Warnings

This summer I have been re-reading two politically-oriented books. Mark Steyn's America Alone must be the best book written in the last decade about the political shape of the world. He gives us many examples of the threat of Islamic Jihad. At the end of his book he gives ten suggestions as to how we can cope with the threat of Islam. Appeasement is not one of them.

He writes about the importance of demographics, and predicts what effect demographics will have on various countries in the future. For example, Japan has a dangerously low birthrate and no immigration. Europe countries all have dangerously low birthrates, and hordes of Muslims living on welfare. Of course, the reason they can afford to have welfare states is that the United States has been providng for their defense.

Mark has a new book coming out this fall entitled After America. Scary title! America, of course, during the last decade has gone down a path of fiscal irresponsibility and welfare state politics. I doubt if Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama will fare well in Mark's new book.

Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism warns us of the historically totalitarian direction leftist politicians from Mussolini to Hitler to Woodrow Wilson to F.D.R. have taken their countries. He also reminds us of the Black Power and SDS and Weathermen thugs who took over universities. Who was the one politician you remember who stood up to the campus fascists? Ronald Reagan, Governor of California!