We were told that elections have consequences.  Millions of unfortunates in Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere are learning that the consequences of American elections may have negative impact on their lives.

1.     Mahmound Ahmadinejad was proclaimed re-elected as president of Iran.   What we know indicates a strong likelihood that his re-election was procured by fraud.   Certainly tens of thousand Iranians thought so, as they were willing to risk life and limb to protest the declared result in the streets of Tehran.   The ruling mullahs, being the reasonable men that Obama believes he must negotiate with, responded by killing and maiming the protesters.    For now it appears the repression has succeeded.    During the entire sorry episode Obama has been remarkably reticent in his criticism of the mullahs and Ahmandinejad.   We learned last Sunday from administration spokesmen that Obama still seeks to negotiate with the regime.    This is more than shameful; it is craven cowardice and ideological blindness.   Everyone with a speck of intelligence know that there is no negotiating with the made mullahs that run Iran.   They and Ahmandinejad have made it as plain as they can that they want the United States ruined and us converted to their religion or dead.  The only negotiations they have interest in would concern our surrender.

2.     North Korea threatens to launch a ballistic missile in the direction of Hawaii.    Its leaders have declared the 1953 armistice which ended the Korean War to be no longer in effect.   North Korea is supplying our declared enemies with technology to assist them with developing nuclear weapons and perhaps with the components to facilitate to do so.   The Obama administration has responded by . . .   doing nothing.   

3.     The president of Honduras in Central America sought to emulate Hugo Chavez and act outside his nation's constitution to perpetuate himself in power.   Turned down by his nation's Supreme Court, opposed by the legislature controlled by his party and a military unwilling to trash the constitution, the president decided to defy the law and conduct an illegal and constitutional referendum to authorize him to continue in office.   The Honduran military then arrested the president and put him on a plane out of the country.   The legislature meet and named a replacement to hold office until elections this November.    One would think that the Obama administration would applaud this result, since it (a) upholds the rule of law in Honduras, and (2) avoids another tin pot dictator in Latin America.   One would also think that as Obama had argued that the United States should not interfere in the interior affairs of another nation to justify his restrain concerning Iran he would be as reserved concerning Honduras.  But know, Obama branded the president's ouster as "illegal" and demanded that he be returned to power.    As a consequence Obama aligned the United States with Chavez, Castro and the other dictators in Latin America in condemning the Honduras military UPHOLDING ITS COUNTRY'S CONSTITUTION!  

4.     In its words and deeds, the Obama administration demonstrates a contempt for the rule of law, no preference or affinity for democratic governments,  no concern beyond empty cliches for the atrocities committed by governments of other nations against their citizens, no friendship for freedom hungry populations, and no shame.

5.     Micheal Jackson died at age 50.    In the days following his death I hear many things said of Mr. Jackson, including one commentator would declared him the greatest musical talent since Mosart.    Perhaps that comment was a bit too much.   It seems obvious that Mr. Jackson was for a many years a trouble soul; all the evidence you'd need to reach this conclusion came from his ever changing face via surgery and his increasing bizarre behavior.   Hopefully, in death, he has found peace.

6.     The House of Representatives pass legislation called "cap and trade" for the stated purpose of combating global warming or climate change.   It will not do so.   Instead, if this legislation becomes law, the costs of food, utilities, gasoline, medicine, and other staples of life for the average American will greatly increase.   For residents in the less urbanized parts of the country the increased costs will be particularly dramatic, since energy and food costs tend to be less than in urban areas.   Perhaps this explains the vote in the House, which was extraordinarily along regional lines:  congressmen from the Northeast and California voted overwhelming in favor, while those from the rest of the country was strongly against.   In effect, the bill was a declaration of war by urban America against the rest of the country.   Since urban America is the stronghold of leftists who lead the Democrat controlled Congress and invest the Obama administration, "climate change" is a convenient excuse for extracting wealth from Republican and conservative parts of the country.     More and more it seems to me that the domestic agenda of the Obama administration and the Democrat Congress is to impoverish the great majority of Americans by massive regulation and tax increases, leading us beholden to and at the mercy of a leviathan Federal government.

7.      The Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits discrimination based on, among other things, race.   In the the case of white firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut, challenging the city's decision to jettison promotional tests which they aced in favor of promoting other, non-white persons, the Supreme Court interpreted the Act to ------- prohibit discrimination based on race.   It is a rare event for the Supreme Court to actually follow the law, particularly when doing so favors white males.    The decision has come in for a lot of comment, since it reversed a decision of a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals which contained Sonya Sotomeyer, President Obama's nominee for the Court.   There's little doubt that Judge Sotomeyer would have joined the dissenters.   Fortunately, since she will be replacing one of them, her view, at least of this matter, won't change the outcome.

8.     I've said before that I believe Barack Obama despises the nation he was elected to lead.   Indeed, despise may be too soft a description of his feelings.    There were plenty of hints during his campaign:  his refusal to wear an American flag pin until it became an issue; the photo of his standing with hands at this side during the national anthem; Michelle Obama's remark about her husband's primary success being the first time she was proud of America.   Obama is truly sui generis in American history:  he is the first president in American history who loathes the society which elected him.    He and his administration are an alien presence in this country, not loyal or patriotic in any sense we understand the word but truly a Manchurian president, intent on the destruction of all things most Americans  value and hold dear.  

9.     What then, does this mean for the average American?   What is he to do about the national administration being in the control of a man who, in all important aspects. an enemy?     The patriot should arm himself with knowledge of the opinions of the Founding Fathers, who understood had to deal with a despot.   There example should guide us.