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ALBANIA IN AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Tirana, Albania. I had a private dinner with an extraordinary
man last night (10/09) - just the two of us with one of his key advisors. Albania
is very fortunate to have Dr. Sali Berisha (he's a physician with a specialty
in heart surgery) as its Prime Minister.
He's a man of immense erudition and learning who is street
wise in the ways of the world, having dealt with every major leader on the
planet for years. The country he admires
above all others is America.
In this, he speaks for the great majority of Albanians. Albania
is probably the most pro-American country on earth today.
Yet it was a strange and scary experience to hear him relate
the recent history of Albania
- for at one point he seemed to be describing that of America's
instead. What I really hoped he wasn't
describing was the history of America's
immediate future.
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1955-1956: A BOY SCOUT'S FANTASY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
On a Boy Scout camping trip in June, 1955, I sat in my tent
which was pegged into the sands of Carpenteria Beach,
California.
As a lowly Second Class Scout, the biggest goal in my life at the time
was to become a First Class Scout. How
long would that take? I wondered, as I paged through the Boy Scout Handbook
looking at the requirements.
Then I made the mistake of looking at what it took to be a
Star, then a Life Scout, and started imagining.
Dazed with fantasies, I crawled out of the tent with the handbook. When some of the other Scouts saw me with
this puzzled look, they asked, "What's with you, Wheeler?"
Still in a daze, I put my mouth in gear before engaging my
brain, and mumbled, "Do you know that if I made First Class by August, I could
make Star by November and Life by February?"
I wasn't ready for the torrent of derision. "You idiot, Wheeler!" "What a joke, Second Class!" "In your dreams, Bozo!" They walked away with sneers and laughs.
I stood there in the sand in shock. Why had what I said made them so angry -
really angry? I didn't know why
they were so mad, but I didn't care - for now I was mad, so mad I made a
decision right there to turn this fantasy into reality.
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SAY IT TO OBAMA'S FACE, JOHN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
Is he the thoughtful, moderate guy he's appeared to be in the first two
presidential debates? Or is he a closet
radical? The election is less than a month away, and we still don't know.
In his campaign advertising, Sen. McCain has made much of
the association between Sen. Obama and William Ayers, a leader of the
Weatherman domestic terror group in the 1970s who has never expressed regret
for setting bombs in the Capitol, the Pentagon and police stations.
But Sen. McCain didn't mention Mr. Ayers in Tuesday's
debate.
"Why doesn't he say these things to my face?" Sen. Obama
wondered in an interview with ABC after that debate. It's a fair question. And a puzzling one, because the relationship
between Sen. Obama and Mr. Ayers is much closer than Sen. Obama has so far
acknowledged.
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WHAT VOTERS NEED TO KNOW |
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Written by Steve Baldwin
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Here is what American voters need to know.
The following information has been
completed on my own time and not on behalf of any group or organization. It is based upon my own research and uses
contacts I have in all branches of the US government, conversations with think tank
leaders, policy experts, election law attorneys, sources within the McCain
campaign, and top political consultants.
It's a frightening picture. What's even more terrifying is what Obama's America will be should voters ignore the facts below.
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LESSONS FROM BULGARIA |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Can you name a country that has a
flat 10 percent income tax on both personal and corporate income, and that is
also running a budget surplus of 8 percent of gross domestic product (the
equivalent of the United States running a budget surplus of more than $1 trillion)?
The surprising answer is Bulgaria, formerly one of Europe's most backward
countries.
Most of the former communist countries of
Eastern and Central Europe have instituted flat-rate income tax systems. Estonia was the first, and Bulgaria is one of the most recent, having only moved to
the 10 percent flat rate at the beginning of this year.
It's one of several lessons America and the politicians she elects could learn from Bulgaria.
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SOUTH KOREA AND ITS AMERICAN DEFENDERS DESERVE BETTER |
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Written by Neal Asbury
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement was signed June 30,
2007. Its ratification is held hostage by Democrats in Congress including
Senator Obama. Their stated reason for not supporting the agreement is that South
Korea does not import enough U.S.
cars (to placate the United Auto Workers) and restricts U.S.
beef.
Detroit should
build cars that the Koreans want to buy. With gasoline over $10 a gallon there
is not a big market for Hummers and Escalades. The Koreans have offered a
compromise on beef that is acceptable to the U.S.
beef industry which the Democrats are ostensibly defending.
However persuasive this agreement is for U.S workers and
farmers in generating jobs, no matter how important this agreement is in
advancing environmental protections, poverty alleviation and labor rights,
there are 54,229 much more compelling reasons why this agreement must be
ratified. This is the number of Americans that died defending South
Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War.
As a result of their sacrifice there is no more stark contrast
between good and evil in the world today than that of the hermit gulag of North
Korea and the incredible success story of South
Korea. A success story paid for in blood and
treasure of the United States.
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HAPPINESS AND RESILIENCE IN TROUBLING TIMES |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
I don't know about you, but I've been way too caught up in
the dynamics of this election. I've been reading too much, watching too much
TV, checking up on breaking news on the internet, and I have not been happier
for it. Quite the contrary.
The unfortunate truth is that we are dangerously close to
electing an America-hating radical to be President of the United
States, during a time of great financial
upheaval. This makes me anxious and cranky.
It also has me revisiting many of the things that I've
recommended that you do over the past several years, and reminding myself of a
perspective that is vitally important to keep in mind in a dangerous and
volatile world:
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THE LIBERALS ANONYMOUS 12 STEP RECOVERY PROGRAM |
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Written by To The Point News
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
Are you troubled by liberalism? Not sure why your
brain works the way it does? Fear not! Join Liberals Anonymous and recover your
brain with this 12-step program.
Step 1: Admit that you're a liberal.
This is the first step for every liberal on the way to
recovery. It is important to understand that you're not
"progressive," "moderate," or "enlightened."
You're a liberal, and you need to be honest with yourself about that fact.
Step 2: Pledge to support your beliefs with facts.
Realize that truth is more important than moral superiority
and is the only way to come over to reality. You must research beyond
propaganda from the Sierra Club, Hillary Clinton and CNN to understand things
as they really exist in the world. You can no longer argue based on
"feelings" or emotion. You will actually need to back up your
arguments with real information. This is a difficult step, because it
means you can't be lazy any more.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/03/08 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Sofia, Bulgaria.
Dr. Joel Wade couldn't write his column yesterday (10/02) because he was so
nervous waiting for the Palin-Biden debate.
He's feeling a lot better this morning.
So are we all. You betcha.
So let's lift a pint of Kamenitza beer in honor of Sarah
Palin and the hope she has reignited the McCain-Palin ticket...
...Kamenitza is my selection out of a large number of
excellent Bulgarian beers because of its advertising motto: Success
in your hands (there's a picture of a hand holding a bottle), followed by
the ad copy: Because you are successful, we present to you a Bulgarian beer with
character.
You would never, ever see such an ad in any country in Western
Europe. In France
or Germany,
young people sneer at entrepreneurial capitalism as their purpose in life is to
sponge off the state...
...Thus the garish irony of our election in November.
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HOW TO KILL PUTIN'S RUSSIA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Varna,
Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria. I'm sitting on the veranda of my luxury suite
at the five-star Flamingo Grand Hotel with a spectacular view of the Black
Sea, and enjoying a glass of spectacularly good Bulgarian red
wine.
It seems odd that this place of such peace, beauty, and
enjoyment is where to kill Putin's Russia
- but it is, exactly right here.
With Vladimir Putin using his oil billions and traditional
Russian thuggery - murdering opponents, invading neighbors - to reignite the
Cold War and reestablish the Soviet Russian Empire, it's time to think of ways
to put an end to it.
If we got rid of the Soviet Union, it
should be child's play to get rid of Putin's Russia. And it is.
Putin's Russia has a mortal vulnerability.
Exploit that vulnerability, and he, together with his entire imperialist
enterprise is done for. That
vulnerability is not oil. It is...
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1989: SERIOUS PEACE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
This first week of October in 2008, we launch a new
feature in To The Point. It is entitled How We Won The Cold War: A
Personal Account of the Greatest Adventure of Modern Times. "Winning Cold War" for short in the left side
bar.
This calls for an explanation, and a confession.
The confession first.
I have absolutely no excuse whatever for not completing The Jade Steps. After completing 33 chapters, I have only the
concluding last chapter and the epilogue to go, and I haven't done it.
So I hope that by starting another book, it will force and embarrass me enough to finish the
historical novel.
How We Won The Cold
War, however, is no novel. It's the
way things really happened. It's the
book my literary agent (and avid TTP'er) Theron Raines has said what I must
write, the book I owe to history.
The situation is this.
I have completed the first six chapters, which I'll be posting for the
next successive six weeks. They are
setting-the-scene chapters which give me time to get back from my travels and
get back to work (yes, this means finishing The
Jade Steps as well!).
Hopefully, so many of you will bug me so much to keep
posting the next chapter in the series that I will actually get the book
written to completion.
So here we go with an Introductory
Note and Chapter One, 1989: Serious
Peace. Wish me luck.
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IS JOE BIDEN A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
"All you have to do is go down Union street with me in
Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I
spend a lot of time and you ask anybody whether or not the economic and foreign
policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight
years," said Sen. Joe Biden in the vice presidential debate to bolster his
assertion he's in touch with the concerns of the middle class.
That answer suggested otherwise.
"It came as a surprise to us in Delaware
that Joe Biden recently had a meal and talked with patrons at Katie's
Restaurant on Union Street
in Wilmington," said an email
to National Review Online. "Katie's Restaurant closed years ago.
It was on Scott Street
in Little Italy."
The people who fill up at his neighborhood gas station can't
pay for a full tank of gas, Sen. Biden said. Sen. Biden lives in a 7,000
square foot estate on a four acre lakefront lot in Greenville,
which is described as "northern Delaware's
priciest area."
Sen. Biden says things which are not true with
passionate conviction. That's a polite description of a pathological liar.
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THE FIX IS IN FOR OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Who is Will, Good?
Mr. Good Will -- who lists his employer as
"Loving" and his profession as "You" -- has contributed
1,000 times to the Obama campaign.
All the contributions have been in amounts of $25 or less.
But they add up to $17,375 -- far more than the legal limit of $4,600
($2,300 each for the primary and general election campaigns).
Kenneth Timmerman, a reporter for NewsMax, discovered Mr.
Good Will when he reviewed 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest
Federal Elections Commission master file for the Obama campaign.
Mr. Good Will said he was from Austin,
Texas. When I called Directory
Assistance, they could find no listing for him.
Who is Pro, Doodad?
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DON'T THE POLITICIANS WHO CAUSED THIS CRISIS BELONG IN JAIL? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
If government agencies pressure
banks to give loans to people who are poor credit risks, do you view this as a
failure of capitalism or a failure of government? A number of left-wing
politicians and commentators have made the assertion that the financial crisis
is a result of too much deregulation under the "capitalistic"
policies of President Reagan.
Those who make the assertion are
either ignorant of the facts or being untruthful.
What we have seen is not a failure
of free-market democratic capitalism, but another failure of a government that
destroyed the normal market mechanisms for dealing with risk.
There have been many calls for the
"greedy" to be punished, but the political "greed" for
power and money is even more dangerous than excesses practiced by occasional
business people.
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TIME TO RELEARN THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PROSPERITY AND FREEDOM |
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Written by Tony Blankley
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
There is nothing new under the sun. The United States has endured major financial panics
in 1837, 1873, 1893, 1907, 1929, 1933 and now in 2008. Most of these
economic events had ideological and political consequences - as well as the
inevitable economic play-outs.
And, if history is any guide, contrary to the hope of some and the fear of
others, this is not the end of capitalism as we have known it.
But it is true that usually, major economic events have had political as
well as economic consequences. For instance, the panic of 1893, which in some
ways is similar to the current panic, was caused by overbuilding and sloppy
financing of the railroads.
The 1880s had enjoyed dramatic economic expansion, which lead to dangerous
speculation. Once the railroad bubble burst there was a run on the banks, a
contraction of credit, and European investors demanded gold for payments which
forced the reduction in the value of the dollar.
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