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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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NEITHER TRUSTED NOR FEARED NOR RESPECTED |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
"Let me be clear: I'm not normally in
favour of boycotts, and I love the American people. I holiday in their country
regularly, and hate the tedious snobby sneers against the United States. But the American people chose to elect an
idiot who seems hell bent on insulting their allies, and something must be done
to stop Obama's reckless foreign policy, before he does the dirty on his allies
on every issue."
--London Daily Telegraph editor Alex Singleton,
March 11.
One of the most poorly kept secrets in Washington is President Obama's animosity toward Great Britain, presumably because of what he regards as its sins while
ruling Kenya (1895-1963). "It is truly shocking that Barack Obama has
decided to disregard our shared history," notes one British writer. "Does Britain's friendship really mean so little to him?"
One could ask, does the friendship of anyone in
the entire world mean anything to him? Apparently not.
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THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE |
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Written by Caroline Glick
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
An alliance between the Marxist Left and Jihad Islam - known as the
Red-Green Alliance - is on the march.
Israel is
not the only target of the Red-Green alliance. Its operations span the globe. In Nigeria
on Sunday night (3/07), the Jihadists led the charge. With the apparent collaboration
of the Moslem-dominated Nigerian army, Moslem gangs entered three predominantly
Christian villages around the city of Jos
and killed innocent civilians, including children with machetes, axes, and
daggers.
The worldwide leftist media ignored the atrocity - or said it had nothing to do with religion. And while this was going on, Joe Biden was in Israel -- and promptly showed where the Obama
administration's true sympathies lay: with the Red-Green Alliance.
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SOBER OPTIMISM IN IRAQ – THANKS TO GEORGE BUSH |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
Threats, bombs and at least 36 dead didn't stop Iraqis from voting on
Sunday, March 7. But the harder part -- forming a new, more inclusive national
government -- lies ahead.
Formal results won't come for a few days. We'll learn how many votes,
authentic and fraudulent, went to each of the big five parties and fringe
elements. But the news looks good, so far. There are solid grounds for sober optimism and the expectation of slowly
improving government in Baghdad.
The elections happened. And they were genuinely contested -- not
merely on ethnic or religious lines but on national issues, as well.
For all its tragic missteps, the Bush administration may have done a great
thing in the end: Democracy in Iraq
may work to a serviceable degree. That would, indeed, change the Middle
East for the better over time. History may owe President Bush a great debt of gratitude.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF EARNING HAPPINESS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
Researchers studying happiness and well-being look at three major measures:
Positive Emotion, Negative Emotion, and Life Satisfaction.
It would be wonderful in theory if, in general, people felt lots of positive
emotion, not much negative emotion, and high life satisfaction. It's also true
that it's nice for people to own their own homes, but the government's attempts
to the force this outcome is part of what lead to our current financial
troubles.
Owning a home is not the most important thing; being in a position to own
your own home through practicing the values and behaviors that can earn you a
middle class or higher standard of living is what makes home-ownership
meaningful. It's not the amount of money
that you have and what you could buy with it, but what you had to do to achieve it that matters.
Because so many psychologists are left-wing, they care more about positive emotion, feeling happy, than they do about life satisfaction, which involves earning one's happiness. Liberals hate it when someone has to earn something.
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THE STORY OF OL' BLUE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
A young cowboy from Texas
goes off to college. Halfway through the semester, he has foolishly squandered
all his money.
He calls home. "Dad," he says,
"You won't believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program
here in College Station that will
teach our dog, Ol' Blue how to talk!"
"That's amazing," his Dad
says. "How do we get Ol' Blue in that program?" "Just send him
down here with $1,000" the young cowboy says. "I'll get him in the course."
So, his father sends the dog and $1,000.
About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out. The
boy calls home.
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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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