When President Lyndon Johnson used a questionable incident which occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin off the shores of North Vietnam as an excuse to formally commit U.S. military forces to an active combat roll in South Vietnam in the fall of 1964, the left rose up against him.
What up to that time had been a small fraction of the Democratic Party suddenly grew rapidly into the “Anti War Movement”. Instead of praise for the man who had taken over after the assassination of President Kennedy, we now had mobs with bullhorns shouting “Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”
Since they were both heavily involved in left wing college politics, it isn’t too much of a stretch to believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton were right there with them. The Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” principles were their guidelines, and the subject of Hillary’s thesis at Wellesly College in 1969. Continue reading The Mentality of the Mob.
The Congress is failing this country. There is no more important issue that we face as a nation than that which deals with our immigration policies.
When did we get to the point in this country that we can choose the laws we wish to obey, and those we wish to ignore? A case can be made that the transition occurred in the early 1960’s with the start of the civil rights movement, which was certainly a righteous cause, but a classic example of the “Law of Unintended Consequences”.
The left frequently accuses conservatives of “wrapping themselves in the flag”, and being too overtly patriotic. Well, I would posit that those on the left wrap themselves in a flag as well, but it’s the flag of the United Nations. “Progressives” apparently believe that there should be no national borders. Everyone has a RIGHT to seek asylum in the United States! Come one, come all to the land of free stuff, where we steal from the rich to give to the poor.
A month from tomorrow is a sad day for former TWA employees. On the evening of July 17, 1996 we lost over 50 friends and acquaintances when TWA 800 exploded in mid air only minutes after departing from JFK International Airport en route to Paris. Those active or retired employees were among the 230 souls who perished that clear summer evening. It can rightfully be said the horrible event was the beginning of the end for a once great airline which, when it finally went out of business on December 1, 2001, was the longest continuously operating airline in U.S. history.
One of my favorite quotes from a movie was uttered by Anthony Quinn, a man of Mexican ancestry who was playing a Greek fisherman philosopher in the movie “Zorba the Greek”. He said:
On October 30, 2000, as part of the National Defense Authorization – Fiscal Year 2001, a commission was formed to study the possible effects of an EMP attack on the infrastructure and population of the United States. Eight years later, the commission published it’s findings in:
Some years ago a thriller novel titled “Black Sunday” described an attack on Super-Bowl Sunday utilizing a highjacked blimp loaded with explosives which would be exploded over the stadium, potentially killing tens of thousands of fans and the President of the United States, who would be in attendance at the game. It was later adapted for a 1977 movie of the same name. Of course back then we had not faced the horrors of modern day terrorist attacks. 9/11 was nearly 25 years in the future.
Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost something as a nation. It’s simply the ability