‘Diane Alden’ Archives
Worrywarts, Black Helicopters and Trust
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #37 Still ON TARGET: September 12, 2000 Do the worrywarts overstate the case? Do the folks in the bars and cafes in rural America fret about black helicopters or the U.N. camping out in national parks merely to break the monotony? Does this fundamental mistrust of government and the misuse of federal power [...]
To Alter and Abolish—Secession Movements on the Move
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #36 Still ON TARGET: September 05, 2000 "Whenever a government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." (Declaration of Independence) What do Walter Williams, Joseph Sobran, Lew Rockwell, Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul have in common? Besides being very [...]
Jiving Sugar Daddies and the Woman’s Vote
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #35 Still ON TARGET: August 28, 2000 As Professor Higgins maintained in the classic "My Fair Lady": "Why can't a woman think like a man?" Higgins understood nothing about how women's psyches or thought patterns work. He never came to grips with the fact that the deliberations of most women are filtered [...]
Christmas Past—Christmas Present
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #34 Still ON TARGET: Christmas 2000 Americans have a Christmas legacy. I know for a fact this legacy lives today in towns and rural areas all over these United States. In this country today, Americans are quietly feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Some unfortunates may fall through the cracks, but [...]
Simple Gifts: Saints and Strangers
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #32 Still ON TARGET: November 20, 2001 There is a Quaker song I have loved since I first heard it sung by the Brigham Young University choir. That song is "Simple Gifts." At this Thanksgiving time I am grateful for the simple gifts, of course, but I am just as grateful for those that are not so simple. [...]
Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds vs. The Stewards of the Darby
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #31 Still ON TARGET: August 18, 2000 It is called by many names, including sustained development, eminent domain, ecosystem management, biodiversity, or whatever term du jour collectivists are using at the moment. By whatever name it is called, however, it is still a pagan utopian dream rooted in the [...]
Bragging About Cherry Picking
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I get a kick out of the business punditry and most politicians who defend and tout the new trade agreements with various nations including Columbia. What made me spew coffee through my nose was when one apologist bragged about the increase of cherry production in the U.S. and the selling of our cherries to [...]
The Naivete and Arrogance of Compelling Democracy
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Bringing democracy and Kentucky Fried Chicken to people who neither want it or know what to do with it when they are offered it - is naive and arrogant. Samuel Huntingtron the late Harvard don wrote in Clash of Civilizations ..."The idea is advanced that the spread of Western consumption patterns and popular [...]
A Costly Grace
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #30 Still ON TARGET: August 12, 2000 Since the selection of Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as running mate for Al Gore, it has become acceptable in the mainstream press to talk about religion, and even the "G" word may be mentioned without a TV pundit or talking head having a rhetorical heart attack [...]
Republicans are Bad, But Democrats are Worse
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #29 Still ON TARGET: August 04, 2000 The reason I will vote for Republicans this fall is because the alternative is not only worse, it is dangerous. Perhaps that is not a principled stand, but it is the best I can do. Since the country cannot survive four years of Al Gore and the consequences he would [...]
A Run for the Border
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #28 Still ON TARGET: July 30, 2000 Every year 900,000 legal immigrants are allowed into the United States. Many of them have critical technological skills, which corporate America and government need because not enough Americans graduate in technical and scientific fields. A bill stalled in Congress, held up [...]
Shameless Compromisers
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #27 Still ON TARGET: July 20, 2000 Not long ago liberal journalist Anthony Lewis asked, "Does Clinton want to be remembered as the one who sold out our civil liberties?" One could also pose the question, "Do the Democrats in Congress and some Republicans make this sellout possible?" Recently, Senator Don [...]
Conspiracy of Dunces
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #26 Still ON TARGET: July 12, 2000 Part 2 It is difficult to think of Bill Clinton as part of the elite, but he is. Most people in government, academia, foundations and large corporations are. They move easily in and out of the agencies and institutions that rule us or shape policy or opinion. They [...]
Pratt House Conspiracy or Just Power Hungry Elites?
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #25 Still ON TARGET: July 06, 2000 Part 1 Remember back in high school there was always that certain group of kids universally known as the "in" crowd. The rest of the denizens in the teen-age hell halls were usually a subgroup with a theme. There was the artsy crowd, the nerds, the greasers, the dweebs, [...]
‘Braveheart’ Catholics and the New World Order
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #24 Still ON TARGET: June 28, 2000 They say you shouldn't discuss religion or politics. Since when have I ever run from either topic? I have been all kinds of Catholic: devout, apathetic, disheartened, divorced, disenfranchised, disgusted, back slid and back again. I get disgusted and disappointed in my [...]
Sons of the Middle Border: Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton
Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #24 Still ON TARGET: June 20, 2000 I don't usually watch PBS, but it was showing an excellent biography on Ronald Reagan. This one included observations by everyone from his rebellious daughter, Patty, to his more serious daughter, Maureen, and of course Nancy and Ron Jr. Members of his cabinet, advisers and [...]
Fire Storm in the West
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #24 Still ON TARGET: June 14, 2000 When I was a kid the West was a mystical place to me. A land of cowboys and Indians, of mountains and roaring rivers, and sunsets seen from the back of a horse. Perhaps it was one too many Roy Rogers and John Wayne matinees at the Plaza theater. Maybe it was the love of [...]
Have You Heard the Latest Buzz Re a Jeb Bush/Rubio Ticket?
Political Humor, Wit, and Sarcasm from TML Senior Editor, Diane Alden Writing in her Facebook blog this morning, Diane Alden pontificates: Fox and Friends ... Have you heard about the latest BUZZ re a ticket of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio? Get me a razor .. it's vein slitting time. Want to LOSE the next election, throw JEB BUSH into the fray. This [...]
Moms With Guns
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #23 Still ON TARGET: June 2, 2000 In the mailbox the other day was a fat envelope filled with lots of neat stuff. Coupons, an insurance policy, a sticker for my car, a plastic membership card with my name on it. My eldest son's belated Mother's Day gift, a membership to the National Rifle Association. It is [...]
Conservatives Must Unite Behind The Bill of Rights
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #22 Still ON TARGET: May 24, 2000 Every time I hear a TV or news-magazine pundit pontificate on the "rule of law" I want to ask them for their definition of that term. During the Elian Gonzalez affair there were numerous times some talking head such as Ted Koppel or Peter Jennings or even Bill O'Reilly of [...]
The Feudal States of America
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #21 Still ON TARGET: May 9, 2000 The recent passage of H.R. 701 by the Congress of the United States is a feudal land grab by the barons in Washington. What is appalling is that many so-called "conservative" Republicans bought into the Clinton administration's "Lands Legacy Program." In cahoots with the [...]
Stand and Deliver Dangerous Minds: America the Dumb
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #20 Still ON TARGET: May 9, 2000 The man is unbelievable, shameless, beyond name-calling or common sense. Who else? William Jefferson Clinton of course. Just when you thought he couldn't do anything dumber he goes right ahead and proves you wrong. With more chutzpah exhibited than anyone in recent memory [...]
Monster Media, Monster Government: How to Fight Back
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 19 (originally published May 1, 2000; still a vital read!) Media mergers continue to be in the news. These mergers are a horror and have nothing to do with the free market at work. The fourth estate of governance, the press has been treading on thin ice in its responsibility toward the [...]
Common Thread: Wounded Knee, Waco, Little Havana
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years, No. 18 What do these three places have in common? As historical events Wounded Knee, Waco, and Little Havana share several conspicuous similarities. They all involve politics, incompetent and overbearing agents of the federal government, vilified minorities, siege mentality and children. And each were [...]
Alden: Arms and “The Man”
By Diane Alden Play It Again Sam! (moving toward a police state - a blunt reminder from June 1998) No longer does the federal government merely arm the U.S. Marshall's service, the Secret Service, the FBI, the Border Patrol, DEA, BATF and the military. Today the IRS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA, the Forest Service and even the [...]
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Regulatory State
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years, No. 17 The federal government was given few, limited and enumerated powers. The Constitution grants the federal government powers over such issues as national defense, international trade and diplomacy, immigration procedures, maintenance of the monetary system, patents and copyright enforcement, [...]
Israel, Jordan and the United States
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years, No. 17 "And when you see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then you know that the desolation thereof is at hand." (Jesus of Nazareth: St. Luke) We could say that Christ's words were prophetic. They certainly stated the case, and it has been the case on and off for thousands of years. From the [...]
Post-Constitution America: Night of the “Living” Dead
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 16 One has to love a guy who claims: "As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government." Joseph Sobran is a writer, a thinker, a constitutionalist – and dead right.Recently, he wrote an article titled "When Tyranny Came to America," in which he [...]
The Cafe Constitution: #2, Firearms
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 15 The Constitution of the United States is not a café where one may pick and choose which items on the menu one prefers. The Constitution is what it is. These days it is popular to call it a "living" document. Which means it is subject to the whims of political correctness, a judiciary and [...]
Spies Like US: Spies, Lies, Echelon, Economics, and People (S.L.E.E.P.)
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 14 The question was: "Why was a nice girl like you working in a place like that?" Former Lockheed-NSA employee and member of the team that developed Echelon, Margaret Newsham, had quite an answer. Her life history is similar to that of other nice women who came to adulthood in the fifties and early [...]
Wolves Among Us
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 13 The history of the wolf is the stuff of legend. Portrayed both as vicious predator and today often romanticized as a kind of saint in fur. Nevertheless, the wolf is a primitive relative of the domestic dog. Having once owned a wolf hybrid named Thorn, I appreciate the wolf. However, they have no [...]
Spies Like Us: Spooks and Money Talk
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 12 The term for intelligence operations and snooping is aptly named the "The Black World." Searching through the murky depths for truth consists of looking for the point where justified national security concerns and unconstitutional and illegal prying diverge. Critics of the NSA and projects like [...]
U.S. Military: Where Honor Still Means Something
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I am proud of the US Navy ... and the men and women who do their best every single day, day in and day out. Washington DC may be full of fools, morons, evil doers, but the US military is the last place, the last institution in the US where honor still means something to the most number of the people. Maybe I [...]
First You Say You Do, Then You Don’t …
American Gumbo with Diane Alden First you say you do, then you don't, then you say you will then you won't. ... You're undecided now so what are you gonna do? In the case of Obie and NATO France and Brits anyway, ... it is on to regime change. This will end badly for us and cost us lives and money. Count on [...]
Come Back Here … I’ll Bite Your Legs Off!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Republicans ... are the Black Knight ... the fight over the budget last week Democrats and Republicans --totally looney. As the black knight aka says at the end as he sits there with no arms or legs: "come back here and I''ll bite your legs off!" Good going Boehner and the rest of the armless legless [...]
Patriots, Elites, And the War in Libya
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Being against the war in LIBYA is not being against the US or the US military. Those who think so, have stopped thinking and are reacting because so many folks have learned the hard way, that when the elite get us into a war, its usually NOT about the best interests of the US. Allen West learned the hard way [...]
How Much Am I Willing to Sacrifice for God, Christ, and Freedom?
Remembering Shahbaz Bhatti American Gumbo with Diane Alden Shahbaz Bhatti died speaking up for all Christians: he died speaking of his fealty to Jesus Christ: he died a free man. How free are we? How far will we go in defense of our faith in Christ? How much will we sacrifice in order to claim real freedom to worship and speak as we will for that [...]
Government Sachs
American Gumbo with Diane Alden You wonder why I hate big financials, aka out-of-control investment banks, so much? This is one reason. Goldman Sachs might as well be Government Sachs, or Government Sachem. They have been in bed with big government for at least two decades. The Keynesian approach is to spend, spend, spend. By the by, Goldman [...]
Ain’t Globalism Wonderful?
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Ain't globalism wonderful? I feel the US government has turned into a pimp for selling off American assets to the highest bidder or creditor. We built China and yet you hear the same morons on business channels talk about the glories of 'free trade.' In what freaking virtual reality do these morons live? They are [...]
No! Nicholas, Say It Ain’t So!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden No! Nicholas say it ain't so! Multiculturalism failed? No more kumbaya around the campfire? Can we forget being sharia law compliant? No more preferred minority status for angry jihadis with a grudge against the world? You telling me political correctness and multiculturalism was a bad idea. If the French say it's [...]
Alden On Modern Democracies
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Modern democracies should be considered as oligarchies. In these systems, actual differences between viable political rivals are small, the oligarchic elite impose strict limits on what constitutes an acceptable and respectable political position, and politicians' careers depend heavily on unelected economic [...]
Soldiers R-US?
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Years ago I wrote a piece that has been included in several books on corporate military. My contention in that article - the possibility of misuse by corporate entities without constitutional restraints - SWAT teams of militarized ninjas, highly paid, doing the bidding of corporations rather than nation states. [...]
Ford Hood Massacre Could Have Been Prevented, Says Report
American Gumbo, Diane Alden And why didn't the FBI or Army attempt to stop Maj. Hasan from killing a bunch of US soldiers. The presented to Congress says they turned a blind eye to his radicalization. Again I ask WHY is that? Could it be political correctness and multiculturalism worship inhibited both entities from doing their job ...lest they [...]
When I Start Feeling Sorry For Myself …
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Every time I start feeling very sorry for myself, which does happen on occasion, a story like this comes up. I am so adamant and passionate about our responsibility to our soldiers, sailors, Marines -- particularly those who have been in combat or suffered mental, physical, or personal loss. That is because we [...]
Get Yourself Ready! Stand Up!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden JEREMIAH: “Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you ... They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD." Rep. Ranker - the world, flesh, the devil and fadish/evil trends - surely you must know the time is at hand when [...]
Beware the Charging Rhinoceros
American Gumbo with Diane Alden You don't want a 'warfare' state but neither do you want a state with its head in the sand ignoring the big rhinoceros charging full throttle towards the part sticking out of the sand. No matter how much you want to ignore reality there is always going to be someone out there who wants what you have got or hates [...]
Muslims Threaten Children With Violence and Rape
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Political correctness and deification of multiculturalism and demonization of Western culture could result in a new Dark Age. If the West is so unsure of the worth of its cultural heritage and does not want to defend it ...then we are doomed. The same happened to Rome. They ran out of steam; it just wasn't worth [...]
Is It Time to Dump the Term “Pro-life?”
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Time to dump the term "prolife"? I must be chugging on the same track as this dude cause I call issues related to the unborn as "preborn." "Prolife" could include not wanting your pond scum to be touched. ___________________ Diane Alden responding to "Is It Time to Dump the Term 'Pro-life'? For the Sake of [...]
Lords Without Anger or Honour
American Gumbo with Diane Alden They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords, Lords without anger or honour, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient [...]
Occult Underpinnings of the Third Reich
Gumbo with Diane Alden Being a huge history buff, particularly that of WWII the occult underpinning of the Third Reich is infamous. The core group of Nazis attempted to ditch Christianity in favor of what they considered the German pantheon of gods, myths, and legends. Himmler was the worst purveyor of this weird belief system. In regard to the [...]
