“Treat me like a fool, treat me mean and cruel, but love me”

Looking Like a Night Out With Former Boss Tip O'Neill

This week’s Chris Matthews Show, political television’s answer to Jerry Springer, was but the latest example of the preeminent preoccupation of the Media and the Left (please, again, pardon the redundancy) with popularity. A “PLEASE sign my high school year book” nervous giggly-ness thinly veiled behind the tarnished veneer of their lazy man’s approach to reporting and governing, the poll.

Matthews, in discussing the looming departure of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, breathlessly proffered that he “entered office as one of Britain’s most popular Prime Ministers ever, and he remained so until his numbers plummeted when he became one of President George W. Bush’s staunchest allies in Iraq”.  The roundtable discussion than became a panting fest of jubilant revelry at the political passing of one of our nation’s great allies in time of war. 

That these supposed Media seers would so rigorously adhere to this partisan search for utterly worthless global popularity, while steadfastly ignoring Blair’s and Britain’s assistance with the heavy lifting that comes with the battle, reveals little but the sophomoric approach the Left has towards international opinion of the United States.

Death by a thousand multi-culturalisms

Public Bypass Service

My compatriot Mohamed Elibiary and I were on April 25th privy to a Congressional screening of Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.’s film Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.  Such a select showing was necessary because the Public Broadcast System (PBS), which saw fit to fund its production, deems it unfit for an appearance on its airwaves.  PBS is now holding the product hostage, not allowing Gaffney to take it to anyone else with a broadcast license.  His only option for its airing is before relatively modest, piecemeal gatherings such as this.

The picture introduces and juxtaposes practitioners of Islam in various European, Canadian and American cities who are outspoken in their antipathy of murder and mayhem in the name of their faith with fundamentalist, Jihadist, Islamist Muslims who reside in their respective locales.  The former are, of course, under threats of death and must endure round the clock protection from the latter and others of their ilk.

It is a middle of the road, unideological presentation of their stories, and one is left utterly flummoxed as to why it has been universally spiked by PBS. 

The Left’s antipathy to violence, even in self-defense

Ronald Reagan Knew To Stand Up to the Bears of the World

Anyone who has ever been in any sort of physical confrontation, or understands even the rudimentary basics of how one transpires, had to be left wondering how one man, armed with but two guns, was afforded the opportunity to wreak the sort of murderous havoc that was inflicted by the sanctimonious yet self-loathing ass in Blacksburg, Virginia last week.

Many, such as former Senator, current actor and potential Presidential candidate Fred Thompson, have asked as much.  The answer lies in part in that to which these analyses have pointed; were one (or more) of these students or professors also armed, the incident would more than likely have ended much sooner and far less egregiously.

But wanton gun avoidance is but a part of the larger problem, which is the all-encompassing aversion to violence, in even the righteous act of self-defense. 

Alternative fuels, Liberal nostrums and the law of unintended consequences

As of Yet, Nowhere Near the Answer

Let us take as a wistful notion that the miraculous were to occur, and that tomorrow we were to awaken in possession of a new energy source, one that with little to no transitional pang could immediately replace the petroleum upon which we now so stringently rely.

A great new day surely will have dawned; but, so too a brave new world with which we would have to deal. What to become of the Middle East states whose sole or primary source of income stems from that which lies beneath their feet?

As always, to best attempt to prophesize that which is to come one must more fully grasp that which has passed. The parts of Asia that sat upon the number one commodity of the 20th Century have become the singular focal point and launching pad of global evil at the dawn of the 21st. As a result, our attentions have only now been brought there, after having spent the better part of the last one hundred years staring at and down the Russian Bear to their north.

The riches that attend to the bringing of such petroleum abundancies to market should long ago have had the entire region awash in cash, with a living standard that would find ours Spartan by comparison. But as we know, this is hardly the case.

Historical lessons unlearned and rightful repudiations earned

Three Chronological Moments From the John McCain Campaign

We have now, after Parts I, II and III (to be found here, here and here), reached the crux of cruxes as to why Rudy Giuliani is in the Republican primary lead, ascending in popularity whilst fellow Viables Mitt Romney and John McCain wallow unmoving (the former) or are in the process of faltering or, worse, imploding (the latter).

Of course, the dearth of one or more Viables of a true Conservative nature is of tremendous assistance to these three ideologically imperfect volunteers, but the longer we go without one enlisting the more resolute the base will become about their individual choices amongst those from whom they have to choose.

First and foremost, the Elephantary primary deciders know that foreign issues trump those domestic, certainly so when we are faced with a resolute enemy therefrom that seeks our destruction (as we almost always are; Bill Clinton was fabulously fortunate in his Presidential timing). Unlike the current Democrat Congressional majority, these voters are not at all unclear as to whether this is a global War on Terror (it is) or merely President George W. Bush’s flight of Islamist fancy (‘tis not).