Were our presidential election to be held in Europe, first, of course, the Constitution would be thrown out, and then, by acclamation, St. Barack Obama would be named president-dictator-ruler for life.

Thus it came as little surprise that the media in Europe, and supposedly the people themselves if we believe the media, cheered loudly and approvingly at Obama’s Demofiend acceptance speech.

The U.S. penis-enviers in Europe ("Old Europe" as Donald Rumsfeld so aptly put it) would like to see nothing more than a U.S. president come groveling on his knees in supplication to the morally, politically, intellectually and socially superior leaders of the Old Continental, which Obama would do within months if not weeks of his election.

Of course, these are the same people who brought the world both the Great War and then Hitler and Munich and WWII, all of which could be stopped only by U.S. intervention.  They are also the ones who brought socialism and double-digit unemployment rates to their countries along with rationed health care ("You need a heart operation within six months or you’ll die.  The first hospital opening is in 2012").

When Obama says we can do "better," he really means less, as in "live with less" (higher taxes), have less freedom (more government and more regulation), suffer less security (a gutted military that would be sequestered at home), and less health (more lines for routine doctor visits and procedures to say nothing of the big stuff).

It ain’t a pretty sight, but it’s all part of Obama’s, Europe’s and the Demofiends’ big picture of namby-pamby-izing America so we can "be like the rest of the world."

You really want that?

By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Courtesy of Strategic Forecasting

Summer has arrived, bringing with it rumors of attacks against the U.S. homeland. Currently, we are hearing unconfirmed word of plans in place for jihadists to be dispatched from Pakistan to conduct coordinated suicide attacks against soft targets in as many as 10 U.S. cities. 

This year, the rumors seem to be emerging a little later and with a little less fanfare than last year, when we saw a number of highly publicized warnings, such as that from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a National Intelligence Estimate saying al Qaeda was gaining strength. Last year also brought warnings from a former Israeli counterterrorism official that al Qaeda was planning a simultaneous attack against five to seven American cities, and of a dirty bomb attack against New York.

Thank God (or whomever you personally thank) that he’s not a natural U.S. citizen or the idiot might be running for president even as he reveals his stripes as a Demofake in love with taxes.

Somehow pawning himself off as a Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger managed to get elected twice as governor of California, the Golden "Fleece" State that aspires to surpass New York and Massachusetts as the tax-and-spend capital of the world.  He even vowed "no new taxes."

Now, instead of admitting he’s a Demofake at heart who knows that taxes are the blank check sought by every politician to buy votes and immortality. Schwarzemegger is promoting a "temporary sales tax" to balance California’s budget.  He even maintains that "the sweet spot" in the idea is the promise by the ruling Demofiends to practice "spending restraint" in return for the temporary tax.

Har de har har.

First, there has never been a temporary tax in U.S. history.  All such taxes either remain on the books, conveniently forgotten about, or they are quickly replaced by higher, definitely permanent taxes.  On taxes, there is no going back or giving back in a Demofiend’s mindset.  Sadly, Repulicans are usually more than happy to fall in lockstep while waging a phony anti-tax PR campaign.

Second, believing that Demofiends will actually agree to spending restraint is like believing that Russia will actually pull out of Georgia before engineering a complete takeover down the road.

Unfortunately, I’m certain that Arnold believes in both of these fairy tales.

Which is why I began by focusing on the obvious:  Thank God he can’t run for president.

(Meanwhile, the courageous–hopefully–voters in Massachusetts will get a chance at the ballot this November to repeal the entire state income tax burden.  Let’s see if they have the guts.) 

By George Friedman
Courtesy of Strategic Forecasting

On Sept. 11, 1990, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed Congress. He spoke in the wake of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, the weakening of the Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. He argued that a New World Order was emerging: “A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor, and today that new world is struggling to be born. A world quite different from the one we’ve known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak.”

After every major, systemic war, there is the hope that this will be the war to end all wars. The idea driving it is simple. Wars are usually won by grand coalitions. The idea is that the coalition that won the war by working together will continue to work together to make the peace. Indeed, the idea is that the defeated will join the coalition and work with them to ensure the peace. This was the dream behind the Congress of Vienna, the League of Nations, the United Nations and, after the Cold War, NATO. The idea was that there would be no major issues that couldn’t be handled by the victors, now joined with the defeated. That was the idea that drove George H. W. Bush as the Cold War was coming to its end. 

Those with the dream are always disappointed. 

By George Friedman
Courtesty of Strategic Forecasting

The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted. The United States has been absorbed in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as potential conflict with Iran and a destabilizing situation in Pakistan. It has no strategic ground forces in reserve and is in no position to intervene on the Russian periphery. 

This, as we have argued, has opened a window of opportunity for the Russians to reassert their influence in the former Soviet sphere. Moscow did not have to concern itself with the potential response of the United States or Europe; hence, the invasion did not shift the balance of power. The balance of power had already shifted, and it was up to the Russians when to make this public. They did that Aug. 8.

Let’s begin simply by reviewing the last few days.

It’s good to see that John McCain has gone on record as being in favor of recently pummeled and still-reeling Georgia’s admission to NATO, but this has no doubt elicited nothing but chuckles from the folk in the Kremlin, most notably its Svengali-in-residence, Vladimir Putin.

Does anyone really believe that NATO would ever in a million years come to the defense of a country as small as Georgia, and one that was once a Soviet slave state (and thus viewed as Russian meat by nature)?

If Russian tanks rolled into Germany, yes, there may be movement by NATO–all the way to the hotline to phone President (gasp!) Obama, who would instantly replicate and at the same time outdo Neville Chamberlain’s performance at Munich.

At least a President McCain might rattle some sabers and slow things down while–I’m laughing as I write this–the Europeans could actually summon up some guts and (a phrase they neither practice nor comprehend) "the courage of their convictions."

I forgot.  They have no convictions except "Gimme, gimme, gimme."

Now, I’m assuming, without checking, that California’s Fourth District Court of Appeals is another liberal denizen, though I could certainly be wrong.

However, my point is that, on certain issues (pornography included), liberal justices can be more truly Constitutionally conservative than Republican appointees.

Case in point:  California’s Fourth District Court recently upheld (after numerous courts had overturned it) California’s medical marijuana initiative, which allows clinics to dispense marijuana to cancer patients to counter the effects of chemotherapy.

Other courts had ruled that Proposition 215, the law in question (which was an inititiaive approved by the people and not something the dunder-headed ruling Demofiends in Sacramento would ever have thet guts to come up with) was illegal because it conflicted with the 1974 federal Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which labels marijuana an illegal substance.

Now, the California court didn’t go so far as to recognize, as it should have, that it’s stupid to outlaw drugs in the first place because people have open access to them even in prison, but at least it recognized that the CSA didn’t constrain states from having different ideas on marijuana.  That, indeed, is a nice, big step toward, one would help, complete liberation of all drugs to allow the free market and people’s free choice to regulate them.

Liberals sometimes get it right, so they still have a useful role to play, albeit one that requires constant vigilance from people who truly cherish freedom.