Under the dispensation of Barack Obama, just as it is an affront to speak of Muslims who assault non-Muslims in France as “terrorists,” so it is an affront to describe black Americans who destroy the property of white Americans in Baltimore as “thugs.”

Cleaning up for Islam

This obscurantism reminds me of the literary school of “deconstructive criticism” that graces higher education in America. Language, we are now taught, is nothing more than “random flights of signifiers” without anything signified. A book cannot be said to convey the thoughts or intentions of its author, for the reader can do no more than read into it his own moods and predilections.”*

In other words, language, written or spoken, is from the start fictive or illusory, which indicates that reality is elusive or mere phantasmagoria. “Truth doesn’t slip away; it isn’t there at the outset.”  Or in the words of Shakespeare, the greatest poet-dramatist in history, the language of literature records nothing more than “a tale … full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Since the above remarks illustrate the nihilism rampant in what is called “higher education” in the democratic world, I suggest that all our colleges and universities be converted into funeral homes, for this will facilitate the burial of Western civilization.

Quote of the century

Vaclav Klaus, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. Photo courtesy Paul Eidelberg

Some possess the vocabulary to sum things up in a way we can understand. Here is a quote from Vaclav Klaus, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. Obviously we have a lot of work to do to repair the damage the Islamist have done.

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their President.

Editor’s Note: Free Republic sources this quote to Prager Zeitung, 28 April, 2010, but gives no link.

Wake-up call

Is there any intelligent patriot in the United States unaware that the most important cause of America’s decline in foreign affairs is the same cause of the mayhem erupting in its domestic affairs?

Is there any intelligent person in America unaware that Barack Obama, who genuflected to Saudi King Abdullah, and who did not join other nations in Paris to protest against Islamic terrorism, is not qualified to deal with the Islamism  or with domestic mayhem, and is woefully lacking in political wisdom as well as in spiritual integrity?

Is there any intelligent person in this country unaware that what facilitated the election of this “post-American” President is precisely that which will prevent his impeachment?

How long will Americans tolerate a President who brazenly scorns their foundational documents, hence its Judeo-Christian way of life, while undermining America’s economic ability to preserve our freedom against a remorseless foe?☼