Here we are, only three weeks into this new calendar year, and momentous events are already happening, signaling that 2015 is bound to be a year of jolts, revolts, and lightning bolts, with some precipitated by arrant dolts. We’ve seen two vicious massacres in France by homegrown Islamist terrorists just days apart, a protest walkout on Israel’s prime minister Bibi Netanyahu by France’s president Francois Hollande before Netanyahu could speak in mourning in the City of Light’s Grand Synagogue, a Muslims-only confab in Garland, Texas focused on helping young American Muslims to deflect criticism of Islam in America (happily opposed publicly by anti-jihad non-Muslim American demonstrators), more terrorist leaders freed from Gitmo to return to the Middle East jihad, and scurrilous attacks on the new film American Sniper about Navy SEAL hero Chris Kyle. All followed by an hour’s worth of bilious rhetoric by our Anointed One in the State of the Union address of 2015, promising more federal spending, more federal entitlements (and consequent dependency), more stonewalling on domestic energy development, and more American appeasement of Iran, among other coming injuries. This latest event of Obamanian grandiloquence was all sugarcoated with clarion calls to Republicans to put politics aside, come together with Democrats, and work to develop solutions that will help America to reach sundry new pinnacles and the middle class to prosper.

It was a textbook example of political bafflegab aimed at assuaging the bruised egos of the Left and inciting its minions to more acts of intolerance and defiance in the coming years against that growing cadre of resistance-minded Americans who have finally awakened to the ugly, insidious destructiveness of Obama’s “Transform America” agenda. All as our borders remain open to all manner of miscreant, misfit, and honest seeker able to cross them; “landed immigrant” status has been granted and funded for vast numbers of those who have already successfully made the trek; and Obamcare’s gargantuan wealth-redistribution program is funded through at least September.

The alarm bells could scarcely have gone off sooner. At the sure risk of being thought a mere scold with this very first post, it is doricly clear that the fabric of Western civilization (with its core paradigm of values and precepts such as the rule of law, respect for life and human dignity, and accountable democratic governance) is continuing to be deconstructed, sometimes casually and sometimes dramatically, but always inexorably. Whether at the instigation of overt foreign enemies or our oh-so-enlightened domestic elites (who really should know better), or through a willing complicity in enabling the pernicious forces, America is being “teed up” for some times of existential crisis politically, economically, socially, and even militarily.

To coin a phrase, a word to the sufficient is wise now. All of us who prize individual freedom to think, speak, and act within the broad framework of a civil society based on Judaeo-Christian values and ordered on British ethics and canons of democratic governance, must act in the next years to unite and cohere civilly to preserve our nation’s independence and sovereignty, our own free selves, and our legitimate property against disruptions to our way of life occasioned by any calamity, whether foreign or domestically sourced. We have a free, open, democratic society of thought, expression, and civilized action that still substantially works. And so We the People must now activate and express more, and more cohesively, to the purposes of our continuing liberty, security, tranquility, and prosperity. At this moment there are grounds for reasonable optimism, but if we fail to act going forward, we do so at our eminently predictable personal and national peril.

William Pippin
The Rational Empiricist