Our Mission Launched in 1993, The
Anerican Cause
is an
educational organization whose mission is to advance and promote
traditional American values that are rooted in the conservative
principles of national sovereignty, economic patriotism, limited
government, and individual freedom.
Was World War Two just as pointless and
self-defeating as Iraq?
From Peter Hitchens in The London
Daily Mail: On a recent visit to the USA I picked up two
new books that are going to make a lot of people in Britain very
angry...The people who sold us Iraq did so as if they were today's
Churchills. They were wrong. In that case, how can we be sure
that Churchill's war was a good war? ...The two books, out in this
country very soon, are Patrick Buchanan's
Churchill, Hitler And The Unnecessary War and Nicholson Baker's Human
Smoke.
My Father, My Son,
And Janet Murguia’s “Hate Group” Lie From Peter Gadiel
in VDARE- My father, Jacques Kurt Gadiel, arrived in the United
States as a refugee in 1940. He arrived here legally, with
a visa issued to him because he was being hunted by the Nazi German
government... Sixty-one years after my father arrived in
the United States, his grandson, my 23 year-old son James, was
murdered in the World Trade Center... And because we dare to speak out,
the likes of Janet Murguia and her Racists label us "hate groups".
The
Southern Poverty Law Center Feels Your Hate From Marcus Epstein
in Takimag-
Recently, the Associated Press breathlessly proclaimed, “Number Of Hate
Groups Rising, Report Says,” parroting claims from the Montgomery, AL
based Southern Poverty Law Center. Despite the group’s assertion,
there is not a proliferation of hate groups, just an ever expanding
definition of “hate” the SPLC uses to include perfectly mainstream
conservatives and opponents of illegal immigration, most recently the
Federation for American Immigration Reform.
A
Practicing Catholic Considers Why "The Church" Is Wrong About
Immigration From Chilton
Williamson at VDARE- Pope Benedict XVI is back in Rome
after his first papal visit to the United States. Before leaving, he
had a private meeting with his American bishops in
which—according to Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles who
was there—he expressed the thought that "newcomers" to the U.S. are
"people of faith and we [Americans] are here to welcome them."
Europe’s
Cassandra--Enoch Powell and “Rivers of Blood” From Henry
Hotspur in Takimag-
On April 20, 1968, on a Saturday afternoon, Enoch Powell delivered his
“Rivers of Blood” speech at the Midland Hotel in Birmingham. He went
there fully aware that what he was going to say would be of historic
importance.
High
Incarceration Rate of Blacks Is Function of Crime, Not Racism From Heather MacDonald in Investors
Business Daily: The race industry and its elite enablers take it
as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from
discrimination. If a listener didn't know anything about crime, such
charges of disparate treatment might seem plausible.
Is
Abortion Racist? From Marcus Epstein in Taki's Mag-You
may have heard about how pro-life students at UCLA made calls to
various Planned Parenthood chapters asking if they could specify their
donation would go to give African Americans abortions. Many of the
confused secretaries were willing to accept the donations, and the
pro-life movement went in a tizzy railing against Planned Parenthood’s
ostensive racism.
Poisonous
Authenticity From Heather MacDonald in City Journal:
The list of Afrocentric “educators” whom Reverend Jeremiah Wright has
invoked in his media escapades since this Sunday is a disturbing
reminder that academia’s follies can enter the public world in harmful
ways. Now the pressing question is whether they have entered
presidential candidate Barack Obama’s worldview as well.
What’s
Going Right in Europe--How Localism Might Save the Continent From Paul Belien in
Takimag-
Following the victory of Silvio Berlusconi’s rightist alliance in
Italy, The Economist wrote a condescending editorial, entitled “Mamma
mia.” The article stated that Berlusconi was not The Economist’s choice
and said that the “Italians may come to regret electing the jester of
Italian politics once again.” Barely a month earlier, Spain had
re-elected its own “jester,” Prime Minister José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero, a man whose main ambition is to destroy
Spain’s Christian heritage and substitute it with a postmodern,
multicultural utopia where homosexuals marry and the state raises
children.
Obama's
Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate From Michelle
Malkin-
Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his "big press
conference" about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon. Numb.
Chastened. Defeated. Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and
stammered his way through the question-and-answer session. It appeared
he was having an out-of-body experience.
Running
on Empty From J Robinson
West in The National Interest- Soundbites and sloganeering
just won’t cut it anymore. Energy security—defined as reliable supplies
at reasonable cost obtained in an environmentally sustainable manner—is
no longer assured. All the presidential candidates loudly proclaim that
they will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and, as a bonus, curb
carbon emissions. Yet these same politicians, for the most part, have
overlooked a serious problem. In so doing, they risk missing an
important opportunity.
Mortgages for
Guaranteed DefaultersFrom Tom
DiLorenzo at the Mises Institute: "Liberal" economists are
overjoyed by the bursting of the housing bubble, for it provides them
with what they believe is another "market failure" story. "Most
analysts see the sub-prime crisis as a market failure," Robert Gordon
gleefully declared in the April 7 online edition of The American
Prospect magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner.
War
and Decision: Doug Feith Explains From Karen
Kwiatkowski at Lewrockwell.com- Doug Feith has
collected his memories from inside the Pentagon, circa 2001–2005. Henry
Kissinger blurbs for the back cover, "Even those, as I, who take issue
with some of its conclusions, will gain a better perspective from
reading this book." I have probably read
more of Feith’s 674 pages than Kissinger did – and strangely enough, I
find myself sharing the old devil’s take, just this once.
Christianity and War From Doug Bandow in
Antiwar.com-One of the great ironies of modern Christianity is
how warlike many Christians are. Not all Christians, certainly. And
many believers at many times in history have put state and ruler before
church and God. Yet it remains striking how many conservative
evangelicals unabashedly acted as shock troops backing the Iraq
invasion.
