June 8th 2009

Quote Of The Day: Europe’s Got It Right

“It’s a sad evening for social democracy in Europe. We are particularly disappointed, [it is] a bitter evening for us.” Martin Schultz, European Socialist

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enter-right parties showed strongly in elections across Europe over the weekend, winning in England, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and Poland, as more hard-right parties gained seats in Britain, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Slovakia and Hungary.  Baring the brunt of European frustration with immigration and economic policies, leftist and socialist parties took a beating.

In an economic downturn, the Europeans are making the right choices, voting for parties that promise to cut government expenses, tighten immigration policies and trim social welfare.  Here in America, we’re stuck with a president who is plunging in the opposite direction, promising more than 600,000 taxpayer- or debt-funded jobs, fast-tracking healthcare “reform,” and buying huge stakes in our industrial and economic sectors.

It’s a crazy world.  Just a year ago, we lampooned the Left for wanting to be like Europe.  Now American conservatives can only look enviously across the pond and shake their heads enviously.

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May 19th 2009

A Rousing Endorsement Of Experts

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uropeans must be a happy bunch this morning because a team of Russian and American “experts” have determined that their continent needs no missile shield, and those apocalyptic Iranians and their full-bore nuclear development programs pose no risk to Europeans from Budapest to Bath.

The experts’ first finding, reported by WaPo is that the planned defense won’t be effective against the type of missiles the Iranians are likely to use. The second: It’ll be more than five years before the Iranians would be read to nuke Europe.  Two questions:  How long will it take to install the missile defense.  And why not hire some other experts to use those five years to make the system effective against the kind of missiles the Iranians would use.

The experts then analyzed the Iranians’ crappy missiles, derived from crappy North Korean knock-offs of seriously outdated Russian sub-launched missiles, and conclude it would take six to eight years for the Iranians to get a launchable bomb and put it on a missile capable of hitting a European city.  So no missile defense is needed, natch!  Especially since the experts don’t think any U.S. system could knock out an Iranian – North Korean – Russian missile dating from the 1950s.

But the entire discussion is moot because of the experts’ final point: that the Iranians won’t nuke Europe anyway because it will ensure their self-destruction.  How odd.  Saner nations than Iran - the US and Russia – pursued or feared missile defense systems, even though the doctrine of mutually assured destruction was firmly in place between them, so why should the Europeans not have an insurance policy against Iranian lunacy?

I don’t think the Iranians are likely to try to hit Europe with a missile because so many other scenarios make more sense, not the least of which is simply providing a nuclear umbrella for its operatives in the Middle East.  But if I were a European, I’d be more comfortable staking my future on a real missile defense than the opinions of experts.

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September 7th 2008

Sunday Scan

Putting The Freak In Eco-Freak

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‘m crying,” emailed Incredible Daughter #2, “because I’m laughing so hard.”I laughed too, but I also was more than a little troubled by the clip she attached to her email:

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This wailing and flailing over fallen trees is terrifically funny because they all seem so foolish, so out of whack with normal priorities and sensibilities, so ignorant of the cruel ways of nature.

But these people are the reality of the hardcore environmental movement, and watching them you look into the soul of the movement and discover how sick and extreme it really is.

So watch, laugh … and ponder. Continue Reading »

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