Should We Have Gone Into Iraq?

Ann Coulter nails the answer to this one.

[Megan] Kelly [from Fox news] asked Bush: "Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion [of Iraq]?" 

The correct answer is: 

Now that we know that a half-century of Teddy Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act would result in a country where a man like Barack Obama could be elected president, and then, purely out of antipathy to America, would withdraw every last troop from Iraq, nullifying America's victory and plunging the entire region into chaos, no, I would not bother removing dangerous despots in order to make America safer.

Instead, I would dedicate myself to overturning our immigration laws, ending the anchor-baby scam and building a triple-layer fence on the border, so that some future Republican president could invade Iraq without worrying about a foreign-elected president like Obama coming in and giving it away.

Wow.  The question can't be answered better than that.

Peacniks and their motivation

Great quote from "Catch the Jew" by Tuvia Tennenbaum in regard to a Leftist Jew who heartily supported the Palestinians.

"Peace is this man's God, but I think he's an atheist"

I think this explains a lot Leftist "useful idiots" actions. 

Use your strength to do bold things....

I heard this quote from Machiavelli this morning and liked it so much I had to make a blog entry to make sure I didn't lose it. 

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.Niccolò Machiavelli

I especially liked the last line about developing strength to do bold things and not use it to stand up to suffering.  I've fallen into this trap and was happy to see the problem so artfully articulated.

I also like the statement that all courses of action are risky.  I've fought against the urge to be "safe" and giving up my ambitions.  So far, I'm happy with the result.

Why Democrats/Progressives Want to Destroy the Middle Class

I've often wondered why Leftist Democrats and Progressives hate the middle class so much.  Why do they have so much envy and work like demons, night and day, to undermine, demoralize, and destroy the backbone of this country.

My primary theory was they had a rich neighbor that made them feel bad or they grew up in a broken home, poor and wanting to destroy those they always perceived as being "better" than them.  To bring the "rich" down to their own level so to speak.

I recently read a great article in WSJ entitled "The Soccer Mom Revolt Against Common Core" that changed my mind to their motivation.

In the last paragraph of the article, discussing the Obama administration's troubles implementing Common Core, it states exactly what drives the enduring hate:

Prof. Greene thinks the administration’s education agenda has crossed the wrong voters. “They’re going to lose,” he said, citing White House hubris and overreach. “You can’t beat organized upper-middle-class people. They will fight back and you will lose.”

The Democrats and Progressives are always and forever about gaining power.  The upper middle class is one of the few bastions of power left that can stand up to them and thwart their final takeover of the culture.  For this, they must be destroyed, because nothing must come between a Leftist and power.