Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

thinking-picRandom thoughts on the passing scene:

What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common.

The biggest issue in this fall’s election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal judges with lifetime appointments who share President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution. Whether such judges will be confirmed by the Senate depends on whether the Senate continues to be controlled by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Why in the world would any sane American go to North Korea and put themselves at the mercy of a crackpot dictator?

Since Illinois enacted a law permitting more people to carry concealed firearms, more than 65,000 people got permits to do so. Rates of robbery, burglary and motor vehicle thefts have dropped significantly, and the murder rate has fallen to a level not seen in more than half a century. If only the gun control fanatics would pay some attention to facts, a lot of lives could be saved.

If you took all the mumbo-jumbo out of our educational institutions, how much would be left? Students could finish their education years earlier and end up knowing a lot more than they know now.

Why are Americans — and the Western world in general — falling all over ourselves stifling our own self-expression to appease people who chose to immigrate here, and are now demanding the suppression of anything they don’t like, such as public expressions of Christianity or displays of the American flag?

Someone should write a history of political rhetoric, if only to put us on our guard against being deceived into disasters. The First World War, for example, was said to be a war “to make the world safe for democracy.” What it actually led to was the replacement of despotic dynasties by totalitarian dictatorships that were far worse, including far more murderous.

Professor Sterling Brown remains as much a hero to me in my old age as he was when I was a freshman at Howard University.

He wrote bitterly eloquent attacks on racism — and yet, when I was preparing to go off to Harvard, he said to me, “Don’t come back here and tell me you didn’t make it ’cause white folks were mean.”

The fatal weakness of most clever people is that they don’t know when to stop being clever. The past cleverness of President Obama is finally starting to catch up with him.

Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.

Who says the Obama administration is not transparent? They are constantly telling our enemies overseas when it will pull out our troops and where we will not put boots on the ground.

Heartening as it has been to see Derek Jeter get farewell honors during his last season, as with Mariano Rivera last season, it is also a melancholy thought that we may not see their like again — in their personal dignity and class, as well as their performance on the field. They are throwbacks to an earlier time, in a sports world of spoiled brat showoffs today.

I must have heard the word “diversity” proclaimed in ringing tones as a great benefit to society at least a thousand times — and probably closer to a million — without even once hearing a speck of evidence provided, or even suggested as a way to test whether that is true or false.

Attorney General Eric Holder has picked the perfect time to resign, in terms of his own self-interest. He will have two years in which to cash in with lucrative fees on the lecture circuit and to make a big-bucks book deal. If he waited until the end of the Obama administration, a former Attorney General would be eclipsed in both respects by a former President of the United States, thereby reducing the demand for Holder.

With the momentous consequences of control of the Senate at stake in this fall’s election, anyone who risks the outcome by running as a third party candidate should not only be voted against this year but remembered for such irresponsibility in future years.

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  • objectivefactsmatter

    Nice to hear from you again.

    • Patriot077

      He is always, always worth reading!

  • Big_Foot

    The president has decided to postpone his “executive amnesty” until after the election. There has to be some way for GOP Senate candidates to use this as a campaign issue, such as by saying “If he’s too scared to reveal it before the election, you know it will be unpopular.” One problem, I realize, is that some Repubs don’t seem of a problem with it.

    • Patriot077

      They are indebted to the traitorous Chamber of Commerce.

      • Richard Fontaine

        The US Chamber of Crony Capitalism has blood on it’s hands with the death of that child in Rhode Island. An early indicator of the tremendous threat of bringing untold millions of illegals from the Third World into America without any screening.

        Money is all they are after and could care if we as citizens lose our sovereignty. In the real world these Fascists should be shunned and their companies ridiculed as the money grubbing sell outs they are.
        Dunkin Donuts CEO came out in favor of Amnesty today in the news. Why not show the Dunkin Donuts franchises that if they don’t respect our boarders and our national sovereignty then we don’t want to support their business?

        Traitors all.

        • apeiron

          I agree. This is only going to get worse. What were they thinking shipping these border jumpers all over the country? However, I already don’t eat donuts…don’t see fried dough covered in sugar as food.

    • pogeybait

      No the idea is to get the Republicans to back amnesty and let them fall on the sword

  • 1Indioviejo1

    I read a very disturbing suggestion that Eric Holder may be nominated by Obama to the Supreme Court. If this happens, how can we save the Constitutional Republic from further depredations? Holder has a History of lawless behaviour, and he should be indicted, and disbarred.

  • Capnmikey

    Always a pleasure to hear from you and your wise counsel, wish you were in the White House instead of the current resident.

  • BenQQ

    Strikes me that “Fatal weakness of clever people” also applies to big liberal Washington membership associations. This month “Zeke” Imanuel, an, if not the, Obamacare architect, said in an Atlantic article that he would stop receiving healthcare, except palliative, at age 75. Another step down the slope toward a form of death panels, his statement puts the AARP, a stealth, therefore cowardly, supporter of Obamacare into a very awkward position. Age 75 certainly includes their membership. More…

    http://www.memphispixnews.com

    Its 30+ million members may have a different view–and be surprised their membership fees went to ultimately letting bureaucrats make actuarial decisions regarding their lives.