April 22, 2005
April 17, 2005
Left Take Note
Glenn Reynolds has an excellent post up regarding, in general, the Bush Doctrine and the Left. It will help if you follow the links to color in the underlying mosaic of information.
Glenn's post would be just another remarkable post by the Instapundit; I am linking for something quite special: an MLK quote on appropriate (ie, Christian) use of violence. Please go here for the quote and the background.
One thing that has not troubled me as a Christian (and a regular American joe) is that it is not only OK, but imperative, to kill, sometimes. The no-war, no-way, no-how crowd exists, even thrives, for one simple reason: those they criticize have a conscience. If you are one of that crowd, ask yourself: if you were to protest against Saddam Hussein or Adolph Hitler or Josef Stalin the way you protest against George W. Bush, would you be alive today? Would you have all of your testicles/eyeballs/fingers/family members?
One of your heroes (and very much one of mine) understood that you must know your opposition. Martin Luther King, Jr. held Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer as one of his moral influences. Bonhoeffer was a pre-Nazi Germany ethicist and pacifist, but realized that Nazi Germany could not be "solved" with Gandhi-style pacifism. Bonhoeffer was executed only months before Germany's surrender in 1945 for plotting to assassinate Hitler.
It does not matter whether you chant your love mantra or scream insanely at the top of your lungs if your final destination either way is an industrial tree-shredder. True evil understands only one thing: greater violence to it than it is capable of delivering.
The war on Islamofascist Terror is not a gentlemen's war. It most certainly shares no parallels with the 20th century race struggles this country has seen. If you did not read MLK's quote cited above, here it is: “if your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if you enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.”
Sometimes killing is the only moral thing left to do.
April 16, 2005
Go See The Real Cuba. Now.
Oh, and if you should feel a tad under the weather while you're visiting, just stop in at a universal, ubiquitous, 100% totally free, Cuban health clinic.
That Che shirt you're wearing? Nothing communicates your ignorance more better!
Hat tip to The Emperor.
April 08, 2005
Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dying!
Air Security Agency Faces Reduced Role (washingtonpost.com)
Hat tip Neal Boortz (permalink broken, from 4/8/2005 Nuze)
April 07, 2005
Medienkritik Comment
Left a comment to this post: Davids Medienkritik: The Left in American Academia.
Comment:
I don't disagree with the Herr Professor's observations, but I do disagree with his conclusions:
So long as political indoctrination continues on America’s college campuses the gradual transformation of America will continue. Bit by bit, step by step, the liberal college professors educate new generations into believing that liberal values are better, more refined, more logical, than conservative values. The end result is a slow but steady reform of America, away from what it once was and into something it was never meant to be: a second Europe. Gradually, more and more young Americans graduate from college and vote for more leftist candidates. Issue by issue, state by state, the will of the radical college professors is allowed to increase the presence of government and roll back individual freedom.
I do not believe that what we are witnessing is an incremental creep towards liberalism but an incremental discovery of liberal dogma on the campuses. Just as the MSM can no longer "get away with" liberal bias, in an incremental two steps forward one step back manner, the same destiny awaits liberal academia.
Furthermore, this "correction" is not just a rebalancing of equal poles of thought, but a trend towards a superior philosophy, one of strong individuals and less government (and secular "governing") in general.
April 03, 2005
All SF Bloggers To Wear Mandatory Condoms
San Francisco May Regulate Blogging | Personal Democracy Forum
April 02, 2005
This Should Be Funny, Right?
The indefatigable Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs brings us French winemakers hurling sticks of dynamite because the government isn't subsidizing them (more than they already are): Violent French Winemakers