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Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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Lying to a
Grand Jury is a very serious crime. We know this because
when Bill Clinton lied under oath to a Grand Jury, he was
sentenced to 30 years in a federal penitentiary. His fellow
Democrats, putting patriotism before party, all agreed that
perjury and obstruction of justice were inexcusable
violations of law, and that no one, not even the President
of the United States, was “above the law.”
What’s that? Bill Clinton willfully perjured himself and
impeded the special prosecutor’s investigation but got off
scot-free? And the Democrats celebrated, rather than
condemned, his evasion of justice? Oh….
I guess, like Bogart in Casablanca, I was
misinformed.
With the farce of a goody-two-shoes prosecutor named Patrick
Fitzgerald spending $20 million to indict a ham sandwich
named Scooter Libby for a crimeless crime, it’s time we all
stopped misinforming ourselves about what form of government
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Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005
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| The Kabuki
Dance now underway between Soon-To-Be Justice Alito and
Senate Democrats makes me think of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
The Democrats (and
pro-abortion Republicans like Arlen Specter) will be
desperately trying to get Alito to forswear any overthrow of
sacred SCOTUS “precedents” such as Roe v. Wade, while Alito
will genuflect before the precedent shrine and mellifluously
commit to nothing.
Both sides will assiduously
avoid any discussion of how these precedents were
established in the first place – by overthrowing previous
ones – what justified their establishment, and what would
justify replacing them with new ones today.
Instead, there will be
monotonous droning on about the legal concept of stare
decisis (Latin for “to stand by that which is
decided”), and how it makes Roe v. Wade set in
unquestionable stone.
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Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 03 November 2005
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Hitler’s
infamous question is being asked anew by Moslem immigrants,
characterized by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as
“thugs” and “scum,” now into their eighth day of violence in
Parisian slum suburbs.
French President Jacques Chirac promptly condemned Sarkozy
rather than the Moslem rioters. Such talk by Sarkozy –
Chirac’s main political rival – showed a “lack of respect”
for the rioters, which “could lead to a dangerous
situation.”
Further confirmation that France is doomed.
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Chapter Fourteen:
HORROR AND HEAVEN IN ZAUTLA |
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Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005
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| Cortez
finally broke the silence to turn and say to Padre
Bartholomew de Olmedo behind him, “It seems that there
remains nothing more to do but set up a cross.”
The Padre quietly
objected. “Captain, I think it would be rash to do so
this soon. These people know nothing of our religion,
and will commit sacrilege against any cross we leave
here, and we intend not to tarry here long. It would be
best to wait until they have learned more of our holy
faith.”
Cortez nodded. “I shall
heed your wise advice, Padre. Let us retire, gentlemen.”
He stood, together with the officers accompanying him,
bowed to King Olintecle still sitting in a daze, and
left for the quarters provided him. “It has been a long
day – a long week,” he said to his officers. “It will be
good to have a roof over our heads for the night.” They
dispersed. Malinali stayed. Cortez’s eyes invited her to
step inside his room.
* * * * *
For the very first time, Malinali was
alone with Cortez. It was what she wasn’t feeling that
surprised her. Instead of an emotional tumult of fear,
anxiety, heart-thumping excitement, and all the rest she
thought would overwhelm her when she dreamed of this
moment, instead she felt as serene and calm as still
water. They stood soundlessly looking at each other.
Cortez, too, seemed filled with her serenity. Finally he
spoke.
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THE CERTAINTY OF
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Neal Asbury
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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Transparency International recently released their
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2005. It may
surprise some that China is seriously corrupt with a
score of 3.2. It scored worse than Egypt, Laos and
Syria.
This brings to light a real dilemma. China is one of
the most seriously corrupt countries in the world.
To get our trade deficit under control we must quickly
sell more American products to China. However, American
exporters must deal each day with corrupt government
agencies and practices.
At the same time, American businessmen must contend with
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This makes it
against U.S. law to give any sort of bribe, kick back or
“facilitation fee” to a government official of a foreign
country to obtain business or gain some advantage.
With the extent of corruption in China, it is impossible
to avoid this reality to win contracts or to run
China-based subsidiaries that sell U.S. made products.
To make significant progress for American exports to
China, it will be impossible to stay within U.S. law.
Meanwhile, more American jobs are lost each day while
our manufacturing industry is being hollowed out by the
unfair and corrupt practices of one of our most
important trading partners
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Jack Kelly
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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The
president went on television to announce: “Earlier
today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike
military and security targets in Iraq. Their mission is
to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten
its neighbors.”
“There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is
working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will
likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years,”
the vice chairman of the Intelligence committee told the
Senate.
The president was Bill Clinton (Dec. 16th, 1998). The
senator was Jay Rockefeller (Oct. 10th, 2002).
These statements should be kept in mind when assessing
the hissy fit Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid threw
Tuesday when he called the Senate into secret session to
discuss whether Bush administration officials had
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Michael Ledeen
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005
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In
response to Iran's call for the elimination of Israel,
tonight (Nov.2) in Rome, thousands, probably tens of
thousands, will demonstrate in support of the Jewish
state.
The demonstration has been organized by Giuliano
Ferrara, the larger-than-life editor of the feisty daily
newspaper il Foglio, and the demonstrators will
range from members of some Italian Islamic organizations
to foreign minister Giancarlo Fini (long a bete noire of
America's "leading" newspapers and networks), just back
from a trip to the Middle East.
It takes courage to stand up publicly for Israel against
the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, especially in
contemporary Europe, where anti-Semitism is on the rise,
where the Jewish population is minuscule (there are
slightly more than 40,000 in all of Italy, less than one
percent of Italians), and where the Islamic population
is expanding rapidly.
I have not noticed any such demonstrations here, for
example. But the Italians, as is their wont, have once
again broken the stereotype most foreigners hold of
them, and have directly challenged the mullahs.
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Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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One of
the major contributors to one’s quality of life is a
sense of trust. The more you feel that you can trust the
people in your life, trust the organizations you belong
to and the community in which you live, the better for
your sense of happiness and well being.
Unfortunately, this is one of the areas in the US that
has gotten worse over the past 50 years, and this
growing distrust limits happiness.
Now, you have probably been hurt at some point in your
life by somebody who betrayed your trust. Most of us
have. You may have some doubts about the trustworthiness
of some of the people in your life. Most of us do. This
matters; how other people treat you matters. But it is
not everything, and those people are not everyone.
You can choose to focus on how awful this state of
affairs is, how you just can’t trust anybody anymore,
etc. But that just leaves you helpless and bitter and
unhappy. I think we can do better than
that.
Let me suggest three actions for you to take:
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POLITICAL NASDAQ - -
October 28 - November 3, 2005 |
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Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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Last
Friday (Oct. 28) was Indictment Day for Mr. Libby, but
you would think it was the biggest holiday of the year
for the Leftists. If you were watching the Nasdaq, you
would have found it convincing that the market is indeed
political. The market’s motions were all about the ups
and downs of the Indictment experience in intricate
detail.
Initially the market was set to go down, and it did.
When it was announced that the indictment papers would
be forthcoming at noon, then market went up. As noon
approached, the market went up even more steeply. When
the papers were not forthcoming at noon, there was a
brief leveling off and then down again.
When the papers were revealed, and no mention of Rove
was in them, the market dropped. Libby resigned and it
went up again. Cheney accepted the resignation and it
went up further. It shot up when the press conference
was held. You can see this detail in the graph below.
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Dennis Turner
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Friday, 04 November 2005
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I first
became away of
brainpop.com when a friend said she’d be sure I’d
like to see the site. Her children has learned more
about science from the site (in her case the Hebrew
version) than they ever did in their classes.
I suspect you’d like your children to frequent it as
well.
Between five and six million children in the US log on
every day to brainpop.com, the on-line educational site
founded six years ago by Israeli-born physician Dr.
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