HALF-FULL REPORT 07/05/19
NY Post Cover July 4, 2019
Welcome to the Fourth of July HFR!
It’s America’s Birthday, when the most noble document in human history was ratified and made public, the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
The word Aristotle would use for “noble” above is kalon. Often translated as noble and honorable, or badly mistranslated as beautiful in the sheer physical sense, kalon for Aristotle is a term of morality. The kalon is the morally noble, morally honorable, morally admirable – thus it is the morally beautiful.
We don’t have a word for this in English, and may be elusive to grasp for it expresses a philosophical aesthetics – not in the crude popular sense of that term as subjective sentiment regarding art or music, but elegantly embodying an objective moral truth.
Thus when we refer to “America the Beautiful,” we mean something vastly more than its physical beauty like amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties. We mean America the Kalon, America the Morally Beautiful.
And that is because of the moral beauty of our country’s founding principles stated in our Declaration of Independence. Its essence is expressed in the second sentence, the most magnificent statement of a moral ideal in human history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Note it states an ideal towards which it is America’s moral duty to strive. Since humans at any time are imperfect, it is irrelevant that the ideal’s authors were imperfect in our eyes now, such as some owned slaves who were not granted these rights.
It is highly likely, for example, that a future generation of Americans will condemn ours today for allowing the unforgiveable immorality of infanticide, of mothers murdering their own children fully capable of surviving out of their wombs. Perhaps they will demand any statues or memorials to our pro-abortion politicians be torn down.
Further, for however much America has not lived up to its moral ideals in the 243 years since 1776, it has nonetheless lived up to them to a greater degree than any other nation on earth.
The perfect must not be the enemy of the good, we must not be compared to some political heaven but to other societies here on earth. Where else are people freer to control their own lives, granted more liberty, or capable of pursuing their own happiness?
Let its critics carp. The fact remains that America for all its faults and flaws is still morally beautiful, deserving of our love and admiration.
THE LAST HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY?
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.” ---Winston Churchill
Happy Fourth of July! Today we celebrate the founding of America’s freedom by commemorating the greatest act of political and moral genius in human history – the writing of The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. An excellent way of doing so would be for your family and loved ones to gather together and read it aloud, savoring every extraordinary word.
Savor the words well, for it is quite possible that this may be our last happy Fourth – if we do not take Churchill’s warning to heart now, not waiting until next year when it will be too late.
To do so, we must be specific and explicit about the threat of enslavement we are facing. In Churchill’s day it was external – Nazi Germany. For us today, the threat is internal within our own borders. Let us name and define it.
It is this: The Fascism of AINOs.
A UNIQUELY REAL SUPERPOWER AND IRAN
The message to the Mullahs of Iran
In the current American–Iran stand-off are a number of global players. That is hardly new, but what is novel is that, for the first time in decades, there’s almost no power that can obstruct or alter U.S. efforts to confront Iranian aggressions in America’s own time and fashion.
In other words, the United States is almost immune from the sort of pressures that usually coalesce to dictate, modify, or thwart U.S. decision-making in the Middle East.
Such liberation from outside coercion is singularly unusual in the post-war American overseas experience. Let’s count the ways this is happening across the globe.
TRUMP TRIUMPHS IN ASIA
President Trump has returned from the G20 summit in Osaka Japan in triumph.
During his time in Asia, the President reset relations with both China and North Korea. All while continuing to implement his strategic vision for the United States to a worldwide audience.
He engaged in talks with Russia to begin resolving regional disputes, reinforced our relationships with our allies in Japan and South Korea, then reengaged with Xi Jinping to bring the China trade agreement closer to fruition.
Trump capped all that with a stirring “spontaneous” offer to meet Kim Jong Un at the DMZ in South Korea. The pandemonium, drama, and historical nature of the next two days completely eclipsed much of the G20 summit.
However, it totally reinforced Donald J. Trumps position as the preeminent player on the world stage.
THE TERRORIST LEFT PREPS FOR 2020
The sooner the better
As the 2020 presidential election approaches, the Left is running drills to see how quickly and effectively their political hit squads can be deployed against Trump, his administration, and his Republican supporters.
A few other exercises—the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, the MAGA hat-wearing Covington Catholic students—have been rolled out, but those spectacles will pale in comparison to what’s in store for Republicans next year.
No cabinet official, administration employee, Trump family member, GOP candidate or regular Trump voter will be spared.
In just the past week, the Left’s pre-election tactics have been on full display.
DEMOCRAT PLANS FROM FANTASYLAND
When we were small children, before we had learned the laws of physics and economics, we thought everything was possible. Fantasyland could be real, so we thought.
Twenty of the declared Democrat candidates for president have held their first debate which demonstrated, with the possible exceptions of Gov. John Hickenlooper and Congressman John Delaney, that they have not outgrown Fantasyland.
These same politicians also say that U.S. citizens have a “right” to free medical care. Where did this “right” come from?
Answer: it came from Fantasyland.
SURVIVOR
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/28/19
A Supreme Court decision cast a little shade on an otherwise great MAGA week.
*President Trump won a big victory when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi folded like a cardboard suitcase on a supplemental appropriation to deal with the border emergency.
San Fran Nan’s surrender kills a Democrat talking point, deepens the rift between Progressives and what passes for moderates in her caucus.
*The Commerce department needs to justify better it’s reasons for including a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the next census, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday (6/27), with Chief Justice Roberts voting with the libs.
But Roberts voted with the conservatives on the big issue – that Commerce has the right to ask the citizenship question – so the setback likely will be temporary.
*In another decision yesterday, the Supremes ruled that reapportionment decisions are not justiciable.
This kills, dead, for good and always Democrat efforts to encourage judicial gerrymandering.
*The Silicon Valley fascists are trying to rig the 2020 election, President Trump said Wednesday (6/26). It’s time to punish them.
Mueller will testify. Flynn’s new attorney thinks Team Mueller withheld exculpatory information. Dem presidential candidates commit mass seppuku on live tv. For that and more, read on:
THE HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES OF DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWN
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is what happens when you stop enforcing all the laws, for all the people. The photo of him above is at his arraignment in Springfield Mass. on Monday (6/21).
He’s 23, here from Ukraine on a green card. Here’s a timeline of his driving history provided by WMUR radio news. It’s a timeline of the horrific consequences of what happens when our politicians and judges define deviancy down.
UNDOCUMENTED AND AFRAID
It’s easy to see why criminals should be prioritized for removal. But those who say all illegal aliens are criminals, by definition, have a fair point, too. If that’s too much to ask, then violent criminals, certainly.
But there is another group, more toxic to the body politic than most: the haughty, self-described “Undocumented and Unafraid” clique.
I mean the “undocumented” activists, organizers, and political operatives who have reaped the generosity of this country, only to spit in its face. Even before those to be deported for not showing up at their asylum hearing, these need to be kicked out of our country, unafraid no more.