The Useful Idiots on Campus

The phenomenon of “political correctness” is, in fact, an updated version of the “party line” -- a stock feature of the organizations of the Communist-progressive left. The utility of a party line lies in the way it demonizes opponents, converting dissent into deviancy, while requiring its adherents to reduce complex realities to political formulas, which deprives them of the ability to learn from their experiences.                                                                                                                           David Horowitz

We know who the sheep are. Any guesses on the shepherds?

The Syrian Refugees

What to do with the Syrian refugees? What do we do? Conceptually, the answer is not as difficult as we might think, although it is expensive and a massive undertaking.

Most of these refugees are not keen on leaving the Middle East in hopes that they can go home some day when the evil and madness has run its course. Accordingly, the most appropriate response is to build and adequately maintain refugee camps on the periphery of Syria, probably in Turkey and Jordan primarily. This should be a joint effort of the UN, the EU, the United States, and the Gulf States, as well as any other powers that want to constructively participate. There should be a wide buffer around these camps on the Syrian side of no fly/no go zones that are backed up by serious military muscle. 

There are some people that we may want to settle in the West: those compromised by working with Western NGOs or governments, Christians, and those needing specialized medical treatment. This does not include thousands of able-bodied young men outside of these exceptions that we somehow feel guilty about excluding. They stay there - no guilt. 

In the meantime, a Western coalition like Desert Storm needs to be assembled to go in and clean out the nest of vipers that is ISIS, and anyone else who fits the general description, as in sanitized, goy-goy, good bye. Little love taps don't do the job. Let these vermin face armored divisions and see how tough they are. Will there be civilian casualties? To be sure, but there is no choice now and the problem will only grow if we let it fester. 

Eurabia will eventually happen due to misguided European policies, but neither they nor we need to accelerate the process by throwing open borders to refugees, many of whom are Trojan horses just dying - as in Paris - to get in. It's time to quit the hand-wringing and intramural feuding over letting them in or not. Build it in the Middle East and they will come, then get to work so they can go home again. 

Observation Point

Worry is temporary atheism.
                                     Randy Alcorn

So How Serious are We?

The CIA says that we avoided hitting ISIS oil wells for fear of environmental damage. These same wells, BTW, provide the majority of funding for ISIS terror tactics around the world. Question: Do these folks have any idea of how many fully loaded oil tankers were sunk off the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coats during WWII by the Germans? Or Japanese tankers by U.S. subs in the Pacific? Or even the Kuwaiti oil wells set in fire by Saddam as he retreated in Gulf War I? Amazingly, we're all still here. These guys are clearly just play actors in some silly kids' show, not people qualified to direct the best military in the world.

www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/27/official-environmental-concerns-kept-u-s-attacking-islamic-state-oil/

Unleash the Salami!

The police chief of Washington, D.C., Cathy Lanier, recently said that if members of the public finds themselves in a situation with an active shooter, the best solution is to try to overpower and subdue them. Of course, the same Chief Lanier is very committed to strict gun control and keeping guns out of the hands of even citizens with concealed-carry permits. Well, chief, do we throw salami at them? Call them names? Our CINC now says that new climate change legislation being debated in Paris will strike a "resounding blow" against ISIS, so we turn up the air conditioning? Sheesh.

townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2015/11/27/unreal-antigun-dc-police-chief-urges-public-to-take-down-active-gunman-if-possible-n2084995

The Toxic Academy

American universities have become toxic, as Dennis Prager explores in Townhall. Examples? Consider these from the University of California official "Micro-aggression Manual" -

"There is only one race, the human race."
"America is a melting pot."
"I don't believe in race."
"America is the land of opportunity."

These are all statements that a majority of Americans can agree on, but N-o-o-o, not at UC. No indeedy, these are examples of speech banned as examples of "white oppression" or who knows what other delusional bilge. But wait, there's more!

That's right. Students at the University of Missouri, having fired the president, now want to erase Thomas Jefferson. Princeton students want to delete Woodrow Wilson, the one-time president of Princeton before he became President of the United States. Sure. No problem. History can be written and re-written according to the whims of the day. History is what we say it is. 

The problem is obvious - think George Orwell and 1984. "There is no truth. We will tell you the truth du jour, so just shut up and do what we tell you!" That is the goal of every totalitarian state, whether left or right. We will think for you - you are a tool, nothing more, to be used by the State for the "greater good" however we may define it at the moment. This is what these repositories of the West's precious history of individual worth and all the ancillary grand ideas have become - vats of intellectual poison that have dissolved away the spines and souls of all who enter. I hope that we have our own St. Patrick and his remote island to preserve the precious heritage of the West as the Dark Ages sweep across the land.  

townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/11/24/american-universities-begin-to-implode-n2084706

Ain't It the Truth!

(Tip o' the hat to Bill Brooks)