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11/08/07  The British journal The Daily Telegraph, on its website (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/listintro.xml) recently published a list of "the top 100 most influential US conservatives.  They put Rudy Giuliani at the top of the list.  Numerous additional absurdities follow, all reflecting the twin difficulties of a foreign Liberal newspaper wandering about in the dark.  As we all know, Rudy is no conservative, and the truth of the matter is that in terms of influence, Rush Limbaugh is the clear leader.  JES

11/08/07  Note to AlGore and his toadies: As a Conservative, I am a conservationist, not an environmentalist, a distinction with an enormous difference.  I am serious about using and husbanding God's creation as He has instructed us to do.  You are really all about hijacking the planet to advance your own narrow Statist political agenda.  AlGore, the polar bears will be around long after you are gone.  JES

09/26/07   In Farsi, the suffix  "jad" translates as "filthy under shorts".  Mahmoud  etc., aka Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the IslamicFascist republic of Iran, aka Persia, finally departs the Liberal intellectual and moral cesspool of Columbia University, the United Nations, and New York.  We have just witnessed, on full display, the legacy of decades of the full intellectual and moral corruption of American education.  Chunks of this nation are adrift, which is why I am on this mountain top.  Few know it, but I have an ancient link to the institution of Columbia University, and New York.  God willing, may they all rot in hell.

General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

09/23/07   Nurse Ratchet, aka Hillary Rodham, presents her case for national socialized medicine arguing her case for election to the presidency in 2008.  Will American voters buy into this socialist trash?  Real Americans will not, however Lefties and Illegal aliens probably will.   So goes the case for election registration reform.   JES

09/16/07  It's not hard to explain Alan Greenspan's recent load mouthing against Bush and the Republicans when you consider who crawls into bed with him every night.  Its election time, a year early.  JES

09/14/07  So invested is the Democrat party invested in itself that its "leaders" have chosen to throw General David Petraeus, and by extension the entire American military, and the United States itself, under the bus.  Let us pray for the nomination of Hillary Rodham, "moderate" DNC pretender, so that Conservatives can beat her, and the entire 60's generation ilk, aka Move On.org etc, into total and permanent submission.  It is necessary for the survival of the American nation and culture.   General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES

08/12/07   US Marines: Haditha, Iraq.  All charges were dropped 08/09 against Marine Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt concerning an "incident", aka firefight, in Haditha.  Also cleared: Capt. Randy W. Stone, battalion lawyer, accused of inadequately investigating the incident.  Shame on state-side prosecutors for leveling these charges in the first place, all based on flimsy information from unreliable sources and premised on the intellectually perverted notion that actions by Marines in combat can be reasonably second guessed by attorneys and the media on the Potomac.  Now we await an apology from the Dishonorable Rep. John Murtha, lower than a snake's belly, D-PA.  He is a sorry and despicable excuse of an "American".

06/29/07  “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” quotes Chief Justice John Roberts.  In a predictable 5/4 decision, the Supreme Court finally begins to unravel perhaps the original modern Liberal activist court decision from 1954: Brown s. Board of Education.    The damage over the decades of this social engineering experiment has been, and is, incalculable.  JE

06/29/07  Yesterday, in the Senate, the great McCain/ Kennedy/ Bush Amnesty "compromise" plan of 2007 for illegal wetbacks and terrorists of various heritages came to a halt.  Finally.  Mr. President, now go and enforce the law.  Shut down the circus on the border.  And I want to see some employers go straight to jail.  You have the tools to do this, and have had all along.  Now just go do it and quit protecting your corporate, Democrat and RINO friends.  JES, American Nationalist Conservative.

06/20/07  The President gets one right with his veto of legislation attempting to authorize tax payer support of embryonic stem cell research.  The President, and all Conservatives, support adult stem cell research, where all the progress is being made.  Embryonic stem cell research, which is legal if privately funded, technically is going nowhere, hence the starvation of private funding, hence the attempted raid on the public treasury.  However, there is a larger issue at work here.  Supporters of embryonic stem cell research know full well that it is a technical bust; their real agenda is promotion of the idea that human embryos are not human so as to bolster their real agenda of abortion rights.  That this is what the discussion is really all about is not arguable.  JES

06/20/07  AlGore's newly published The Assault on Reason brings to mind the intellectual effort of a cat chasing it's own tail.  It is totally incomprehensible psychobabble, devoid of reason.  He is living in a parallel (?) universe.  JES

06/08/07   Finally, thankfully, the inside brokered deal in Congress over amnesty for illegal immigrants falls apart in the Senate.  We have just witnessed Congress at its worst.  In the opinion of this observer, passage of this legislative monstrosity would have been fatal to the continued existence of the nation.  George W. Bush, you are now on your own.  In the course of this process, you have stabbed us, your own base, in the back.  This came as no surprise; we have watched this storm approaching for a long time.  I do not doubt your honesty and sincerity, and never have.  Your recognition of the threat of the international threat against the West after 09/11, and your decision to preemptively target Afghanistan and Iraq as you did were absolutely correct.  However, in the execution department you are an absolute bumbler, both foreign and domestic.  I am too disgusted at the moment to write the list here now, and in any event I would just be repeating myself anyway.   This matter of your ideas about border security and amnesty for illegal aliens however, just pushes everything over the top.   General David Petraeus, who is now running the show, carry on.  I look forward to your forthcoming report  in September.   For Iraq, it will be determinative.  It is ironic that your boss in the White House, by his own actions and operational decisions, has done as much to undermine the War on IslamicFascism in several ways as all the Democrats and RINOs in Congress, and those Americans who elected them.  This observer fears that another 09/11 event, perhaps nuclear, will be necessary to get folk's heads on straight.  JES   

05/20/07  During World War II, George Orwell is quoted as observing that "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve the possibility of victory.  The chief activity among left-wing writers is a rather pettifogging criticism which turns into a kind of dismay when England wins a victory, because this always falsifies their predictions." 

The Left will never change.  Today, with nuclear weapons falling into the hands of IslamicFascists determined to destroy us and who, at once, thrill to the prospect of 72 virgins in heaven, American Conservatives have a problem with the Leftists among us.  Existentially, most are Democrats.  It must also be said that none of this is helped by a GOP President caving into the current nonsense of "immigration reform", recognized by the rest of us as amnesty that is already provoking a mad rush for our southern border.  Our world is going nuts.  JES

05/08/07  Red state / blue state cultures.   Watch the difference between the local responses to nature's havoc between New Orleans (Katrina) on the one hand and Holly, CO / Greensburg KS (tornados) on the other.  The residents of Holly, CO / Greensburg KS have, and will continue to, cope with their own respective recoveries pretty much on their own initiatives.  For over a year the residents of New Orleans have tended to stand around hopelessly waiting for others, and the government, to rescue them.   It's the difference between accepting personal responsibility and exercising initiative on the one hand, and, on the other hand, falling prey to the escapism of victimology and dependency.   How would you guess that each of these groups tend to vote?   JES

05/01/07  The President vetoes the war spending authorization which was constructed by Democrats with a hard schedule to surrender in Iraq (read War on Terror).  An unacceptable policy choice, a stab in the back of the American military and a signal to the world of an American lack of resolve to confront IslamicFascism.  If Democrats truly wish to open up the floodgates of hell, they should simply defund the war now, without stretching timelines.  In fact they are cowards and appeasers, unable to round up enough simpleton GOP collaborators to over-ride a veto.  It is a pathetic sight to behold.  Stay tuned.  Meanwhile, General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

05/01/07  Ah, yes, today is May Day, the religious point on the calendar for communists everywhere.  Watch them all celebrate their hatred of America, George W. Bush and American Conservatives everywhere in the world.  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES

04/24/07   So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-CA, using his official position, instructs President Bush, General David Petraeus, and the Nation that the war in Iraq (in the shriveled brains of the Left something apparently separate from IslamicFascism) has been lost and that the "surge" is not working.   Now the fact of the matter is that, at least since 1992, major elected Democrat officials have almost routinely engaged in what  Originalist Americans describe as treason.  In the present circumstances we are actually at war, and properly so, against evil forces whose clearly and credibly stated purpose is to destroy us.  In the opinion of the Mountain Observer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-CA is a traitor, and ought to be dealt with according to the law, as originally understood, forthwith.  The Mountain Observer is absolutely beside himself with anger.  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES

04/18/07  Incidentally, aging hippy Don Imus could use a hair cut.  Man is silly looking and ugly.  JES

04/18/07  Finally Conservatives are making progress on the abortion front.  The Supreme Court sustains a challenge to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act signed into law in 2003 by President Bush.  Infanticide is unconstitutional: imagine that.  JES

04/14/07  Regarding the firings of Dom Imus.   Dom Imus is of the Left, no friend of the Mountain Observer.  However, the  Imus' firings were not because of his politics, but rather his race.  He was, after all, fired by those imbedded in the culture of Liberalism that he shares.   Even White Liberal guys who interfere with the Liberal Elite agenda of sucking up to Black Victimology will be tossed overboard, especially if the situation also presents the possibility of setting up talk radio in general for a renewal of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine".  Now that same Liberal culture has a problem; they picked off Imus at the same time that they have elevated the much more noxious Al Sharpton of Tawana Brawley fame to the post of moral arbitrator of American values.  So it goes with moral relativism.  Black rappers have free reign, and the double standards between Black and White continue to expand and corrode what some of us remember as America.  The hypocrisy of the Liberal Elite Left Wing Mainstream Media stands totally exposed.  This is not to defend Dom Imus; he should have been fired long ago.  However, long before that, the noxious Al Sharpton and the entire "hip-hop/ rapper" culture should have been called out by a more responsible journalism.  In the postmodern Kulturesmog of current American culture, the simple concept of Right and Wrong, good for previous generations, has been buried and long forgotten.   May they all go straight to Hell.   JES.

03/25/07  Keeping track of Hillary Rodham: http://hillaryspot.nationalreview.com/ 

03/25/07  Politicians alleging themselves to be Catholic while voting in support of pro-abortion measures, need to be reminded that even Pontius Pilot, washing his hands of Jesus Christ after finding Him not guilty, never had the nerve to take Communion.   We know you fellows are heavily distracted by personal political interests of the moment, but you really need to think this over.  Going toward 2008, who are you?    JES

03/24/07  On global warming, and the politics thereof.  Desperate for a signature issue to justify and sustain an increasing political and religious control over our lives, Democrats and their ilk about the globe are seizing on global warming as their new avenue for government growth so as to order us about.  Causing panic among school kids is only another symptom of the psychopaths running loose among us.  Now the fact of the matter is that we can have a discussion about all this based on actual science, or we can submit to a good old fashioned tent revival meeting based on fear and panic with the more particular objective of grabbing political power; to hell with the facts.

Climate change is a constant in the history of the earth.   The biggest single factor is activity on the surface of the sun, subject to control only by AlGore.   Changes to our many climates are continuous, and the proximate causes complex.  Is the earth, as a whole, currently getting warmer?  Perhaps; perhaps not.   Contrary to the screaming psychopaths running loose among us, among relevant scientists the jury is still out, and in any event, "poll taking" is not how science works.

I am not about to review all the details of that discussion here.   Let us just stipulate for the moment, for the sake of discussion, that there is currently a warming trend, specifics to be determined.  The next question is to what extent human activity might be causing, or at least contributing to the warming trend.  This is where all the computer modeling really gets messy.   While it is difficult, on a strictly logical basis, to argue that when I start up my pickup truck I am not contributing to "global warming", it is much more difficult for me to imagine side by side with the macro forces of nature that the impact of my turning that key is measurable.  And so it is also with millions of people all turning their keys every day.   It takes enormous self centeredness and hubris to believe that all of mankind combined could have any kind of significant impact compared to the overall forces of nature.  Incidentally, I am told that the glaciers on Mars are melting as well.  In any event, I see no evidence that "science" has pinned this matter down one way or the other.  Sorry folks, but what we are hearing about here is a simple old fashioned attempt to grab power, a twenty first century version of the old medicine man selling swill off the back of his wagon.   All this is a symptom of the attempted execution of Christianity in the western world and the new religious substitution of Gaia, or whatever.    G.K Chesterton once observed that "Once men believe in nothing, they will believe in anything".  JES

03/24/07  Again the Chinese are wooing the Russians for Siberian oil.  Russian and Chinese foot dragging in the United Nations on really tough trade sanctions against Iran are running up against a wall as Iran's complicity in sabotaging Iraq become more widely exposed.  The pieces of the puzzle are as follows: The American "surge" in Iraq is showing signs of results, and in Congress, Democrats are stumbling in their efforts to sabotage the war effort.  The renewed credibility of American determination suggests the real possibility of a collision with Iran, not only over the issue of Iranian nuclear weapons ambition, buy also over Iranian hegemonic ambition in Iraq and the entire gulf state region.  The United States has pushed very hard in the Security Counsel for some really tough economic sanctions against Iran, and both the Russians and the Chinese have stood in the way.  Russia historically has had an interest in trade access to the south, many times frustrated.  The Chinese are rather desperate for oil to power their exploding economy; they have very little of their own.  While the Mountain Observer is generally skeptical concerning the effectiveness of trade sanctions and boycotts, in this situation with Iran the fact of the matter is that they are very vulnerable to some real damage if a genuine and tough boycott was applied and enforced.  Even so, boycotts have a limited lifespan of effectiveness; witness the post Gulf War experience with the boycott against Saddam's Iraq.   The appeal to our side (Democrats excluding themselves) to a tough boycott against Iran is that it might have sufficient short term effectiveness to force an internal political correction to the power of the mullahs and the policy ambitions of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against many of his scared neighbors.  The Iranian economy today is on shaky legs, and ordinary Iranians are politically very restless. The Mountain Observer remains skeptical that all this diplomatic maneuvering will produce effective results, but at the same time recognizes the political need to run the trapline.  And I would suggest that both the Russians and the Chinese recognize that we are closing in on the end of that trapline, even if American Democrats don't.  If the Russians and the Chinese don't begin to cooperate more closely with the American efforts to utilize the boycott route, then the United States is really left with no options whatsoever but to confront the Iranians directly militarily, with negative implications both for the supply of Chinese oil and a spectrum of Russian (Putin) national priorities.  Thanks to Mitch McConnell, we may yet be able to stall off the desire of Democrats to run and hide under a pillow.  JES

03/13/07   On shutting down Liberals, Democrats and the entire Progressive agenda.  In addition to an enhanced repeal of the 16th Amendment (Go to Mission Statement), next on the list should be the unqualified repeal of the 1965 Higher Education Act and all subsequent attachments.   Watch the rats run for cover.  JES

03/13/07  The fatal flaw in the ideology of modern Liberalism is the complete absence of a central unifying political theory or principles around which they can all unite.  The closest they can come is that all problems are to be solved through and by the government, which also can provide the funds to do so at the point of a gun.  The central unifying political theory ends there; questions as to what the problems are, and what the solutions might be, fragment in thousands of directions according to the interests and agendas of specific constituencies and individuals.  In the absence of any actual central unifying political theory or principles, action is accomplished by the creation of a case by case consensus based on the raw political power of the coalition of the moment, always subject to change.

So it is that the Democrat majorities in both House of Congress are flailing away on the issue of Iraq.  The consequences, what ever specifically evolves, cannot be a positive for American national interests.  Should you be puzzling over how Liberals feel (they don't generally think), reflect upon this.  General David Petraeus: carry on.  JES

02/17/07  Pretending that only their favored constituents notice, a Democrat House of Representatives, joined by a handful of gutless Republicans, pass a "nonbinding" resolution against the "surge" of troop deployments to Iraq.  However, of course, the resolution is binding in the sense that our enemies are watching and taking inspiration, and those in Iraq, and the Middle East generally, who have supported us learn again that American resolve is not to be trusted.  So as a sequel to the outcome of the November elections, the American people, through their elected representatives, have virtually guaranteed defeat in Iraq, invited expanded terrorism directly upon us, propelled re-examination of the foreign policies of others worldwide premised on non-existent American resolve, and virtually guaranteed a world war, point future, with Iran as the flash point.  The Senate is likely to add to the disaster later today.  If belief that the President is so in error as to justify undercutting the troops, then the principled response should have been to defund the enterprise and get out now, but the cowards on the Left want no responsibility for the consequences militarily, politically, or morally.  What else could one expect of those who are intellectually and morally bankrupt.  As the refugees begin to stream, and the deaths and tortures accelerate, we on the Right will remember where responsibility really lies.  The fact of the matter is, and always has been, that the original decision to invade was correct, and in spite of the considerable government bungling that has occurred since, the enterprise was, and still is, winnable.  But this will not happen: Americans have become self-serving cowards.  Our real problem is not Shiites and Sunnis.  It is Iran, and it is the moral corruption of America.  Drunk with the personal chase for dollars and personal comfort, an obvious consequence of decades of immersion in Material Secularism, Americans, as this is written, are consumed with the intrigue of the death of a 39 year old bimbo who herself was a statement for everything wrong with our culture.  The values that informed the American Founding seem to have slid beneath the surface, and our entire political and social culture is complicit.   The only point in continuing the website is that at some point, a future generation will be rocked by reality, and begin to re-think the disgusting performance of their parents that caused the mess.  The process of correction will not be pretty. 

It is possible to make the case that our problem is that the French affliction, after centuries, has finally overwhelmed us.  I quote Jean Jacques Rousseau, arguably the father of all that has gone wrong in the western world since:  "Let us begin by setting aside all the facts, because they do not affect the question".  And so it has gone since.   JES

01/22/07  I have not had much to say lately because, frankly, there is not much going on that makes any sense.  The race is on to destroy the Bush presidency, an extra constitutional impeachment, if you will, a peculiar activity at a time of international peril.   Of course, the President's enemies don't see it that way; they are more traumatized by Judeo-Christian religiosity than IslamicFascism which they don't take seriously.   Western Liberal Secularists suffer from moral blindness because, contrary to what they believe of themselves, they have no moral foundation.  Theirs is a self-serving materialist perspective founded on quicksand.   Our country, and western civilization, are in a lot of trouble.  JES 

12/24/06   On a recently surfaced tape Ayman al Zawahri, al Qaeda No. 2 man (the Egyptian doctor), talks directly to U.S. Democrats:  "The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen -- the Muslim Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq -- are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost, --------and if you don't refrain from the foolish American policy of backing Israel, occupying the lands of Islam and stealing the treasures of the Muslims, then await the same fate," Zawahri quite evidently feels himself and the IslamicFascist cause well puffed up, as we predicted they would.  We eagerly await Nancy Pelosi's response.   JES

12/07/06  Pearl Harbor Day.  Ask young people you know if they know what it was all about, or where, or when.   Perhaps I am optimistic.   Do you, yourself, know the answer to these questions?   JES

12/03/06  The idea of negotiations with Iran and Syria is absolutely the dumbest idea I can imagine.   Anyone who even thinks such a move could be constructive is a mental case in need of immediate institutionalization.  All the wrong moves have started; the destruction commenced on 11/07, and will prove to be virtually irreversible.  Democrats did not win this election; Republicans, and Americans, lost it.  The Mountain Observer will continue in its task of charting the way things ought to be, recognizing the fact that the United States has begun its long decent straight into hell.  JES

11/15/06  In Congress, both houses, I think it would be wise for the moment for the GOP to stand aside and simply let the Dems boil in their own oil.  They are already making themselves look foolish; just let it happen.  The GOP should confine its efforts, such as it is able to do so, strictly to looking out for the best interests of the country, avoiding even the appearance of partisanship.  Dem profession to the contrary, six years of unmitigated hatred of Conservatives, George W. Bush, and white Christian men cannot be shut off like a spigot.  Do not respond to it.  Absent substance, Dems have nothing else, and will be held accountable by the electorate that supported them.  It will not be pretty; just let it happen.  JES

09/10/06  Finally, finally, somebody in the mainstream media has the guts and the gonads to stand up and say "enough is enough!".  It is reported that ABC will air the five hour "docudrama" miniseries The Path to 9/11 on 09/10 and 09/11.  Bob Iger, Chairman, Walt Disney Company, most profound thanks to you for your courageous decision.  The true friends of the First Amendment understand the battle you have joined against the certain Statist forces of darkness; we will be with you in the court rooms and in the political battles likely to follow.  It is now time for CBS, NBC and the rest of you media airheads to straighten up and fly right; shed the political agenda and just report the news based on properly sourced and documented facts.  That is all Conservatives have ever asked for.  Three cheers for the First Amendment!  JES

08/08/06   Well now the ongoing meltdown of the Democrat Party is documented with the apparent party primary defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman by one Ned Lamont, an obscure draftee in the War on Bush.   Aside from the crash landing of the Democrat Party as a serious national party, what does this mean for America?  That remains for voters this Fall to decide, however, even if Republicans retain control of one or both houses of Congress, the absence of a serious opposition can only lead to greater intellectual flatulence among Republicans leaving another terrorist attack on the country as the only way to wake folks up.  Our condolences to Joe Lieberman, however, may be premature; he still has the Independent option.  As a Conservative, it doesn't matter; as an American, I would hope he can prevail.  JES

08/07/06  Jack Murtha again.   Ranking Democrat on the defense appropriations subcommittee, apparently working hand in hand with his brother Robert Murtha, lobbyist for certain defense contractors, Mr. Jack has been very successful in funneling millions to friends in the industry.  Now, of course, this is not unusual congressional behavior on either side of the aisle, but that is exactly the point.  This declared "unindicted co-conspirator" in an Abscam mess 26 years ago pulls his pants on every morning just like everybody else.   JES

08/07/06    Ah, yes: Remember the great "Star Wars" controversy in the 1980's?  Dumb Ronald Reagan, don't you know.  Might upset the Soviets and provoke a nuclear exchange.  Besides, everyone with an east coast brain knows it will never work anyway.   Best let sleeping dogs lie.   Well in spite of OJ Billyboy's best efforts to spike research, the hated defense industry kept working on the idea as best as meager funding would allow.  Finally enter North Korea and Iran, and suddenly the whole idea takes on a life.  Nothing like Hollywood bubbleheads and French snobs coming to realize that they will soon be under the gun.  But we thought the United Nations and the stripped pants crowd could solve those problems?  Must have been mistaken.  One wonders how much more effective our capabilities in this area would be today if the Left had never been allowed to get in the way.  Yet there are those who continue to insist that nothing should be deployed short of perfection.   On December 8th, 1941, America went to war in the Pacific armed with F4F's.  The F6F's and Corsairs came later.  Too many American's today fail to understand that we are at war again, against a much more dangerous enemy.   As Donald Rumsfeld has correctly pointed out, "you go to war with the army you've got".  Democrats should pray (yes, to God) that our current crop of Aegis missiles will be effective when called upon.   JES

07/13/06  Regarding the elections this Fall.   Republicans certainly certainly have problems with their conservative base rebelling against a wimpy GOP.  However, consider the plight of Democrats.   Far leftist race baiting Cynthia McKinney D-Ga is wildly popular in her home district, while moderate Joe Lieberman D-CT is being shunned by the party.   This all adds up to the worse national political polarization that I have seen in my lifetime.   Not a surprise, really, as the long festering pimple of moral and intellectual relativism, riding the horse of Marxism in a different form, is now in a death struggle with the Right.  At issue is whether American voters will recognize the need to keep management of the struggle against IslamicFascism in the hands of adults.   JES

07/10/06  George W. Bush and "cowboy diplomacy" according to Time magazine.  I have my differences with George W. Bush, mainly over the issues of immigration management, spending and the size of government.  However, once again I have to come to his defense on the issue of confronting IslamicFascism and pre-emption.  He has been exactly correct.  We do not wait for others, because it is not in our national interest to let others take charge of determining our foreign policy, especially when many wish us ill.  We cannot afford to sit back and wait to be hit first in an age when such strikes could easily make 09/11 seem as child's play.  We need to confront these realities over there, not here.  Policies of reaction, and "cut and run" only feed the snake and make things worse.  The facts of life in the real world compel our leadership in an increasingly dangerous world as a matter of our own defense.   The fact of the matter is that our efforts in Iraq have been very successful in drawing out the infection, better there than here.   The fact of the matter is that in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad we have this generation's Hitler, ever so more dangerous with weapons of mass destruction and an American MS Press, such as Time Magazine, totally out of line, with subversive results.  Our times are a replay of the 1930's, and some of us remember, and have learned a lesson or two.  This time around we will not face Stuka bombers and fast Tiger tanks, but some very hot stuff delivered right to our shores, perhaps even to the offices of Time Magazine.  Imagine that.   It would appear that Europe, sadly, is being sucked into the IslamicFascist vortex, lead by the French and Germans.  So it goes.  Russia is sponsoring Iranian mischief, as China sponsors North Korean mischief, except that this is much more than mischief.  The fact of the matter is that WWIV has started, and some folks just don't get it, so drunk with hatred for George W. Bush.   Oh, and I have one more complaint about George W. Bush: he is a nice guy, too nice to American Liberals.   Come on, George; what we need is a really mean son-of-a-bitch.  God bless you.  JES

06/28/06    It is past due time to unload a train load of lumber squarely onto New York Times chairman “Pinch” Arthur Sulzberger Jr's pea sized brain.   It seems that the job always falls to Vice President Dick Cheney to load the logs.  We have witnessed, too often, the New York Times going way beyond what is defensible under the first Amendment, and venturing rather deep into the area of facilitating treasonable leakage by a Liberal "shadow government" (Well put, Rush) within the D.C. bureaucracy.  The Mountain Observer has been making this point for years.  What is stunning, even allowing for the ancient bias of The Times, is the brazen disregard for the security interests of the nation, and the lives of so many on the front lines of the fight against international terrorism.  Public revelation of details concerning a covert program designed to follow financial trails in the international banking/financial system is totally inconsistent with our current national security needs.  As an American citizen, I have no need to know those details; the government does.  As an American citizen, I expect the government to be doing it's job in pursuing those who are a threat to this nation, and I recognize and respect the need for aggressive government covert activity to this end.  We have several problems here, beginning with the leaks themselves by rogue government sources, surely both illegal and treasonable.  Then we have, at a minimum, a lack of discretion on the part of The Times, following legitimate pleas by government officials for restraint in publication.  The Times cannot plead ignorance as to the sensitivity of the matter.   What we have here is a deliberate act of political sabotage at the clear expense of national security interests.  A prosecutorial investigation is compelled which must pursue the question of reporter sources, not good for the First Amendment, but necessary for national security.  An Executive bureaucracy deliberately working at fundamental cross purposes to the direction of the President presents us with a Constitutional challenge that cannot be lightly dismissed.  Freedom of speech has limits, and so should traitorous behavior.  JES

06/23/06  CBS News finally shows Dan Rather the door.  I have mellowed with age, however if there is one corner of my soul that still flies into a rage with little provocation, it is on the matter of Liberal Arrogance, and specifically its manifestation in the 1960's media and academia.  It is not on matters of differing viewpoints.  It goes way beyond, to the point of treason.  So Lord forgive me, but Dan Rather can go rot in hell, and so can CBS.  About Liberals, the old tailgunner had it right from the beginning.  JES

 06/13/06   Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, finally cries "uncle" and gives up on his pursuit of Karl Rove.  Now after 2 years of political persecution, perhaps the President's chief political advisor can get back to his job undistracted, and Fitzgerald can take a good hard look at Valerie Plame, her sorry husband and New York Times chairman “Pinch” Arthur Sulzberger Jr.  JES

06/11/06  The Mountain Observer has long pondered over the problem of why certain seemingly bedrock constituencies of the American Democrat Party are as they are when logic from a distance would suggest different affiliations.  While the sensibilities of Black Americans has been widely discussed, the political habits of Jewish Americans has received less attention.  I have had a theory for a long time that part of the problem has been that, for whatever reason, many Jewish Americans are prone to react to conservatism through an European prism of experience.  Jews in America have been slow to recognize that their place in America has always been less threatened than in Europe, and especially so since WWII.  What is particularly missing is a recognition that there has been a growing reconciliation on the political right, and a long dormant political hostility on the political left.  On these issues, America is not Europe.  As an American Nationalist Conservative, and a Christian, Jews, and Israel, are friends and Allies against the larger world's assault on historic western, and American, values and traditions.  I defer to George Washington, not hide behind a rock isolationists, which George Washington was not.

So it is that we come to the matter of Eurabia, as IslamicFascists disguising themselves as "peaceful muslims" (a different discussion) , swarm the continent.  Under assault, the French once again reveal their historic Gallic tendencies, a combination of flight and assimilation with their attackers.   So it is reported that Jean-Marie Le Pen's ultra-right National Front, apparently so invested in anti-Americanism and historic European anti-Semitism that it has become blind unto itself, is actually welcoming the invaders.  Such a path is neither conservative, nor in the French national interest, but rather an irrational policy of national suicide.  The exploding anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism, in all of Europe is no secret.  I confess my own naiveté concerning the true nature of the National Front.  Now it is time for American Jews to look hard in the mirror.  JES

02/11/06    As quoted of a certain relative of Hillary Rodham Rodham: "If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees" .   It has been repeatedly alleged by insiders that OJ Billyboy was, and is, much less intense about these matters than Hillary Rodham Rodham.  After all, he has now been claimed as George W. Bush's brother, don't you know.  Connect the dots.  Put this in the context of what I offered below 02/08/06.  JES

2/10/06  Have you noticed that lately the political Left has made little of the issue of the federal budget deficit, that for the moment isn't?  Perhaps that is because the Treasury Department has reported that in January the government ran a surplus in collections of $20.99 billion, proving once again that Art Laffer was right when he scratched that curve on the back of a napkin.   Tax cuts work.  What will not happen next is the real problem.  a). Congress will again go limp on cutting spending.  b). Nobody will consider using that January surplus to draw down the debt.  The excuse will be that, overall, in the months immediately ahead, budgets deficits are still projected, which is true.  But who will take a bet with me that this one month's $20.99 billion surplus will actually be smoothed into the existing spending stream?  No, they will find a way to spend it above and beyond.

Now I will tell you that today, my 66th birthday, I am in a bad mood.   I have been advised by one Fred Barnes that as a small government (traditional) Conservative I am obsolete, and that I need to get with the program.  Well, Mr. Barnes, if you are right that the new wave is big government, big spending "conservatism" under the guidance and wisdom of George W. Bush, then I am off the bus, and you guys are on your own.  The irony of conservatism in America, from the beginning, is that conservative values have always been about defending the founding values which were, in context, essentially revolutionary.  The lessons of Edmond Burke included the counsel of accommodation, as opposed to stiff necked European continental resistance to change that lead to no necks in revolutionary France.  The question then becomes one of where to draw the line.  As an American, I do so with the Founding Values, recognizing the arbitrary nature of this in broader historical context.  I have made my point elsewhere about the income tax.  But I guess I need to point out to Mr. Barnes and his neo-con friends that to present George W. Bush's spending proclivities as Hamiltonian is nuts.  None of the Founders would have endorsed an income tax, and Hamilton specifically endorsed tariffs as a tool to advance American national interests.  (Don't raise that worn out foil of Smoot-Hawley because that is not what I am talking about.  The discussion begins in 1776, not 1932.)

If the mechanics of the Laffer curve have any downside, it would be that big spenders are provided with an ongoing excuse for their corrosive habit.   As with drugs or alcohol uncontrolled, it will only be a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.  JES

02/08/06  In the wake of the breaking of the Abramoff scandals, the long overdue need for true lobbying/campaign contribution reform calls to my attention a matter I have touched on in the past, and that is the very thin line between corporatism, in the broader sense, and fascist economics.  Now as it happens, the system of corporate ownership and operation, especially as it has evolved in the United States, is a magnificent economic arrangement within a truly free market capitalist system.  The trouble starts with political tampering, and the political tampering starts when the political honey (money) pot gets too big.  (This is at the bottom of my complaint with the existence of an income tax, but I digress.)  A corporation is supposed to be a strictly economic engine designed to produce income for its ownership.  Recent years have seen the attachment of additional largely social claims on corporate cash and capital assets by economic predators and social collectivists, not infrequently boring from the inside out, both labor and management, but also from the outside in.  One consequence is that the free market gets subverted.  Another is that political considerations too often become corporate priorities, and private social engineering publicly unaccountable begins to flower.  If the combination of public tax money in the form of grants, activist Liberals and laptop computers isn't already bad enough, then the addition of politically unaccountable corporate managers, occasionally consumed with social guilt, sets up the perfect storm. 

Now I would suggest to you that, in addition, the slippery slope toward economic fascism begins when the lines between government direction and regulation of nominally "private" corporate activity becomes so blurred that the yardsticks of solvency and the discipline of bankruptcy become even debatable.  Politicians run about with "solutions", regulatory mandates and centralized management interference from the outside as the real management collapses in their responsibilities before the threat of further political depredation.   It is but a short step to nationalization, however, in this country most politicians are smart enough, at least so far, to know that they do not have the expertise to run airlines, or steel mills, or even pet shops.   So gutless wonders that they are, they settle for regulation, tax direction and oratorical demagoguery to thrill the crowd and subvert the free market system.  What a mess.  In a social climate of disintegrated public education fixated on cultural and intellectual relativism, what an opportunity for the political savior riding in on a white horse.  Communism is discredited because even Western Statists understand it doesn't work.  For the Statist mindset, however, a fascist organization of things might hold great appeal, stumbling into the backdoor, backwards.  Therein lays the danger of frustrated Leftwing Statists as their world collapses around them.

I have suggested that there are some problems out there, and I could go on.  I simply want people to start connecting the dots and to think about the consequences of their own individual actions, and votes.  Votes, and words, have consequences.  Entire societies and cultures can slowly drift off course, most always tending left.   Where are we, in the United States, going?   Again, I would suggest taking a long hard look at that insufferable error of the 20th century, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.  JES

 01/21/06  Independent Counsel David Barrett, trapped by years of Congressional political maneuvering and Liberal court manipulation, has finally been able to get his report released, but highly redacted.  Officially this concludes the investigation of the shenanigans of Henry Cisneros, Clinton era Secretary of Housing and Urban Renewal.  Nobody cares about that any longer.  The real issue, and hold up, has to do with possible allegations and charges against, and about, the IRS, DC governments favorite cop and predator, too hot for the culture to handle.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley R-IA has been fighting essentially a one man war to get this report released, in its entirety.  He has not given up. Every American taxpayer should continue to pay close attention.  JES 

12/08/05  "It is not that liberals are stupid; it's just that they know so much that isn't true".   Ronald Reagan

12/07/05   The 09/11 Commission reconstitutes itself long enough to proclaim what everyone already knows: the country, in many ways, continues to have work to do to prepare for further terrorist attacks.  The old press picks up on it, and while the Commission was pointing fingers at both Congress and the Administration, the old press prefers to point more toward the Administration, everyone implying that Republicans aren't doing enough to protect the country.  Why the suggested partisan swipes, and why did the Commission decide it was necessary to state the obvious?   I think it has to do with the ghost of Able Danger, the ghost of Henry Cisneros, and, perhaps, the horror of purple fingers in the air on December 15th, in Iraq, AKA Mesopotamia, I believe.  In Washington, D.C., the local industry of passing the buck has never been more robust.   You see, in D.C., there are no mirrors.  JES

12/07/05  Most Americans alive today are too young to remember.  64 years ago today the Japanese attacked our fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  On December 8th, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, D-NY, and who smoked cigarettes, asked Congress to declare war on Germany, Italy and Japan, and our formal entrance into World War II began.  In August of 1945, President Harry S. Truman, D-MO, and who smoked cigars, ordered our forces to proceed with dropping the only 2 nuclear devices in our possession on Japan, shortly causing the unconditional surrender of the tattered remains of the Japanese Empire.   That's how it was back then.  Today, Democrats, and the Democrat Party, are a collection of sad sack wimps and cowards who are united only in their hatred of the United States.  You people are totally disgusting, too awash in self-absorption and a victimhood mentality to even be embarrassed, as you ought to be.  In Iraq, and the Middle East, we will win without you.  You are a disgrace to your nation, and your American heritage.  Today the discussion in Iraq is not whether Saddam Hussein is guilty or innocent, but rather how and when to send him to his rendezvous with 72 virgins.    And today, in America, there is widespread discussion in the Heartland about what to do with Traitors.  Yes, there are still some real Americans left.  JES

12/06/05  Democrats are absolutely obsessed with making an analogy between Vietnam and Iraq, and they could not be more wrong.  Yesterday, Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted that the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong.  I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam."   Well it absolutely is not.

1).  In the case of Vietnam, the North Vietnamese were never guilty of a direct attack on the United States, the disputed facts surrounding the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin not withstanding.  On September 11, 2001, a whole series of attacks on the United States by IslamicFascists over a number of years, culminated in the deaths of 3000 American civilians on American soil.  Iraq, at least so far, has never been linked directly to the execution, or specific pre-knowledge, of the 09/11 event, and no one in the Administration has ever claimed so.  However, what had been clearly established is the direct and ongoing linkage between the Saddam regime and al-Qaeda through-out the nineties in a marriage of convenience and collaboration against us.  Details indisputable, widely available, and still being un-earthed.  That Democrats are so obsessed on re-writing history on this point betrays their recognition of its significance.

2}.  Our decision to engage Iraq was endorsed by today's very same Democrat "leadership" in 1998, and earlier, when George W. Bush was still in Texas, OJ Billyboy was otherwise distracted in the Oval Office, and the United Nations was presiding over the greatest fraud in history, otherwise known as the Oil for Food program, France and Germany complicit.  In Vietnam, which was started by JFK, D-MA, and escalated by Lyndon Johnson, D-TX, who otherwise kept his pecker in his pants, there was no United Nations program of subterfuge of any kind.   At its best, the United Nations has always been useless; today it is worse.

3)  We are about to see our 3rd election this year in Iraq, and we are being praised by an overwhelming number of Iraqi's for making this possible, as the polling over there, such as it is, consistently reveals.  Do they look forward to the day when we are gone?  Of course.  Do we look forward to the day when we no longer need to be there?  Of course, and that has been the plan all along.   Howard Dean also proposes that all our forces need to be withdrawn "within two years", conveniently consistent with Administration efforts.

4).  Unlike Vietnam, under the draft, our military today is an all volunteer force, with a generally very different attitude about what they have been asked to do, are doing and why.  In Vietnam we had deployed upwards of 500,000 personnel, and suffered over 50,000 casualties.  In Iraq we have deployed up to 160,000 personnel, and so far have suffered 2100 casualties.

5).  Vietnam took place in the context of the Cold War against international Communism, and was physically contiguous with Communist suppliers of material and various sorts of support.   Iraq is contiguous with Syria and Iran, not to be compared to Communist China and the USSR, yet.   Syria and Iran can be dealt with.

6).  Our direct national security interests in Vietnam were always subject to debate.  Our national security interests in the outcome of the current struggle are beyond discussion.

The fact of the matter is that the American Democrat Party has been taken over by cowards, so obsessed with themselves that they are willing to sacrifice everything, including their own country, to re-gain political power.   Some of us are willing to call it what it is: treason.  It has come to this.  The 1960's have a hold on these people that they will not let go; they must simply be defeated.   It is a matter of national security that Conservatives do so.   JES

12/05/05  So now it seems that the Democrat Party has actually joined the Saddam Hussein defense team.  After the 1970's and '80's, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, I could not understand how anyone with their heads screwed on straight could have ever voted for OJ Billyboy.  In 1996 I was flummoxed.  In 2000, surely something was amiss that the race was so close.  Now in 2005 we have a major national party actively engaged in treasonable activity.  There is no other way to put it.  Don't give me this crap about how Ramsey Clark is representing the principle of law in a Middle East distorted by Theocracy.   Ramsey Clark is inserting himself, and the American Left, into the business of an Iraqi people too long starved of law and civil decency, and it is the ultimate condescension to assert that Iraqis need instruction in justice.   For narrow partisan political gain, Democrat party leaders are running away from their own documented words uttered in 1998.   Will Saddam Hussein be their candidate in 2008?  Perhaps so, but it is more likely that by then he will be history, perhaps joining the Democrats, and Idi Amin.   JES

12/04/05  On this matter of getting the troops home from Iraq, I sense that the Democrat "leadership" may be setting up a little game.   It has always been the intention of the Administration to bring the troops home, as conditions in Iraq allow.  Those conditions are beginning to emerge, albeit later than we would have preferred.   So as that scenario begins to unfold, watch for Democrats to take "credit" for "pressuring" the Administration in its moves, and to continue to criticize the slowness of the process.  Unfortunately, this discussion will be interpreted by the IslamicFascist as an endorsement and encouragement of their own strategy of wearing us down, which is exactly why our domestic critics are dancing dangerously close to the "T" word.  I would suggest that one criteria that must be met prior to any significant American troop withdrawal would be the application of terminal justice to one Saddam Hussein.  JES

12/04/05  One of the positive developments forthcoming in the years ahead, as a consequence of events in the Middle East, will have been the incubation of a new generation of American political leadership forged in the fire of the military conflict.  This generation will be conversant, first hand, with the nature of our IslamicFascist antagonists.  Capital Hill today is very short of such experience.   JES

11/17/05  Old Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward throws his friends on the Left under the bus and destroys Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s case against Vice president Richard Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr.   Personal ambition, or belated contrition, whatever the case may be, makes great theater.  The circles of rage on the Left against Bush (and don't be fooled- all Conservatives) will now be kicked to a still higher level.  Those of good character will stand tall; weenies will jump ship.  Thank you Vice president Richard Cheney.   In any event, Woodward's disclosures allow us to ask questions about the motivations of Patrick J. Fitzgerald's course of investigation.  The fundamental question was whether or not Valerie Plame was covert, or not, at the time of the incidents in question.  Did the Special prosecutor ever think to pick up the phone and call the CIA?  The answer is that she was not, according to the law, (ask Victoria Toensing, author of the Intelligence Identity Protection Act) one of the worst kept secrets in DC for years.  But that's too simple, and would have spoiled the opportunity for, I repeat, great theater.  JES

11/17/05  Intelligent Design.  Nothing strikes fear into the minds of the Great Secular Rational Liberal Elite more than to contemplate the real possibility of the return of a Judeo-Christian God to the public square.  This is really what is at the bottom of the debate over the respectability, shall we say, of a consideration of the implications of intelligent design.  The problem with intelligent design, however, is that what falls under this label does not arise out of a little white church in Alabama, or a schoolhouse in Tennessee.  It is the product of scientific considerations by scientists, and its implications are dividing the scientific community with about the same level of reasoning and rhetoric as to whether Clarence Thomas is a Black Man.  The wayward scientists are not starting out by proposing creation; that is not their purpose.   They are proposing a closer examination of the theories of random selection, which underlies evolution, as they puzzle over a lot of numbers that don't appear to add up.  These people do not have a religious purpose, whatever the implications.  These people are attempting to pursue good science, in the tradition of good science, whatever the implications.  That the Rational among us quake with fear mirrors the history of those in the past who could not cope with the meaning of the fact that a ship at sea gradually disappears over the horizon; with similar hysterical reaction.  Given the political opportunities for exploitation on all sides, of a "debate" that will be less Rational than Emotive, and in the spirit of supporting true science, and rational consideration, it will be necessary to create o new web page.  Go to Intelligent Design.  JES

11/04/05  To see what lies at the end of the road for national policies of "diversity", one need not look any further than France, with its streets afire in what amounts to a civil war.   In the United States we need to re-capture the original idea of the "melting pot" really fast.  American Conservatives have understood this for a long time.  Meanwhile, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and President Jocko Shearock, might ponder the fact that while most Muslims are not terrorists, virtually all terrorists are Muslims.  Some sort of wide awake sorting out (profiling) is necessary.  Notice that in the mainstream press, on both sides of the Atlantic, nobody has yet dared visit the name of Jean-Marie Le Pen.  American Liberals, take note.   JES

11/04/05  Rosa Parks is understandably honored for her role in advancing the civil rights of Black Americans.  However, some proportion and perspective are called for.  Given the nature of the times (1960's), her simple act of dignity had to happen, sooner or later by someone.  As it turned out, Rosa Parks came to claim that moment in history.  However, the size and length of her funeral begs a question: at what point does adulation cross the line into false idol worship, and to what length will OJ Billyboy go to promote his own "legacy"?  What she did deserves honor and respect; not false idol worship.   JES 

10/17/05  Let me begin by saying that the Mountain Observer owes Former FBI Director Louis Freeh an apology.   In past letters I have been rather harsh, mistaking his determination to stay on with OJ Billyboy to protect the integrity of the FBI Director’s office, rather, for a willingness to protect his own future within the constellation of the Northeast Liberal establishment.  It now seems that I may have been wrong.  So it is that Louis Freeh is throwing himself before the same lions of the Northeast in an act of personal sacrifice and integrity.  One wonders if he knew what he was getting himself into.  It was only a matter of time before this background battle between himself and OJ Billyboy broke into the open.  Am I now being too kind, or are the ghosts of Able Danger, and issues related to the still open investigation by the old Independent Counsel’s office of Henry Cisneros, still lurking in the Background?    Re: Able Danger, I refer you back to my comments 09/09/05.  The entire September 11 Commission has the same problem.  JES

09/09/05  Yesterday, as Democrats, the Press and Travis County Persecutor Ronnie Earle continue to chase after Tom Delay, former National Security Advisor, (to OJ Billyboy) Samuel R. Burglar was fined $50,000 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson, in addition to other penalties and loss of clearance for 3 years.  This, of course, for routinely squirreling away classified documents in his pants and socks, apparently for review in anticipation of the need to defend his ex-boss.  Watch for possible developing connections to issues being raised in the Able Danger affair before Congress.  JES

09/06/05  Perhaps this hurricane Katrina deserves it’s own webpage.  Myself, caught in the middle of serious technical difficulties with this website, find maintenance of this situation difficult.  Let’s see: we will call the new page KATRINA, RITA and the WELFARE STATE.    Go there for updates and analysis.   JES 

08/29/05  Hurricane Katrina rips into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.  There will be people hurting.  JES

08/23/05  Article. III., Section. 3. of the United States Constitution states that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. -------".   In our just causes against IslamoFascism, perhaps it is time for certain of our own citizens to be measured against this standard.  Every one of us, under the First Amendment of the same Constitution, has the right, indeed responsibility, to engage in responsible critique of our government's policies and actions.  However, this falls short of words and actions that have the effect of sabotage of our deployed forces by "giving them Aid and Comfort" to the enemy.  In a super-heated atmosphere of discussion, folks would be wise to consider their complaints in this regard, and those unwilling to do so should be held accountable.  The Democratic Party, and its media allies, in particular needs to engage in some serious self-examination.  Exactly whose side are you on?   JES

07/30/05  Chicago politics, or the national model of how Democrats run big cities.  Believe it or not, the corruption in city hall has gotten so bad lately that public discussion has begun to poke above the surface of a Republican challenge to the Daley Jr. Administration.   Looking down from Above, or up from Below (it is unclear to those of us still here in this life) one wonders at the thoughts of Richard Daley Sr.  These sorts of problems are not supposed to happen in Chicago, only New York.  Stay tuned.  JES

06/13/05  Michael Jackson: First comment on this website, and perhaps the last, only because of the implications for the larger culture.

Today he was found innocent by a jury of his peers, a fact to be accepted and respected.  I have not followed the details of this matter because I am not a voyeur of such things, and frankly, find the whole matter disgusting.  So having glanced occasionally at the popular press, always very hazardous, I was mildly surprised at the jury's verdict.  Reflecting briefly on it all, I would make the following points:

                -The jury found him "not guilty", not "innocent", presumably under the judge's directions to the jury per California law.  One wonders how the jury would have come down on this point had they been left unconstrained.

                - I am personally familiar with Santa Maria, CA.  Given the quality of evidence presented, and the quality of the prosecution's presentation, perhaps the jury did they right thing under the law.  Certainly we are left with no choice but to accept that.

                - In the larger culture, the wrong conclusions are likely to be drawn.  The fact of the matter is that Michael Jackson is a weirdo, and parents should keep their kids away from him.  The mainstream press can be expected to encourage exactly the opposite. 

                - Thankfully, the entire matter is now over, and we can get back to more important matters, like the broader subversion of our culture from within by those who seem to regard George W. Bush as a greater menace than IslamoFascists.  So it goes.  JES

06/04/05  Perhaps you have noticed that I have said nothing lately about all the charges of prisoner abuse in Guantanamo and elsewhere.  That is because I choose not to dignify the assertions of those whose interests are not factually concerned with prisoner abuse, but rather with a further attempt to subvert the Bush Administration's correct and proper response to International Islamic-Fascist Terrorism.    People who cannot see through this smokescreen are either fools or complicit, or both.  JES

06/03/05  So "Deep Throat" was W. Mark Felt, one time 2nd in command of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover.  A lot of folks at high levels were playing fast and loose with the law, including W. Mark Felt.   Aroused by indignation about certain goings on within the Nixon Whitehouse, a top law enforcement officer could have imagined a more proper, and legal, way to proceed than as he did.  I was never a fan of Richard Nixon, who was not a Conservative, with a list of complaints familiar to Conservatives, however, as an American, I think one must give Richard Nixon credit for one thing: his role in the successful prosecution of Alger Hiss.    This, of course, was the primary basis for the hatred bestowed upon him by the Liberal Establishment, forever distorting the history of the times.  The litmus test of Alger Hiss to this day is a marker in the divide between the American Left and the American Right.  I point out this fact, not as a defense of Nixon's Watergate related activities, but as a suggestion of the need for context in understanding a complex period in our history.  I also remember well the genuine fear most Washington politicians had acquired of J. Edgar Hoover, who had been in his post as head of the FBI for so long that he seemed to "have the goods" on everybody, and believed to be willing to act on such information in an arbitrary way.    It is not unreasonable to surmise that W. Mark Felt's actions were a product of revenge against an Administration that had consciously named a new head of the FBI from outside the organization to replace Hoover, and not Mr. Felt.  It would now seem that Nixon deserves credit for his judgment on this matter too.

It is necessary to make one other point about Richard Nixon.  It has to do with the way he finally stepped down.  "I must put the interests of America first", not bad for a president otherwise headed for impeachment, to be compared with behavior in a more recent case of actual impeachment.  But  times are changing; how often today do we hear of honorable resignations?    In an age of moral relativism, you see. it is always somebody else's fault.    JES

06/03/05  The Senate continues to flail around under the mismanagement of Republicans and the intellectual and moral corruption of Liberals.  Congress as a whole is a broken institution, responsibility falling back to the voters themselves who nearly always deserve what they vote for.  Argued elsewhere on this website, many times, the long history of charter drift by US courts is traceable back to Congressional management failure.  As also with issues of fiscal irresponsibility, the people's representatives are failing their Constitutional responsibilities as the polis collapses gradually into havoc.  The healing must start at the bottom.  In America, it can.   JES

06/03/05  Flailing around in desperate attempts to discredit the President on grounds not intellectual, the Air America types continue their assault on the idea of private accounts for Social Security by trying to puff up the ghost of Enron and Ken Lay.  The private sector occasionally yields crooks, and they are pursued and prosecuted under the law.  The public sector has also been known, on occasion, to yield crooks and felons, actually a fairly long list.    Do the Air America types honestly wish to compare notes on this; private vs. public, Democrat vs. Republican, Liberal vs. Conservative?   I'm ready for that match up any day.  As for the great California energy crisis 3 years back, it had a lot less to do with Enron than it had to do with political and economic mismanagement of California's own affairs, by Californians.  As for the Social Security proposals of the Bush Administration, I know for a fact that had these modest proposals been in place 30 years ago, today I would be a millionaire, and I would not have to worry about my children and grandchildren.  Social Security will be reformed, sooner or later, on a formula that relocates responsibility back to individuals using the tools of the private sector.  It is the private sector that produces wealth.  The public sector confiscates it.  As certain realities sink in, folks are catching on.  JES

04/29/05  The House of Representatives revives some rules for the Ethics Committee, calling on Democrats to lay their cards on the table concerning Tom DeLay.   DeLay welcomes this action, to clear his name.  Perhaps Democrats have mis-calculated, assuming they could continue to use this issue to belabor DeLay.  The mis-calculation here, by Democrats, however, is that they have now opened the door into their own faces, and Republicans, sick and tired of all the faux political posturing, can now be expected to use the revived rules to go after a long list of Democrats who have real problems.  It is good for a change, to see the GOP stop trying to be good guys and to begin to fight back; long overdue.  Let's hope they follow through and chase down the Democrat hypocrisy, just in time for 2006.  Democrats can now fear what they said they wished for.  JES

03/21/05  Almost forgot.   Arthur Miller, generic lefty playwright, significant only as a reminder of a fellow traveling culture which will never miss a chance to complain about tailgunner Joe.   The other Joe, who was really mean, did real damage during the purges of the 1930's.   As it turns out, our Joe was close to the mark.  JES

03/12/05  Like Brier Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Harvard University President Larry Summers finds himself entangled in a conflict between his duties to Harvard as a serious academic and the frothing demands of militant feminism long since lost in the wastelands of political correctness.  In another version of the same malady, the University of Colorado, publicly owned, is in a similar process of self immolation over a series of self inflicted issues, including the matter of one Ward Churchill, pretender to academic qualification.  If you are not at least vaguely familiar with some of the specifics of both of these matters, then it might be argued that you too, are part of the problem.   The problem is that, as a nation of personally self absorbed individuals, we have allowed a vital component of our national character and definition, the American academy, to invert itself into an extreme Left Wing tool of statist indoctrination, totally at odds with the premises of a Liberal education, which is what it ought to be about.   Tenure, the 1st Amendment, and "academic freedom" have been subverted by the moles of statist totalitarianism using the twisted logic of deconstructionist relativism, a self consuming cancer.  It is time for brave people within the Academy, and the taxpayers, to stand up and fight back.  JES

11/20/04  Post election, it is time to speak to an issue that I have not addressed, in any detail, in a long time.  I refer to the matter of Left Wing fascism.   I refer you back to my 11/20/00 letter, embedded in the Mission Statement of this web site, in which I alluded to the "handshake" on the back side of the Left-Right spectrum, which is really a circle, with communists and fascists joining hands in a common defense of socialist Statism, albeit in different formats.  ( Also visit Old Mountain Observer Letter LFMOWEB 103 LETTER 01-02 ).  The far left wing (communist) model organizes an economy on the basis of central planning and control of state owned enterprises; private ownership disallowed.  The far right wing (fascist) model organizes an economy on the basis of central planning and control of state regulated private corporate enterprises; i.e. socialism on the cheap (using other peoples money).   It has been my contention for the years that following the collapse of the USSR, left wing Liberal Statists (upon close examination, communists), having recognized the failure of their socialist communist model, switched horses to the fascist economic format.  Go re-read the Mission Statement, if you have not already done so. 

Stop and consider the words and actions of the far left of the American Democrat Party over this past year.  Go analyze the political registration and campaign contribution patterns of many large "multinational" American corporations and their top management, and go analyze the social causes they support.  The penetration of Statist fascist thought into elite leadership, both Democrat and Republican, of this country may be stunning only to those who have not watched this happen. 

I am not proposing any grand conspiracies.  I am proposing an avenue of analysis important to understanding the direction in which we have been headed, which I believe is Statism, at the expense of American republican democracy.  To me it is clear that the primary thrust is from a Statist Left, bitter and angry at their continued loss of power to Conservatives on the Right who continue to gain political ground in their defense of traditional American values and republican democracy.  As the Democrat Party continues it's slide into the quicksand, the Republican Party moves left, soaking up the vacuum, and opening up a discussion within itself between corporate liberals and traditional conservatives. 

As an example, follow the discussion within the Republican Party between those who will accommodate cheap and illegal immigration, and those who insist on reform and a fence.  The fault lines of this conflict follow other crevasses as well, which I will attempt to flag as we move forward.  This web site will continue to follow the discussion, which at a core level may be the most important to understand, much the rest being symptoms.  In spite of current conventional wisdom, Left-Right analysis will continue to be important. 

The most encouraging news in this struggle was the defeat, in this last election, of the Old Media.  Clearly, the rise of the internet as a tool of communication and education is a major technical achievement in behalf of the First Amendment.  The battle against the Statist Leviathan has only begun; it is the prediction of the Mountain Observer that much turmoil lays ahead, but in America, anything is possible.

To further develop your understanding of the truly Statist mindset of the contemporary American Left, I direct your attention to 2 different books by David Horowitz; see Current Reading Recommendations, below.   JES

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