Tony Blankley, Requiescat in Pace
Author, political commentator, outstanding American conservative and patriot, Anthony “Tony” Blankley, died at 63 on January 7th, 2012.
He will be sorely missed.
Mr. Blankley’s career included roles as a child actor, 10 years service as a prosecutor in the California Attorney General’s Office, policy analyst- speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, a 7-year stint as Newt Gingrich’s press secretary, lecturer on the university circuit, writer for the Washington Times, and sparring with Eleanor Clift on “The McLoughlin Group.”
One of Mr. Blankley’s greatest contributions to an understanding of what he perceived as the greatest threat to the survival of the United States and the Western World, Islam, was his semi-fictional, The West’s Last Stand: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?
He posited the theory that, in view of the pervasive Islamification of Europe, if we want to survive, America may have to go it alone.
Affable when he wanted to be, acerbic when he had to be, to the end, Blankley battled for conservative causes as tenaciously as he battled stomach cancer. As recently as last fall, he was publishing incisive articles on TownHall.com, including the poignant, reflective piece titled, “Thanksgiving 2011.”
A naturalized American born in Britain, Blankley wrote of that “enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years,” commenting on mankind’s narrow escapes from a catastrophic conclusion, the fall of the USSR, 9/11/2001, the rise of radical Islam, the resurgence of China, the economic crash of 2008, the incompetence of Washington, and the chaos in Europe.
In a very real sense, Tony Blankley’s concluding paragraph in “Thanksgiving 2011″ capsulized both the essence of Tony Blankley and his understanding of what makes America America.
He wrote, ”Our founding words and ideas are ever young. They are imperishable. And we should not wander from our faith in them. On America’s Thanksgiving Day 2011, we should be thankful for what our founding Fathers created and bequeathed to us and to the world. And we should be strengthened to fight for the more complete application of those ideas in the election year that follows this week’s prayerful Thanksgiving celebration.” (http://bit.ly/A1xnuu)
May God bless Tony Blankley. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.(http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12057)
Showing posts with label DEATH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DEATH. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Celebrating a Death?
Celebrating a Death?
While the vast majority of Americans are intensely proud of Navy SEAL Team 6 for its successful mission last Sunday and happy, if not universally ecstatic, over its results, Europeans have been largely mute over the mission’s success or demonstrably angry over American impertinence in what they consider a violation of the air space and territorial integrity of a sovereign state and which many contend involved a summary execution of an un-armed man.
There’s no question that Team 6 did indeed infringe on Pakistan’s national boundaries, which boundaries are more porous than America’s southern border, and that nation itself is less a nation than it is a sanctuary for terrorist enemies of the United States–and of Europe.
Whether Osama bin Laden was in fact un-armed or had an AK47 or other weapon in easy reach is still unclear, and irrelevant. What is known is that he was a declared, vicious enemy and his compound was a virtual fortress with high walls topped by barbed wire and that he had armed guards protecting him.
It’s easy to second guess what the SEALs should have done in the heat, the fog, of battle, to Monday-morning-quarterback a perilous military operation since none of us were there, on-site, with those brave men. All volunteers in the service of their country, they were risking their lives to execute a mission deemed critical to America’s–and Europe’s–interests and safety.
Europeans, however, feel free to do just that, to judge the propriety of the assault and to condemn Osama’s killing. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4338)
While the vast majority of Americans are intensely proud of Navy SEAL Team 6 for its successful mission last Sunday and happy, if not universally ecstatic, over its results, Europeans have been largely mute over the mission’s success or demonstrably angry over American impertinence in what they consider a violation of the air space and territorial integrity of a sovereign state and which many contend involved a summary execution of an un-armed man.
There’s no question that Team 6 did indeed infringe on Pakistan’s national boundaries, which boundaries are more porous than America’s southern border, and that nation itself is less a nation than it is a sanctuary for terrorist enemies of the United States–and of Europe.
Whether Osama bin Laden was in fact un-armed or had an AK47 or other weapon in easy reach is still unclear, and irrelevant. What is known is that he was a declared, vicious enemy and his compound was a virtual fortress with high walls topped by barbed wire and that he had armed guards protecting him.
It’s easy to second guess what the SEALs should have done in the heat, the fog, of battle, to Monday-morning-quarterback a perilous military operation since none of us were there, on-site, with those brave men. All volunteers in the service of their country, they were risking their lives to execute a mission deemed critical to America’s–and Europe’s–interests and safety.
Europeans, however, feel free to do just that, to judge the propriety of the assault and to condemn Osama’s killing. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4338)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Democrat Culture of Death
Democrat Culture of Death
. . . Just yesterday, a Democrat candidate for New Hampshire’s state legislature, Keith Halloran, expressed his regret that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her almost son-in-law Levi Johnston had perished in the Alaska plane crash which took the life of former senator Ted Stevens and four others: http://tiny.cc/isr1g.
Sick? You betcha, but explicable for the Party of Death, aka the Democrat Party, which wallows in the morbid. While accusing Republicans of being cold-hearted and insensitive louts who want to throw grandma under a bus, in truth, it is they, the Democrats, who feel free to voice death wishes for conservatives and crack funnies about conservatives dying of liver disease and in plane crashes.
It’s a natural inclination for certain people to project their own cheerless and gruesome psyches onto others as a defense mechanism to conceal their own sick and morbid thoughts. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1839)
. . . Just yesterday, a Democrat candidate for New Hampshire’s state legislature, Keith Halloran, expressed his regret that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her almost son-in-law Levi Johnston had perished in the Alaska plane crash which took the life of former senator Ted Stevens and four others: http://tiny.cc/isr1g.
Sick? You betcha, but explicable for the Party of Death, aka the Democrat Party, which wallows in the morbid. While accusing Republicans of being cold-hearted and insensitive louts who want to throw grandma under a bus, in truth, it is they, the Democrats, who feel free to voice death wishes for conservatives and crack funnies about conservatives dying of liver disease and in plane crashes.
It’s a natural inclination for certain people to project their own cheerless and gruesome psyches onto others as a defense mechanism to conceal their own sick and morbid thoughts. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1839)
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