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DEMOCRATS WRONG, AL QAEDA RIGHT ON IRAQ |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
There hasn't been a terrorist attack on American soil since
Sept. 11, 2001. The number of experts who, on Sept. 12, 2001, would have
predicted this happy state of affairs is precisely zero. The principal reason why we've been safe at
home these last seven years has been the war in Iraq.
Sen. Obama describes the war in Iraq as a
"distraction" from the war on terror. But that's not how al
Qaeda saw it.
In a 2005 letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaeda's number
two, Ayman al Zawahiri, described Iraq as "the place for the greatest
battle of Islam in this era."
A few months earlier (December, 2004), Osama bin Laden
himself said in an audiotape: "The whole world is watching this war and
the two adversaries; the Islamic nation on the one hand, and the United States
and its allies on the other. It is either victory and glory or misery and
humiliation."
For al Qaeda, Iraq has turned out to be misery and
humiliation. To the great disappointment of Democrats.
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MASTER OF THE O-TURN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
It's a good thing many of Barack Hussein Obama's supporters
don't care much about issues, because their candidate has been changing his
position on them with dizzying speed.
"Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on
Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul 'slashed
rolls by 80 percent'," ABC News reported July 1. "Obama leaves
out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which
precipitated the caseload reduction."
When the Supreme Court overturned the District of
Columbia's ban on handgun ownership June 26, Sen. Obama said he supported the
decision of the 5-4 majority. But last November he told the Chicago
Tribune he thought the DC handgun ban was constitutional. While in the
state legislature, he proposed legislation that would, in effect, have banned
handguns in Illinois.
There are a lot more examples. As a flip-flopper, Obama leaves John Kerry in the dust. He's such a "master of the U-turn" that an Obama political U-turn should be called an O-turn.
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A PESHMERGA'S QUESTION |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
This is Mir Mokhsen, a Peshmerga or Kurdish freedom fighter who has fought in hundreds of battles for Kurdish freedom for half a century. He has faced Saddam Hussein's tanks, Russian-made helicopter gunships, chemical weapons and poison gas, the unspeakable brutality of Saddam's soldiers countless times - and survived.
He has never given up. Never. This revered warrior has a question for you: As an American, the freedom he has risked his life so much for has been given to you - so what are you doing to preserve it?
Mir Mokhsen has heard that there will be a gathering of Americans dedicated to preserving their freedom in Boston at the end of August. He wishes he could attend, but he belongs in the mountains of his beloved Kurdistan. You, on the other hand, belong in Boston, where the American Revolution began.
The To The Point Revolutionary Rendezvous is August 22-24. Don't disappoint Mir Mokhsen. Don't disappoint yourself. Be there and join your fellow TTP'ers for a revolutionary good time.
To participate, click on the Rendezvous box in the TTP left side bar, and call TTP General Manager Miko de los Reyes at 703-992-4529 or
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. Please call or email Miko right away. No procrastinating. That means now!
After all, you wouldn't want Mir Mokhsen to think you're not a freedom fighter, would you?
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INCONVENIENT FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT FOR GLOWARMERS |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
You've probably heard the permanent ice cap in the Arctic
has receded considerably, because the people who are worried about global
warming talk about it all the time.
You may not know ice in Antarctica is growing. This is an
awkward topic for global warming alarmists, because if global warming were, ah,
global, this shouldn't be happening.
So how could ice be melting at the north pole while
it's building up at the south? There's a good reason, but as it's natural and not man-made, glowarming alarmists and their journalistic cheerleaders are paying no attention to it.
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CONGRESSMEN WITHOUT A MIRROR |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
Are you aware that without speculators, most food and
physical products would cost a whole lot more?
Because many members of Congress don't possess a mirror,
they have been looking for the villain who is causing gasoline prices to soar.
A large number, mostly but not exclusively Democrats, have decided that
speculators, or at least "greedy speculators," are the villains.
Many members of Congress make up "solutions" to
things they do not understand and cause problems where there are none or make
real problems worse, which explains the current run-up in gasoline prices.
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HUNGER, FOOD RIOTS, AND THE 2008 FARM BILL |
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Written by Neal Asbury
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
The United States, the European Union, and Japan have used farm subsidies to enrich large agricultural
concerns in their own countries, but at the expense of small farmers from developing
countries such as the Philippines.
You can gain a greater perspective
on this issue by accompanying me on a visit to a poor farmer in Batangas,
Philippines, about two hundred kilometers south of Manila.
Bong Dumlao and his family live on
a mountaintop overlooking the South China Sea where a brisk breeze blows
supplying an endless stream of fresh air. The raspy sound of the wind
fluttering through the towering crown of a banyan tree and ruffling coconut
fawns instills a strange, tenuous serenity. Out in the distance sparsely
inhabited islands dot the bright shimmering sea. There is something about the
sea and fresh air that makes you sleep so deep even in the humblest of
surroundings.
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THE KURDISH MAP |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
One of my favorite lecture topics is "The Map of the
Future." In a talk I've given to
business groups in a number of countries and all over the US, I put a big map
of the world up and start describing the map's illusions.
I point to Russia, the largest country in the world at 17
million square kilometers (msk, 6.5 million square miles or msms); Canada, the
second largest at 10msk, 3.8msm; and Greenland, the world's largest island at
2.2msk, 0.85msm - all totaling 29.2 million square kilometers or 11.3 million
square miles. Spread out across the top
of the map, they look like they take up half the world.
Africa, squat and compact athwart the Equator, looks dwarfed
in comparison. Yet in reality, you
could fit all of Russia, Canada, and Greenland combined into Africa with room
to spare - for Africa exceeds 30 million square kilometers or 11.7 million
square miles.
The flat world map is a lie. Gigantic Greenland is actually the same size as Saudi
Arabia. If you wanted to go directly in
a straight line from Gibraltar to the Bering Straits, you wouldn't go across
Russia, you'd go across the North Pole.
"Now let's talk about another set of lies and illusions on
this map," I continue. "These lines
drawn all over, which governments of countries call their ‘borders,' and claim
they actually exist. They are desperate
to keep the illusion that they exercise ‘sovereignty' within their ‘borders'
and will do anything to preserve the illusion."
The Kurds, at 40 million the largest ethnic group in the
world without their own country, are in the geopolitical business of exposing
such illusions. To see how, let's take
a look at two maps, one from the past, another from a proposed future.
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'ANY AMERICAN WHO HATES GEORGE BUSH IS CRAZY' |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
You're looking at the oldest continuously occupied city in
the world. For 7,000 years, people have
been living in what is now called the Citadel - the same people who live there
now: the Kurds. The Citadel is the center of Erbil, capital
of Iraqi Kurdistan.
I am writing this from a hotel room - with wireless
Internet! - overlooking this most ancient of cities. The sense of history here is enormous. A couple of dozen miles northeast of here is a wide flat plain
called Gaugemela, where in 331 BC, the 40,000 Greek soldiers of Alexander the
Great met the 100,000 Persians of Darius III.
Utilizing a battle strategy so masterful it is studied by
all students of warfare, Alexander destroyed the Persian army, killing 50,000
at a loss of 4,000. Darius fled and was
killed by his own generals, who surrendered the entire Persian Empire to
Alexander. The Kurds celebrated their
liberation from Persian tyranny, and thanked their god, Yazdan, and his prophet,
Zoroaster, for Alexander.
Today, they thank Yazdan for George W. Bush.
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THE SHAMEFUL SCUM OF THE SCANDAL OF HADITHA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
A lie can get half way around the world before the truth can
lace up its combat boots. This is especially true when the lie is propagated by
a major news magazine and a senior member of Congress.
On March 19, 2006, Time Magazine published an article
written by Time reporter Tim McGirk which in effect accused a squad of Marines
of having murdered civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and their superiors of covering
it up.
"It's much worse than reported in Time Magazine,"
said Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa, at a press conference May 17, 2006.
"There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these
innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them
and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
On December 21, 2006, four enlisted Marines were charged
with multiple counts of murder. Later, four officers in their chain of
command were charged with having covered up the murders. The news
coverage of the indictments was enormous.
This Tuesday (6/17), a military judge dismissed charges
against LtCol. Jeffrey Chessani. He was the seventh of the eight Marines either
to have the charges against him dismissed, or be found not guilty. Yet Tim McGirk and Jack Murtha are not the
only shameful scum responsible for the scandalous treatment of the Haditha
Marines - we must include the Navy prosecutors as well.
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THREE SIGN POSTS TO A MCCAIN VICTORY |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has the lead for the time being.
But three sign posts point the way to a McCain landslide in November --
in the unlikely event the Arizona senator has the wit to heed them.
What figures to be by far the most important issue this fall
is the skyrocketing price of energy and its deleterious effect on the broader
economy and national security.
National security is the one issue Sen. McCain knows
something about, and Sen. Obama knows nothing. However, the fact that
we're winning the war on terror makes most Americans less interested in it, and
more focused on economic concerns.
Voter anxiety about Sen. Obama's fitness to be
commander in chief is a strong subsidiary issue. But this election will
be won or lost at the gas pump.
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OIL AND CHINA |
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Written by Neal Asbury
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Hong Kong has always been a city that gets my pulse rate
racing. On my first visit there many
years ago, I got an adrenalin rush even before I cleared customs at the
now-closed Kai Tak International Airport.
Final decent into Hong Kong required a sharp banking turn
that seemed like the tip of the airplane wing would rip the clothes-lines off
the balconies of the dismally gray, boxy apartment buildings that soared
several stories above the green jagged mountains. We flew so close I could make
out the silhouettes of the residents playing mahjong at their kitchen tables.
A few seconds later the wheels slammed the hardened
concrete and the brakes made a sudden jerk bringing our 747 to an abrupt stop
at the end of the runway built on reclaimed land that extended several hundred
meters into Victoria Harbor. From the sea all around oozed a distinctive smell
that alerted each passenger they had arrived at the world's most unrestricted
bastion of capitalism.
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FEDERAL PROSECUTORS AS INTERNATIONAL THUGS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Imagine a fellow who lives in a
dry county in Mississippi (where alcohol is not sold or served) goes to New
York and has a drink at a bar where he knows the bartender. Shortly thereafter,
the bartender visits his friend in that dry county in Mississippi. The local
sheriff arrests both the bartender and his friend for an act committed in New
York.
Most people, quite properly so,
would argue the Mississippi sheriff has no business arresting people for a
legal act committed in New York, even though it would have been illegal if
committed in Mississippi.
Unfortunately, some prosecutors in the U.S.
federal government are now acting like the rogue Mississippi sheriff described
above when it comes to gambling, securities and tax laws in foreign countries.
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THE POST TURTLE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas
cowboy rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the
doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. and his bid to be
our President.
The old cowboy said, "Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle'."
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle'
was.
The old cowboy said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come
across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'."
The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to
explain.
"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he
doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just want to help the
dumb ass get down."
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DUMB AND DUMBER: MCCAIN AND OBAMA ON OUR OIL |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Sen. John McCain plans to visit Colombia and Canada this
summer, presumably to contrast his views on free trade with those of Sen.
Barack Hussein Obama. He may also visit Iraq, in part to remind people
Sen. Obama hasn't been there in more than two years.
Sen. McCain should add one more stop on his summer travel
itinerary. He should visit the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area
about the size of South Carolina in Alaska's far north.
Oil companies want to drill in a portion of ANWR roughly the
size of Dulles airport, where the U.S. Geological Survey thinks there may be
10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil, an amount equivalent to 37 percent of
the current U.S. proved reserves of 21.7 billion barrels.
But Sen. McCain says he'd no sooner drill in ANWR than
in the Grand Canyon. And Sen. Obama is even dumber than that.
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HAPPINESS ISN'T ALWAYS VIRTUOUS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Happy people make the world a better place. They tend to be
more virtuous and to bring positive relationships and effective problem solving
where they go.
But not always.
Some of the happiest people on earth are those who hold very
rigid and inflexible beliefs with absolute certainty. And these are also the
people who tend to make life miserable for the rest of us.
The terrorist leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi talked about how miserable he had been before he committed himself
fully to his "cause", and how happy he had been since - happily beheading
innocent people for the cameras so that he could horrify as many people as he
could.
I don't doubt that he actually felt happy. He was totally
absorbed in what he considered meaningful "work", and he could put everything
he had into it, without the burden of doubt or reflection. He was certain, and
passionate, and committed. Happily, our
soldiers killed him in June, 2006.
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