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Remember how Al Jazeera is now a "mainstream" news channel which is not at all terroristic or anti-semitic, illustrating their coverage of Libya with graffiti of Khaddafi as a dog wearing a Star of David. Maybe someone can bring that up with the director of Al Jazeera at his next TED talk. TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO THE YEAR 2009 Obama's big speech angrily called for a miniaturized version of the same stupid wasteful programs that were such a black hole in the early years of his administration. Pie in the sky minus the pie. More public works projects, been there and done that. Pay for it with spending cuts? Does Obama even understand what "spending cuts" means. If you're cutting one thing to pay for another, then you're not actually cutting anything at all-- you're just moving money around. More money for the school bureaucracy with 35 billion alone as a payoff to teachers' unions. Can we afford this? Hell no. Preventing Layoffs o...

It was around the time of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, that memorials stopped being remembrances of virtue, and became therapy sessions. The old statues of determined men gave way to empty spaces to represent loss. Their lessons of courage and sacrifice, were replaced by architecture as therapy session, clean geometrical shapes, reflective pools and open areas in which to feel grief at what was lost and then let go of it. September 11 memorials have inevitably followed this same pattern, empty spaces, still pools of water groves and names tastefully inscribed in row after row. How do you tell the Ground Zero memorial from the Oklahoma City memorial? The Oklahoma City memorial has one reflecting pool and the September 11 memorial has two pools. There is no larger meaning to these memorials and there isn't supposed to be one. A hundred years from now they will be nothing more than giant pools surrounded by trees with nothing to say.  These new memorials are not about teaching...

Anyone who cared to dig through the graveyards of Sudan already knew that Muslims mattered more than Africans to us. The sky full of jets that we dispatched to bomb Yugoslavia on behalf of Muslim terrorists never clouded the skies of Khartoum. But they did show up to bomb Tripoli so that Islamist thugs could begin torturing and murdering Africans. In the left's pyramid of races, some matter more than others, and Arabs are higher than Africans. So much higher that Sudan is piled with corpses, but the mere thought of Islamist rebels losing in Libya was enough to send in the air forces of bankrupt Western countries already tied up in too many places. The primacy of the Arab Muslim over the African Christian is a recent thing in the liberal landscape born in part of realpolitik and the red enthusiasm for revolutionary violence. It is a thing which almost no one discusses because it has gone unnoticed. The racial vocabulary of it is one that few are even able to read. Most still...

Moscow  The Cold War between the economic empire of the West and the socialist tyrannies of the East made it seem as if the future would belong to the coalition with the best industrial machine and largest military. In he 21st century though the industrial machine has been traded off to China, and ICBM's and armies haven't managed to settle the brewing low tech conflicts of both empires with the Muslim world. The scene above is Moscow at Eid al-Fitr, as Muslims protest the lack of additional mosques with street prayers. But it could just as easily be London, Paris, New York or dozens of other cities. While the two empires were stacking up ICBM's, the Muslim world was stacking up babies. The empires suffer from low birth rates, and are experiencing an invasion that they have no defense against.  Islam is demographically set to dominate Russia and Europe, reversing five centuries of history, and seizing control of the heartland for which the old empires fought. West B...

Ever since the United States Federal government assumed state debts back in 1790, the creation of a permanent national debt has been a key feature of federalization. The current national debt crisis may lead to a reversal of federalization or to the elimination of the last vestiges of the rights of states. The situation in the European Union is much the same , where the collapse of weaker state economies may bring it down altogether, or may usher in the end of nationhood in Europe. Then as now much depends on convincing three groups of the inevitability of the process. Those three groups, in the order of most influential to least influential,  are the political leadership, the financial and trade barons, and the general public. This order is also incidentally the order of those most willing to believe to those least willing to believe-- which explains why we have the current system that we do today. The first two groups favor a permanent national debt for obvious reasons, t...

The time when the Obama brand still seemed like it might have something to offer the American people is long past. There will still be voters who go to the polls and pull the wrong lever, but they won't do it because they seriously believe that another term will make America a better place. Rather they will do it for reasons of identity. Political identity, racial identity and because 'anything is better than voting GOP' is also an identity. The emotion that Obama stirred in the hearts of millions, that illusory sense of history created by so many hours of media manipulation, the expectation that now things would be better, is gone. And it isn't coming back. No one will ever look up dewy eyed at a giant projected image of the Beloved Leader and see the second coming of JFK. All they will see is the politician they're stuck with. The feeling isn't unique, it's common enough to second term leaders of both parties. Republicans were tired of Bush and Democ...

SPEECH, SPEECH After a petty showdown with Republicans and a temper tantrum, Hussein the First has agreed to move that speech which no one particularly cared about anyway to another day. There's nothing that O can say that will convince the country that sunny skies are ahead. With 80 percent of Americans saying that the country is in a recession, the Summer of Recovery propaganda. All that leaves is more useless proposals and the old blame game. Three years ago columnists fainted at his feet every time his mouth imitated the teleprompter, today even they have to admit that the magic is gone. In a wholly negative campaign, his best bet would be to avoid the limelight and let his pet poodle press do his dirty work for him. The less people remember that he's around, the less likely they are to blame him. It's a smart strategy, but O's ego would never let him bend that far. Instead he has begun delivering speeches like Castro, with much less to say. And the more t...