We Just Lost. Mike McNally takes up the issue of the British government’s refusal allow Islam critic and Dutch MP Geert Wilders to enter the country.
For the last couple of years I’ve been holding out against those who claim the spread of Islamic extremism in Britain, the reluctance of the government to combat it forcefully for fear of offending Muslims, and the reluctance of the media, legal, and political establishments to even discuss the issue spell doom for the country. My argument was that while such appeasement and cultural self-loathing make it difficult for us to win the war against the extremists, we could never lose it.
Unfortunately, it looks like we just lost.
Who’s the Canary in the Coal Mine? According to Wretchard, it isn’t Israel, but rather the U.K.
The problems besetting the UK, the US and Europe are now clearly rooted not in one-time events like 9/11 but rather in an accumulation of changes, none of them fatal in themselves, but each like an incessant drip of water, progressively weakening the foundations. The causes are many: demography, a loss of cultural confidence, overborrowing — the reader can list them himself — but now they may be coming together in a perfect storm. If the West is to survive the crisis that appears to be beating at it’s door, it must first understand its origins. But that is the problem in itself. Like a deer paralyzed in the headlights the Western intelligensia seems capable of nothing more than repeating worn out phrases from the 1960s. It is shaken, but not stirred.
A Flood of Refuges try to escape drug violence in Mexico? There is this assessment:
“Worst-case scenario, Mexico becomes the Western hemisphere’s equivalent of Somalia, with mass violence, mass chaos,” said Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “That would clearly require a military response from the United States.”
A Little Horn Music. I attended a music conference last week that brought back memories of my former days as a horn player. I would not have played first chair with anyone like this around:
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