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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/05/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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While Remember The Alamo tried to be a good synopsis of our memorable Rendezvous in San Antone, I saved the best line of the event for the HFR.
After all the dystopian discussion of how the Dems are driving us into financial ruin, Jack Kelly announced in his presentation: "There's a lot of talk nowadays about America becoming a banana republic. Here's the reality, folks - the whole world is becoming a banana republic."
Kelly's prophecy came quickly into sharper focus this week. Big time.
After a 853-point drop since Jan. 19, the Dow is plunging over the 10,000-point precipice. Greece, as the HFR has been predicting, is dragging the Euro into a deep hole. Next to fall in are Spain and Portugal.
And now comes China.
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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There were 140 of us, and I think we all agree - the Remember The Alamo Rendezvous in San Antonio last weekend (1/29-1/31) was one to remember.
Speaking of memory, I didn't take notes - I was a little busy - so we'll see how good my recall is as I recount it for you. Feel quite free to add or correct what I say on the Forum. There's already a lively discussion going.
We started right off Friday evening with a discussion of the Double-D strategy. That quickly brought our attention to TTPer Mitch Rapp, who with the help of Bill Gregory, Jim Snape, and other TTPers, has created the Defund and Disobey website: defundanddisobey.com - to which there is now a direct link in the left side bar of the TTP home page.
Mitch envisions his site to be the clearing house for Tea Party efforts to deligitimize the Democrats' plan to extend government control of our lives. I encourage you to participate in it, tell all your friends in the Tea Party movement about it, and support it with a small contribution.
We all owe Mitch a debt of gratitude for what he has chosen to do. And the Rendezvous was just getting started.
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A DEFICIT OF TRUST IN OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
In his State of the Union address, President
Barack Hussein Obama said: "We face a deficit of trust -- deep and corrosive doubts
about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close
that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue -- to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our
work openly; to give the people the government they deserve."
The day after the president uttered those words, a
senior administration official offered private policy briefings to lobbyists on
the administration's plans.
Do you think it will ever occur to our Narcissist-in-chief that he has become the source of this "deficit of trust"?
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THE ONE PLACE WHERE OBAMA IS KILLING TERRORISTS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
As the administration fiddles and fumbles with its soft- on-terror policies
at home, one Obama-blessed campaign abroad is hitting al Qaeda and its
franchises hard: the drone war.
Drones work. They kill terrorists. Important terrorists.
And we don't have to squabble about where to put their shredded bodies on
trial.
For all the billions poured into Afghan pockets, the continuing giveaways to
well-connected contractors, the abuse of our military as glorified aid workers
and terrorist targets, and the general strategic incoherence in Washington,
we're getting this one thing right.
On Tuesday (2/02), an up-the-ante wave of attacks fired 18 missiles from
Unmanned Aerial Systems. (UAS is our term of the week for drones.) The strike
hit a terrorist stronghold, killing another dozen or more militants. Cool. Very cool.
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REPEAL THE 17TH TO REVIVE THE 10TH |
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Written by Tony Blankley
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
One of the key objectives of the Tea Party people is the strict enforcement
of the 10th Amendment : "The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people."
As an early 1960s vintage member of the then-new conservative movement, I
remember us focusing on the 10th amendment during the 1964 Goldwater
campaign. It has been a staple of conservative thought, and the continued
dormancy of 10th amendment
enforcement has been one of the failures of our now half-century-old movement.
As the Tea Party movement in so many ways seems to represent the 2.0 version
of our movement, I am thinking about the 10th amendment anew. It strikes me that the best
way to revive the 10th
Amendment is to repeal the 17th Amendment -- which changes
the first paragraph of Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution to provide that
each state's senators are to be "elected by the people thereof" rather than
being "chosen by the Legislature thereof."
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CAPITALISM IS FUN – OBAMAISM IS BORING |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
I'd like to expand on a theme I briefly discussed at the Remember The Alamo
Rendezvous this past weekend, because it provides such a stark contrast between
us and the Left. That theme was: Capitalism... is fun!
Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Obamaism, ideologies that seek to move masses
of people as masses in some
particular direction or other in order to fulfill some politician or
bureaucrat's lofty and self-righteous vision... is boring. Such systems dwell on what's wrong with life, they view
people as helpless victims, and they undermine the joy of living.
One reason why I have such great hope for our country is that a defining characteristic
of the American People is that we like to
have fun. We're playful people. We
like the excitement of a new possibility. We love to solve problems; we like to
get applause for a talk, pay and appreciation for a job well done, rewards for
a new path explored, a new idea, and an exceptional performance.
This is
fun.
This is something Obama and the others have no understanding of. Obama with
his chin upturned in communist art form style; Pelosi with her giddy school
girl class president ideas of how we should all behave; Gore with his ascetic
and moralistic Green religious zeal. It's all boring.
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DOES THE CONSTITUTION EXIST FOR THE IRS? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
Over the last two weeks, the rule of law has been
strengthened in a couple of major cases, one in the United States and one in
Switzerland, but has been undermined in an action - surprise, surprise - by the
IRS.
On Jan. 22, a Swiss court upheld the rule
of law by saying that an agreement between the U.S. and Swiss governments to
turn over UBS files on private bank clients to U.S. authorities violated Swiss
law.
Switzerland has different laws than the United States
regarding financial privacy and what parts of the tax law are felonies and
which are not. Just because the Swiss law is different does not make it
inferior to U.S. law. (In fact, Switzerland has direct democracy and a very
long tradition of upholding human rights.) The United States considers it a
felony not to file a W-9 tax form, while the Swiss do not consider the failure
to file the appropriate form a felony.
An IRS official said, "We expect the Swiss
government to continue to honor the terms of the agreement" - despite the
agreement having been deemed unlawful. Of course, the IRS has a long tradition
of ignoring the law and the Constitution when it suits its purposes.
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TECHNOLOGY TO PROTECT YOU |
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Written by Mark Gilligan
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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At the Remember The Alamo Rendezvous, I discussed a number of the latest technologies to protect you. Jack asked me to list them for you with a brief description. I'm happy to do so.
Identity Stronghold is a site that sells RFID protectors for licenses, credit cards etc. They also sell passport protectors and wallets that have RFID protector inserts for the all your Security card needs.
Ixquick is simply the safest search browser to use on the globe. They do not track you and your searches are private as they can be on the web. They also have recently introduced a proxy service which allows you to search the entire web safely. To learn more about the proxy service visit here: Proxy
Locational Privacy learn how your preconceived ideas of freedom moving about the mall, county or country are changing. Do what you can to protect your identity and privacy now.
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ECONOMICS IN ONE RAP LESSON |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
While Henry Hazlitt's Economics
In One Lesson remains the best compact textbook on the subject, your kids
still might not get turned on by it.
So consider having them watch something they might find cool
and fun - a rap video!
This is a funny, entertaining - and very educational -
debate in rap style between John Maynard Keynes, the high priest of government
interventionist economics, and Friedrich Hayek, the champion of Austrian laissez faire capitalism.
See if your kids like it.
See what they learn. Bet you can't
resist watching it yourself. Especially
because Hayek kicks Keynes's butt.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/29/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
Amidst all the catcalls and
raspberries directed at Zero's SOTU speech this week - Fred Barnes
called it the "least fresh" and most cliché-ridden such speech in over 30 years
- I must admit I thought it was great.
Perfect, in fact. We couldn't
have asked for anything better.
As Forrest Gump observed, "Stupid
is as stupid does." It doesn't get much
stupider than to ignore the First Rule of Holes - when you're in a hole, stop
digging - except to insist that the way to get out of the hole is to keep
digging ever more feverishly, and to blame everyone but yourself for the hole
you're in.
The SOTU speech confirmed that we
have a narcissistic fool for a president - all ego and no brains. He is,
with stupidly obdurate stubbornness, going to keep doing exactly what has
caused his agenda to fail and his approval ratings to sink ever lower.
This almost guarantees that he
will keep his party on the path to electoral disaster in November. How could we ask for more? Well, here's how.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
Frankly, the last thing in the world I'd like to talk with
you about this week is the latest antics of Zero and the Zerocrats.
They're like some group of high school kids practicing to be
a rock band in their parents' garage. They
don't know how to play but insist they do, and they only know one song which
they play endlessly - a pathetically boring threnody featuring the leader
singing the word "I" over and over and over again.
So, can we please talk about something else - like, the rest
of the world? It's a big place.
Lots of cool - and uncool - things are happening in it. As a matter of fact, it's what I'll be
talking about at the Remember The Alamo Rendezvous in San
Antonio this weekend in my The Map of the Future presentation.
Since most of you are unable to be there, I thought I'd give you a trio
of the highlights.
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SAME PIG, DIFFERENT LIPSTICK |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
President Barack Obama evidently thinks he can
solve his political problems by changing the lipstick on the pig.
In his State of the Union speech last night (1/27),
the president indicated he intends to press forward with the agenda voters in Massachusetts found so objectionable they sent a Republican to the U.S.
Senate for the first time in 38 years.
A CNN poll released Tuesday (1/26) indicated only
30 percent of Americans want Obamacare passed in anything approaching its present
form. But in his SOTU, the president urged Congress: "Do not walk away
from reform. Not now. Not when we are so close."
A CNN poll released Monday (1/25) indicated nearly
75 percent of Americans think at least half the money in the "stimulus" bill passed
in February -- which the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday will cost
$862 billion -- has been wasted. But in the SOTU, Mr. Obama urged the Senate to pass a $154 billion
second stimulus bill the House passed last month.
Same pig, just different lipstick.
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PRESIDENT BARACK "RED HERRING" OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
The performance of the stock market was the one
bright spot in the otherwise dismal year for the economy in 2009. The Dow
Jones Industrial average rose 65 percent from its March low, causing many to
hope it was a harbinger of recovery.
President Barack Obama has fixed that. Last
week the Dow fell 552 points in the three trading days since the president
announced his plans to "reform" the financial services industry.
Of course -- solve the wrong problem, demonize Wall Street, and misdirect attention away from the real culprits, politicians in Washington. Perhaps this president should be nicknamed "Red Herring" Obama.
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SHAPE UP AND START ACTING LIKE AN AMERICAN |
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Written by Harold Estes
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, I turned 95 on December 13 of last year. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during, and
after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest
home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor,
allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind,
blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the
world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: " We're no
longer a Christian nation," and "America
is arrogant." Your wife even announced to the world, "America
is mean-spirited."
I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do
I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this
country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing
for a man sitting in the White House.
So take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an
American.
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THANK YOU, TIM TEBOW |
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Written by Sarah Palin
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
What a ridiculous situation "women's rights" groups are getting themselves into now with their
protest of CBS airing a pro-life ad during the upcoming Super Bowl game.
The ad will feature Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his
mom, and they'll speak to the sanctity of life and the beautiful potential
within every innocent child as Mrs. Tebow acknowledges her choice to give Tim
life, despite less than ideal circumstances.
Messages like this empower women! This speaks to the
strength and commitment and nurturing spirit within women. The message says
everything positive and nothing negative about the power of women - and life.
Evidently, some women's rights groups like NOW do not like that message.
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