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THE IRAN-TURKEY-BRAZIL NUCLEAR DOTS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
The world changed this week and we yawned. Our government and media
utterly
failed to grasp the meaning of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey nuke deal.
What Brazil
and Turkey just
did wasn't intended to impede Tehran,
but to make it harder for Western powers to impose sanctions. Both
countries
want Iran to
run interference for them.
Once Iran
gets the bomb and takes the (slight) heat, Brazil
and Turkey both
intend to go nuclear.
As Western states fantasize about a "nuclear-weapons-free world,"
their developing-world darlings are scrambling like mad to develop
nuclear
arsenals. And we don't get it.
Which leads to the second problem with our asleep-at-the-wheel foreign
policy (content to equate Arizona's
human-rights record with China's):
New alliances are developing that are already destabilizing our
strategic
architecture -- even without nukes.
Let's connect a few of the Iran-Turkey-Brazil dots:
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THE GOLDEN DAYS FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE OVER |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
If you are an elected official, and you
have to make a
choice between raising taxes on your constituents or cutting the number
of
government employees and their salaries, what would you do?
For most of the last few decades, in most
places, the
politicians would just raise taxes. Now that is changing, and here is
why. In
recent weeks, what used to be a rare event is becoming commonplace, and
that is
public employees losing their jobs or having their wages and benefits
cut.
Government employees are rioting in Greece
(as if that
does any good when the cupboard is bare) because many of them are losing
their
jobs. Greece, Spain, Portugal and even the Cayman Islands have announced
they
will be cutting public-employee wages and benefits. Many state and local
governments in the United States are doing the same thing.
As most of the world's governments head
toward a
Greek-style meltdown, taxpayers increasingly realize that if government
spending is growing faster than the economy, there is no way that tax
increases
can solve the problem - and most countries have about reached the limit
of how
much more tax revenue they are going to be able to coerce and extort
from their
citizens.
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RE-ASSERTING OUR LOVE FOR AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
There is no ambiguity about this. Individual
liberty is the founding principle of the United States of America.
There is no higher ideal, no higher
purpose, and no higher meaning for our founders than this.
America is
not just a land mass with borders. It is not a collection of a certain
race of
people; it is not a kingdom or a utopia where the rulers tell us who and
what
we are. To love America,
to be a patriotic American, is to hold the protection of individual
liberty as
the central purpose of government, and the highest responsibility of
citizenship.
I don't see how anyone can be familiar with our founding documents - the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers,
and the
writings of the men and women who led this country into being - without
clearly
understanding this central purpose.
This is a very profound awareness to have: to love America,
to be a patriotic American, is to love individual human liberty.
This is why the left has done everything in their power to undermine and
destroy the idea of patriotism in America
- they do not value individual liberty. They value its political
opposite:
equality of income, social justice, and the molding of humanity through
the
force of government power.
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EMBARRASSED YET? |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
This billboard is to be found in Marshall, Texas, a town near the Louisiana border off Interstate 20 connecting Shreveport with Dallas. TTP salutes "E.M.-- Citizen" who paid for it.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/14/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
Need another example of what's at stake in November? How
about your 401(k) retirement
savings?
Via something called the Employee Benefits Security
Administration, a group of fascisti within the Labor Department, the
Dems are planning
to
seize your and everyone else's savings a lá Argentina
to fund public union worker pensions.
The way to prevent this is a Republican majority in the 112th
Congress. If the Dems keep their
majority, you will see millions of folks pulling all their money out of
their
401(k)s, taking the penalty haircut, and putting it where government
goons
can't steal it.
All those millions need to remember this in November.
***
Now, how about something that will really tick you off?
This
week, plans were announced to build a
gigantic 13-story Moslem mosque near Ground Zero, the site of
Islam's 9/11
attack on America.
Note it will be called "the Cordoba House." What a
telegraphic punch. Cordoba
was the capital of the Islamic Emirate of Al-Andalus (Andalusia)
in Spain,
seized by Moslem invaders from Africa in 711 and
recaptured by Spanish Christians under Ferdinand III of Castille in
1236. What better indication could there be of the
Islamic intent to make America
a Moslem Al-Andalus Emirate?
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THE FATE OF THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
San
Diego, California. The view from my
Westin hotel room overlooks San
Diego Bay and the Pacific
Ocean beyond. The bay is
filled with Navy warships, huge cruise ships, and small sail boats.
The weather is perfect, 69°, the skies
cloudless and smog-free.
California!
The Golden State. I grew up here, in the halcyon
1950s
portrayed in the Happy Days
television series and the Surf City ode
to it by the Beach Boys. So as I look
out at the gorgeous view, I can't help wonder:
How is it possible that Californians screwed their state up so
badly?
Because they ignored the warning of Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) after traveling through America
in 1832, that the greatest danger to America
was no external enemy but would come from within, when "the voters
discover
that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
You've all heard the Chinese curse: May you live in
interesting times. Hinges of history are always
interesting. They are forks in the road,
where the world or an important part of it must choose between freedom
and
cowardice. We have arrived at such a
fork, such a historical hinge.
Prominent economist Robert Samuelson has proclaimed the debt
crisis from Greece
to California as "The
welfare
state's death spiral." But
what sort of phoenix will arise from the ashes of Western welfare
states? Will it be Western at all? Or will
it be Chinese?
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AN INCIDENT OF WHICH YOU SHOULD BE AWARE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
Mr. Kevin W. Toomy
President and Chief Operating Officer
Ruth's
Chris Steak House
Re: An incident of which you should be aware.
Dear Mr. Toomy,
As you are reading this, so are tens of thousands of people
on the Internet.
This past Monday evening, May 10th, with my wife
at a dinner business meeting I decided to treat myself to a steak at
Ruth's
Chris - which I consider the best steak in America
this side of Peter Luger's in Brooklyn.
I arrived at the Ruth's Chris in Tyson's Corner, Virginia
(8521 Leesburg Pike), a little after nine.
My server was a very nice and competent lady named Shannon.
As it was late, the place was fairly
empty: two fellows in a booth across from
me, a quartet at a table to my left, another group to my right, and a
third
group that I could hear but not see.
Shannon took my order and soon
afterwards, both the group on my right and left departed. Only
the group that I couldn't see (plus the
two fellows in the booth) were left and now that the other folks had
gone, I
noticed how loud they were. Really
loud. As I listened, the language they
were speaking was unmistakable. It was
Arabic.
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TAXAHOLICS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
When people are addicted to something,
there are usually
two alternative treatments. One is to attempt to educate them about the
dangers
of whatever they are addicted to, and the other is to remove them from
the
addictive substance so they cannot get their hands on it.
All too many in Washington, particularly
Democrats, but
also some Republicans, are addicted to taxes. This addiction is
particularly
common among policymakers and elected officials, not only in the United
States,
but also worldwide, and is most prevalent in Europe.
Many in the Tea Party movement believe the
best solution
for the taxaholic problem is to remove the taxaholics from political
office
where they do the most damage. A number of those in economic public
policy
organizations, believing in redemption, are trying to educate the
taxaholics
with the hope of weaning them from their destructive ways. Both
approaches have
much merit.
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OUR LEFTIST MEDIA'S PRIMARY HYPOCRISY |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
The first casualty of voter dissatisfaction
with
business as usual in Washington is a (more or less) conservative Republican
senator from Utah.
Robert Bennett, 76, was denied the
opportunity to
run for a fourth term when he garnered only 27 percent of the vote from
delegates to the state GOP convention Saturday (5/8). Under Utah's
rules, a candidate must get at least 40 percent of the
delegate vote to be eligible to run in the state's primary.
"This is a damn outrage," said David
Brooks, a
"conservative" columnist for the New York Times. "It's almost a nonviolent coup," agreed E.
J.
Dionne, a liberal columnist for the Washington Post. "The long promised purge is on," wrote
Kathleen
Parker, a "conservative" columnist for the Post.
The same day Utah Republicans rejected Mr.
Bennett, Utah Democrats forced their only Member of Congress, Rep. Scott
Matheson, into a primary. Liberals were upset with Mr. Matheson because
he voted against Obamacare and carbon taxes.
No journalists described what happened to
Mr.
Matheson as "a damn outrage," a "coup," or a "purge."
The media double standard in which primary
battles
among Republicans are described as "civil wars" reflecting extremism and
intolerance, but primary battles among Democrats are not has reached
ludicrous
proportions in Florida...
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BEAUCOUP DEEP KIMCHEE IN AFGHANISTAN |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
The Afghan room has more than its share of corners, and we've painted
ourselves into every single one of them. Setting aside the Taliban,
we're
suffering from plenty of self-inflicted wounds.
To start, there's the continuing denial that Islam has anything to do with the
Taliban's persistence or Afghan resistance to our goodwill gestures: This
mullah's
corrupt; that suicide bomber wasn't very religious(!); that local
uprising's just a neighborhood feud. Religion has nothing to do with it.
Next, Afghans aren't interested in
fighting for a foreign-backed government or for ethnic groups other than
their
own. If you want to succeed in a tribal society, you exploit tribal
identities. Our officials insist that would undercut our goals. Well,
perhaps
our goals should be more realistic.
So we wind up supporting yet another disdained "president" because
we insist that a tribal society must subject itself to a strong central
government defended by an American-model army that refuses to be built.
This is
not a formula for success.
Another sign that Afghanistan's
in "beaucoup deep kimchee" (as a former NCO of mine
used to say) is that the pundits are already assigning blame -- even on Obama.
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DELEGITIMIZING GOVERNMENT POWER |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
There's a new study out that shows the less the powerful judge their
power as
legitimate, the less likely they are to engage in hypocrisy. In
other
words, if you want to encourage powerful people to live with greater
integrity
- to live more congruently with what they say, and presumably to stop
nagging
us and coercing us to live as they will not - then limit their sense
of entitlement to their power.
Our founders understood this. George Washington set the example of
retiring
as president after two terms, demonstrating the limits to that office's
power.
These are temporary positions of citizen legislators, and that makes
their
legitimacy intrinsically fragile - as it should be.
This concept has been lost by politicians on both sides; I think we need
to
re-assert this very American attitude. Our Representatives, Senators,
Presidents, and everybody else who works in government from bureaucrats
to
public union workers are there at our
pleasure. They derive their powers and paychecks from the consent of
the
governed - that's us.
I propose that in addition to defunding and disobeying, in addition to
limiting the federal government as proposed by the Tenth Amendment Task
Force,
that we also remember the need to generally delegitimize the power of
our
politicians.
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THE DANGER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/07/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 07 May 2010 |
William F. Buckley's most famous quote is: "I'd rather entrust the
government of the United States to the first
400 people listed in the Boston telephone
directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
A corollary to this is that we'd all be far
safer if we entrusted our national security to NASCAR fans than to
Democrats in
Washington - as evidenced by the truck of one
such fan:
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There is such a cornucopia of happenings this week
from
which to choose the most important - and here it is. Let
me redirect your attention away from the
Gulf Oil Spill and the financial meltdown of Europe to
focus on the Republican Study
Committee.
Yes, the most significant event in America this week was the
announcement
that the 115 Members of Congress comprising the RSC have formed a Tenth
Amendment Task Force to formulate a legislative program that will "usher
in a
new era of federalism and disperse power from Washington back to
regions, states
and local governments" under a GOP majority next year.
This dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill or anything else, folks. The
reason was made clear in the British
elections yesterday (5/06).
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CINCO DE REALITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
Today is May 5th - celebrated by American gringos as an excuse to drink cheap tequila margaritas and eat bad Mexican food by calling this day "Cinco de Mayo."
Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa's Cantina or some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US, just what is being celebrated today you'll get either a blank stare or "It's their July 4th " ignorance.
So first the real history. Then the reality - the horrific reality of how the fascists of the American Left are using Mexico to destroy their own country.
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YOU CAN'T STOP MOSLEM TERRORISTS IF YOU DENY THEY EXIST |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 |
MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer is bummed the
man who
put a car bomb in Times Square isn't a right-winger with white skin.
"There was part of me that was hoping that
this
was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country
because
there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to
justify
writing off people who believe in a certain way or who come from certain
countries or whose skin color is a certain way," she said on a radio
show
Tuesday (5/04).
Presumably, New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg also
was bummed to learn the bomber was Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized
citizen of Pakistani extraction who is a
registered Democrat in Connecticut.
On Monday (5/03), Mr. Bloomberg had told
Katie
Couric of CBS he thought the bomber was "homegrown, maybe a mentally
deranged
person or someone with a political agenda who doesn't like the health
care bill
or something."
When he learned the truth, Mayor Bloomberg
did not
apologize for his smear of people who don't like Obamacare. Instead, he
smeared the people of New
York City.
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