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WHERE AL QAEDA IS EVEN LESS POPULAR THAN NANCY PELOSI |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared again on CNN's
"Late Edition" program Sunday (2/10) that the troop surge in Iraq is
a failure.
Ms. Pelosi's timing was unfortunate for what shreds remain
of her credibility. Her statement coincided with the release by U.S.
forces in Iraq Saturday (2/09) of the diary of Abu Tariq, an al Qaeda leader
around the northern city of Balad. The diary was captured in a raid in
November. It apparently had been written the month before.
Abu Tariq once had nearly 600 fighters under his
command, but his force has dwindled to no more than 20. The chief reason
for this, he wrote, was the decision of most Sunni tribes to throw in with the
Americans.
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WILL HILLARY'S FATE BE DECIDED IN WISCONSIN? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
I never thought I'd feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.
The truth is I don't. But I'm grateful to her for removing a stigma from
the guy I wanted to be president, Rudy Giuliani. We have many months yet to go in this presidential election
cycle, but already it's becoming notorious for whopping misjudgments.
Until recently, the stigma for having run the worst campaign
in modern history seemed to be a dead heat between my guy Rudy for forsaking
the earlier contests to focus on Florida, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred
Thompson who thought he could win the GOP nomination from his hammock.
But Hillary Clinton is overtaking them. How does
one go from being the "inevitable" nominee of the Democratic party to
a rapidly sinking underdog? It helps to
have a charismatic opponent like Sen. Barack Obama, and to not be very
charismatic yourself. But most of Hillary's wounds are self inflicted.
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THE CAUCUS – A LAST BASTION OF SELF-DETERMINATION |
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Written by John Nehring
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
Unless you live in one
of the 17 states that still use the caucus as part of the political nominating
process, your knowledge of that institution is likely limited to Iowa caucus
reports on the news. Yet the caucus
plays a broader, important role in our presidential nominating process.
In states that have
retained or returned to the caucus - such as my state of Colorado - every
election year sees a spirited debate over the merits and demerits of the caucus
system. The young lady who cuts my
hair, a staunch conservative Republican, expresses the negative viewpoint as
well as anyone.
She doesn't like the
caucus system because it excludes too many people. To prove her point, I suppose, she self-excluded herself by not
attending the caucus in our precinct, despite my strong encouragement to do so!
Our local Republican
Party treasurer, on the other hand, champions the caucuses because they're the
only place the average voter can actually participate in debates on issues and
candidates and have those debates translate into meaningful action.
I myself like the
caucus system for an entirely different reason.
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WHY AMERICANS LOVES AUSSIES |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
When an Aussie fellow boarded his Qantas flight from London
to Sydney, he found himself sitting next to a full-bearded Moslem man in a robe
and turban. "G'day, mate!" the Aussie
greeted him. "Name's Trevor."
The Moslem stared at him with his coal-black eyes. "I am Imam Sheikh Emir Abdullah Mullah bin
Badullah," he replied coldly.
After takeoff, the stewardess pulled her beverage cart down
the aisle to ask the Aussie with a sunny smile what he would like to drink.
"I'll have a double rum and coke," was the Aussie's
answer. The stewardess quickly poured
it, placed it on Trevor's tray, and asked the Moslem if he would like a drink
as well.
He replied in disgust...
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DOUBTING MCCAIN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Whoa... what a firestorm.
At the insistence of many TTPers, last week's How the Clintons Will
Destroy John McCain was made a free access article and promptly went viral
over the Internet, becoming explosively controversial.
As you can see from the comments on the Member User Forum
(201, a TTP record), the response from TTPers was overwhelmingly positive. I also received a number of responses from
personal friends. Most were very
supportive, a few were vehemently upset, with most of the latter assuring me
that I remained their friend nonetheless.
I cannot adequately express how much this meant to me.
Then there were those among the latter whose friendship I
have lost. I am most regretful of
losing that of Jim Warner's. Jim had
been a dear friend of many years. I
know of no finer man than Jim Warner, a man of unquestionable character and integrity.
As a captured POW held by the Communist Vietnamese for over
five years, and a cell mate in the Hanoi Hilton of John McCain's for over a
year, Jim felt it necessary to write a rebuttal to my article - without
mentioning either my name or the article - in FrontPage
Magazine.com.
It is easy to understand Jim's desire to defend his
cellmate with whom he suffered indescribable horrors at the hand of the
communists. Thus the excruciating irony
of Jim's article - for John McCain possesses a fraction of the integrity and
decency of character of Jim Warner. I
would trust my life to Jim Warner without a moment's hesitation. I would not trust my life to John McCain for
a moment.
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WARS ON THE WAY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
While attention is fixated on Iraq and Afghanistan, the
possibility of a number of other wars clearly emerged in the past few days,
three in particular.
Starting January 30, a total of five undersea telecom cables have been mysteriously cut
in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East area. This is no accident, comrades. Someone has been slicing them. Someone with submarines to do the
slicing. Who could that be? And what would be their target?
That's a prelude to war in the Middle East. How about a war in Europe? One being promoted by Condi Rice and our
State Department in support of Moslem narco-terrorists taking over a Christian
country?
That would be a region of Serbia called Kosovo.
Close to home is a third war on the horizon, between
Venezuela and Colombia.
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TTP AND HISTORY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
At the Winter Rendezvous this weekend in Sarasota, one topic
of discussion will be how to make improvements in To The Point, making it even
better. We're jumping the gun this
week, and making one many of you have been requesting for a while.
That is to provide a side bar for categories of
articles. Over the next few weeks, we'll
be adding categories with links to all the TTP articles on say, Islam, or Mexico,
Russia, China, Democrat Fascism, Global Warming, Science, Health, etc.
The first one, however, is history. In the TTP Article Category side bar will be
a link to all the articles on the history of various countries and regions of
the world. It's the one many of you
have wanted most of all.
Here's the list.
There will be more lists to come.
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THE ACCIDENT OF MCCAIN |
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Written by Tony Blankley
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
Assuming John McCain gets the Republican nomination, it will
show how whimsical history can be.
It would be the first time in living memory that a
Republican presidential nomination went to a candidate who was not merely
opposed by a majority of the party, but was actively despised by about a half
of its rank-and-file voters across the country -and by many if not most of its
congressional officeholders.
After all, the McCain electoral surge was barely able
to deliver a plurality of one-third of the Republican vote in a three-, four-
or five-way split field. He has won fair and square - but he has driven the
nomination process askew.
This result reminds me of the nursery rhyme:
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REAGAN VS. CLINTON BY THE NUMBERS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
Under which recent president do you think the U.S. economy performed best?
The policies of Presidents Bush, father and son, and Jimmy Carter clearly did not work as well as Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's.
So let's compare their economic performance. For the numbers show that Democrats can continue "the-Clinton-economy-was-best" ploy only if the Republicans and the news media let them get away with the factual misrepresentation.
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FACTS TO PONDER |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.
Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
(Yes, that's 80 million..)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI.
So, statistically, doctors are
approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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IS THIS THE BEST IRISH JOKE EVER? |
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Written by To The Point News
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
A Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman meet in a bar
while traveling.
"Y'know" said the Scotsman, "I still prefer the
pubs back home. In Glasgow,
there's a wonderful little bar called McTavish's. The landlord there goes out
of his way for the locals, so much that when you buy 4 drinks he'll buy
the 5th drink for you."
"Well," said the Englishman, "at my local, the Red Lion, the barman there will buy your 3rd drink after you buy the first 2."
"Ahhhhh, that's nothing, laddies," said the Irishman. "Back home in me own Dublin, there's Ryan's Bar....
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DASTARDLY DEMOCRAT DIRT |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
Like you, I am studying candidates for president - and
have found out some amazing things. On
the Republican side, there is quite a pile of dirt for some - damaging history,
criminal behavior, and so on.
Relatively little of it is being made public - except for Jack Wheeler
blowing the lid off McCain's candidacy
this week with How
The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain.
Thus the dirt in the Republican candidates' past and
present is a ticking time bomb. For
now, the only bombs that the Democrats are launching are against each
other. They have already tried to
destroy each other in a race and gender war.
In Obama's case, the dirt includes his early Moslem
education, admitted repeated drug use, and membership in an openly racist black
church. However, there is more which
has been coming out -- thanks to a U.S. Attorney for the Justice Department who seems to be an agent for the Clintons.
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AFTER FLORIDA, ON THE EVE OF SUPER TUESDAY |
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Written by Arnold Steinberg
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
This is an endless a campaign of
"what ifs."
That is, a campaign prepares a
strategy that presupposes a scenario which apparently will occur with 100
percent probability. Then, when things
don't quite go as planned, the campaign strategists have an alibi. Somehow,
externalities undercut a supposedly thoughtful and well conceived plan.
The only problem with all this
self-serving Monday morning quarter-backing?
Events with a reasonable probability were assigned zero probability,
because the strategy was ineptly created. It often assumed an optimum or best
case scenario. Or it sharply or entirely discounted reasonably foreseeable
events.
Let's go through the what-ifs of the candidates in the wake of Florida and on the eve of Super Tuesday.
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THE CASE FOR MCCAIN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
[Jack Kelly makes as good a case as can be made for John
McCain. I remain afflicted with what he
calls MDS. Yet I readily admit he makes
a good suggestion for a vaccine. ---JW]
The race for the GOP nomination for president is all but
over, save for weeping and gnashing of teeth among conservatives.
I don't think Sen. John McCain would be a good
president. He lacks the temperament for it; he has virtually no
managerial experience, and the economy is, as George Will put it, "a
subject with which McCain is neither conversant, nor eager to become
so."
But there is a big difference between being a mediocre
president -- as one could argue George W. Bush has been -- and being an awful
one. Yet many conservatives talk about Sen. McCain as if he were Satan's
first cousin. What Web logger Roger L. Simon calls "McCain
Derangement Syndrome" is as irrational and unbecoming as is the Bush
Derangement Syndrome that afflicts so many liberals.
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THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE |
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Written by Paul Belien
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
Democracy died in Europe at the end of 2007.
Last December, governments leaders of the 27 European Union
member states convened in Lisbon to sign the EU Reform Treaty. This treaty of
76,250 words is a rewrite of the EU Constitutional Treaty, which was rejected
in 2005 by referendums in major European countries.
European leaders carefully avoid to call the reform treaty a
"constitution," however, because they do not want to submit it to their peoples
in a referendum. French President Nicolas Sarkozy conceded in November that the
treaty would be rejected "in all member states if they have a referendum."
Politicians like Mr. Sarkozy and Germany's Mrs. Merkel are
the driving forces of this process because it enhances their powers. Today's
EU's governmental bodies - the European Commission and the European Council -
are unelected; they are appointed by the national governments.
As the British author John Laughland explains: "The
EU is a cartel of governments, engaged in a permanent conspiracy against their
own electorates and parliaments."
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