God Bless Bishop Tobin

Speaking truth to power in a way the Left Wing Media refuses to do.

Our "Friends" the Saudis

Much of the ignorant commentary of the Left Wing Media in the wake of the latest outbreak of Sudden Jihadi Syndrome has failed to recognize the insidious role played by the Saudis in the advance of Wahabbism in the U.S. military.

Rather than bowing like a servant, Obama should have delivered a boot in the rear to Abdullah and his tyrannical cohort.

What's Wrong With Obama?

Is he psychologically-incapable of empathy?

Is he a pathological narcissist?

Is he a coward?

Is he out-of-touch with reality?

Is he unwilling to fulfill his duties as Commander-in-Chief?

Is he willfully blind?

Is he ideologically so attached to the concept of "diversity" that he elevates that over the lives of our servicemen?

Does he hate the American military?

Does he hate America?

Whichever is the case---and the answer might be "all of the above"---there is something clearly very wrong with the man we've elected leader of the free world.

And by implication, there is something clearly very wrong with the majority of Americans who have voted for him and continue to support this man.

Giving him more power is not the answer with this man, any more than it was with Caligula.

Does the Death Penalty Deter Murderers?

It sure looks like it.

I would caution conservatives however that deterrence of murder---a very good thing---is not the sole consequence of the death penalty in our society. A state with power of life and death over its citizens is an ugly thing.

There is no question about the constitutionality of capital punishment---in law and practice, it is clearly consistent with the Constitution.

However, resort to such measures is not justice but injustice, even when there is little doubt of the convicted criminal's guilt. The dead cannot repent. The blow to the State's respect for life and limitations to its power is significant and the diminishment of the right to life---a God-given right which is the basis of this Republic and which should be unalienable---is profound.

It is one thing to slay a murderer in the act or aftermath of his crime. It is another to slay a man who is helpless and removed from any capacity to harm another.

Our sense of justice can only be imperfect. We have an interest in both deterring murder and in providing the families of murder victims with recompense for their loss. Were a member of my family murdered, I would want to see the murderer dead myself.

And yet placing the legal bureaucracy in the role of arbiter of life and death is dangerous and wrong. In that rare case where we execute an innocent person, what recourse do THEIR families have? What recourse do THEY have, deprived of life so unjustly?

Bad enough that we sometimes take away the freedom of the innocent. Taking their lives is an irrevocable act which coarsens our society and deadens our consciences to the sanctity of human life, even where it satisfies our limited sense of justice.

As a Catholic, I support the death penalty only where there is no alternative. In the case of Saddam Hussein, for example, there was no viable alternative in my opinion due to the clear and present danger he represented to the Iraqi people. John Allen Muhammad, an evil man and a mass murderer, was clearly guilty of his horrendous crimes and yet did not represent the same danger.

His execution is surely not the tragedy nor the crime that his murders were, and yet it is not something we should glory in.

God bless the families of his victims and may God forgive us for his execution.

We fallen children of Eve cannot but follow our conscience, corrupt though it is, and when absent the divine guidance afforded to the Church we walk in darkness indeed.

The Men We Left Behind

Accounts like this continue to haunt me.

I would like to think that America would NEVER leave POWs behind, but experience with the cowardice of our political class leads me to believe otherwise.

May God forgive us if we did.

That Big Tent

Obama wants Joe Lieberman out of the country.

Obama the Uniter

Uniting America in opposition to his fascist and Marxist lunacy.

Why Eminent Domain Abuse Serves No One

Case in point: Kelo.

You can simply never believe politicians and bureaucrats.

This woman lost her HOME. For nothing.

If That Was A "Stimulus" Package...

...why is there no correlation between unemployment and jobs "saved"?

Those Idiots Napolitano and Casey

Look at this graph and tell me precisely what Janet Napolitano and General George Casey are smoking.

Resignations are in order.

"That's Not a Crime to Call al Qaeda, Is It?"

Chris Matthews, blithering idiot.

Okay, Chris, just substitute "Richard Mellon Scaife" for "Al Qaeda" and a lefty conspiracy-monger like you might get it in translation through the English-Moonbat Dictionary.

The Manchurian President

2009 has certainly clarified who Barack Obama is. As the mask slipped, we now see precisely whom we elected leader of the free world: a man who yearns to the marrow of his bones for the destruction of that shining city on a hill envisioned by the Founders, an end to the third city ever poised between Athens and Jerusalem, between reason and faith, between rabble and ruler.

It isn't a pretty picture.

This is a man who, when confronted with a choice between America's allies in the free world and her enemies, a weak and pathetic gaggle of tinhorn dicators and petty tyrants, invariably chooses to support her enemies.

This is a man who, upon discovering that one of America's closest allies is confronting an existential struggle against one of her bitterest enemies, chastizes her friend while embracing unequivocally her foe.

This is a man who, given the opportunity to demonstrate his worthiness for the Nobel Peace Prize just awarded by supporting a pro-American, pro-Israeli journalist in a Muslim nation who faces death for his views, turns his back, unwilling to put his soaring rhetoric to the service of a man who can do nothing for him in return.

This is a man who, confronted with searing evidence of Al Qaeda infiltration of our armed forces, pretends that a murderous terrorist's motive is somehow obscure.

This is a man who severed ties with Scotland Yard even as they, hot on the heels of an Al Qaeda cell, sought to prevent a terrorist attack on the New York subway system.

This is a man who, upon the occasion of celebrating America's victory over Communism, does not bother to show up to deliver a speech in a city he eagerly sought to do so in an unprecedented fashion during his election campaign, but appears via video and then mentions only the American president who acquiesced to the building of the Berlin Wall in the first place.

The threads in this emerging narrative point less to mere incompetence and toward a more disturbing tapestry by far: that of a Manchurian President, acting on an agenda which is incongruent to the service of the American people and to our Constitution.

More disturbingly, the events enumerated above are merely the news of A SINGLE DAY.

Over one thousand days remain in the Obama presidency.

What kind of country---what kind of world---will we face when it is over?

Soldiers of Allah, or Soldiers of the U.S. Army?

For the Fort Hood terrorist, SoA only had one meaning.

Just Gearing Up For Those 72 Virgins

The Fort Hood murderer sure loved him some strip clubs.

Where he's going, he ought to have invested some quality sauna time instead.

Resign, General Casey

When you profess diversity to be a principle of paramount concern over the lives of the men and women you allegedly lead, it's time for you to go.

The New York Times Finally Honors A Military Hero

Too bad they mistakenly thought he was a Muslim.

Sounds like another cautionary tale against the dangers of profiling to me.

Remember When We Had A REAL President?

This is what it was like.

There is much speculation as to why the current occupant of the Oval Office didn't go to Berlin for the 20th Anniversary.

I suspect the real reason is indicated by this video: he simply cannot hope to compete with the greatness, moral clarity, and leadership of The Great Communicator.

Another Sudden Jihadi Syndrome Victim To Be Executed Today

A reminder as the Left Wing Media attempts to defend the Ft Hood murderer.

Perhaps when one of these nutjobs starts mowing people down inside The New York Times newsroom sympathies will shift on the Left.

Bush v. Obama

The quiz.

It will be impossible to get a perfect score if you rely on the Left Wing Media for information.

"Build Up That Wall"

The New York Times vs. freedom.

Know Your Enemy

One of the fundamental axioms of warfare is "Know Your Enemy".

To ignore this is to court defeat, as surprise is the great force multiplier.

Political correctness aims in part to prevent this most basic tenet of warfare to be honored:

Evidently, it wasn't enough of a red flag to read this lunatic's anti-American bitterness, which he proudly posted on the Internet with no fear or compunction about using his own name. This is a guy who regularly wore the fundamentalism uniform of the enemy he was supposedly training our troops to defeat. This is a guy who wrote in laudatory terms about suicide bombers as he condemned US policies in the Middle East. This is a guy who reportedly told his military classmates that he was a Muslim first and an American second. Hello? Is there anyone out there with common sense? If this is what's called national security; we are in more trouble than we realize. How many more savage time bombs do we have walking and stalking among us?

Indeed, Muslim jihadists of the Wahabbist strain, our primary enemies in the War on Terror, rely on political correctness to operate in plain sight. They use their different ethnicity to their advantage by playing the race card to prevent inquiry into their activities. We will no doubt discover that Nidal Malik Hasan was an excellent tactician in this regard---otherwise, one presumes that his performance issues and inability to fit in with the Army culture would have truncated his career long before attaining field grade rank, even in the woefully-slack medical field.

So what was this man doing in the military in a time of war? One good answer:

We have become a sick society where fantasies are favored and reality is called "racist." If there were an officer of Japanese descent in our military during WWII, he wouldn't have lasted till the next day's rising sun if he had expressed pro-Imperial Japanese sentiments. But that was then, when America was America, before she was sacrificed on the altar of the leftist dystopia in utopian clothing.


It's only a sick society that tolerates yet another, far more dangerous fifth column: those traitors who, as Cicero said 2000 years ago, appear not as traitors, who speak in accents familiar to their victims and who wear their victims' face and their arguments. I speak of those who wasted no time painting Hasan as a victim, writers such as Kenyon Wallace, who only emphasized the claim that the major was "harassed" by colleagues and theorized that post traumatic stress disorder might have influenced this man who never saw a firefight until he started one at Fort Hood.


What bunk. Sure, Hasan got into heated arguments with fellow officers and was called names. But that's not called harassment. Harassment is when you disgorge the enemy's rhetoric with a violent tongue. It's called a defense of God, country and culture. It's called pushing back when pushed.


Yet, however much some push individually, as a society we are three little monkeys content with their self-imposed handicaps. Is it noteworthy that Islamists perpetrated 9/11, that we are at war with them and that they have spread their creed primarily by the sword ever since its inception nigh on 1400 years ago? Is it noteworthy that they perpetrated the aforementioned Arkansas murder; that Sgt. Asan Akbar attacked members of his own American unit in Kuwait with grenades and a gun in 2003; and that, as WorldNetDaily.com reports citing a recent book, "jihadists fill ‘every branch'" of the U.S. military? Is it noteworthy that virtually all today's terrorism is Islamist handiwork, from New York to Nigeria, France to the Philippines, India to Israel? Is this not a pattern?


Yet, the powers that be still pretend as if fitting an obvious, consistently demonstrated profile is meaningless and trumped by facile propositions such as "He is a soldier sworn to duty," "He is an ‘American' with freedom of speech and religion," or the worn out "Islam is a religion of peace" and "Most Muslims are good people." And their attitude much reminds me of an old Mad Magazine cartoon I read as a boy. It was a depiction of two men observing a huge, octopus-like monster holding a colleague in one tentacle, a fork and knife in two others and dangling salt and pepper shakers over the man's head with another two. One of the men then asks the other (I'm paraphrasing), "What makes you think this creature intends to eat Dr. Toms?"


Ah, the beauty of tolerance and open-mindedness. Pay no attention to the turbaned man behind the curtain. It's them thar racists clingin' to guns and religion (other than Islam) you've got to worry about.

Americans are historically reluctant to stare into the face of evil. We are eternal optimists ill-at-ease at the prospect. Prior to Pearl Harbor, we sought to stay out of the war despite all signs of Axis evil and roused only when our Pacific fleet lay on the bottom of the harbor. Even after years of fighting the Nazis and Japanese, we still were shocked by what we found when we liberated the concentration and POW camps.

And so it is with the jihadis. What kind of people strap bombs to the handicapped and to children and send them out to kill civilians? What kind of people saw off the limbs of their countrymen in soccer stadiums? What kind of people slit the throats of stewardesses and ram planes into buildings? What kind of people saw the heads off of journalists? What kind of people throw hand grenades into their commanding officers tents or shoot their brothers and sisters while shouting "God is great!"?

Evil people.

Much is made of culture but it is the rare culture indeed where torture, rape, and murder have been elevated to cardinal virtues. Such is the case with militant Islam, particularly that of the Saudi-sponsored Wahabbist strain to which Hasan and Al Qaeda subscribed.

These are people who cannot be negotiated with. These are people who cannot be appeased.

Know Your Enemy.

You Really Can't Make This Stuff Up

The idiot in charge of Homeland Security under Obama isn't concerned about more terrorist attacks on the U.S. like the one in Fort Hood---she's worried about "anti-Muslim backlash."

She'd better be worried about the "anti-anti-American backlash" that will throw her rear end on the burgeoning unemployment line come January 2013.

How A Commander-in-Chief Should Act

It took a former C-in-C to school the present one on proper conduct.

Obama only shows up when there's a photo op. Clinton and Carter don't show up at all.

Is it any wonder that our troops revere George W. Bush and don't care a whit for Obama, Carter, and Clinton?

How About the Answers To THESE Questions, Mr. President?

Since Barry wants to wait until "questions have been answered" in the Fort Hood Massacre, he'll no doubt be comforted that some already have:

Which mosque did murderous dirtbag Hasan attend? The same one as two of the 9/11 hijackers.

What imam did Hasan most admire? Anwar al-Awlaki, an ardent Al Qaeda supporter.

Why does Obama and the other lefty elitists avert their eyes from Sudden Jihadi Syndrome in the midst of the War on Terror? It is inconvenient for their "hate America" and extreme relativist worldview.

The real question is how we managed to elect---in a time of war no less---a weak-kneed little sophist like Obama who can immediately accuse a cop of acting "stupidly" for doing his damned job and busting one of Obama's buddies but cannot put together the puzzle pieces when a Muslim fanatic commits an act of treason and murder.

Yeah, Let's Let Mr. Observant Watch Over the Financial System

Barney Frank, the would-be-watchdog who is perpetually surprised by people breaking the law in his presence.

Suckers

That's what Obama takes you for.

Does Obama Consider the Bible Holy?

I must admit I haven't had much luck finding Obama quotes where he refers to "The Holy Bible" in the same fashion as "The Holy Koran".

This collection of Obama videos is quite damning on the weird obeisance Obama shows to the faith of our enemies. It would be as though Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to "Mein Kampf" in glowing terms or quoted from it.

It is true of course that we are not at war with Muslims per se, but it is also true that our jihadi enemies are all Muslims and profoundly weird that a Christian man should be so over-the-top in his praise of Islam.

He has not demonstrated such exuberance when discussing Christ---at least not publicly.

Obama's Cluelessness

...drives Americans' joblessness.

Hope you keep your job.

Change your standard of living downward.

THAT's Obamunism.

Our PC Suicide Pact

When the worst thing you can do is disciminate in a society, you are going to get a lot of this.

How many terrorist attacks must we suffer before we take our enemies on?

How many Americans must die before Obama starts acting like a Commander-in-Chief?

The election of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in 2006-2008 returned America to the pre-9/11world. Without our enemies having been defeated.

Can You Tell Me How To Get To Socialist Street?

The Children's Marxist Workshop is at it again.

And Elmo's red for a reason.

The Father of the Constitution Schools Nancy Pelosi

And the rest of us.

If socialized medicine is so great, why aren't Congressmen signing up their own families for it?

About Those Infant Mortality Statistics

Two ways these get jobbed:

1. Don't count infants considered "non-viable" from the beginning---e.g. aborted and infants with severe health problems (many countries cook the books this way);

2. Penalize the U.S. for its miraculous ability to intervene with fertility treatments which naturally lead to higher incidence of multiple and premature births.

Either way, pregnant women try to come to the U.S. to have babies for good reason---they want their babies to live.

Our Commander-In-Chief

What a disgrace.

It's a damned shame that the murder of dozens of our brave soldiers had to intrude on a "productive" bureaucratic confab and so inconvenience Obama.

Remember That Census Worker Allegedly Lynched By "Hillbillies"?

Never mind.

Lies, Lies, Lies

Nancy Pelosi lied about posting the full text of the healthcare bill 72 hours prior to any House vote on it---a promise she was "absolutely committed to" on Sep 24th.

Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama lied about federal funds going toward abortions in the healthcare bill.

So why should we believe them when they say we will be allowed to keep our coverage?

Why should we believe them when they say they won't kill grandma to save money?

Why should we believe them when they say this won't add "a dime to the deficit"?

Why should we believe them about anything?

The Left Can't Even Organize A Boycott Against Overpriced Vegetables

Moonbats boycott Whole Foods, Whole Foods' profit grows exponentially.

Obama Explains It All

Set the budget baseline high enough, and for one glorious moment The One is a budget CUTTER.

But only for a moment.

Fat, Dumb, and Dishonest

American kids are getting to be too typically liberal for today's Army.

They Sure Love Commies

Left wing media, thru the Wayback Machine.

Making excuses for socialism and its tyrants is simply in the DNA of these people.

How'd THIS Happen?

The great mystery: how America of all places became socialist.

Hint: it all began when Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives ignored the Constitution once the income tax and universal suffrage amendments passed.

Where New Drugs Come From

Hint: it ain't the guvmint.

NRSC Learns A Lesson

Less so from the election results, I'd expect, and moreso from the fact that conservatives have stopped sending Cornyn and the other Senate RINOs money.

Iran Increases Uranium Output

The author of this article finds it a great mystery, but the answer is in plain sight: all those shipments from North Korea and Russia to Tehran.

There is a new axis of evil in the world, and it consists of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Il, and Crazy Eye Ahmadinejad.

The New York Times: Just Another Whore for Elliot Spitzer

Just when you thought they'd drained the dregs from the bottom of the barrel, they suck out still more briny obeisance to their Autocrat masters.

A Tale of Two Apostates

Compare and contrast how the Republican Party treated DedeScozzafava with how the Autocrats treat Joe Lieberman.

It's clear which party is a big tent and which is a hivemind.

Obamunists Oppress All Dissent

Even that coming from high school newspapers.

Seeing Is Believing

Planned Parenthood director quits and becomes pro-life after seeing abortion on ultrasound.

This is why the infanticide lobby wants to prevent images of babies in utero from reaching the eyes of their mothers. There's no money in it for them.

Israel Does the Job

How the Israelis took out the NorK/Mullah reactor in Syria.

Mohammad ElBaradei was "angry". Of course he was---he is whenever Jews and Christians win.

Palin Schools Biden---Again

"Hoffman, baby, Hoffman!"

Great Moments in RINO History

A reminder why RINOs are not to be trusted, nor empowered.

Why My Kids Won't Be Going To Public Schools

The NEA openly touts Marxist organizer and Obama guru Saul Alinsky.

Public schools cannot be entrusted with our children's minds. Just look at how weak and deluded and alien to America educrats' minds have become.

Why Deterrence Won't Work With Iran

Mutually-Assured Destruction only works as a deterrent if a) both sides are willing to pull the nuclear trigger and b) both sides are unwilling to see their cities reduced to glowing ash.

The Iranians wage war by proxy through Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and related terrorist groups augmented by small cadres of special force troops to ensure freelancing doesn't happen. Obama is not going to pull the trigger if Hezbollah nukes Tel Aviv.

Game. Set. Match. Tehran.