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PREDATORY WEALTH DESTRUCTION |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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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? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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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 |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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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 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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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 |
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Written by Lt. Col.Terrence Lakin, MD
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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 |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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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? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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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 |
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Written by To The Point News
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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 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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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 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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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