Month: September 2016

This election is the beginning of a social war, a war between two societies, the rulers and the ruled.  Six years ago Angelo Codevilla wrote The Ruling Class, which brilliantly describes the two warring factions.  Regardless of this election’s outcome, the war will continue.  I don’t know how, or when, it will end, but I know it is a war which is overdue.  The contempt of the ruling class was perfectly captured by Clinton in her description of the deplorables, the irredeemables.  I’m one of those.  You may be as well.

We don’t think the Clintons and their enablers are deplorable, or irreedemable.  They’re despicable.  We want to annihilate them, politically, just as they want to annihilate us.  This is war.  And in a war, you can’t be too choosy in your allies.  If you’re going to fight the Nazis you ally yourself with the devil himself, Joseph Stalin, in order to do it.  Stalin, was, if anything, more evil than Hitler himself, but we had no choice.  First things first.

If Trump loses it won’t be the last of America First.  It’s what most Americans think.  If you’re uncomfortable with the words America First, you’re in the minority in this country.  The havoc the Clintons will wreak on American society is too ugly to even think about.  The left in this country is going crazy.  Nothing is enough with them.  It’s as if they’re drunk on their own power.  A man, or a movement, which is able to operate without restraints is destined for excess, and ruin.  The left has the run of academia now, and they want their virus to spread.

But it won’t.  People just won’t take it anymore.  I was talking to one of my son’s groomsmen back in Montana, and he said if any man, transgender or otherwise, ever tried to go into the bathroom with his daughter he’d beat the living hell out of him.  I told him no jury in Montana would convict him.

My law school buddy Tom Pitaro is involved with the legal defense of the Bundy case in Las Vegas.  I had a good chat with a lawyer representing one old guy, may be in his 70’s, who they refuse to grant bail.  This is all chicken shit, and after this election I’m going to call Tom and go to work on this pro bono.  All I want to do is be involved in is the jury selection.  That’s the key to the case.  I want to be there to look every one of them in the eye, to look for signs of courage.

The U. S. Attorney will tell them they have no choice, they have to convict, based on the prosecution’s evidence, and the lack of a defense.  But that will be a lie.  No jury has to convict anybody of anything.  They can either convict, or not, it’s up to them.  And no judge can browbeat them into voting for a conviction if they don’t want to.   They don’t let you tell the jury that, but it’s true.  And I personally want to help Tom and the other lawyers figure out which potential jurors have the guts to do it.

In 1993 a fine writer named John Strohmeyer published Extreme Conditions, Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska.   A few years earlier, when he was researching his book, he called me up and wanted to talk about what was going on in the Alaska State Legislature.  I wouldn’t talk to him because I didn’t know him, and he was somehow associated with Bob Atwood.  Atwood was Wally Hickel’s biggest booster, and Hickel and I were enemies.  I had him on my radio show when the book came out, and it turned out he was a square shooter, after all.  I really wished I’d talked to him.  I had some stories to tell.  He signed a copy of his book and gave it to me, but I never read it until yesterday.  If you’re interested in the Alaska story, it’s all there.

Well, most of it.  I’ve got a few things to add.

 

Constitutional conservatives haven’t had a lot to cheer about this year, but it’s not over yet.  Uber-RINO Sen. Lisa Murkowski has a problem on her hands, and she’s primed to fall.  Joe Miller beat her in the Republican primary six years ago, and he’s back, this time as a Libertarian.  This is a very winnable race, and I hope people like the Club for Growth are smart enough to figure it out.

Lisa was handed her seat by he father, Frank, and holds it only because she is the political heiress of the corrupt and disgraced Ted Stevens.  Forget about the prosecutorial abuse that led to his conviction.  He was as crooked as an Alaska summer day is long, and was a thoroughly dishonorable political hack.  She’s a Stevens woman, and ipso facto corrupt herself.

Her father Frank disgraced himself in his one term as Governor of Alaska, and set a record when he ran for reelection.  No sitting Governor in American history was as thoroughly repudiated as he was when he ran for reelection in 2006.  He got 19% in the Republican primary, coming in third.  Sarah Palin won, and Johnne Binkley came in second.  In Alaska, the Murkowski name is mud.

After he was elected Governor in 2002 Frank pretended to be open about who he would appoint to replace him.  He interviewed quite a few people, as a sort of job interview.  One of the applicants was a good friend of mine, former State Senator Rick Halford.  Another was former State Senator Johnne Binkley.  He gave it a great deal of thought, and decided the most qualified person in the State was his daughter Lisa, a complete airhead, then and now.

This half witted woman has no business in the United States Senate, and never has.  In his 22 years in the Senate, Frank Murkowski carried water for Ted Stevens, and that’s all that he did.  He accomplished nothing for the people of the State of Alaska, and neither has his daughter in her fourteen years.  Having someone as dumb as Lisa Murkowski represent you in the Senate is an embarrassment to the whole State.  What kind of dumb asses are they up in Alaska to elect this silly woman?

The thing is, Alaska needs a real fighter in the U. S. Senate right now.  If Trump manages to win, we’re going to open up ANWR, fast track.  And that’s just for openers.  The Transfer of Public Lands needs a champion, and my bet is that Joe Miller is up to the job.  Alsaka’s hurting right now.  The pipeline is running at 25% capacity, and the wells are running dry.  We need to get our land, and we’ll be fine.  But we’ll have to fight like hell for it.  With Lisa?  Please.

I was Frank’s deputy campaign manager in 1980, and it was my idea that got him elected.  Ask his campaign manager, Bill McConkey.  I didn’t really feel he owed me anything, but I felt I deserved to be told the truth.  He lied to my face about his political intentions, and I watched him become a lap dog before my very eyes.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking for someone to run against Murkowski, and I never turned to Joe Miller.  He did some really dumb things the last time he ran against her.  But I think he’s learned.  He ran against New Dan Sullivan for the Republican nomination for Senate two years ago, and handled himself pretty well, from what I can tell.  He may be a little too right wing for some people, but that really shouldn’t be a problem.  The United States Senate is not about to be taken over by hard core conservatives.  But there are far too many forked tongue politicians like Murkowski.  They’re pretty much the majority.

This is the Senate seat I always wanted.  If only I’d been more patient.

 

Some guy calling himself Publius Decius Mus is getting a lot of credit for an analogy he’s making for this binary choice election.  We’re the passengers on Flight 93, led by Todd Beamer, and the Clintons are the hijackers.  We either storm the cockpit and risk almost certain death, or do nothing and watch our plane crash into a building.  Not bad, but I like mine better.  We’re the wildebeest at the bank of a crocodile infested river.  We either try to swim across to our feeding grounds, or go back to certain starvation.  Or we’re with crazy George Custer, looking for Sioux to fight, the more the better.  We can high tail it, and possibly save our skins, our stick with this lunatic and go to certain death.  You can come up with lots of these things, actually.

Donnie Deutsch on WADR says this election is an IQ test for the American people, and went on to flunk his own.  He then said Clinton has to win on national security issues, if she’s to win at all.  And then he can’t figure out why Trump is being nice to Putin.  Sorry, Donny, you’re out of your depth and over your head.  Putin commands the second greatest nuclear arsenal on earth, and the nuclear button you should be worried about getting pushed is his.  It’s the only real existential threat this country faces.  We could absorb a nuclear attack from North Korea, or Iran, or Pakistan, or maybe even China.  We might lose a few cities, but the country would survive.  The Russian threat is existential.  Why is it so necessary to insult the Russian leader who has the support of his own people?  Because he’s not a nice man?   Who cares if he’s a nice guy or not?   When you have to do business, you do business, and our business with Russia is to make peace between us.  Russia is the last country on earth we should ever go to war with, and the American people instinctively understand that.  Why in the hell would we ever want to fight the Russians?  It just doesn’t make sense, either common sense, or in the geopolitical sense.

This is how Trump loses this election  — basic, fundamental stupidity.  We’re going to steal the oil.  You’ve got be to one ignorant son of a bitch to come up with that one.  He’s said it before, but I thought it was a throwaway line, but apparently he’s serious.

He’s probably been to Athens, and maybe have even seen the Acropolis.  He probably thought it was a great spot for a casino.  He may have even heard somewhere that ancient Athens was the birthplace of democracy.  But what he doesn’t know is how Athens lost it all.  It was near the height of its power, more of an empire than a democracy, when it got greedy.  It decided to loot the rich pickings of Sicily, and sent a great fleet to fight and collect the booty.  It all went to hell, and led directly to the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.  Stealing the resources of another country is never a good idea.

I read somewhere that people like me are reactionaries, and that’s true.  I am a reactionary, just as the Founding Fathers were.  What they wanted to go back to was the time before the French and Indian War, when they were free to move west and open up new country.  Britain signed a treaty with France to end that war, and part of it said that American westward expansion had to stop.  The Americans fought a revolution, in part, to get back to the days when their sons and daughters could move west on their own.

I’m a reactionary because I want to go back to the days when I was a much freer man than I am today.  And right now we need a political revolution in this country on order to get back to those days.  But we won’t have to shed blood, like our ancestors did.  We’ll do it peacefully.  Trump’s just a figurehead.  He just needs to learn how to keep his mouth shut.

 

So it seems, after a week “off the grid” in Montana.  I just got back in touch with things, and I get the sense that the Clinton crime family is unraveling before our eyes.  There are a lot of thieves in this world, but few as brazen as this crew.  Once their criminal scheme came to light, it was doomed, Dracula style.  That’s the way it feels to me.  They actually thought they could get away with this scam.  There would be no smoking gun!  And unless there’s hard and fast proof, they can lie their way out, or so they thought.  They’ve both been liars their entire lives.  It’s who they are, and they’ve come far.  But I think they’re going down, the lying thieves that they are.

My old colleague Sam Cotten is now the Commissioner of Fish and Game for Alaska.  He’s got an article out on the federal takeover of Alaska’s game management.  The State of Alaska manages its fish and game on a sustained yield basis, and some times that means killing wolves in order to allow a depleted caribou herd to recover its population.  Once the population recovers, the wolves thrive, because of abundant prey, and nature is back in balance.  The men and women who run Alaska’s fish and game are dedicated professionals.  They’re in this line of work because they love all these animals, but they also love the rural Alaskans, Native and white, who rely on game to survive.  They are part of nature as well.

But it looks like the Gaia worshipers in the federal government have decided to step in and take over.  They’ll just let nature take its course.  And the rural people of Alaska get screwed.  They make a lot of TV shows out of life in Alaska.  If anybody really cares about the real people who live out in the Bush, they ought to expose this crap.  Put everybody in the shoes of these tough Bush people, and what they go through without enough game.  But the tree huggers prefer wolves to people.

None of this would be happening if there was a Transfer of Public Land.   At son Darren’s wedding I talked to a couple of his groomsmen about TPL, and they were against it.  Ted Turner has bought up huge sections of Montana, and he doesn’t allow hunting on his land. These guys are serious hunters, and having more land  off limits to hunting is what they’re concerned about.  That’s a concern that will have to be addressed in Congress, if it’s going to have a chance of getting passed.  We want the support of sportsmen, not their opposition.  The bill will have to include language which alleviates their concerns.  It can, and must, be done.

Apparently in Montana the Republican Party doesn’t stand up for the sportsmen.  That’s not just wrong, it’s a mistake.  One of these fine young men knows Rod Arno, the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with me as we fought the fight against a preference in favor of Alaska’s Native peoples in the taking of fish and game.  They were trying to put it in the Constitution, for God’s sake!  It was quite a fight.  There were a lot of people who wouldn’t stand up to Ted Stevens, who was behind the whole thing.  Cowards, and thieves.  But I held my minority together in the House, and we beat them.  The sportsmen of Alaska are Republicans to this day, in part, because of it.

After the outdoor ceremony we went in for the reception, and it started to rain.  I figured we were at the end of a rainbow.  A very special day.

 

 

If the term “America first” makes you uncomfortable, why, exactly?  Maybe it reminds you of Deutschland uber alles, or the isolationists of the 1930’s.  But if you don’t want to put your country first, who or what would you put in its stead?  Humanity?  Gaia?  The UN?  Peace?  Christianity?  World justice?  If Hillary Clinton doesn’t believe in America first, let her explain why.  I can’t wait to hear.

If  a country fails to make its own welfare, and that of its citizens, its principal goal, it will find itself at a great disadvantage in this world.  For that brief post Cold War moment when we were the only superpower, and the hegemon of the world, we sacrificed our own interests for a higher cause, a peaceful new world order.  But those days were fleeting, and never to return.  We were an accidental superpower from the beginning, and it’s a role unsuited to us.  We have no territorial ambition, and no reason to involve ourselves in foreign wars.  If attacked, we will destroy our attackers, as we did in World War II.  We are the great maritime nation of the world, and will fight to preserve our freedom of navigation in international waters.  And, for mainly sentimental reasons, we might fight for the Anglosphere, fellow maritime nations all, and our cousins.  But for no one else, nowhere in the world, unless to oppose a clear and present danger to our people.

And if our immigration policy, or our trade policy, or any policy, is not grounded in our own self interest, for whom and for what are we sacrificing ourselves?    The poor and homeless of the world?  We have always been a charitable people, but charity begins at home.  Our society seems like it’s coming undone, and preserving our way of life must be our top priority.

After the turn of the 20th century we took in more immigrants, in percentage terms, than any time since, including the last 30 years.  After that burst of new Americans, we decided to call a time out, and do some much needed assimilation.  Immigration was drastically curtailed, and all the Eastern and Southern Europeans who were recent arrivals integrated seamlessly into American society.  Today, you can’t tell them apart from any other American.  The same will be true of our recent immigrants, from all over the world, white, brown, black and yellow.  50 years from now they’ll just be Americans, like any other.  But for the time being we must cut back, and once more take the time to assimilate the new arrivals.

For if I will not be for myself, who will be for me?  And if not now, when?