Six Rules for Life

1.  Before you speak   -   Listen

2.  Before you write  -   Think

3.  Before you spend  -  Earn

4.  Before you quit  -  Try

5.  Before you die  -  Live

6.  Before you pray  -  Believe

Child Brides in a Multicultural World

http://yhoo.it/1fWOHxP

Multiculturalism is a concept embraced by liberals, especially on the college campus that basically says "all cultures are equal and are of equal worth."
It is a silly, ridiculous and dangerous concept whose twin is political correctness. To true believers, diversity is the ultimate goal. Truth and common sense are unimportant if diversity is threatened. Meanwhile, the unique American culture which made our country great is in rapid decline.
Of course, embarrassing stories like found on the above link are never discussed. They don't fit the template or serve the liberal agenda.

Ironically, colleges that worship at the alter of diversity, are uninterested in diversity of political opinion. Any dissenting opinion is labeled "hate speech."

The BIG Threat

The greatest threat to our American way of life?
It is not Islam.
It is not socialism.
It is not the liberal media.
It is not liberal academia.
It is not Obama.
But instead, the greatest threat to our way of life is the low-informatin voter who is influenced by all the other nonsense.

Multiculturalism and our Future

A backlash against Islam is now going on, in The Netherlands in Belgium and France.  I suspect it will spread to other countries having a Western heritage with new and large numbers of Islamic immigrants.  It may be too late.
Demographics is the problem.   Japan, Russia, and most countries in Western Europe are reproducing at below replacement rates.   This means that  the native populations of these countries are in a numbers decline.   Meanwhile, the huge immigrant-Muslim populations in Europe are reproducing very rapidly.   Within just a couple generations, Muslims will be the majority.  This is not a political statement expressing bigoted feelings... but simple math.    Since these countries have a democratic system, the majority will rule.   In every country having a majority of Muslims, Islam takes over and pushes out the other cultures from any political influence.   Eventually, Islam not only dominates but persecutes other cultures.
 The geopolitical ramifications of this are huge because long, traditional allies will no longer have the values of Western Civilization.
Here in Goshen,  our Goshen College is a BIG supporter of the concept of "multiculturalism" and has incorporated this philosophy into every aspect of their curriculum and official statements of policy.   Multiculturalism's basic belief is that "all cultures are equal and have equal merit."   I personally have had several debates with faculty and graduates of Goshen College over this issue.   Taken to its logical conclusion, multiculturalism demands that we minimize the achievements and value of Western Civilization and even ridicule those who embrace our values.  History is rewritten and students are indoctrinated to these new "truths."    Unfortunately, the political Left also seems increasingly to be in this camp.   "Political Correctness" discourages even discussing the possibility that Islam, for example, as a culture is in conflict with the American way of life.   We go to extreme lengths to avoid any criticism of Islam or suggest that Islam is the main reason for most of the problems in the 21st Century.    America is not great because of diversity but in spite of it.   America is great because of our unique Constitution, our representative-democratic form of self-government, our free enterprise system, our common language, and our Judeo-Christian values and work ethic.  These values are under attack not only from Islam but from within.  
When arguing with the local multiculturalists, I point out that being against multiculturalism is not racist which is the typical reaction I hear.    My beliefs have nothing to do with race, only culture.  All cultures are NOT equal.   This should be obvious when considering that the Germans living in the culture of Hitler's reign of terror are the same Germans of 2012.  The Japanese of Imperial Japan during WWII are the same people living in Japan today.  The people of North and South Korea are the same people.  Only their cultures are different.  Who can argue that a culture that stones women for the "crime" of being raped and executes those who dare to convert to another religion or who does not allow women to drive a car or who encourages suicide bombers to kill innocent people in acts of terrorism is equal in value to all other cultures?
 In the United States, the common culture that up to now has united us and made us a great and prosperous nation is under attack. 
Our nation is a nation of immigrants.   Legal and controlled immigration is a good and necessary thing.  I have no problem with various groups retaining aspects of their heritage but the dominant culture must be a common culture... the American culture with our common language and common values.  In previous generations when immigrants arrived here, the first priority was to discard the "old country" culture, learn English and become Americans.  They couldn't wait to assimilate.   No more.....  
 One might point out that the old Soviet Union was a nation of very diverse cultures but was not a place where I would want to live.   Even in Canada and Belgium where two languages and two cultures struggle to co-exist, it is obvious that it might be better for either one to assimilate into the other or else to separate and go their own way.  

 

Political Science 101 (not taught today)

Socialist or Fascist

By Thomas Sowell

6/12/2012

 

It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist." He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about the economy. But that does not mean that he wants government ownership of the means of production, which has long been a standard definition of socialism.

What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector.

 

Politically, it is heads-I-win when things go right, and tails-you-lose when things go wrong. This is far preferable, from Obama's point of view, since it gives him a variety of scapegoats for all his failed policies, without having to use President Bush as a scapegoat all the time.

 

Government ownership of the means of production means that politicians also own the consequences of their policies, and have to face responsibility when those consequences are disastrous -- something that Barack Obama avoids like the plague.

Thus the Obama administration can arbitrarily force insurance companies to cover the children of their customers until the children are 26 years old. Obviously, this creates favorable publicity for President Obama. But if this and other government edicts cause insurance premiums to rise, then that is something that can be blamed on the "greed" of the insurance companies.

The same principle, or lack of principle, applies to many other privately owned businesses. It is a very successful political ploy that can be adapted to all sorts of situations.

 

One of the reasons why both pro-Obama and anti-Obama observers may be reluctant to see him as fascist is that both tend to accept the prevailing notion that fascism is on the political right, while it is obvious that Obama is on the political left.

Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely -- and correctly -- regarded as being on the political left. Jonah Goldberg's great book "Liberal Fascism" cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists' consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left's embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s.

Mussolini, the originator of fascism, was lionized by the left, both in Europe and in America, during the 1920s. Even Hitler, who adopted fascist ideas in the 1920s, was seen by some, including W.E.B. Du Bois, as a man of the left.

 

It was in the 1930s, when ugly internal and international actions by Hitler and Mussolini repelled the world, that the left distanced themselves from fascism and its Nazi offshoot -- and verbally transferred these totalitarian dictatorships to the right, saddling their opponents with these pariahs.

 

What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people -- like themselves -- need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.

 

The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People..."

That is why the left has for more than a century been trying to get the Constitution's limitations on government loosened or evaded by judges' new interpretations, based on notions of "a living Constitution" that will take decisions out of the hands of "We the People," and transfer those decisions to our betters.

 

The self-flattery of the vision of the left also gives its true believers a huge ego stake in that vision, which means that mere facts are unlikely to make them reconsider, regardless of what evidence piles up against the vision of the left, and regardless of its disastrous consequences.

 

Only our own awareness of the huge stakes involved can save us from the rampaging presumptions of our betters, whether they are called socialists or fascists. So long as we buy their heady rhetoric, we are selling our birthright of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute.

 

Dreaming

 I was thinking.....   if poetic justice were to prevail, the two Obama daughters would grow up, go to Hillsdale College, join the NRA, marry white Born-Again Christian boys,  move to a Red State, join Fox News as conservative analysts, and become venture capitalists. 

Fair and Balanced?

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed." ...Mark Twain

With all the noise the media is making about
Romney's wealth, We don't recall such bluster and hand-wringing over the
Kennedy fortune. Or, for that matter, John Kerry. Or the fact that John
Kerry gave virtually nothing to charity while Romney gave something on the
order of $4 million...in addition to his entire inheritance from his father.

Oh. Wait. I just remembered. Romney is Republican.
Kerry and the Kennedys are Democrats.
Also, Romney worked for his money.
Kennedy inherited his.
And Kerry married his.Never mind. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.