Comments on: Updated: A New Kind of Conquest

By: Richard Allen

Richard Allen — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:16:38 +0000

If the truth shall set you free, then all is lost in the US of A. Is political correctness truth? Is multiculturalism truth? Is shakedown of airline passengers at airports truth? Is the refusal by spineless politicians in Washington to close our borders to protect our nation and its citizens truth? Is the refusal by Washington to profile airline passengers truth? Is what our schools are teaching our students truth? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then I don’t know what truth is. It’s like it depends on the meaning of “is” is.

By: kalmen Shiloh

kalmen Shiloh — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:44:38 +0000

Does Man live for truth or purpose? “Seek the truth and it shall set you free,” but will it make you happy??? Purpose, on the other hand, gives one a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately what we accomplish does seem to depend how one is socialized. Socialize for life and wealth accumulation, and you get well, America a la De’Toquville. Socialize for death, and you get GAZA, Mogadishu, Tehran, Baghdad etc., a la Dante’s inferno.

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:59:03 +0000

Ilana,

If you’re enjoying the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, you might like this poem. It was written by an unknown witness to his execution, reproduced from memory I’m afraid. I can’t find the original in my files but I believe I’ve got it pretty much verbatim, with the archaic spelling and verb forms.

Near as I can tell, King James appears to have had Raleigh executed because he was so clearly and conspicuously the better man. One of Raleigh’s friends who witnessed it was an Indian King from the Orinoco River area who openly wept. He is known to have returned to his people. I wonder if he told them that the English kill the best men among them?

On the Death of Sir Walter Raleigh

Great Heart! Who taught thee to die!
Death yielding thee the victory.
Where took’st thou leave of life,
if here, how could’st thou be so far from fear?
For sure thou died’st and quitted the state
of flesh and blood before that fate.
Else what a miracle were wrought,
to triumph both in flesh and thought.
I saw in every stander-by, pale death,
Life only in thine eye.
Farewell! Truth shall this story say,
We died, thou only live’std that day.

By: concha

concha — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:43:18 +0000

Ms. Mercer,
Hispanics are not truly “third-world” types, in fact, we pride ourselves on our keen sense of values and religiosity. Mr. Buchanon insults us further by classifying us as people without European ancestry–I’m sure you know that Mexicans tend to “play up” their Spanish, French, Jewish, and Italian roots a bit more than the Indian.
And you’re right, he is not a fan of Israel, the West’s last bastion of hope in the the Middle East.
I admire him on some points but really, I too find him to be most hypocritical.
May God Bless Israel

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:06:10 +0000

Americans are broken into three categories. 1) Fat dumb and happy. They don’t see these dangers because they are too ignorant or too lazy to read and discern. 2) Those who have been aware, or vaguely aware but don’t really know what to do as the information available has always been controlled by those who want, for whatever reason, the social re-engineering of the country. 3) Those who actually work for this social re-engineering and by gaining control of the media, education system and one and a half our two major political parties have just about pulled it off.

I don’t know the answer. To turn it around would require a grass roots, ground swell of irate Americans demanding a halt to this process. I don’t see that happening as the backbone has gone from most Americans.