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Into the Darkness we go with Obama ...

Melanie Philips hits many nails on the head:

"Obama’s agenda has been crystal clear from the get-go: to increase the power of the state over the citizen at home, and to neutralise American power abroad. Four more years of this and he’ll almost certainly have succeeded.  The impact upon western security could be cataclysmic.
Britain and the Europeans love Obama because they think he will end American exceptionalism and turn the US into a pale shadow of themselves. What they don’t realise is that, all but lobotomised by consumerist rights, state dependency, victim culture, sentimentality, post-religion, post-nationalism and post-Holocaust and Empire guilt, Britain and Europe are themselves fast going down the civilisational tubes.
Romney lost because he refused to provide an alternative to any of this for fear of being labelled a warmonger, flint-heart or social reactionary. He refused to engage with any of the issues that made this Presidential election so truly momentous. Up against the bullying of the totalitarian left, he ran for cover. He played safe, and as a result only advertised his own weakness and dishonesty. Well, voters can smell inconsistency from a mile away; they call it untrustworthiness, and they are right.  
Romney lost because, like Britain’s Conservative Party, the Republicans just don’t understand that America and the west are being consumed by a culture war. In their cowardice and moral confusion, they all attempt to appease the enemies within. And from without, the Islamic enemies of civilisation stand poised to occupy the void.
With the re-election of Obama, America now threatens to lead the west into a terrifying darkness."

More here:  http://melaniephillips.com/america-goes-into-the-darkness

Bad News Day

Caruba writes:

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

John Adams, Founding Father and the nation’s second President warned "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

http://www.theospark.net/2012/11/america-commits-suicide.html

Obama? No Thanks

The Nobel Peace Prize - a realistic valuation of it

http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/about-those-horses-and-ships-and.html#links

Fourth Debate: for the removal of doubt

Evidence mounts

The third debate: mummy's boy saved by the moderator

The second debate

Not even the empty suit, just the chair

Freedom is under threat in the USA and in Europe

Part of the new memorial to Bomber Command.
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2012/07/samizdata_quote_1023.html

Look up!

http://hipsterlibertarian.com/post/23240311910

Earn money? How awful!

Archbishop Cranmer Being Persecuted Again

Details: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/advertising-standards-authority.html

Australian Socialists Get High on CO2 Alarmism - Idiocy or Conspiracy?

http://www.wakeup2thelies.com/2011/09/14/melbourne-uni-removes-all-doubt-the-climate-change-agenda-is-for-socialism/

CO2-driven madness: replacing incandescent lights with CFLs

http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/theres-a-killer-in-your-house-2/

"The one thing I know for certain about CFLs is, I won’t be letting a single one of them into my home."

Armendariz wants to crucify those who help pay his wages

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/if_only_the_romans_had_the_epa_to_crucify_the_dissenters.html

Ecocide at work

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/where-eagles-dare-not-fly-waterloo-looms-as-wind-farms-power-town-revolt/story-e6frg6nf-1226334835470

Earth Hour - Hellhole Specialists WWF to relocate HQ to North Korea

Sic transit gloria mundi

Left-wingers engaged in discussion about a misprint

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17084634

Evil men have many guises - 'college liberal' is one of them

Let us hope most American voters see it this way

Nature has been refuting the junk science of CAGW all over the world

Image found here: http://climatechangedispatch.com/home/9859-leading-scientists-no-need-to-panic-about-global-warming

Image seen: http://www.real-science.com/science-farce