June 20, 2012 - 12:51 am
- Flaming the Flame: The Case of the Mysterious Cyberleaks, by Roger L Simon. You’d think an administration that wants to use cyberwar as a weapon against Iran would at least be able to keep a secret.
- The Gods of Socialism, by Ion Mihai Pacepa. Without fail, philosophical descendants of Marx promise the same kind of “change.”
- The Obama Outrages: Government as Black Swan, by Jeff Durstewitz. Transforming America, one “unexpected” incident after another.
- Thoughts on Iran, Nuclear Weapons, and Tehran’s Regional Role, by Barry Rubin. With Sunni Islamism’s rise in Egypt and elsewhere, Iran’s role shrinks.
- Americans ‘Would Not Support Immigration Reform that Included Amnesty,’ by Bridget Johnson. PJM EXCLUSIVE: Reflecting on the immigration debate then and after Obama’s Friday deferment order with the lawmaker whose bill sparked the 2006 protests, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.
- America Should Bet on Berlin, Not the Basket Cases, by David P. Goldman. Why should the U.S. prop up the fictitious wealth of Spain by making Germany poorer?
- The Rosenbergs: A Fetish of the American Left, by Ron Radosh. June 19th, 1953: Another anniversary of an execution passes.
Regarding the recent immigration events–make no mistake, the political cosultants have decided that demographics give this supposedly single-issue, block voting Latino voter a veto on things immigration, and no one else’s vote will count–in fact they will be belittled and demonized. I’d like to point out this is how both slavery and segregation endured for so long–the South made it clear they would not vote for anyone who would not allow them to do as they would, and invented increasingly roccoco reasons why what they wanted, seemingly wrong, was actually incredibly proper.
Even so with the open borders crowd.
The leaders of the GOP are not going to fight this mindset, and the wishes of a majority are going to be disregarded because pols want to win victories, and other things split that majority and thus give this small amnesty-block outsized power, which the leaders of the GOP have repeatedly proved they will try to woo. If we are thus going to practice de facto parliamentary politics, then perhaps we should do it de jure, so that other, larger blocks of voters finally stopped being taken for granted and were able to more directly exercise influence. This would also perhaps be the death of the RINO, so what’s not to like?