A Gift for Mother’s Day

My beloved daughter writes:

“You know, unconditional love is all good, but love isn’t my big thing these days. What nuggets other than unconditional love could another mother proffer? How many nuggets per year? How many are rehashed from previous years? These are the kinds of silly questions that roll through my head when I read yet another one of your articles or emails to me. Pardon the cheese, but you’re a fountain of knowledge that I can always turn to and inexorably get the truth from. As kind, loving, and sweet as you are, this isn’t what separates you from the other mothers and makes you the best one ever. You ARE the best writer on this continent. Not only that but you are one of the most unique gems EVER in that when you speak from the heart it IS truth and that is just about impossible to find, not just in moms, but in humanity at large.

But let’s hail the love a mo’, just because you do it so much gooder than the rest. Why? Because your love isn’t stupid, simple and declarative. You act. That email you sent me the other day, which took you over an hour to write, moved me so because it was the most loving gesture EVER. I have re-read it at least six times now. Sometimes I can’t believe how far we’ve come and how wonderful our relationship is. I know that you’re looking out for me always and it makes me so calm and happy inside. And a little tearful when I think about it.

So mum, I just adore you. Thank you for everything always.”

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For once, I’m without words.

(I like the way she pokes gentle fun at mom’s grammatical fetishes with “so much ‘gooder.’” She knows me “good.”)

Updated: Bomb Them With Bimbos

Feminism, Morality, Sex, The Zeitgeist

The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily column. You can read the uncut version of “Bomb Them With Bimbos” on IlanaMercer.com:

“It transpires that Mao Zedong once proposed exporting 10 million Chinese women to the United States. In a long conversation with Henry Kissinger at the Chinese leader’s residence in 1973, Mao moaned about ‘the dismal trade between the two countries,’ saying China was a ‘very poor country’ with an excess of women.

That’s one page America might consider talking out of the Little Red Book.

If we were to export women, politics would begin to move to the right again. Oprah’s empire of imbeciles would shrink. And it would become possible to rehabilitate English as our official language. Distaff America has made a certain style of speech its signature:

“And he was like, ‘Come here’; and I was like, ‘No’; and he was like, ‘You’re amazing’; and I was like, ‘I know.’”

Update (May 11): “SEND MY WIFE.” Stephen G. Smith has entertained us with one of the funniest letters—funny, but a little sad at the same time. I wonder how men of the Right deal with wives who’re left-liberals. (And face it; most women are left-liberals). The garage, the range, this blog. Do share.

Dissolving The People, Electing Another

Democracy, Elections 2008, IMMIGRATION

Benjamin Shapiro asks a question and answers it (incompletely I think):

“What do you call a candidate who wins 90 percent of the African-American vote, between 30 percent and 50 percent of the Hispanic vote and 40 percent of the white vote in a tight Democratic primary race?

A general election loser. … In a general election, candidates must appeal to the broadest base of support in order to win. Relying on small coteries of like-raced voters simply will not do it.”

This is valid… for now. The “broadest base of support” is indeed Anglo-American, for the near future. But in a few decades, given unchecked immigration, the majority—Anglo-Americans—will be dwarfed demographically by Hispanics. Afro-Americans, who together with Anglo-Americans (and Indians) made up the historical majority, will be usurped too. Birthrates in these populations are similar.

Since voting patterns diverge from one demographic group to the next, it is not unreasonable to deduce that each has different interests and concerns. It is probably fair to say that both Anglo- and Afro-Americans are unhelped by the unchecked influx of Hispanics.

On a related topic: I’ve brought up the flight of the native-born to the heartland before on the blog. Michael Barone has documented this “Realignment of America.”

McCain’s Cinco de Mayo Promises

Elections 2008, IMMIGRATION, John McCain, Media

The motto at Fox News is “my party right or wrong.” Duly, Sean Hannity has been using his considerable clout to convince his viewers that McCain is a changed man on immigration.

Time and time again, Mr. Hannity has chosen not to challenge McCain when the latter kept insisting during interviews that the reason his amnesty betrayal had failed was “because voters didn’t trust the government to handle the security side,” and that the border needed to be secured before perusing “comprehensive immigration reform.”

The Manchurian Candidate has never ceased to use this code for amnesty.

Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports on McCain’s latest pandering:

“Using a Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo, as a launching point, Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign announced a Spanish-language Web site (www.johnmccain.com/ espanol), and said the senator from Arizona will speak to this year’s National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego in July to try to court Hispanic voters.

‘I believe the majority of the Hispanics share our view that the border must be secured, and the border must be secured first. But they also want us to have an attitude, which I think most Americans do, that these are God’s children, and they must be taken care of, and the issue must be addressed in a humane and compassionate fashion,’ Mr. McCain told reporters at an Arizona news conference yesterday.”

“In Defense Of The Fence” I suggested that:

“McCain … consider modifying his mantra about illegal aliens being God’s children to whom he owes a path to citizenship. This is not about the Arizonan’s relationship with God and His creatures; it’s about McCain’s relationship with the Constitution. The Constitution binds a president to uphold the law; it doesn’t authorize him to legislate compassion.”