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Timothy Birdnow

Timothy Birdnow is a conservative writer and blogger and lives in St. Louis Missouri. His work has appeared in many popular conservative publications including but not limited to The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Intellectual Conservative and Orthodoxy Today. Tim is a featured contributor to American Daily Reviewand has appeared as a Guest Host on the Heading Right Radio Network. Tim's website is tbirdnow.mee.nu.

Most Recent Articles by Timothy Birdnow:

Obama Brownshirts Demonize Pro-Lifers

Once again, the New Messiah is seeking to smite his enemies, this time with a “Domestic Extremism Lexicon”-a dictionary calling pro-life people violent and racist. According to an article in Lifenews:http://www.lifenews.com/nat5019.html
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Radical Atheists-First Amendment Vandals

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” First amendment to the Constitution of the United States, December 15, 1791
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Birth of American Socialism

Many of us on the right were very wary of the TARP bailout money, and with good reason; the government would hold the strings, we argued, and the banking system would come under Federal control. Poppycock! we were told by the Media and other Liberal institutions; there will be no ownership of stock from the government. This is just a way to float loans to the banks. That changed almost immediately, and now the government holds “preferred” stocks meaning they get paid first, but do not hold a voting interest in the company. Now that`s going to change as Our Savior, the Most Merciful Barack Hussein Obama has quietly announced that he`s changing the stock from “preferred” to “common”, making the United States Government the majority shareholder of over 500 financial institutions in America. In short, with the stroke of a pen we have become a socialist entity. Government control of private businesses is socialism, and with the One essentially nationalizing the banking industry it will be impossible to get a loan for any business (and all business done in the United States requires borrowing at some time) without government strings as to how those dollars will be used. This means that a Lutheran school will have to abide by anti-discrimination laws, requiring them to hire openly homosexual individuals as teachers, for example. It means that Catholic hospitals will have to perform abortions. It means that Hillsdale College will likely cease to exist in it`s current form, since Hillsdale refuses government money, but all money will be government money henceforth.
- Sunday, April 26, 2009

Earth Goddess Rising

When Dante Aligheri wrote his “Divina Commedia” he mixed many elements of Greco-Roman culture with Medieval Christian thought of his time. For those who do not know (and there should be no one in the West who is not familiar with him) Dante was a 13th-14th century poet from Florence who wrote one of history`s great masterpieces. The Divine Comedy was a set of three works, each dealing with a different aspect of the Christian afterlife.
- Friday, April 24, 2009

The Politically Correct Pirate War

The Associated Press is reporting (courtesy of William Katz) that the surviving Somali pirate is being brought to New York, where he will be charged and likely be indicted. According to the story by the AP: “WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) — The captured Somali pirate who held a merchant ship captain hostage will be brought to New York to face trial, a U.S. official said Thursday. The suspect, identified as Abduhl Wal-i-Musi, was taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship shortly before Navy SEAL snipers killed the three remaining pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat launched from his cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama. The official said it was not immediately clear when Wal-i-Musi will be brought to New York. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose information about an ongoing investigation.” So, justice will be served, but will the U.S.’s version of justice serve to stop the pirates? When Edward Teach (or Thatch) aka Blackbeard was killed in battle by Lt. Robert Maynard at Ocracoke Island in 1718, his head was cut off and hung from the bow of HMS Ranger-a warning to other pirates that the Royal Navy was not going to play their little game of maritime hide-and-seek. There were several reasons piracy largely disappeared during the 19th century. 1.The end of the sailing age and the coming of the iron clads made it very difficult for pirates to operate; they could not maintain engine-powered ships in without access to friendly ports, something that the old sailing vessels did not require. A windjammer was no match for an ironclad steam ship. 2.Terra Incognito disappeared as maps became more accurate, making it harder for pirates to find quarter. 3.There was a general movement in the West-particularly in Britain-to combat piracy wherever and whenever found. Granted, the Royal Navy was fighting piracy long before the 19th century, but the Europeans sanctioned it more often than not. Certainly, letters of Marque were issued to “privateers” who were nothing more than licensed pirates given orders to prey on the ships of enemies of the host state. In short, they were quite similar to Hezbollah or the other state-sanctioned terrorists of today. In fact, privateering continued through the 19th century, and the last letter of Marque was issued by none other than the United States government to an AIRSHIP of all things-the Resolute-during the Second World War! But the key elements here should be obvious; piracy was feasible because the pirates had some sort of sanctuary, could reprovision fairly easily, and had a modicum of freedom of movement. Once those abilities were adequately circumscribed, the pirates were finished-provided there was adequate political will to exterminate them. Modern piracy should be impossible; we have satellite reconnaissance, high speed gunships, aircraft of all types, long range ballistic weapons and rockets, radar, sonar, laser-guided weapons, GPS systems, etc. Piracy flourishes where it is protected by the local authorities, be they Islamic Jihadist governments, local warlords, or just greedy SOBs out to make a buck and with the capital to protect the cut throats. They tend to prey on ships that are in dangerous waters, often ships intended to help the people of their host country. (The Maersk Alabama was trying to bring food to a starving Somali population, much like the U.N. food deliveries was seized by Somali Warlords during the 1990s “Black Hawk Down” incident.) The point is, piracy is far too dangerous a profession where there is adequate political will to deal with the pirates-and their hosts. It`s current rise worldwide stems from multiculturalism and moral relativism; the West has been unwilling to deal harshly with thugs lest we be guilty of the “sin” of judgementalism. Who are we to judge pirates, terrorists, Jihadists, Marxists? We must understand what drove them to these actions! The concept that America-or Europe-is ultimately to blame because of colonialism or some other past sin of Christendom is at the heart of this return of piracy and it`s kissing cousin terrorism. These are not new. They have returned because we now tolerate them. White guilt, the self-loathing of well-to-do white liberals steeped in a liberal educational culture that blames America first and foremost, has paralyzed our collective ability to act decisively. We should be following the lead of Robert Maynard, displaying the pirate`s heads for other young would-be pirates. They should know the potential pitfalls of their newly chosen profession, after all! That has been the problem with the War on Terror (oops, I forgot; our Foreign Contingency Operation) as well; why haven`t we been executing the thugs? Collecting information is fine and dandy, but there has remained a promise of potential escape, as a fellow like Barack Obama may come into office and unilaterally release them (oops again; it already is happening!) There are no CONSEQUENCES for terrorism-or piracy. Cicero defined piracy (and Praedones, or land based pirates-like terrorists) as Enemies of Humanity (Hostis Humani Generis) and thus subject to universal jurisdiction. Enemies of Humanity have renounced kinship with civilization, their hand against all as in a state of raw nature. Thus, as in the state of nature, they are subject to whatever fate may befall them, much as a rabid animal is subject to being killed by any who may come across them. But we`ve become to “civilized” for that; now we want to give them the rights of citizens. One thing is certain; offering pirates the protections of U.S. courts is a recipe for future attacks. Even if these guys go to a U.S. prison, what will there fate entail? Air conditioning, three square meals a day, cable television, a soft bunk, and likely hero status among the hooligans who inhabit America`s penal system, along with the right to multiple appeals. How do we identify the pirates, when they come from Somalia? How do we know they were read their rights? How do we prove that they weren`t forced onto the pirate ships against their will? The courts will assume their innocence, and a prosecutor will have to prove them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. O.J. Simpson couldn`t be convicted in a court of law; how will we convict teenage pirates? What will constitute a “jury of their peers?” Will we have to get a bunch of Somali pirates to sit on the jury? Weakness invites attack, and history is littered with examples. The U.S. fought its first war with the Barbary Pirates-and their Islamic hosts in Tripoli-because the newly independent nation simply could not afford to pay the tribute that the cowards in Europe were shelling out in their Dhimmi status. Making non-Muslims pay tribute is as old as Islam itself, a recognition of the right of the Muslim to rule the entire world for Allah. By submitting to their demands, the Europeans opened the gates to increasing blackmail. America fell prey to this for a while, attempting diplomacy by signing treaties with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania-the four pirate states. By 1801 the fledgling-and nearly bankrupt-United States had paid $2 million to the Barbary States-only one fifth of what they demanded. Thomas Jefferson decided that the time had come to fight, and America put a stop to the demands of the Islamic bandits by blockading Tripoli. Alas, we have lost that spirit, and now want to treat piracy in the same way we treat embezzlement or shoplifting. We have become far to “civilized” in the West to deal with this as is necessary. What is needed is the old Medieval concept of Trial by Ordeal-with other would-be pirates getting a front row seat. That would dissuade many of the impoverished kids who think this is the ticket to the good life in Somalia and elsewhere. Ultimately, our ambivalence in the War on Terror is bearing the rotten fruits of piracy, and that should come as no surprise. Barack Obama has his familial roots in the Kenyan Islamic community, and doubtless the very fact that a Man name Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States has brought a surge of aggression, because as a good Moslem (as these Somalis and other Islamic Pirates doubtlessly see him) BHO is one of their own, and will not aggressively prosecute this “Enemy of Mankind” status to the full extent. I strongly suspect they see him as one of their own. He may not be one of their own, but he is a good Liberal capital L, and the Left has never met a thug they didn`t consider a victim of our oppressive capitalistic cultural chauvinism. Ultimately a man like Barry Soetero Hussein Obama believes that these pirates (or any brute) attacks us because they are disenfranchised, poor, oppressed. They are to be pitied in the mindset of the Left, and our living a life of wealth, security, and freedom is the cause of their belligerence. The answer to a liberal is to “spread the wealth” and apologize for our success. An apology is of no value if not backed by actions, which means we are duty bound to give them what they cannot create for themselves. It`s a marvelous excuse for international redistribution of wealth via a fundamental restructuring of the world`s economy. So, OF COURSE we are going to let these monsters wheedle our judicial system, hiring some of the smarmy defense attorneys to get them off or obtain light sentences, and our enemies will laugh their collective heads off. As long as Liberals are in charge, as long as they haunt the American mind and civil institutions, piracy will be a problem. After all, what are liberals but intellectual and economic pirates themselves?
- Monday, April 20, 2009

The Day We Bled for Liberty

Today Marks the anniversary of the birth of Liberty in America It all started with the Seven Years War, one of the many conflicts between Britain and France. It actually started on May 28, 1754 when an inexperienced militia officer and Virginia planter named George Washington fired on a delegation of Frenchmen, starting what came to be known as the French-and-Indian War. (Washington was so incompetent that the Iriqois Chief Half-King decided to switch sides and support the French.) At the heart of this conflict was the desire for land; the British had settled North America for the purposes of farming and mining, and they settled more densely than the French, who were more interested in pelts and fur. The ever-growing British population were confined to territories east of the Appalachians, and they eyed the virgin lands of Kentucky and Ohio with covetousness. The French, for their part, were not about to cede their inland empire to a bunch of British colonials, and they were prepared to fight.
- Monday, April 20, 2009

Experts Agree Gun Control Works!

image The defense of the right to keep and bear arms is a defense of the core of the American Soul. The San Francisco Bleat, Nancy “stretch” Pelosi is calling for gun registration. In an interview with Good Morning America (Good Grief, America; you actually watch that?) everyone`s favorite Bolshevik grandmother called for the registration of American firearms. According to the Washington Times: “The speaker picked a television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats’ coming gun-control push. Questioned on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that “it’s a Democratic president, a Democratic House,” she responded, “We don’t want to take their guns away. We want them registered.”
- Thursday, April 16, 2009

Liberalism: the Taste of Things to Come

“[S]omething very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power.
- Thursday, April 16, 2009

A Specter in Thy Republican Brother`s Eye

Newsmax is reporting that Texas Senator John Cornyn is giving his support to rampaging RINO and faithless fool from Philadelphia Arlen Specter (I just couldn`t pass up that phrase, though Specter is originally from Kansas and now lives primarily in Washington) for the 2010 elections.
- Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Russian Bear is Hungry

Russia is making news these days, and I have a handful of stories that aren`t exactly making the front page, but which are setting the stage for future events. We would be wise to pay attention. First off, Reuters is reporting a test-firing of a Russian Topol Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.Now, the Topol is a three stage, solid fuel, mobile ICBM capable of penetrating missile defense systems by eluding tracking systems. This test-and the one conducted last year-are pretty clearly rumblings from the bear designed to frighten President Barack O`Chicken into abandoning missile defense.
- Monday, April 13, 2009

Sometimes swallowing a spider to catch a fly isn`t all that good of an idea.

Recently, Barack Obama`s chief science advisor John Holdren suggested America should look into ways to geo-engineer the planet; in essence, Holdren believes that Anthropogenic Global Warming is so dire that we need to invent some drastic measure to essentially terra form the planet to keep temperatures down
- Sunday, April 12, 2009



Multiplying Loaves of Death

For Barack Obama, fostering the culture of death worldwide is more important than saving American jobs.
- Monday, March 30, 2009

The Jealous God

One of the most hotly debated subjects in the last hundred years is the origin of life. Throughout human history Man has believed that some sort of Creator with powers far beyond those of mortal men intervened in affairs, and the existence of life-and the improbability of living organisms spontaneously generating from unliving material-has been the evidence to convince philosophers, historians, scientists, of the existence of God, or at least of some sort of Divine presence. There is clearly a demarcation between the living and the non-living, something that humans haven`t been able to explain. What is the great mystery of life? Why are we here?
- Monday, March 30, 2009

Abridging Freedom of Education

We often speak of a slippery slope when referring to a thing that begins small and snowballs into something very bad; an idea that may have been neutral or even seemed good at the time starts society down a path leading us to a place where we had never intended on going.
- Monday, March 23, 2009

Obama Healthcare Herbicide

For a long time now the Democrats have wanted to take control of America`s health care industry, bankrupting America
- Saturday, March 7, 2009

Losing 193,000 Miles of Ice

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has admitted to losing 193,000 square miles of Arctic ice.
- Monday, March 2, 2009

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