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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/12/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
Isn't it supposed to be just about springtime now? In Florida
last week, I heard no end to grousing about how it's been the coldest winter in
memory. Back in Washington
where there are still piles of snow left over from last month's Snowmageddon,
everyone is looking forward to three inches of cold rain and flooding this
weekend.
Enough already. Enough
of crazy cold weather - and enough of crazy Democrat politics. The political climate on Capitol Hill is so
bad now that certain GOP Senators and Congressmen are privately (although not
publicly) expressing a genuine worry about the sanity of the President of the United
States.
Zero's obsession with "health care reform" is being likened
to the deranged Captain Ahab's obsession with harpooning the White Whale in
Herman Melville's Moby Dick. That didn't turn out so well for Ahab.
To compound their concern, Zero began yet again this week
(3/10) demanding
"climate change legislation" that would "cap greenhouse gas emissions" - acting
as if the unending exposure of ClimateGate frauds never happened.
The common image the Capitol Hill GOP invokes is to joke about
the Democrats' "circular firing squad."
Yet there is real concern behind the jokes. "Neither Obama nor Reid nor Pelosi is playing
with a full deck anymore," one Senator tells me.
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AMERICAN AWAKENING |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
One of the main functions of To The Point is to counter Conservative Pessimism.
There is an old and unfortunate tradition in conservative
thought that asserts everything is always going to hell in a handbasket -
morals, culture, kids, society, crime, national security, government, you name
it, it's worse now than before and getting worser.
It would seem that if ever there was an appropriate time for
Conservative Pessimism, it would be now, with a fascist president and party in
power who are determined to destroy our country. So it was an exceedingly pleasant, and perhaps ironic,
surprise to discover an optimism among conservative leaders now that I have
never seen before.
I have been attending meetings of the Council for National Party for
26 years, since 1984. (You read the speech I delivered at the meeting on Friday, March 5.) "CNP" is the elite conservative organization,
composed of most every major conservative activist, politician, pundit, et
al. I have never seen these folks more
energized and forward-looking as now.
The private CNP meetings are closed to the press and remarks
of the speakers or members are not for attribution so everyone can speak openly
and frankly. Thus I can relay what was
said on a broad-brush basis and nothing that was in confidence. But that's enough to open your eyes.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/05/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
Naples, Florida.
I had to skedaddle back from the Persian Gulf to
speak to a conservative organization meeting here today. I'll be on the podium soon, so let's get
started.
Richard Rahn
this week discusses the economics of raising cigarette taxes in New
York, and parenthetically mentions New
York's "enormous cigarette smuggling problem."
One thing I learned while in the Middle East
is that our military intel guys there believe that much of the cigarette
smuggling operation on the US East Coast is run by Moslems working for Al Qaeda.
Someone needs to tell New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg his
cigarette taxes are resulting in scores of millions of dollars funding Al Qaeda
terrorism. Someone needs to tell the DHS
lady, Janet Napolitano, to do something about this. You wonder why nobody has. Or maybe they just don't care to listen.
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WHY LIBERALS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN TERRORISTS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
[This is a speech I am
delivering today to the members of the Council for National Policy, leaders of
conservative organizations across America, meeting in Naples, Florida.]
There's no time to waste here, so I'm going to skip the
obligatory warm-up joke and get to the root of the problem.
First, Moslems are not really the problem, neither Moslem terrorists
nor Moslem imperialists insisting on
their medieval Sharia laws.
Christendom has been fighting Islam for almost fifteen
centuries. The Spaniards fought 800
years to get rid of the Moslem invaders of their Christian lands. 800 years!
That's how long the Reconquista
took. How long have we in America
been at it - two decades?
Islam is a self-identified religion of the sword. It
cannot be anything else but. "Islam" is
an Arabic word. It means submission. Moslems claim this means submit to Allah. What it really means is submit to them or die. Just
the same as it was for the Communists of the Soviet Union.
Thus there can be no peace between Jihadi or Sharia Moslems
and us, anymore than there could be with Soviet Communists. "Peace" for us means the absence of violence. "Peace"
for Jihadis and Communists means the absence
of disobedience. So there can be no
peace, there can only be victory or submission.
We achieved victory over the Communists of the Soviet
Union. How may we achieve
victory over the Moslems of Jihad and Sharia?
Let's go to Africa to find out.
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JUST HOW DUMB IS THIS GUY? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
Why
does Barack Hussein Obama hate insurance companies? He
explained why he was traumatized by one of them at the recent "Healthcare Summit." He had
to buy auto insurance for a "beat up old car" when he got out of college. When he got rear-ended, he called up the
insurance company to get his car repaired, and "they laughed at me."
He's hated
them ever since. Especially now, when
they won't cooperate with his ObamaCare program. For, as he put it, "it's one thing if you've got a beat up old car that you
can't get fixed. It's another thing if your kid is sick or you've got breast
cancer."
25 years ago, college-graduate Obama didn't understand - just as President Obama still doesn't understand today - the difference between liability insurance,
required by law to protect other drivers from
injuries or damage you may cause, and collision insurance to protect you and
your car (and which he had not purchased).
So of course the insurance agent he called laughed
at him. After laughing at him ourselves,
we need to ask, Just how dumb is this guy?
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WHO IS SINKING OBAMA'S SHIP? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Perhaps the surest sign an administration is in trouble comes when members of the president’s party start saying in public the president must shake up his staff.
The Obama administration has accomplished the remarkable feat of simultaneously alienating both most moderates and left-winger moonbats. The moderates see what he’s trying to do, and are frightened and angry. The moonbats note that he hasn’t yet been able to do it, and are frustrated and angry.
The head moonbats would most like to see roll is that of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who, they think, is too willing to compromise. Agreeing with them is that acme of the moderate Democrat establishment, Leslie Gelb. Yet it turns out he's not to blame for sinking Obama's ship.
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HAIL TO THE CHIEFS |
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Written by Frank Gaffney
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
Last week was not a good one for proponents of social re-engineering of the U.S.
military.
They had been buoyed by the previous week's congressional testimony of
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike
Mullen, widely seen as evidence the Pentagon was prepared to accede to
President Obama's demand that avowed homosexuals be allowed to serve in the
armed forces.
Now, however, four other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have weighed
in, and all bets are off on the idea of experimenting with - and possibly
breaking - the All-Volunteer Force. One by one, they poured cold water on Mr. Obama's agenda of homosexualizing the US military.
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AN UGLY AMERICAN IN SOUTH AMERICA |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
I was wrong. For years, I've argued that our government should pay more
attention to South America. Now Hillary Clinton has --
and, boy, is it ugly.
With tragic back-to-back earthquakes dominating the headlines from south of
the border, a desperate ploy by the hard-left Argentine government -- backed by
Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez -- threatens to shake the continent's political landscape.
And Secretary of State Clinton, during her whirlwind tour down south,
managed to outrage our British allies and assist despised President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in her family's assault on Argentine democracy.
Clinton's diplomatic malfeasance
in Buenos Aires wasn't an accident.
She spoke for President Obama, who loves Third World liberation
rhetoric and seems to think Britain's
still colonizing his family home in Kenya.
Here's the backstory that our media's ignored:
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SHOULD GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BE LIABLE FOR FRAUD AND MISREPRESENTATION? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
Many government officials like to pretend that
the effects of tax rates on the willingness of people to purchase goods or
services, or work, save and invest are far less than the empirical and
historical evidence shows. The Obama administration is now engaging in this
type of misrepresentation and forecast fraud, which will result in much higher
deficits and lower levels of economic growth and job creation than it claims.
To understand how serious this type of fraud is, think
about how government officials would react if a company forecast a huge
increase in revenues - and sent press releases of the forecast to the
investment community, but failed to reveal that this forecast was based on the
intention to double the prices for the company's products while assuming it
will not reduce demand.
Such actions by company officials would be considered
irresponsible misrepresentation, for which they could be held legally liable. Shouldn't government officials be held liable for their fraud and misrepresentation?
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THE CHALLENGE OF POSITIVE TRANSITIONS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
We are creatures who like to overcome challenges, we are able to adapt
to new circumstances, and we do this each in our own way. This looks very messy
to the technocrat, who seeks to predict and mold society in some particular
direction, but I think it works much better than the alternatives.
This is why our founding principles of individual liberty are so profound
and fundamental to our success as a country - they allow us to slog through
difficult times, and to create in the doing a story of personal redemption.
But this adaptation to change - even the best of change - is stressful, and
is something that you can benefit from preparing yourself for. Let's talk about how to prepare yourself for the challenges of positive changes in our lives.
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THE TEXAS WAY TO PROTECT PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
Tip of the ten-gallon hat to Texas TTPer Mitch Rapp
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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/26/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
I better be careful here, as there's so much to talk about this week the HFR could be the length of a small novel.
Before we begin - an important announcement. So many TTPers can't wait six months for another Rendezvous that we've decided to have an extra Spring Rendezvous in San Diego, California May 14-16. Details next week, but mark your calendar now.
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So - let's start with the HFR International Hero of the Week, Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Then I'll tell you a extradinary story about General Alexander Haig's heroism that no one has ever heard-- then why we should look upon Republicans in Congress as heroes. And yes, that still includes Scott Brown.
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A SULTAN'S ARABIA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
Muscat, Oman. If you want to see an ultra-rich Arab
sheikdom with exotically designed skyscrapers, the world's most upscale
shopping malls featuring indoor streams plied by Venetian gondolas, or
fantastically expensive on-the-water condo developments where everyone drives a
Ferrari or Rolls - all in the middle of a featurelessly flat desert wasteland
- you go to Qatar.
But if you want a more genuine Arabia of Sultan's palaces,
of forts and castles perched on rocky crags, of traditional villages tucked
away in mountain fastnesses, of rock pools and grottoes gushing with spring
water hidden in secret valleys, a place out of Arabian Nights rather than one
of garish ostentatiousness - then you come here to Oman.
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OBAMA IS PUTTING PERFUME ON A PIG |
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Written by Sarah Palin
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
The President has wrestled control of the health care debate
away from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid by finally introducing his
own plan. Unfortunately, the White House's proposal includes everything we
found untenable about the old Senate bill - only this one is even more
expensive!
This is what you might call putting "perfume on a pig."
What's in this "new" proposal? It has the unpopular (and arguably
unconstitutional) individual
mandate that forces people and employers to purchase health insurance -
only this time with much harsher
fines on employers who choose not to go along with another expensive government
mandate.
It has provisions that will make employers
think twice before expanding their workforce. It has cuts to Medicare
Advantage, a popular program which allows seniors to pay a little more money
out of pocket for better coverage. And, of course, it still has sweetheart
deals - only this time they've been extended
even more.
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DEFEATING THE ELECTRONIC POLICE STATE |
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Written by Paul Rosenberg
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
There's an odd thing that happens when politicians get scared: They grudgingly call in the smart guys and let them loose.
Most of us learn about this in elementary school: The smartest kid in the class is more or less abused until the class gets into real trouble; then they run straight to him and promise to do whatever he says.
That was how the Internet was created. It was a "smartest kid" project.
The event that scared the politicians into gathering the smart kids and setting them loose was Sputnik, launched in October 1957. The USSR surging ahead of the USA in space meant that they had to pull out all the stops. The resulting Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was where the Internet was born.
The Internet is structured different than anything a controlling type would make. (People in government are mostly controlling types; the smartest kid in class is most always not a control type.) The Internet's fundamental design characteristic is decentralization. Let's see how we can use that to defeat the The Electronic Police State.
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