July 2, 2012 - 12:28 am
- Good News — What Good News? By Victor Davis Hanson. Six reasons why there’s no good news to be found in Obama’s ongoing crackup.
- Silicon Graffiti: An Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble, by Ed Driscoll. The Blogfather on the health of old media, new media, and Big Education.
- A Modest Suggestion for the American Election, by David Solway. The present administration and the Democratic Party have much to answer for.
- Ryan: Roberts ‘Contorted Logic and Reason’ for ObamaCare Ruling, by Bridget Johnson. “So one man decided against the dissenting opinion, against what I, you know, thought were his principles and judicial jurisprudence.”
- Obama Enables America’s Enemies, by Robert Spencer. President Morsi of Egypt has shown his gratitude to Obama by announcing his determination to free from prison a man who plotted to murder hundreds of thousands of Americans.
- Bothered in the Broccoli Republic, by Claudia Rosett. Dear Uncle Sam: What exactly is in the “Affordable Care Act” bill? Also read: Yes, Roberts Switched Sides on Obamacare Decision
- Catholic Nuns: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone? By Kathy Shaidle. As American nuns publicly complain (again) about the evil patriarchal Church, a nasty question hangs in the air: Why don’t they just leave?
- Do We Really Need Another Spider-Man Movie? By John Boot. Not really but it’s still a fun summer blockbuster — just not in Dark Knight Rising‘s league.
- Racing into Oblivion, by Mark Stuertz. Why I said goodbye to NASCAR.
America is in the midst of a great transition and all that is great and good about her can be lost. We do not have to lose.
We are losing.
It is imperative for folks to realize that the GOP is just a stopgap to momentarily hold the line. When it does not do so because of craven cowardness, it makes the overall job that much harder. For we are engaged in a battle to determine whether America will remain essentially as it was, just with the skin color of successful Americans varying; or whether or not it will descend into some Kafkaesque Balkanized “Chavez Venezuela” hell, where skin color trumps all (esp over white), everything is touched by a government that rules with an iron will both arbitrary and capricious, the culture is adolescent, juvenile, and shallow, where the small must cower before the great as in a mob-run town,, and the heritage of the West is discarded merely because it is from unfashionable demographics, to be replaced by Madonna.
We are at a great inflection point in world history. The momentary year to year electoral needs of the GOP pale before the needs of this change. We do not have to lose. We are losing. Victory in this change will not come from the GOP–it will have to come from outside. But defeat can come from the GOP, if it does not stand firm and, like Britain surrendering to the Nazis in 1940, or the Pusan Perimeter collapsing in 1950, make it that much harder for the succesful reattack from outside by eliminating a base which to both hold the enemy in place and eliminating a base to marshall forces from.
America as it was when I was a boy is going to die, for demographics are changing (partially very much illegitimately, due to illegal immigration, a dispossession of the current inhabitants that makes a mock of any complaints about America’s continental expansion) But the spirit of America need not die.
Right now it is predeceasing the patient. We must stand our ground and hope Providence provides.