One of the oompah loompahs at Vanguard took a break from mixing chocolate to write me a letter.

Dear Harry,

Every now and then your website pops up when we do a Google search on Mr. Martin, and we always get a good laugh. But today, I want to thank you for (on July 4) comparing Mr. Martin to Bill Buckley. That’s a real compliment, and we all appreciate it.

To return the favor, here’s some good new stuff for you to hate Mr. Martin for.

1. Rod Martin will be a featured speaker next month at the Southern California Center for Christian Studies’ Annual Summer Conference: "Politics, Culture, the Election and You" at Cal State Fullerton. Other speakers include David Bahnsen, Jeff Ventrella, Andrew Sandlin and Steve Wilkins.

2. Rod Martin’s video segment from last week on Fox News Channel (concerning the fate of Iraq’s WMDs) is now online.

3. U.S. News and World Report recently had as its lead "Washington Whisper" Rod Martin’s new book (coming out August 30) entitled "Thank You President Bush," and including essays by every top conservative you can think of (except maybe Bill Buckley <wink>), including Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Phyllis Schlafly, Arthur Laffer, James Dobson and about 20 others.

(There are dozens of other stories out there if you want to find them, in the Washington Times, New York Daily News, USA Today, and at least 40 others, all before anyone even has a book in their hands to review! Cool huh?)

4. The latest version of Rod Martin’s bio – once again, just follow the link from the sidebar – is just full of stuff you’ll want to comment on. Look closely: some of it’s more inflammatory than it may seem at first blush (one thing in particular might be good for weeks of material, in fact, if you figure it out).

5. And finally, you’ll especially like this one: Rod Martin’s column on the fortieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Oh, just one more thing: Please don’t just quote what we sent you. You’re a lot more entertaining when you flail him yourself. LOL

Happy Hunting,
Nicholas Stehle
Assistant to the Chairman

I’m happy to oblige, but I told Mr. Stehle that I don’t hate Mr. Martin at all. My purpose in life is to offer friendly advice; to live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man; to always walk on the sunny side of the street; when the cold wind calls, to go where the dahlias bloom; to be a ray of hope shining through a canopy of despair. To boldly go where no man has gone before!

That Civil Rights article is filled with Martin’s trademark degree of naivete. Don’t misunderstand – being a pseudo-conservative (i.e., liberal), the Act was fine with him as originally described by Hubert Humphrey. He calls it a "landmark act, the most sweeping civil rights law since Reconstruction." I take this to mean that he approves of Reconstruction, which means that he seeks to conserve the government that took the name of the Old Republic but is built on a foundation of blood and lies. Alas, his fantasy world of Jacobinism took a dreadful turn for the worse after 1964. His multiracial dream became "legally-mandated racism, just as in the days of Jim Crow… a caste system." Woe is us! "Racial equality has been scuttled, and racial unity is as distant as before." Is there really very much difference between these impostors and feminists, who rail against biology, which refuses to change? I think not. Trillions of dollars wasted on "welfare dependency and drug abuse, unwed motherhood and crime, fatherless families and dysfunctional public schools" is due to employment quotas, says Mr. Vanguard-of-the-Revolution, who has so much in common with the neocons who love big government, as long as it is used for their purposes, that I fail to see why we should make a distinction. The money robbed from you in pursuit of an elusive equality is less important than "the Dr. King’s vision." In truth, the problems facing blacks are not due to lack of opportunity. They have the same opportunity as a Vietnamese man who steps off a plane unable to speak the language and within a generation is sending his children to Ivy League schools. We didn’t need a Civil Rights Act to create such opportunity; it always existed. If segregation was so bad for blacks, why wasn’t it bad for whites? If integration is good for blacks, why are they resegregating? And why are white families more dysfunctional than ever? The fact of the matter is that blacks have always depended on whites for what shreds of civilization they have known. Turn them loose, and they create a Haiti or Zimbabwe or South Africa. (It’s easier to call me a racist than give me an example to show that I am wrong.) Very few of them know what to do with equal opportunity. The vast majority aspire to nothing more than lechery. I agree that as Christians we are to minister to them, but who has 500 years to wait for the theories of Jacobins like Martin to come to fruition? How many more trillions must we spend? Should not a conservative be expected to conserve a future for his own people? Should those who give away (not even sell) our birthright be considered loyal to us?

According to 1987 Justice Department figures, 3% of all violent crimes were white on black, and 50% were black on white. Zero percent of all rapes (83,000 cases) were white on black, and 28% were black on white. Two percent of all robberies were white on black, and 73% were black on white. According to 1994 Justice Department figures, blacks committed 90% of all interracial violent crimes. As 12% of the population, this means that they are 50 times more likely to commit acts of interracial violence than are whites. They are 100 to 250 times more likely than whites to commit interracial gang rapes and gang assaults. According to the 1999 Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, blacks commit 42% of all violent crimes and over half of all murders.

The inescapable fact is that pseudo-conservatives like Rod Martin support a government that defines the limits of its own powers, thanks largely to the illegal 14th Amendment, which is responsible for this sham equality. He speaks the very language of that amendment when he blows smoke about equal opportunity. He certainly didn’t find it in the Bible. The Bible says a stranger was not to rule over the people of Israel. Their rulers were to be chosen from their own race. (Don’t hate me for telling you what the Bible says. If you have a problem with the Bible, take it up with the Author.) Chronicles published a letter by Tom Sheeley that hits the spot: "When natural community is constantly abridged and corrupted by the absolute democracy of termite-mound demographics ‘legitimized’ by avant-garde political theory that protects the cypher-citizen from [in the language of the 14th Amendment] ‘States [making or enforcing] any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens [sic] of the United States,’ community is simply a ‘construct’ whose definition is up to the whims of the normative authority of the state." The 14th Amendment paves the way for "the great monochrome diversity of ‘world citizenship,’" and so does Rod Martin, and so does every other New American.

From George W. Bush’s inaugural speech, January 20, 2001: "America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our background, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be a citizen." Translation: This country was not created by white Christians for white Christians. We need to forget about our race and religion and learn the new definition of the word citizen.

From The Disuniting of America by Arthur Schlesinger: "The American Creed envisages a nation composed of individuals making their own choices and accountable to themselves, not a nation based on inviolable ethnic communities." Translation: We should be libertarians, not Christians, and form a new nation based on ideology rather than blood.

Ten years ago, over 80% of Republicans polled favored deep cuts in immigration. Now the parties are racially polarizing.

There are 2.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq, which should give them control of 10% of the government assembly. Instead, they are finding themselves shut out. Nearly two-thirds of them were killed in 1917, and if Bush’s actions cause another holocaust, there may be no recovery. The actions of the U.S. military never benefit Christians – Serbian, Assyrian, Sudanese, or otherwise – and that’s because the U.S. military is serving the interests of Jews. On the other hand, Rod Martin calls me a "racist pig," so I’m not sure why I’m so concerned for these foreigners. Still, Rod did score an endorsement from his wife.

"[H]armony among men is a product not of uniformity but of genuine, mutually respectful diversity… respect for other cultures, and the peaceful coexistence of cultures, are only possible among people who are themselves conscious participants in their own, necessarily particularist culture. There is no universal culture. How could there be, when there is no such thing as a universal man?" ~ Clyde Wilson

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." ~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"We dinna git da fotey akuhs! We dinna get da mule!" ~ Al Sharpton on the 14th Amendment

The unbearable costs of empire. "For fiscal 2005, which begins in October, the U.S. gross federal debt is projected to be $8.1 trillion, or 67.5% of GDP. By the time 100,000 U.S. troops were in Vietnam in 1965, it was 46.9% and falling." But Rod Martin and Sean Hannity tell me that things are looking up, and Iraq is by no means like Vietnam.

The Great Mulatto Hope. Mr. Kente goes to Washington.

Interesting quotes here from Reagan and Bahnsen on libertarianism.

RCjr fires on all cylinders when he talks politics. "A soldier who dies by heroism is a hero. But a soldier who dies by folly is a tragedy."

The theology of Meryl and Denzel.

Toby Vance’s new forum!