Liberals Really, Really Want To Take Our Guns Away

So badly, in fact, that Mayor Daley of Chicago even sinks to linking the rampage by Nidal Hasan - Muslim terrorist - to America's love of guns.


"Don't go pullin' none a' dat Second Amendment crap in my town, bud! Violent crime in Chicago is already pretty high; just t'ink how bad t'ings would be if all de lawr-abidin' citizens wuz packin' heat, in addition to de criminals."

Why Can’t You Be A Muslim Extremist And Nuts?

One might make the argument that anybody, prompted by religious beliefs, who’s willing to strap on a suicide belt or cut heads off or shoot people down on the street is mentally ill; however, mental illness is not, per se, a defense against a charge of murder (let alone terrorism), at least not in the U.S. I believe you would have to display some form of severe psychosis that genuinely undermined your ability to distinguish between right and wrong in order to get off on an insanity plea (even then, of course, you’re not looking at being set loose on society; you go off to an asylum for the criminally insane). Subscribing to a religious belief system that not only authorizes, but exhorts, you to kill unbelievers could generally be the result of parental abuse or a bed-wetting problem or premature baldness. But I think we err badly if we do not take into account the existence of evil in trying to understand why people, whatever the ostensible initial cause, turn to violence, particularly when they make a conscious choice that involves the dehumanization of others who do not share their values. And I think it is clear that militant Islam is an evil medium that brings out the worst in its adherents. Whether they are all mentally ill or not, their victims are still dead, and in no position to appreciate what, in my view, is an irrelevant distinction that should not deter the U.S. government from fulfilling its primary duty of protecting us from the depredations of our enemies - sane or otherwise.

The Wall

With gratitude to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and countless others who fought against communism, let us celebrate the anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. And may we never forget...never, ever forget...



Update: And by the way, communism is still alive - if increasingly desperate - in Cuba.

Update II: Well, whaddaya know! Barry dropped into Berlin via satellite hookup and talked about his favorite subject.

Completely missing the significance of the destruction of the Berlin Wall – and failing to mention Reagan and Thatcher – the Preshizzle put the whole thing in the context of his own election.

The ideology, the Chicago-style politics, the divisive style – all are worrisome. But I sometimes wonder if the narcissism isn’t the most dangerous thing of all. A president who gives every appearance of believing that America has labored through peace and war for more than 230 years to finally produce its greatest achievement – the Barack Obama administration – pretty obviously suffers from some severely warped judgment. This cannot end well.

Leave Hasan Alone!

The great Iowahawk skewers the media's search for root causes (by the way, this is just barely a parody; far too close to reality for comfort).

Update: Former Prime Minister Aznar of Spain has it right: "Not all Muslims are jihadists; but all jihadists are Muslims."

Easy as Falling Off a Health Care Bill!

Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics elaborates on a theme I touched upon in an earlier post: the coming collapse of the Democratic Party.

Don’t be put off by the preening arrogance of Pelosi and company, or the shameful pandering by the MSM (or the latter’s focus on divisions within the GOP). I simply do not believe that the American people are ready to embrace the socialist health care system being touted by the Democrats and their leader, Barack Obama, nor are they blind to the folly of trillion-dollar deficits, or the fecklessness of this administration’s foreign policy.

The world may or may not end three years from now, as the Mayan calendar may (or may not) predict; however, the Democrats’ world is already starting to show huge cracks, which will only become deeper and wider in the mid-term elections, culminating in what is likely to be an epochal collapse in that Year of Doom, 2012.

Obama: Getting It Wrong Every Time

Greetings, fellow extremists!

I see that our wily President has sniffed out the anarchist tendencies of the Tea-Party movement. We should not let that deter us, however, from our blood-curdling placard-carrying and our attempts to terrorize elected officials through the violent means of contacting them via email and pledging not to vote for them if they support stupid legislation. We will not rest until the streets run blue with the discarded yard-signs and brochures of defeated and demoralized Democratic candidates, nor will we settle for anything less than the return of elected Democratic officials to the hometown law offices from whence they came, and where their original departures for Washington were no doubt greeted with enthusiasm and relief by their erstwhile partners.

Now, onward to the Senate and the next phase of the health care struggle, where it is devoutly to be hoped that our untiring efforts and unshakable resolve will result in some very sweet tea, indeed.

Health Scare

Not a good outcome in the House this weekend, but not the end of the world, either. The health care bill passed by only five votes in a chamber overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats (one hapless Republican voted for it - Joesph Cao, who won election in William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson's district in Louisiana). Donald Douglas lays out the obstacles facing health care legislation in the Senate.

Meanwhile, Democratic congressmen celebrate what may be a Pyrrhic victory (at least for the so-called Blue Dogs; see ya in 2010, guys!)


"Hey, let's see if we can all pile into a tiny ambulance!"