream. I am convinced that if we do not turn these people around--so that these "Generals" who would destroy us no longer have any support from any reasonable American--our country and the World as we know it will cease to exist.
So yes, it is not even in question: losing is not an option. We MUST win; there can be nothing more important for the future of this planet (and that definitely includes Global Warming...).
I could go on and on but it is late: I could plagiarize a great man and talk about fighting them in the hills and on the beaches and about this being "their finest hour", but unfortunately I am neither English enough nor articulate enough to fit into that man's shoes; however I will evoke the words of Lombardi: because--over the next 2-10 years in the United States--winning isn't merely everything--it must be the only thing in the minds of each one of us--if we are to prevail.
The good news: it is not impossible--we can do it. We've overcome greater odds before. Read David McCullough's 1776. An amazing book about amazing men. And think about how far we have come since that bleakest of winters.
Read The Federalist Papers and The Wealth of Nations--and ponder the unbridled, sheer genius of Hamilton, Jay, and Smith. Read about Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (and Lincoln's address about it). Read about Bastogne and the answer of the besieged American troops to the incredulous Nazis demanding their surrender. And then sit there and try and tell me we can't do it. Bullshit; we HAVE to do it; we have traveled to damn far and it is way too late to turn back now.
Anyway, God willing, I will see everyone again on Sunday evening. But now it is time for me to go say goodbye to a special lady.
Fight on.
In the meantime I want to thank everyone who has dropped in lately, and also to those readers who have offered their kind words. Shoot, I truly appreciate the fact that even one person is interested in what one Texas contrarian has to say. But the fact that so many of you continue to come back for more really does mean more to me than I can possibly express. I hope some of it resonates, because I obviously believe it passionately.
Unfortunately I am also pessimistic enough to think that a large portion of our public is similar to those kids who were shot execution style, (apparently..) without resisting at Virginia Tech: only in this case the "massacre" in progress is of the very idea of the United States that our brilliant Founders conceived, and of Western Civilization itself. The hour for our country and the West is late and our enemies are at the gates. But we can--and we must--still win this dual-front war: the one for the soul of our Nation and the other for keeping our World from plunging head first into a Dark Age that could make the previous Dark Ages pale in comparison...
There are evil, but intelligent and highly dedicated people out there who are determined to send most or all of us to a hell on earth that would make Dante cringe. Too, there are power-hungry hypocritical sociopaths in the halls of power in our Congress that would--in an instant--send us collectively down the same "toilet" in which Europe is presently being flushed unceremoniously as a bankrupt cultural experiment--yes, we too can go bankrupt: as did the Soviet Union; and as the welfare state in Europe is about to do.
And then there is the much larger group of well-meaning people out there who in their naive and Utopian dream world are in the process of unwittingly destroying the very foundations of the United States of America and all it stands for. The Generals in this War against all that is good about this nation have names like Pelosi and Reid and Sharpton and Jackson and Leahy and Murtha and Kucinich. Names destined to go down in history as "the destroyers", that is if we cannot win enough hearts and minds to turn this tide. But the foot soldiers are friends of ours, only they for whatever reason are not seeing the world as it IS. They are seeing an illusory dream. I am convinced that if we do not turn these people around--so that these "Generals" who would destroy us no longer have any support from any reasonable American--our country and the World as we know it will cease to exist.
So yes, it is not even in question: losing is not an option. We MUST win; there can be nothing more important for the future of this planet (and that definitely includes Global Warming...).
I could go on and on but it is late: I could plagiarize a great man and talk about fighting them in the hills and on the beaches and about this being "their finest hour", but unfortunately I am neither English enough nor articulate enough to fit into that man's shoes; however I will evoke the words of Lombardi: because--over the next 2-10 years in the United States--winning isn't merely everything--it must be the only thing in the minds of each one of us--if we are to prevail.
The good news: it is not impossible--we can do it. We've overcome greater odds before. Read David McCullough's 1776. An amazing book about amazing men. And think about how far we have come since that bleakest of winters.
Read The Federalist Papers and The Wealth of Nations--and ponder the unbridled, sheer genius of Hamilton, Jay, and Smith. Read about Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (and Lincoln's address about it). Read about Bastogne and the answer of the besieged American troops to the incredulous Nazis demanding their surrender. And then sit there and try and tell me we can't do it. Bullshit; we HAVE to do it; we have traveled to damn far and it is way too late to turn back now.
Anyway, God willing, I will see everyone again on Sunday evening. But now it is time for me to go say goodbye to a special lady.
Fight on.
Labels: Blogging, Culture War, The Long War
Friday, April 13, 2007
DNC's Media Matters Calls for Airwaves Censorship
What did I tell you--I did not think it would be this quick--but nevertheless, the gauntlet has now been laid down.
And do not think this is an accident; it is merely opportunistic: If it hadn't been Imus it would have been another talk host. They were just waiting for some kind of talk radio faux pas to jump on in order to open the pandora's box they've all been waiting to open. The one with the code name called "Equal Time." But whose modern day translation is: Stalinist-era censorship and thought police. No, this is not a spontaneous reaction to a bunch of women's basketball players--these women were USED every bit as much as Tawana Brawley was used. This was pre-planned and well orchestrated "hit" on talk radio.
Think about it: no Limbaugh, Hannity, Miller, Hewitt, Prager, Medved, Ingraham. No Brit Hume or Fred Barnes. No O'Reilly.
But the "PC" version of equal time would still allow plenty of Matthews and Olberman, and Sharpton and Jackson. After all they don't use the Left's definition of "have speech" (translation: any speech that criticizes the Left, people on the Left, or ideologies of the Left. Can you see speech against the unproven and unlikely notion of human-caused Global Warming qualifying as "hate speech"? I can. And just why do you think it is that the Dems have been scattering like ants from the FOX Presidential debatesThey have been talking about it for over a year now: now they have their excuse. And now the full court press is on.
The center-right had better be on its game, pronto. If we do not fight this with all our might and will--and win this fight, I am convinced we will LOSE the country. It is that serious. It will only take one lost Presidential election: then the FCC pulls the plug. Then there will be no voices from the right to silence. They will own the airwaves and Herr Goebbels will have risen from the ashes of the Fuhrerbunker.
The so-called culture war is about to get bloody. We in the blogosphere had better be ready to lock and load. It is about everything. It is about economic growth vs. taxation, unemployment and stagnation; it is about whether or not PC-driven lawyers allow Sharia law to become a way of life in America; it is about whether madmen eventually get to claim their longed for prizes: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, London. Poof. Randy Newman comes true.
It starts with silencing your voice, and it has started. The question is: what are you going to do about it.
And do not think this is an accident; it is merely opportunistic: If it hadn't been Imus it would have been another talk host. They were just waiting for some kind of talk radio faux pas to jump on in order to open the pandora's box they've all been waiting to open. The one with the code name called "Equal Time." But whose modern day translation is: Stalinist-era censorship and thought police. No, this is not a spontaneous reaction to a bunch of women's basketball players--these women were USED every bit as much as Tawana Brawley was used. This was pre-planned and well orchestrated "hit" on talk radio.
Think about it: no Limbaugh, Hannity, Miller, Hewitt, Prager, Medved, Ingraham. No Brit Hume or Fred Barnes. No O'Reilly.
But the "PC" version of equal time would still allow plenty of Matthews and Olberman, and Sharpton and Jackson. After all they don't use the Left's definition of "have speech" (translation: any speech that criticizes the Left, people on the Left, or ideologies of the Left. Can you see speech against the unproven and unlikely notion of human-caused Global Warming qualifying as "hate speech"? I can. And just why do you think it is that the Dems have been scattering like ants from the FOX Presidential debatesThey have been talking about it for over a year now: now they have their excuse. And now the full court press is on.
The center-right had better be on its game, pronto. If we do not fight this with all our might and will--and win this fight, I am convinced we will LOSE the country. It is that serious. It will only take one lost Presidential election: then the FCC pulls the plug. Then there will be no voices from the right to silence. They will own the airwaves and Herr Goebbels will have risen from the ashes of the Fuhrerbunker.
The so-called culture war is about to get bloody. We in the blogosphere had better be ready to lock and load. It is about everything. It is about economic growth vs. taxation, unemployment and stagnation; it is about whether or not PC-driven lawyers allow Sharia law to become a way of life in America; it is about whether madmen eventually get to claim their longed for prizes: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, London. Poof. Randy Newman comes true.
It starts with silencing your voice, and it has started. The question is: what are you going to do about it.
Labels: American Culture, Culture War, Democrat Sabotage, Hearts and Minds, Nutroots, Talk Radio, The Left, Thought Police
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Whittle Returns!
Bill Whittle, the Prodigal Son of the center-right blogosphere, has returned with a clarion call to critical thinking. He's got a point. Congress has never been the sanest place, but this particular Congress has reached new lows for rationality; is there any at all on the Democrat side outside of Joe Lieberman these days?
Whittle offers hope for the lazy thinker--as opposed to the egomaniacal, power-hungry hypocrite of the kind who travels to Syria when they are murdering her countrymen. The only solution for them is to send them home. Is it 2008 yet?
Whittle offers hope for the lazy thinker--as opposed to the egomaniacal, power-hungry hypocrite of the kind who travels to Syria when they are murdering her countrymen. The only solution for them is to send them home. Is it 2008 yet?
Labels: American Culture, Bill Whittle, Culture War
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Civility and Public Discourse UPDATED
The recent Ann Coulter and Bill Maher gaffes are a product of a culture that incrasingly tolerates the outrageous and swallows any notion of civility. Peggy Noonan offers some well needed advice: Listen to your grandmother.
UPDATE: As Victor Davis Hanson points out, our move towards civility by necessity must be voluntary, not coerced.
UPDATE: As Victor Davis Hanson points out, our move towards civility by necessity must be voluntary, not coerced.
Labels: Culture War, US Politics
Friday, March 09, 2007
Steyn: A Desire to Persuade the Unwashed
I'm with Mark Steyn: why not put him on Terry Gross or Charlie Rose or C-Span or some other highbrow show where at least Steyn would have a chance to make his point without 30-second network news sound byte interruptions? Or even Larry King? Winning this war is not just about selling books, it is about hearts and minds.
Steyn's publishers aren't crazy about the idea, because lefty shows don't sell books; but that is hardly the point. The missionaries go where the sinners are. Steyn is one of our best; he is sorely needed on the front lines of the culture wars. Book sales or no book deal. The thing I really appreciate from Steyn's column is that this seems to be his perspective as well.
Steyn's publishers aren't crazy about the idea, because lefty shows don't sell books; but that is hardly the point. The missionaries go where the sinners are. Steyn is one of our best; he is sorely needed on the front lines of the culture wars. Book sales or no book deal. The thing I really appreciate from Steyn's column is that this seems to be his perspective as well.
Labels: Culture War, Hearts and Minds, Mark Steyn, Media War
Monday, February 26, 2007
Obsessed with "Obsession"
The fact that the very powerful film Obsession is now beginning to draw a lot of attention and controversy can only be seen as a good thing; if no one was paying attention there would be nothing but silence.
ps - if you have not yet seen the film, you can watch a representative clip here.
ps - if you have not yet seen the film, you can watch a representative clip here.
Labels: Culture War, Islam, Islamic Fascism
Saturday, February 24, 2007
American Child-porn Liberties Union?
This was inevitable; it was only a matter of time. But that does not make it any less ironic.
Labels: ACLU, Culture War, The Left, US Politics
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Brainwashed
Sunday, February 11, 2007
NYT Ombudsman: Marriage Study Seriously Flawed
Don't read this and then try and forward the notion that the New York Times does not excercise enormously biased editorial slanting to its "real news" coverage.
Labels: Culture War, Media Bias
