In This Dimension

Western Civ Needs Re-arranging

A friend sent me this video of a choir in England. It’s only a few minutes. You should watch and listen to it. You will enjoy it.

It occurred to me as I experienced the music and images – and the goosebumps they induce, that, if this doesn’t affect you, if your response is anything other than warmth and love and hope for these women and their men, you are not an American, not an Englishman, not a Westerner. You are not someone who believes in protecting Western Civilization from its enemies, enemies who now are stronger and have more allies inside[…]

Democrats Surrender to Taliban in Afghanistan

No, this is not hyperbole.

Here’s the link to Powerline, reporting from Instapundit and the AP.

We are in negotiations with the leading jurist in the Muslim Brotherhood, a man who has called for Islamic defeat of Europe and the US, issued a fatwa for the killing of Americans in Iraq, calls suicide bombers “heroic martyrs,” and demands a global Islamist caliphate. And Obama is SURRENDERING to him.

We evidently have doubled-down on Idiot Joe Biden’s line that the Taliban are not our enemy.

We are releasing Afghan prisoners from GITMO and sending them back to Afghanistan - your tax dollars at work.

If any parent with[…]

China is Rising - an Exciting New Novel

Want an exciting, current geopolitical novel to read? China Rising.

You do realize, of course, that another terrorist attack on America could change a presidential election, right?

And you know that when we Americans stop buying stuff after a terror attack… it just hurts the Chinese economy and their modernization plans, don’t you?

What, do you suppose, would happen if China, well… just got tired of it? And did something to stop it? Can you think of any proxies through whom they might act with complete deniability? I can….

… and what, do you suppose, would happen if China decided it needed more room[…]

Germany and the Future of the Eurozone and EU

Lots of ink and pixels are being spilled protesting that the German government should (or not) save the euro and, perhaps, the entire EU by (over)spending (or not) their taxpayers’ earnings.

The issue for Europe (and America, frankly) is that leaders continue to lead their people in resistance to natural selection. Natural selection is just as relevant in the nation-state world as in the animal kingdom of which we are a part; the difference is only that nation-states CHOOSE to succeed (or not).

It is past obvious that the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain) and perhaps France and Belgium have chosen[…]

Democrats Expanding Military Deployments While Cutting DoD Budget

So… the Dems - having walked-away from a Supercommittee GOP offer of $500B of tax increases over the next ten years (they are demanding a trillion), now seem intent on cutting the Defense budget 10%.

I’m fine with cutting the defense budget - just not without re-ordering their mission (i.e. I am tired of paying for the defense of the entire West while these silly little pretend nations can’t even stand-up a military larger than the NYPD and spend all their tax money on unsustainable welfare benefits - meaning, because defense of citizens and borders is the First responsibility of a[…]

Saudis still want America to prevent Iran getting a Bomb

This is not that hard.

Give a nuke missle to the Saudis. Make it a Minuteman 3. 10 MIRVs (Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicles). With pre-programmed launch, targeting and detonation altitude data that cannot be overridden (they can enter new data all they want, but the original will be what is acted upon).

Then when the Saudis fire it at Iran (and they will – they hate Iran and the Shias more than anyone hates anyone), those ten .475MT W88 warheads are gonna destroy: Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Jeddah, Qom, Arak, Islamabad, Sanaa, Al Hudaydah, Kabul.

No American fingerprints. Doubtless the Saudis would announce they[…]

My Problems with the Libya Deal

Here are my problems with the Libya deal:

1. There was zero national interest for America - we went at the UN and Arab League’s request with not an ounce of input from Congress. Hard to be more anti-Constitutional than that. (Same, BTW, in Uganda right now.)

2. Obama pretended that NATO was in charge. By statute, the military leader of NATO is an American. So only the ignornat would think that by letting NATO run it, the US no longer was.

3. We said at the outset that the goal was not killing khaddafy. Yet when he was killed, we rejoiced: “We[…]

The Future of the Euro, the EU and Europe.. and social welfare

The Euro is the next dodo. Dead through over-use by those unwilling to use it responsibly.

The EU, built to forestall wars among Europeans who historically never stop fighting unless made to (like when sandwiched between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, but of course they began fighting immediately after the Pact dissolved), will follow. Turkey and the various non-European islamist states, having never educated their masses of ignorant peoples who still believe in the superstition of religion and have never had an Enlightenment or Reformation, now are running as hard as they can toward war in the Med. And of course[…]

Must-see video blog

Take a few minutes and appreciate a true defender of Western Civilization.

Both segments are priceless.

If the “leaders” of Western Civ felt as she does - and as Churchill did - we’d not be in nearly the trouble we are in.

… and the Planet … Tomorrow…?

Mark Steyn: ‘Life on this planet’ about to change

By MARK STEYN

That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the “debt ceiling” negotiations the other day: “What we’re trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We’re trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”

It’s always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand. After a while, all the stuff about debt-to-GDP ratio and CBO alternative baseline scenarios starts to give you a bit of a headache, so we should be grateful to the House Minority Leader[…]