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[…]

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[…]

… 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[…]

European Left Awakening to the Danger that is Obama

From American Thinker today….

April 20, 2011

German press reacts to the Standard & Poor’s downgrade

Steve McCann

Standard and Poor’s downgrades its outlook on America’s AAA debt rating from stable to negative.  The President continues his demagoguery against the Republicans and continues to beat the drum of class warfare.  The Democrats in the Senate are content to thwart any meaningful spending reductions.  With [this] as a backdrop what is being said overseas about the ongoing Washington Follies?

Germany is the dominant economic power in Europe and is what is keeping the Euro zone from complete collapse, considering the never-ending saga of Greek insolvency, Irish and Portuguese bailouts[…]

Europe is Going Broke… Not Our Problem

Europe is a collection of welfare states. We all understand this - on both sides of the Atlantic.

What seems to not be understood by majorities on either side is that no European nation pays its own defense costs, and that it is this, and this alone, which has allowed these states (and Japan) to become the welfare states they have become… and that they insist we allow them to continue to be, with OUR money.

Simply, in the trade-off between guns and butter, the arguably ill-advised continuation of the American defense umbrella once Britain and France had (and once Japan had[…]

Wikileaks

I’m now sort of ambivalent about this doc release. I have trouble seeing transparency as an always-bad thing in international relations… if we think the current administration is nuts domestically (Nov 2), then how does it generally (not specifically) hurt for us to know what they are up to internationally, as well? Yes, there are issues of trust from other governments to us if this stuff gets out there… but those governments already know this stuff… AND they know they engage in the same kind of name-calling and disparagement of our guys that we now are shown to of their[…]

The Coming Imperialism.. a Good Thing?

One wonders if the next step on the global stage is a return to Great Power imperialism.

No real doubt exists among intelligent and educated people that the post-war (WW1 & 2) spin-offs of so many “nations” from their Great Power colonial masters, on the false assumption that these “nations” and peoples were capable of self-government, has resulted only in worse situations for their peoples, economic and social regression, educational disasters, agrarian catastrophes, uncontrolled violence, and just generally far worse lives than under their colonial masters.

If the citizens of the Great Powers really want to help themselves and others, perhaps removing[…]

Thoughts on the Off-shoring of Jobs

Rather than comment on the mid-terms, which already are being over-commented, here are a few thoughts on the off-shoring of jobs in America. It’s an issue of interest to Left and Right, but I think one not being discussed in the correct context.

Frankly, the answer on off-shoring of jobs may well be that we continue to educate a citizenry for, and then employ them in 19th- and 20th-Century manufacturing and industrial jobs that our technology and economy have outgrown. In not educating for tomorrow, which we most certainly do not, we accept that we must import thousands of H1-B folks[…]

Chile Miner Rescue-American Know How

Far be it for our American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners.

Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners.

Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to reach the miners.

UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.

Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas, and its subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros., worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the miners, and then enlarge the holes to ultimately[…]

Tolerance? The post-Enlightenment West vs Islam

Here’s a question for you:

Why, in this nation of tolerant people, is THIS acceptable, but THIS is not?

Hmmm?

I ask the tolerant multiculturalists among us.