Category Archives: Freedom

The government which prohibits the burning of one holy book will prohibit the reading of one or more holy books. Nobody wants to go down this road, Lindsay Graham You’re done.
I have Muslim friends whom I would not wish to give personal offense, but this is not personal, and I will trust my friends to make a distinction. I support the right of that idiot in Florida to burn a Koran. Same as I support his right to burn a Bible, or any other pertinent scripture.
If I were to YouTube myself burning a Bible with my home address in the shot, I would not be killed.

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I’ll be brief here.  I would like to extend compliments to the Obama administration for taking action and declaring some controlling principles.  I have plenty of criticism which can be seen all over my blog and elsewhwere, but that is not this post.  I believe that the price of admission to a gripe session includes a willingness to take Yes for an answer, and proposals for shared success, not just criticisms.  I’m not sure where I’ll wind up on this putative doctrine of President Obama’s, and I’m not sure what it will turn out to be, but my first impression is that it’s a step in the right direction.  So I take this opportunity to give credit where due.

The President has ordered U.S. military aircraft to evacuate … Continue reading →

Two posts which caught my eye mere minutes apart, thanks to Twitter and the exertions of those more knowledgeable than myself.

The first is from Commentary magazine, “the flagship of neoconservatism.”

Commentary Magazine

The UN will not, in a billion years, fire off so much as a water pistol to help dislodge Qaddafi.  Among UN Security Council Members are China and Russia – autocracies with every reason to see popular liberation movements suffocate.

This is a critical point, and while I had not even considered the slow-moving and short0sighted UN as possibly helping in this instance, neither had I considered the real reasons that nothing will happen on that front.   In that article, the author comes out in the pages of America’s leading … Continue reading →

The Civil War was similar to the abortion issue in that you had two opposing sides who disagreed not on the nature of one thing, but on the relative importance of two things. The trap is in arguing about either one of the two things. In abortion it is quite possible to be both pro-choice and pro-life; I think most people are.
Similarly in the Civil War it is quite possible to be pro-States’ rights and pro-human rights; again, I think most people are.
The first struggles of the Civil War were actually the nogotiations nearly 100 years before to hammer out the Constitution. An uneasy negotiated settlement was reached, without which; it is useful to recall, there would have been no United States (the Articles … Continue reading →

Conservatives have a serious problem, and it is marketing. There is nothing progressive about the Progressives, who feel that the masses must be forced to act as a limited elite will dictate. Look it up, that is the actual meaning of Progressive.
There is nothing more revolutionary or forward-thinking than a faithful exercise of the awesome rights and responsibilities spelled out in our Constitution, and nothing more backward or tyrannic than the imposition of will upon the many by the few.
Talk of revolution is good. We had one in the late eighteenth century, and I for one am committed to it. So, by the way, is every person who has sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Some are more clear on this point … Continue reading →