More signs of consciousness in the electorate

by Smitty

PJTV's Bill Whittle highlights yet another provocative notion: The Contract From America.

This is another site collecting ideas from We The People, and is sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. Whereas The Bill of Federalism started with Michael Patrick Leahy, the Tea Party Patriots are very literally all over the map.

Ultimately, what matters is that the neo-aristocracy of the modern liberal elite gets electorally kicked to the curb. The left-handed good news about this atrocious administration is that continues to drive a Constitutional awakening in the country.

The Senate, Considered as a Scene from a Monty Python Flick

by Smitty

Instapudit links PJTV's Allen Barton interviewing Brian Darling summarizing his Human Events article describing how the Senate plans to use another piece of legislation as a Trojan horse, a Parthian prophylactic.

Terry Jones and Yaron Brook follow up and discuss the parliamentary tactics and Constitutionality of the idea.

The entire clip is well worth your time. But if you've just a moment or two to spare, consider a more symbolic summary.

The Monty Python have skillfully dramatized the situation. In this rendition:

• the healthcare legislation is a wooden, wheeled rabbit
• the American people are French soldiers in a castle
• their liberty is the Grail
• the Senators are dressed as knights and lampooned by the best
• the American people do that which is fitting and proper with the whole crapadelic idea.

More seriously, how about the GOP Senators, e.g. this blog's namesake, demonstrating some integrity and calling foul on this entire disgusting charade?

Andrew Klavan: RAAAAACIST!

"Boys, Andrew Klavan out-celebritied me and I ain't never gonna be out-celebritied again!"

(He's right that liberalism contributes to the degeneracy of celebrities. Can you say McKenzie Phillips?)

And remember: There are five A's in raaaaacism.

Update: (Smitty)
We are now embedded with raaaaacists.

Charles Johnson PJTV clips

by Smitty

For those interested in seeing the face of Charles Johnson, there are three clips of him on offer at PJTV, being interviewed by Joe Hicks on a few topics where he has some depth.

The player requirements may give you hassles. Apologies in advance.

Topic	Date	Length
Newspaper deathwatch	03Mar09	12min
Hamas over Israel?	04Feb09	9min
Rathergate	08Dec08	12min

Update:
As The Underground Conservative notes , all of this adds to the irony of Charles being reclassified on the Left.

Bill Whittle fans: probably his best yet

by Smitty

First, to make you prim and proper, a primer: The History of Politcal Correctness.

This link also embeds the HoPC documentary, but acts as a sort of transcript.

Now, watch Bill Whittle expand on this documentary with a passion and contemporary tie-in that will likely leave you stunned.

I subscribed to PJTV when it was still experimental. I hope you consider supporting this wellspring of excellence.

My only question, and a quick Google and Wikipedia scan bore no fruit, is the tie between Saul Alinsky and this Frankfurt School.

Liveable Communities Act

by Smitty

May fortune bless PJTV. Trifecta's coverage of the Liveable Communities Act is essential reporting that garners a cricket chirp from the propaganda wing of the Democratic party. It also uses a magic term: "Federal money".

While the Treasury controls the legal tender, the document that authorized a federal treasury begins with the words "We the People". When we abdicate the egalitarian concept of "We the People", and let DC get away with pretending that the dollars emerge, manna-like, from any source other than the taxpayer, we enter an inverted realm.

The govnermnental cart bethinks itself the economic horse. There is enough momentum in the system for the cart to drag the horse, but everything will progressively worsen. The cart is the load, the horse is the source, and absolutely no amount of wishful, progressive thinking will alter this.

Around the world, we see governments oozing towards weakness and tyranny. Our own government shamefully cozies up to thugs on several continents. Up this noise. Let's get the Federalism Amendment going. Start pressuring your governor now. Article V, ye patriots. It's not too late, though the pain involved in picking up the horse and resetting a natural arrangement does worsen by the day, and by the disgusting legislative floater squeezed out by this atrocious 111th Congress.

Hanson: Europe is Europe, Because America is Not?

by Smitty

(emphasis mine, but avail yourself of the full monty)

No, Europe should not only not be our model, but Euros know it should not be our model. A few brilliant Europeans whisper, "Of course, it is lost here, since no addict insidiously hooked on government entitlement ever gives such largess up. But you over there still have a chance." For a few Europeans, America’s military (drawing on fewer people and less territory and GDP than the expanded EU) is the only hope for Western defense. It's where most life-saving drugs will emerge, new technologies are birthed, and huge sophisticated markets grow for European goods. So they have a stake in not allowing us to become like them.

That last bit about doctors recalls Roger L. Simon's latest outing, which is also worthy of your consideration. Simon discusses the problem from the other direction.

And I don't buy the whole Europe is Melniboné argument. Granted, you need some clever plan to transition the populace from Egypt to Canaan. Something that allows the existing system to run in parallel with a voluntary capitalistic system for a time period, an Exodus, if you will. Will. That is the problem, not intellect.

David Frum at New Majority

by Smitty

Bill Whittle interviews Frum, who is certainly articulate and intelligent. Frum is also pitching a web site.
Whittle's chat covers the impact of the Sanford scandal with respect to the 2012 election. There is also much interesting discussion about leadership, or lack thereof, amongst conservatives.
The New Majority website appears slickly designed and well staffed. Note the picture of the original Progressive, Theodore Roosevelt at the top of the page. As Ancient Commenter Solomon might have said of Progressives,

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death. Pro 16:25

While certainly standing for a few good things, e.g. women's sufferage, modern Progressivism seems subverted by the Modern Liberal mindset. In the discussion between the individual and society, Progressives seem to take for granted that the 50 states are moot, and only the Federal government matters.
One wants to hear Frum talk about the 10th Amendment as meaningful, about the 16 Amendment as evil, but he seems to have conceded that we have a centrist government driven by single personalities, rather than 50 States United running on Constitutional principles.
He is articulate, and has a fine understanding of the tactics of the current political situation. I have the same problem with him that I have with Conor Friedersdorf, however: Frum seems to be fighting on ground of enemy choosing, which most winning generals eschew.