The Smallest Minority

Late Again

But at least I found it. (Via Knowledge is Power)

Relatively new blogger Varifrank has a damned fine analysis of The Grand Unified Theory Of Vietnam. There’s just far too much to excerpt from, but to give you an idea, I saved it to my “Essential Library” file. It’s that good. But, in the interest of making sure everyone reads this piece – and I mean EVERYONE, here’s a taste:

And then, something happened that no one foresaw.

An outside force, for the first time since December 7th 1941, had attacked and killed Americans at home. Only this time, it wasn’t at an obscure military base in the Pacific, but was in Manhattan, Liberal, Libertine, New Yorker Magazine– If you lived here, you’d be home by now– Manhattan.

For the first time, the generation which had rejected war as a tool of the oppressor, used largely by American business as a club to subjugate poor countries, was itself faced with an enemy that did not differentiate between the military and civilian, between Marines and little girls on their way to Disneyland and worse, between the real enemy and the enlightened masses of Manhattan. This generation was faced by an enemy that wanted to kill us all, left and right, progressives, liberals, men, women; it made no difference to them. The only choice the Jihadi’s gave us was submission to Islam, or death. This generation had never concided this dogma in their “Grand Unified Theory Of Vietnam.” Kill us? Why? We didn’t vote for George W. Bush! The Terrorists should have attacked Texas!

The Jihadi’s act of violence and insanity shook the world, but no group in it more so than the generation who’s “moral order” was established in Vietnam. “Why do they hate us?” They asked. “It must be our policies.” They said, “See! This is a reaction to globalization. This war thing makes no sense, Europeans live with terror, so why can’t we? Why – it’s just a pretense for the consolidation of power, THAT’S IT!…..”

By George, I think he nailed it.

Please, please, PLEASE read the whole thing. And pass it around to your internet-challenged friends.

The Third SwiftVets.com Ad is Up



Here. (Windows Media file.)

How are Kerry and the media going to smear Steve Gardner?

Ignoring him is apparently out of the question.

Well, some of them are right here at Muslims for Bush (via One Hand Clapping). There’s an interview with the founder on this page with some interesting comments, such as:

(W)e truly believe that President Bush is good for Muslims. We feel like he is getting a bad rap. A lot of Muslims are going against him not for the right reasons. If there is someone who is very wrong for the job, it is John Kerry. Bush is the right guy for Muslims.
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(Kerry) is bad at a lot of levels. The first reason is that he was responsible for writing many parts of the Patriot Act. The second reason is that Kerry has said that he wants to denuclearize Pakistan. Pakistan has been America’s greatest ally in the war on terror. If John Kerry is going to ruin that, it will hurt Pakistan and the war on terror.

And this piece is outstanding, a Q&A for the American Muslim considering who to vote for. Question #14 is my personal favorite, but check #1:

Question #1 – Did President Bush go to Iraq for oil?
Answer #1 – Anyone who thinks that President Bush went to Iraq for cheap oil, has obviously lost the power of reasoning. If President Bush wanted cheap oil, he would have done a deal directly with Saddam. In that way, Saddam would have given an arm and a leg to be in the good graces of the United States. He likely would have given the oil for free, in order to maintain his position as the legitimate ruler of Iraq, much as he did through the corrupt ‘Oil for Food Program’ that the United Nations and France heavily benefited from. Cheap oil was never the agenda.

Apparently some Muslims have recognized that the Left has “lost the power of reasoning.” Not that it’s a difficult conclusion to reach.

Interesting stuff, and another reason an atheist like me reads the Rev. Sensing.

Payback’s a Bitch, Ain’t It?

As the Left is beginning to discover. Chris Muir nails another one in Day by Day.

Conservatives claim their views curbed on campuses

Students for Academic Freedom

Mallard Fillmore has something on the topic as well:

Political Correctness? Take THAT!



“Tolerance” works BOTH WAYS.

An Example of the Skillful Use of the Broadsword



Banagor of Shining Full Plate and a Good Broadsword reviews an excellent comment left on an anti-Nader site, and delivers an “Off-at-the-knees!” stroke of his own.

Teaser:

Democrats don’t get it. They don’t understand that some people won’t do something no matter how long or hard you talk.

That is why I have to laugh at their efforts and their sites. They are idiotic in their attempts to try to change the inevitable. They simply can’t do it, just like they can’t convince Sudan to stop killing thousands of people just by flinging potentially harsh words at them, or try to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb with finger-wagging.

Some people just won’t listen.

So what do they do? They attack other people’s freedom of speech and Constitutional rights. They can’t attack Nader on the issues because they have none, so they attack his right to run for President. They can’t attack the Swift Boat Vets on their testimonies, so they attack them on their right to speak out during an election. They can’t attack Bush on the current issues of the war because they have no solutions, so they attack him with Kerry’s thirty year old record of Vietnam.

This isn’t a party of issues any longer, but a party of idiots.

THAT’S gonna leave a mark!

Amen, Claire, Amen.

Claire, “La Profesora of Moonbatology” and contributor to SondraK.com, has an excellent post up. You need to read the links, too. Here’s a teaser, and something I agree with wholly:

We lost that war in Viet Nam and the Vietnamese people paid. Dearly. We cannot afford to lose this war through the same mistake of refusing to believe in ourselves and each other. This time, not only will we pay dearly, but the people of many other nations will pay, in turn.



We need to reacquaint ourselves with what is good and right and pure and unique about The Great Experiment that is America. We need to return to the roots of belief in the basic goodness of Man from which our approach to governance sprang. We need to give ourselves permission to be proud of all that we have accomplished in our mere 228 years and believe that we, indeed, still have the Right Stuff to continue to do credit to our forefathers, and to ourselves. We need to give ourselves permission to protect ourselves because what we have created and what we have done is worth protecting. And what we will do will be principled, and decent and right.

Go read it all. Spread it around.

Ravenwood has found possibly the seminal example of John F’n Kerry’s incredible skill at nuance yet, via the New York Times no less!

The truth, which is what elections are all about, is that the tax burden of the middle class has gone up while the tax burden of the middle class has gone down

I’m in awe.

And it’s TRUE! I saw the CBO report that said that the percentage of the total tax burden has gone up for the middle class after the tax cut that let the middle class keep more of their own money! See! See!