Sneakeasy

Mona Charen makes some valid points.

While I sometimes wonder just WHAT the hell a so-called "Moderate" Muslim is supposed to be considering all that the Koran teaches, and the more than thousand year history of Islam's treatment of non-believers, and those within its ranks caught not toeing the line (Things that go on every day today, around the world, including in America.), the rest of her essay is spot on.

She writes:

"The repeated invocation of this libel has had an effect, though. It has succeeded in intimidating many Americans about the proper bounds of discussion. Gen. Casey reinforces this timidity when he frets that "our diversity" may be a casualty of the attack at Fort Hood. He and the Obama administration are obscuring the real challenge Americans face.

Our challenge is not to transcend the demons of vengeance clawing at our souls. Our challenge is to deal intelligently with a threat that arises from religious convictions. Non-bigoted observers can see that while the vast majority of the world's Muslims are not extremists, a significant minority are. And it matters what people believe.

We don't like to pass judgment on others' religious convictions. That's fine. But when a religious belief spurs violence and mass murder, it becomes political, and it becomes a proper concern of the military and security services.

Worldwide, Muslims believing themselves to be advancing the faith have committed more than 14,000 acts of violence just since 9/11. You know the litany: Madrid, London, Bali, Jerusalem, Mumbai, Amman. The list is long and bloody -- and it includes many innocent Muslims.

Many hit home."

Un-freakin Believable!

The head of the RNC just called every Republican a Racist fearful of blacks?

Wassup with that BS?

As one comment states: "There is no good reason why the supposed Leader of the Opposition Party is talking about his base this way and still has a job."

As another comment states: "What a missed opportunity. He could have addressed the racism within the Democrat party...

He could have talked about the proud beginnings of the Republican party and their fight to end slavery...

The many first black Republicans elected after the civil war...

He could have said a lot of things but instead this brilliant high paid representative of the GOP agreed with the opposition about a lie and had a little laugh at our expense."

As the writer of the report says:

"Does Steele understand how sensitive most Righties are about being demagogued by the Left with false, politically calculated charges of Racism?

The answer must be no or else he'd never let something like this go unchallenged."

It will be interesting to hear him defend himself.

It will be interesting to see how long he still leads the Party once, or if he does try to explain himself.

Regardless...he just handed the Liberals more ammunition than they will know what to do with in their effort to demonize Conservatives, and we may never hear the end of it.

A brilliant, thought-provoking, funny, cartoon that every ordinary citizen, and every elected official, in America should see.

If at first you don't succeed... try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try (x100) again!

Persistence isn't futile!

Damn, woman, why don't you just get a freakin' bicycle fer cryin' out loud?

Hell of a lot cheaper, and environmentally friendly, too! ;-D

Victor Davis Hanson rips into the President for what he said this week, and tells him what he should have said.

FROM THE ESSAY:

"When the entire story emerges of Hasanâ€s prior clear record of demonstrable hate and venom, and when such transgression is collated with the militaryâ€s inaction, and when all that is juxtaposed to the tepid, appeasing response of the Obama administration, I predict that there will be a firestorm that we have not yet witnessed.

What we are enduring is surrealâ€"have we lost our collective minds?"

Gird yer loins, folks, this could get very ugly.

This essay discusses a very important issue for the Freedom, and Safefy of the American People:

As the writer says:

"As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub--disconcertingly--"Going Muslim." This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American--a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood--discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

The difference between "going postal," in the conventional sense, and "going Muslim," in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological "snapping" point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage--the camouflage of integration--in an act of revelatory catharsis."

I'm not the most religios person on the planet, but this powerful, moving, essay, is much needed food for thought, and should be read by anyone concerned about what's happening to America, and Freedom.

As Michelle Malkin decribes it on her own blog:

â€oeThe shadow of the jackboot …and a message about the transcendent power of faith over the worldy power of government from The Anchoress."

Read the whole thing