Excerpt for the day - May 8

"The most telling phrase in that article was ‘they’, which was used again and again, always in quote marks, to refer to ordinary Americans. Because much of the ‘uncomfortable feeling’ over the killing of bin Laden is really an ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with, if not outright disgust for, ‘them’, the people who make up America, and for the ideals of modern America itself...


It is extraordinary, and revealing, how quickly the expression of concern about the use of American force in Pakistan became an expression of values superiority over the American people. The modern chattering classes are so utterly removed from the mass of the population, so profoundly disconnected from ‘ordinary people’ and their ‘ordinary thoughts’, that they effectively see happy Americans as a more alien and unusual thing than Osama bin Laden. Where OBL wins their empathy, American jocks receive only their bile...


No, the now widespread ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the shooting of bin Laden is really an expression of moral reluctance, even of moral cowardice, a desire to avoid taking any decisive action or expressing any firm emotion that might have some blowback consequences for us over here. It is the politics of risk aversion rather than the politics of anti-imperialism, the same degraded sentiment that fuelled the narcissistic ‘Not in my name’ response to the Iraq War in 2003."


- Brendan O'Neill @ Spiked

Zombie lays down some knowledge

"Most Hispanics are about 70-75% Spanish heritage, and 25-30% Native American.

Problem is “Spanish” means European which means “white.” So they have to pretend that their majority ethnicity component doesn’t exist; and the “Aztlan” types in the US act like the Europeans in North America are interlopers against whom they are opposed; problem is, they are the interlopers themselves. They are the descendants of the European conquerors, no less so than the “Anglos” north of the border.

But that fact doesn’t match the narrative, so is swept under the rug.

There are many other problems with their story, such as the fact that California and most of the Southwest were only part of Mexico for a brief 25 years (1821-46), while having been part of Spain for several centuries beforehand, and then an independent nation for a short time, and afterward part of the United States for 162 years.

Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, Alta California was very sparsely populated, and the natives here had no knowledge of nor any interaction with the Aztecs or any other Mexican native tribes. So why these people who claim partial descent from Aztecs should have ownership rights to a bit of territory their ancestors never controlled or even heard of, and which was part of Mexico for just a tiny handful of years since 1492 — well, nobody knows."

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/comment/76962/

Excerpt for the day - May 7

"Senator Obama opposed tribunals, renditions, Guantanamo, preventive detention, Predator-drone attacks, the Iraq War, wiretaps, and intercepts — before President Obama either continued or expanded nearly all of them, in addition to embracing targeted assassinations, new body scanning and patdowns at airports, and a third preemptive war against an oil-exporting Arab Muslim nation — this one including NATO efforts to kill the Qaddafi family. The only thing more surreal than Barack Obama’s radical transformation is the sudden approval of it by the once hysterical Left. In Animal Farm and 1984 fashion, the world we knew in 2006 has simply been airbrushed away."


-VDH @ NRO