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PREDATORY WEALTH DESTRUCTION Print E-mail
Written by Richard Rahn   
Friday, 16 April 2010

The U.S. and most other governments of the world are issuing debt at such a rapid rate and at such high levels, with no real plans to reverse such behavior, that it is almost a certainty they will not pay back what they owe.

An insightful European banker suggested to me over breakfast a couple of weeks ago that the European political class would use selective expropriation, rather than inflation, to avoid paying back all of the debt.

The way this would be done would be that the political leaders would announce they would only pay back those bonds with full interest that were held by labor unions and other "politically correct" interest groups but not the bonds held by "greedy bankers" and rich people. Maturities would be extended and promised interest rates lowered - effectively reducing the value of the bonds.

My initial reaction was that, yes, such a selective expropriation might work in Europe, but not in the United States. As I thought more about it, however, looked at what was happening, and heard President Obama's rhetoric attacking "greedy" bankers and insurance companies, I began to think that not only was my European friend right about Europe, but his scenario was equally valid here.

Look at the evidence.
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WHERE IS OUR STORY OF LIBERTY? Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Joel Wade   
Friday, 16 April 2010

[Note from Jack Wheeler:  What Joel has to say here is so critically important and beautifully written I am compelled to make it a Free Access article.  Millions of Americans would benefit from reading and absorbing it.]

If you give someone the choice between a great story and the truth, it's the story that usually wins out.

This is something that the left understands well. This is why Saul Alinsky's method of attacking the character of individual opponents is so effective: it makes a compelling story; the kind of story that gets millions of people tuning in to the most awful news; the kind of story that gets people gossiping and wallowing in negativity.

A story doesn't have to be uplifting and inspiring to have power, it can just as well be frightening, horrifying or degrading, playing into the worst impulses of human nature.

We have a fantastic, epic adventure story all the way through to about the time of the Civil War and the days of the Wild West. Then we've got a few great chapters since. But ever since the progressive movement tried to usurp our constitutional republic and refocus our attention on making better people through more powerful government, all we've been doing, really, is trying our best to stop them.  Where is our story of liberty?
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THE OBAMA GROVEL GAUGE Print E-mail
Written by To The Point News   
Friday, 16 April 2010

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Everyone who voted for this man to be our president should grovel in apology to America.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/09/10 Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   
Friday, 09 April 2010

Let's start the HFR this week by my asking you to stop reading it.  What I suggest you do right now, this very moment is to pick up the phone and call the local offices of both US Senators in your state.

Ask to speak to the staffer who handles foreign policy/national security issues for the Senator.  Tell him or her that as a voting constituent, you respectfully request that the Senator vote NO on Senate Ratification on the nuclear arms control treaty - mislabeled "START II" as that was a treaty back in January 1993 - with Russia signed by Mr. Obama in Prague on April 8th.

Explain that you consider this treaty to be dangerous to America in the extreme, as it requires the US to freeze its nuclear weapons technology, but not Russia.  This is, as critics are putting it, an open invitation to Russia to modernize its way to nuclear dominance.

Do not get into a discussion with the staffer and avoid a debate with him.  Make it quick and polite.  Simply state your request, the reason for your request, and conclude with saying that how the Senator votes on this critical issue of US national security will determine how you vote when he or she is up for re-election.

OK - make the calls (that's plural for you have two Senators) and I'll wait ‘till you get back....
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THE EXPONENTIAL CURVE OF FASCIST UNCONSTITUTIONALITY Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   
Thursday, 08 April 2010

Reading the morning's news now can be impossibly depressing.  Every single day brings yet another assault on our freedom or threat to our security from the Federal Government.  Not only that, the pace of these assaults is accelerating.  They are accumulating ever more quickly.  We are losing our freedom at an exponential rate.

You may have heard the ancient tale of the Sultan and the Chessboard.  The most skilled artisan in the sultanate presented the Sultan with a fabulously beautiful chessboard, intricately made with carved ivory, rare woods, and precious stones.  It was so exquisite the Sultan offered the Artisan whatever price he named.

The Artisan asked for one grain of rice.  The Sultan was shocked.  The Artisan continued - one grain of rice for the first square on the chessboard;  one day later, two grains for the second square; two days later, four grains for the third, and the same simple doubling for the remainder of the 64 squares on the chessboard.

Laughing, the Sultan agreed.  "So I am to pay you a few grains of rice for all your wondrous work?" he asked.  "It is sufficient for me, Your Majesty," was the Artisan's reply.
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THE DUTY TO DISOBEY Print E-mail
Written by Lt. Col.Terrence Lakin, MD   
Friday, 09 April 2010

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

For more than seventeen years, I have had the privilege of serving my country as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including overseas assignments in imminent danger/combat areas in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

The United States is an example to the rest of the world of a stable, civilized democratic government where all men are created equal and the rule of law is cherished and obeyed. The U.S. military teaches and promotes the rule of law and civilian control of the military to many other nations and militaries around the world.

Every soldier learns what constitutes a lawful order and is encouraged to stand up and object to unlawful orders.  This is called "the duty to disobey." 
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THE GREATEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO AMERICA IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Thursday, 08 April 2010

President Barack Hussein Obama reminded us this week that before he drives us into bankruptcy, he might get us all killed.

On Tuesday (4/06), the president released his nuclear posture review (NPR).  Today in Prague (4/08), he signed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia called START II.

The NPR is the more significant, because treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, and the START II treaty is so manifestly harmful to the security interests of the United States that it is unlikely to obtain the 67 votes needed.

The president listed five priorities in the NPR, noted James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, a retired Army lieutenant colonel.  Defending the United States wasn't among them.  It's turning out that the greatest national security threat to America is America's own president.
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GOODBYE TO CNN? Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Thursday, 08 April 2010

It's a sign of how bad things are at CNN that management there thought David Shuster might help.

Mr. Shuster is the MSNBC "reporter" notorious for his rants about what he perceives to be the intellectual and moral shortcomings of conservatives.  Mr. Shuster was suspended Friday (4/02) after MSNBC's management learned he had taped a pilot for a show with CNN.

It is, of course, bad form to do such a thing for a rival without first getting permission from your own bosses.  But it is more Mr. Shuster's judgment than Mr. Shuster's morals that has me ROTFLMAO.

Mr. Shuster is in the final year of his contract, and MSNBC's ratings have been nothing to write home about.  They were down 15 percent in prime time in the first quarter of 2010 from the first quarter of 2009; down 22 percent in all day programming.

But looking for a job at CNN these days is like signing on to the crew of the Titanic after it struck the iceberg. 
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MORALITY AND THE IRS Print E-mail
Written by Richard Rahn   
Thursday, 08 April 2010

It is, of course, true that no one loves the tax collector and that taxes are the price we pay for a civil society. But, as with anything else, there are proper and improper taxes and tax collection procedures and methods.

According to news accounts, attacks and threats against IRS personnel are rising, and unfortunately, this trend is likely to continue until there is a fundamental change in our tax laws and collection methods.

People who do not have access to the media and cannot afford expensive tax lawyers sometimes reach such a level of frustration with the IRS that they resort to violent or irrational behavior. IRS officials and workers will say the tax code is not their fault - it is the fault of Congress - and they are only doing their jobs.

It is unambiguously true that the tax code and IRS are creatures of Congress, with all of its self-dealing, corruption, ignorance and incompetence. But this also is true: as was made explicit at the Nuremberg trials, those who carry out orders that they know to be wrong or should know to be wrong are not absolved of personal responsibility.
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JUST WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE? Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Joel Wade   
Friday, 09 April 2010

When I hear my liberal colleagues talk about how to help the people who are hurting in America, what I hear them describe are helpless victims. People who are struggling because health insurance costs too much, or they have to work too hard, or they're afraid of not having a clean environment for their children.

The children... it's always about the children, isn't it? Why is that? Because children are dependent. When they are young they are vulnerable, and they can sometimes be put into situations where people much bigger and stronger than they are can do them harm.

The progressives fancy themselves as the saviors of the victims of the bigger and stronger perpetrators of the world - Big Oil, Big Insurance, The Rich, the Fat Cats. They manufacture these villains so that we as grown adults can feel helpless as children, and then they can rescue us. This makes them feel good, and useful, and important.

But what they are trying to save us from are the very challenges that allow ordinary people to do extraordinary things. What they are trying to save us from is the heroic struggle of life.
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THE OBAMAPAD Print E-mail
Written by To The Point News   
Friday, 09 April 2010

The smart kids get it.  It's hard to con a smart kid. 



(Ps:  It loads in spurts, so let it load entirely while you mute it and do something else, then play it.)
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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/02/10 Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   
Friday, 02 April 2010

Today is Good Friday, when Christians commemorate the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus.  It should be of solace to the millions doing so in America that there are so many millions more sharing this commemoration with them all over the world.

It should be of solace to them all that Christianity has more adherents and is more widespread across the planet than any other religion on earth today or in history.  33% of all people on earth say they are Christians.  Islam is a distant second, accounting for 21%.

Further, Christianity, in terms of absolute numbers, is the fastest growing religion in the world. 

The World Christian Database, which compiles the most respected research on world religions, reports that from 2000-2005, Christianity experienced an annual world-wide growth in adherents of 1.38%, while Islam had a growth rate of 1.84%.  At that rate of 0.46% more a year, it would take over 200 years for there to be as many Moslems as Christians.

However... the WCD reports that from 1970 to 1985, the Moslem growth rate was 2.74%, and from 1990-2000 it was 2.13%.  The Moslem growth rate over the past 25 years is falling, while the Christian rate is rising (up from 1.36% 1990-2000).

And there's more.
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CAPE VERDE Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   
Thursday, 01 April 2010

This is an experiment.  The insanity engulfing Washington now is so overwhelming that I had to get far away from it.  I wanted a place I had never been to and knew nothing about.  Then a challenge occurred to me.

What could I learn about such a lost unknown place that TTPers would find interesting?  Could I possibly write something that would intrigue them?  So here we go - let me know how this experiment works.  The place I picked is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles off Africa called... Cape Verde.

There are nine islands.  Hordes of Germans escape from their winter to lie on the beaches of one of them, Sal (non-stop flights from Frankfurt) and turn their skins bright pink.  That's all they do.  They don't go anywhere else or explore any other islands.  Their only movement all day is to turn over back to belly so both sides get equally roasted.

There are non-stop flights from Europe and the US to Praia (the capital on Santiago island) now - but that's brought a business, not a tourist, boom.  You only see the occasional tourist on any island except Sal.  Remember all those Germans.

The businessmen are here because Cape Verde has reinvented itself once again. It has gone from being a Communist dictatorship to being one of only two countries ever to escape off the UN Least Developed Country List to a free democracy and the best place to do business in Africa.  Yet the place has no natural resources whatever -- only unique human resources.  And that's the key.
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FASCISTS IN DEMOCRAT CLOTHING Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Obamacare will cost them a ton of money and could force them to drop the prescription drug coverage they've been providing to their retirees, several corporations have announced. AT&T said it is going to take a $1 billion write down.  Caterpillar announced a $100 million hit, Deere, $150 million.

This made Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Cal, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, angry.  He announced plans to hold a hearing April 21 on:

 "Claims by Caterpillar, Verizon and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company's ability to provide health insurance to their employees.  These assertions appear to conflict with independent analyses, which show that the new law will expand coverage and bring down costs."

Rep. Waxman demanded executives give his committee internal company documents related to health care finances.  A Republican member of Mr. Waxman's committee told Byron York of the Washington Examiner that this was "an attempt to intimidate and silence opponents" of Obamacare.  Mr. Waxman pretends to be a Democrat.  What he really is is a Fascist.
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AMERICA'S ENEMIES ARE OBAMA'S FRIENDS AND VICE VERSA Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

President Barack Hussein Obama is an ignoramus and a boor, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said on CNN Sunday (3/28).

Mr. Axelrod did not, of course, use precisely those words.  What he did say on CNN's "State of the Union" program is that there was "no snub intended" when the president abruptly walked out of a meeting at the White House Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have dinner in the family quarters.

Most news accounts described the event as did the London Times: "Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner'."  But it is not the object of boorishness who ought to be embarrassed by boorish behavior. 

Barack Hussein Obama is plainly a boor, with no understanding of diplomacy.  You don't treat your brother in law like that, much less a head of state who is a guest in your country.  For more than a year now, this president has treated America's friends as enemies -- and America's enemies as friends.
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