In This Dimension

Jimmy, Israel and the Future

A spate of columns has erupted trashing the ever-trashable one-term failed President Jimmy Carter, the man whose legacy consists of a be-sweatered befuddlement on dealing with  a world progressing beyond his ability to think, a Misery Index of 16, and the global ascendancy of Islamist terror.

Even the French are documenting Jimmy’s decline and delinquency.

Joining these columns, prompted by the increasingly moronic behavior of Mr. Carter hugging and kissing Hamas and other anti-Israeli, anti-Western and anti-American terrorists using this senile old man as the tool he is, are columns explaining to the world why it is that Israel cannot survive.

Been there,[…]

Which really is the “War Party”?

Let’s begin in 1800 and go through 04/19/08, and let’s skip the Civil War - pro-slavery Demos attacked anti-slavery Republicans, but let’s leave it out. (Doing so doesn’t materially change the conclusions.)

Given duration and KIA, (D) Administrations kill American military personnel at a rate of 2,037 per month; (R) at 36 per month. In the same amount of time, in other words, (D) kill 56 times as many Americans as do (R).

Of these wars, America was attacked by the British in 1812, and by the Japanese in WWII. In all others American forces were introduced into combat by a President of the[…]

Pre-PA Primary Thoughts

If Hillary gets the nom, Blacks will stay home and the GOP’ll win. The DNC will get trashed from the Left ideologically and from the Right opportunistically. Pass the popcorn.
 
If Barack gets the nom, two things will happen:
1. All those large states that went Hillary (non-latte states for the most part) will go GOP, because:
2. The older and security-minded voters will either swing to McCain or stay home. Good for the country either way.
 
If Barack gets the nom and somehow gets past McCain, as many have noted, race relations will be set back 50 years in America – by the Democrats’ nominating[…]

Why isn’t Obama a “White” guy?

Stick with me here.

If he’s half black and half white, why do we call him “black” if he’s as white as he is black?

If we’re really post-racial, why does anyone care about his skin color? If he is really post-racial, why does he trade on it? Why does his wife? Why does the media?

“Look at him,” some may say, “Of course he’s Black!”

The (intolerant) Left, however, insists that race is a “Social construct,” not something real as evidenced by biology. Really.

Yet the intolerant Left is all the while insisting that corporations hold continuous “multicultural training” sessions to teach us that one’s primary[…]

No, Ms. Digga, America cannot put a man on the moon

In this column on the Democrat Primary campaign in Pa., a voter unconsciously laid bare the single largest issue in our country today. Of course the journalist didn’t grasp it.

“They can put a man on the moon but all they can do for poor people is give out blocks of cheese?” asked Cindy Digga, resources consultant at the Fayette county community action agency.”

America cannot put a man on the moon, and therein lies the problem.

Our current elites, on both sides of the aisle, did not and can not put a man on the moon.

That was their parents, the last generation of Americans which[…]

Problems in Obama-land?

A recent poll suggests problems in Obama-land.

Against McCain, Obama lost ground among women - from 57 percent in February to 47 percent in April. Obama dropped 12 points among women under 45, 14 points among suburban women and 15 points among married women.

So - women are falling out-of-love; the blush is off the rose. They’ve had their swoon and puppy love with the handsome young stranger and now go back to reality - a man who can and will defend their children.
 
He also lost nine points or more among voters under 35, high-income households, whites, Catholics, independents, Southerners, people living in[…]

The ‘Modern’ ‘Liberal’

The ‘modern’ ‘Liberal’ truly boggles the mind.

One may cringe at the adjective given their Luddite view of the world, and at the noun, given their illiberal views.

Certainly the “Liberal” or “Progressive” of today is not the educated Classical Liberal of a Daniel Patrick Moynihan or other true liberals. His – or her – intellectual laziness and demand that the world be as they like –rather than as it is or as they are willing to work to make it, to demand policies that have failed again and again throughout history is amazingly ignorant and stupefyingly stupid.

“For the great majority of[…]

Multiculturalists and Tibet

With Tibet again in the news isn’t it interesting to note who is doing – or threatening – what to whom?

Of all the government Executives in Europe, which is threatening to boycott the Opening Ceremonies? The one the Leftists hate – Sarkozy.

Well, where are the Lefties? Where are the Euro-socialists so enamored of Human Rights (in their terminology)? Why aren’t the leaders of those countries threatening boycotts? Don’t they believe in Human Rights?

Or – perhaps – they are “multiculturalists” believing that – hey it’s China’s culture and country – who are we in the West to complain about another culture[…]

The Domestic Impact of Terrorism

How much longer do free citizens in the USA need to spend time in internal counter-terror measures? How much longer do we patiently take off our shoes and belts while waiting in absurdly long and counter-productive lines to move about the country and the world on the business of creating freedom and wealth for our fellow human beings?

How much more do we need to spend in addition to the billions wasted on TSA, on wasted hours standing in security lines, on the wasted thousands of domestic and international investigations of terrorists?

How much longer do we raise our kids in a[…]

Hearts and Minds

Can we get past this idiocy?

A Great Power doesn’t go to war to change minds, garner hearts and make nice.

A Great Power goes to war to change behavior.

Why people decide to change their behavior is immaterial during and immediately post-war; That people change their minds is the issue.

War is about killing enough of the enemy to change their behavior. Whether the sought-for change is to stop genocide or cease gobbling up countries to form some kind of trading sphere, changing behavior is what war is all about.

Behavior first is sought to be changed diplomatically – and sometimes this works. When it doesn’t,[…]