Winter Wells

“Progressive”s Actual Meaning

Martin McCormack — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:52:45 +0000

It should be kept in mind that the self-conscious goal of progressive policy is certainty that immediate and comforting outcomes must be achieved. Thus the engineering of profound change must above all be SWIFT and if possible SUDDEN. To permit reflection or prudence to come into the process of change poisons the purpose because they represent caution and forseeability. usually exercised by ordinary thinkers. Consequently, a minority of massive intellect, often astonishingly bereft of wisdom, are the greatest practioners of progressivism.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Martin McCormack — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:38:37 +0000

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Over the Delaware at Trenton hard by the old railroad tracks a huge old steel sign proclaims TRENTON MAKES- THE WORLD TAKES. I imagine the sign was put up maybe eighty or a hundred years ago- in an era when the USA was a world leader in manufacturing. Now, of course, this situation has been reversed for almost half that time. Now such signs should read. ASIA MAKES-THE US TAKES. To what extent can we ever go back to that era? We will start edging towards it soon though.The signs are clear that during the next decade the U.S. will attempt to go back there.Beginning with the Obama presidency and The Abominable 111th Congress- where the wolves of organized labor are in full cry- this new direction will not be a nostalgic, patriotic return to those pride-filled days. Instead it will bring us the kinds of terrors that turned Detroit into a much less livable city than Nairobi. So enjoy your cheap imports while you can. The party is is starting to break up.

Jamie Gorelick

Martin McCormack — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:13:27 +0000

In today’s WSJ appears an angry letter from Jamie Gorelick, Reno’s Deputy, purporting to refute WSJ’s article about Gorelick’s depredations against a secure America while a Clintonite yrs ago. It seems to me that she doth protest overly much! Further research shows that she was one of the original 4th Amendment maniacs who treasured abstract legalism more than life and liberty in her FISA court dealings. It turns out too that she was one of the corrupt honcho politicians of Fanny who as its Vice Chairman (sans a whit of financial sector experience) helped to lull worriers about its financial health early on when Clintonitis was infecting Fanny to its roots and finally poisoning it to death. Gorelick is also alleged to have corruptly helped or acquiesed in the cooking of Fanny’s books in order to permit her, Raines and other monstrous swindlers to earn enormous bonuses. Hers was over 700M that year. Clintonitis caused ever swelling over-exposure at Fanny coupled with horrible risk management (all in the service of minority reparations, of course, resulting in the current frightening financial sector and housing debacles.) Gorelick was thus given a pass to continue planning the death of our housing markets which she finally accomplished to the loud cheering of Dodd and Frank and other Demogogues. Instead of sitting smugly at Wilmer Hale in DC vindicating her iniquity she should be silently trying to escape the country before the media conspiracy to shield her is exposed and she gets flayed in one form or another. But I guess that because of her absolutist liberal legalisms coupled with her reparations politics she will always be beloved by the media. Pundits, can you think of a person more wicked than this one who played sigificant roles in exposing the U.S. to both unbridled terrorism AND the crash of much of the store of value of so many Americans. How she must hate this country to work at wounding it in two major UNRELATED ways. Because of the FISA court’s heartening recent decision on warrantless wiretapping she has probably failed in the first. She may yet succeed in the second if it plays out into disaster. Pundits, check her out and let me know if I am overreacting.

Bush Prosecution

Martin McCormack — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:05:56 +0000

Conyers and his Committee have been planning to charge Bush for a long time. What they would like ultimately, I believe, is to reopen the ICC Treaty and have the U.S. sign on. Then they will combine with some of the “universal jurisdiction” countries in the EU and elsewhere to charge Bush with crimes against humanity. They would relish nothing more than getting Bush in the dock at The Hague one way or the other so that the world can spew hate on him and condemn his efforts to keep the U.S. safe. Its despicable but not too far fetched the way things are heading in 2009. As to”universal jurisdiction” Bush, as I’m sure he realizes, is well advised to watch where he travels for years to come. Remember how Spain grabbed Pinochet in The UK for alleged crimes in Chile. Moreover in this ugly new world Bush should be careful about which STATES he travels to such as NY or Mass because there will be many attempts to sue Bush right here in our federal courts by groups of the psychotic left once he loses his immunity. while Dellums and other wicked radicals in Congress will be busy in their way to put a pincer on him through the ICC. How would you like to see US Marshalls arriving to arrest Bush at Crawford or elsewhere under an ICC warrant as Texas Rangers or other state militias try to resist them with the Bushs running for a helicoptor to escape ? A Constitutional crisis could develop. The bolshevist, psychotic left will analogize it to the Marshalls’ arriving to enforce the federal desegragation law against Arkansas at Little Rock High School over 50 years ago while we were all on Rose Hill talking about it in the Fordham cafeteria. You may hear some of this cruel rhetoric today and tomorrow as radical black intellectuals and Bush hating lawyers like Davis Boes start making their case and lobbying for charging Bush as an appropriate subject for MLK Day and Hussein’s Inauguration. I believe that Obama will have the power to stop the process through veto or political pulpit to prevent the disgrace of his country. He will be opposed by the abomnable ones who will contend au contraire that Bush has already disgraced it and arresting him will only cleanse America in the eyes of the world. Is there an ex-post facto problem?

The Fundamentalist Left

Martin McCormack — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:14:00 +0000

Obama was elected by many voters whose swooning adulation for him is less rational than the whooping of the emotional religious fundamentalists of the right who, these die-hard Obamians believe, are the main threat to our civil liberties. A comparison of the attitudinal character of the two groups is revealing. Obamians assert that the Christian right is mindlessly devotional and lacking in any factual basis for their simplistic convictions. Yet, it is beyond cavil that this kind of emotional mindlessness precisely describes that of a huge percentage of Obamian voters who never studied his vague policy preferences. Instead these thoughtless ones were swept up by a powerful emotional fundamentalism of their own exclusively motivated by Obama’s bromides for “change,” the opportunity to elect a black man as President and their virulent hatred of Bush (largely because of his style and resoluteness). Yet these Obamiacs still dare to call the religious right “mindless.” I hazard the guess that most Obamians would have still voted for their Lord and Savior even if it were revealed that he had secretly negotiated to hand the U.S. over to Medved and Putin as the newest Russian oblast!

The Forsaken

Martin McCormack — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:08:48 +0000

“The Forsaken,” a book by British author Tim Tzouliadis and published this year by Penguin Books Ltd., relates the ghastly story of thousands of utopian and gullible Americans and Europeans who believed the rank soviet propaganda of the early Depression years about jobs and a wonderful life and embarked for the Workers’ Paradise never to return-since they were all executed within a few short years as, bitterly disillusioned, they tried to escape and return home only to find their passports confiscated and their freedoms totally abridged. Roosevelt’s Moscow Embassy, Ambassador Joseph Davis and the whole administration refused to intervene and abandoned them in order to placate Stalin and the NKVD. I hope that the book can be read by many. No fan of the soviet union I am nonetheless stunned to read this highly credible account of this particular kind of murderousness directed at these dupes of long, long ago.

Sec pro texts

Martin McCormack — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:36:18 +0000

Martin McCormack — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:44:09 +0000

In its May’06 issue, The Atlantic Magazine,(formerly the Atlantic Monthly, the heroic and venerable nineteenth century Boston-based abolitionist gazette), Matthew Quirk, staff researcher, tells us inter alia in his “Calendar” segment on p.17, in connection with a U.S. planning initiative to encourage a democratic transition in the Cuban leadership upon Fidel’s death ( thought by some to be near), that the economy of the delapidated Antillean paradise is “humming thanks largely to tourism and economic partnerships with socialist Venezuela and communist China”. The use of the word “humming” to describe a subsidized economy which outlaws virtually all private investment in commerce and industry is worse than bizarre. ”Humming” desribes the U.S. economy under Bush rather than that of Cuba under Fidel. Indeed, historically, with no exceptions socialism and its accompanying repressions as exhibited by Fidelismo and similarly murderous regimes destroy humming economies rather that build them. The problem seems to be that Quirk, probably a graduate of an elite school of journalism, still follows the lights of Galbreath who right up near to its collapse praised the economic system of the soviet union lauding its fulfilled promises to its people and predicting that it would in due time overtake the U.S. Quirk, a true emporer’s clothier, might be well served to start rethinking his reflexive praises for socialist homicidal regimes and get closer to reality in the research and assessments on which he bases his writings.

56 Signers

Martin McCormack — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:14:39 +0000

The emperor’s clothes elites of the 21st century look on freedom as a quaint concept from a past era long surpassed by ease and pleasure. They should remember that freedom is a scary serious business and that 56 persons put their aortas on the line to get ours started- and we became the prototype