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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/30/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
We've a lot of ground to cover for this week's HFR, but
first let's ask - who knew Connie
Mack (R-FL) has gone senile at 42 years old? Of course
the Fascist Democrats of the
Anti-American Left are hysterically demagoguing Arizona's
anti-illegal alien law. But Connie? What
kind of bizarre mental dysfunction
caused him to compare Arizona to
Nazi Germany?
You'd expect RINOs like Karl Rove, Jeb Bush, and Lindsey
Graham to wimp out. And now we can see
that for Lincoln Diaz-Barlart (R-FL), his Hispanic
blood is
thicker than patriotism. But again,
Connie? Maybe the
open-borders/cheap-labor-for-business folks at the Wall Street Journal
got to
him.
Whatever. Let's now
go back to the
HFR of January 23, 2009, which said:
What could be more appropriate, on
the eve of the TTP Carefree Rendezvous, than to hoist a pint of Four Peaks Ale brewed here
in
Arizona to an inspiring woman Republican governor who drives liberals
out of
their minds because she is a pro-family, pro-life, pro-Christian,
anti-tax,
anti-government spending, anti-illegal immigration Reagan conservative.
Nope, we're not talking about Sarah Palin - however much the HFR is
happy to
hoist a glass in admiration of her at any time. We're talking about another fine lady who, in addition to all the great
qualities above, has the greatest name for drinking to one could ever
ask: Jan Drinkwine Brewer...
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THE BARBERS OF DUSSELDORF |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
One of Margaret Thatcher's more trenchant observations is: "The
problem with socialism is that sooner or
later you run out of other people's money."
The purpose in life for most politicians anywhere in the
world is to, by whatever sleight-of-hand shell game they think they can
get
away with, make that run-out-of-other-people's-money moment forever
later.
The world's spotlight is currently on politicians in Europe
who are frantically, hysterically, desperately engaging in this shell
game. The question of the immediate
moment is: will the barbers of Dusseldorf
let them get away it - or at last and for once, put an end to it?
For if they opt for the latter, they could precipitate an
end to Washington's shell game here
in America.
First, the background, starting with the Greek Limbo
Dance.
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OUR #1 NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT IS MEXICO |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
South of the border, down Mexico
way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes.
After
less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached
22,000.
The rate of killing accelerates each month. And Washington
covers its eyes like a kid at a scary movie. Well, the Mexican
narco-insurgency, in which well-armed guerrilla forces confront the
authority
and presence of the state, is our No. 1 security challenge.
The chaos in northern Mexico
has far deeper implications for our country than Islamist terror or even
an
Iranian nuclear capability (as grim as those threats are).
The rule of law has collapsed from Tijuana
(across from San Diego, California)
on the Pacific's edge to Matamoros
(across from Brownsville, Texas)
on the Gulf of Mexico. Major cities are now
"ungoverned spaces," as our diplomats refer tidily to distant trouble
spots.
And Arizona's "discriminatory" new state law
empowering police to pursue criminal aliens? Should Phoenix
let the rule of law collapse because Washington prefers
political correctness to public
safety? In DC, it's about politics. In Arizona, it's about
survival.
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AVOIDING A PYRRHIC NOVEMBER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
The backlash against President Barack
Obama's
radical policies has grown so large even the New York Times has noticed.
"The fight for the midterm elections is not
confined to traditional battlegrounds," wrote Jeff Zeleny and Adam
Nagourney in
a lengthy analysis Monday (4/26). "Republicans have expanded their
sights
to places where political challenges seldom develop."
If nothing much changes between now and
November,
Republicans are likely to have their greatest victory since 1994, when
they won
54 seats in the House to take control of that body for the first time
since
1952, and 8 seats in the Senate, to win control there for the first time
since
1986.
Republicans could have their best midterm
elections since 1946, when they gained 55 seats in the House and 13 in the
Senate.
I write this column not to belabor the
giddy
Republican prospects in 2010, but to point out that the GOP landslides
in 1994
and 1946 were followed by Democratic victories in the presidential races
two
years later. In 1948, Democrats also retook control of the House and
Senate.
If a 2010 victory isn't to be Pyrrhic,
Republicans
had better figure out what went wrong in 1948 and 1996. Especially 1996.
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CALIFORNIA'S CROOKED CORRUPT COURTS |
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Written by Alex Alexiev
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
A distinguished 70-year-old
attorney in poor health has been sitting in solitary confinement in
"coercive
incarceration" in the notorious Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail
without
being charged, tried, or convicted of anything since March 4, 2009.
In effect, he was thrown in
jail for an indefinite period with no bail or hearing set for blowing
the
whistle on judicial corruption in California.
The chain of events that led to his incarceration was set in motion in
2000,
when Richard Fine became aware that L.A.
superior court judges were receiving illegal "judicial benefits"
payments from Los
Angeles County,
despite the fact that lawsuits against that county were often
adjudicated by
these same judges, thus creating clear conflict of interest problems.
In other words, the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors, with taxpayer funds, was bribing superior
court
judges to decide cases in favor of the county. This is "the greatest judicial scandal in American history," as Mr. Fine says, and he has become an American political prisoner because of it.
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FINANCIAL FASCISM |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
The "Dodd financial reform" bill being considered by the Senate
will make it illegal for 99.6 percent of the population to invest in
needed new
and promising start-up companies. At the same time, the bill ensures that the 33 largest banks, which
control
92 percent of all bank assets, will be required to purchase more federal
government debt before giving loans to businesses and individuals.
Quite simply, the government is continuing to practice financial
fascism.
The new financial reform bill will make it illegal to invest in a
new
venture or start-up company for anyone who does not have a liquid net
worth of
$2.2 million or an annual income of roughly $450,000 if single or
$675,000 if
married - which rules out all but fewer than 1 percent of the
population.
If this passes and is signed into law, Congress and the president will
be
saying to the American people, "Ninety-nine-plus percent of you are too
stupid to know how to invest your own money." They think the rest of us
are as irresponsible as they are.
What right do the financial fascists
in Washington, who created the world's biggest financial Ponzi schemes
(i.e.,
Social Security and Medicare) and the largest unsustainable debt in
history,
have to tell more than 99 percent of the rest of us what we can and
cannot
invest in?
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HEROIC DEFIANCE AND GOOD MANNERS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I
won't tolerate it." --Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow Call in "Lonesome Dove"
These words were said after Call had pounded a cavalry scout to a bloody
pulp for beating his son.
Anyone familiar with this
scene (one of my personal favorites) knows that Call's behavior,
violent
though it was, was appropriate to the time and the situation. He knew
who he
was, who the other people were, and what his role needed to be in that
moment.
There is some confusion these days between good manners and blind
obedience;
and between bad behavior and heroic defiance. I thought it would be
useful to
clarify it a bit. Especially because these distinctions are what distinguishes TeaPartyers from the vulgar, violent protests of the Left.
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
The difference between the North and the
South clearly explained....at last
The North has Bloomingdale's;
the South has Dollar General .
The North has coffee houses;
the South has Waffle Houses .
The North has dating services;
the South has family reunions.
The North has switchblade knives;
the South has .45's
The North has the Rust Belt;
the South has the Bible Belt .
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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/23/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
Jack
Kelly
asked this week: Are there no limits to Democrat
corruption? The corollary question is: Is
there
no end to Democrat fascism?
Day by day, the evidence mounts:
the answers are: no limits, no end.
Prominent political analyst Michael Barone's term for
fascism is Gangster Government, and accuses Zero and the Democrats of
instituting it. The Dodd Bailout Bill of
"financial reform" is a perfect example.
He notes:
"Republicans have been accurately
attacking the Dodd bill for authorizing bailouts of big Wall Street
firms and
giving them unfair advantages over small competitors. They might want to
add
that it authorizes Gangster Government -- the channeling of vast sums
from the
politically unprotected to the politically connected."
The extent of this can be seen in this five page
list
of exemptions or "carve-outs" in the 1,400 page Bailout Bill.
As TTPer "Rockymount" observes on the Forum, the Bailout
Bill will place "the President and his Czars in complete control of this
nation's
financial system." Can't get a lot more
fascist than that. The Dems, though, disagree.
They think they're just getting
started.
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THE MUSEUM OF BARBARISM IN THE ISLAND OF LOVE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
Paphos, Cyprus. There are 45
countries in Europe -- and when I got the chance to take a look at
the only one I hadn't yet been to, I couldn't pass it up. So
here I am in Cyprus.
Let's begin our story with Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of
Love, who was born here. Then we'll talk
about Audrey Hepburn, Lazarus, Richard the Lion-Heart, Snow White, and
Othello before
we get to the Museum of Barbarism.
We'll wrap it up with what I would recommend regarding Cyprus to President Palin.
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COULD AMERICA BECOME ARGENTINA? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
A
century ago, if you had told typical citizens of Argentina (which at
that time
was enjoying the fourth-highest per capita income in the world) that it
would
decline to become just the 76th richest nation on a per capita basis in
2010,
they probably would not have found it believable.
They
might have responded, "This could not happen; we are a nation rich in
natural resources, with a great climate for agriculture. Our people are
well
educated and largely descended from European stock. We have property
rights,
the rule of law and an open free-market economy."
But
the fact is, Argentina has been going downhill for eight decades, and it
now has
one of worst sovereign
credit
ratings in the entire world - on a par with Pakistan and lower than
Bangladesh. Argentina, despite its natural resources and human capital,
has
managed to throw it all away.
Argentina
did not become relatively poor because of having been involved in
destructive
conflicts. It became poor because it has had a series of both
democratically
elected leaders and non-elected dictators who never missed an
opportunity to
make the wrong economic decisions.
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ARE THERE NO LIMITS TO DEMOCRAT CORRUPTION? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
Think of it as Obamacare for banks.
Like Obamacare, the massive financial
"reform"
bill introduced by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT, addresses a serious problem...
but
would, at great expense, make a bad situation much worse.
Most of us are painfully aware the subprime
mortgage crisis nearly destroyed our economy.
At the heart of the crisis was fraud.
Money
was lent to poor credit risks who couldn't pay it back. For instance, a
strawberry picker in Bakersfield, California, with an income of $14,000 a year was lent
$724,000.
How could firms such as Countrywide
Mortgage and
Long Beach Savings which were making such loans expect to make money on
them? By being protected by the most corrupt senator on Capitol Hill -- Chris Dodd. And now Mr. Dodd wants a Bailout Bill that makes that protection permanent and endlessly taxpayer-funded.
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THE SMEAR OF SEDITION |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
What a difference an election can make!
"Dissent is the highest form of
patriotism," we
were told by leading pundits and Democrat politicians from Jan. 20, 2001
to Jan. 19, 2009.
And, according to these same worthies,
there were
few more noble ways to express dissent than protest demonstrations,
which were
frequent during the Bush administration. For some, this was true even
if
the demonstrations turned violent.
"Rioting is the voice of the unheard," Rep.
Maxine
Waters, D-CA, told the Los Angeles Times after the Rodney King riots in
1992.
Their attitudes have changed since Jan. 20, 2009.
Today, criticism of the president is "borderline
sedition," said Time columnist Joe Klein. It could lead to another Oklahoma City
bombing, warned former President Bill Clinton.
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DON'T WORRY AMERICA – ISRAEL IS BEHIND YOU |
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Written by Caroline Glick
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
Israel's
status as the US's most vital ally in the Middle East
has been so widely recognized for so long that over the years, Israeli
and
American leaders alike have felt it unnecessary to explain what it is
about the
alliance that makes it so important for the US.
This week - April 19 - we celebrate Israel's 62nd
Independence Day. As the Obama administration is openly
distancing the US from Israel while giving the impression that Israel is a
strategic impediment to the administration's attempts
to strengthen its relations with the Arab world, recalling why Israel is
the US's most important ally in the Middle East
has become a matter of some urgency.
Much is made of the fact that Israel is a
democracy. But we seldom consider why the fact that Israel is a
representative democracy matters. The fact that Israel is a
democracy means that its
alliance with America reflects the will of the Israeli
people. As such, it remains constant regardless of who is power in Jerusalem.
All of the US's other alliances
in the Middle East are with authoritarian regimes
whose people do not share the pro-American views of their leaders. The
death of
leaders or other political developments are liable to bring about rapid
and
dramatic changes in their relations with the US.
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CONSERVATIVE DYNAMISM AND LIBERAL BONDAGE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
There is a fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives in
terms of what they want for their fellow man. One is an open vision of
expansion and unpredictable possibilities, the other is a limited vision with a
pre-determined endpoint that can never be reached, but only more and more
closely approached.
To conserve is to hold constant, to preserve, to save. What we as modern
conservatives in America
are trying to conserve are the founding principles of our country, which have
allowed the greatest expansion of human possibility in the history of mankind. This is conservative dynamism.
The liberal position is built on a fundamental rejection of human nature,
and seeks to equalize what cannot really ever be equalized. But in pursuit of
this hypothetical equality, they are willing to unleash the full power of all
levels of government to force people to do all kinds of limiting behaviors. This is liberal bondage.
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