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MCCAIN LEMONADE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Aren't you just so surprised? The infamous article I authored three weeks ago that went viral
on the Internet and got McCainiacs in a total tizzy, How the Clintons Will
Destroy John McCain, warned of the wardrobe full of McCain skeletons nicely
arranged on hangars just waiting for the lib media to take out and display to
the world.
I warned, for example, of "media disclosures of the lady
lobbyists in Washington having adulterous affairs with McCain - there are at
least three of them."
I didn't, however, think that the New
York Times and the Washington Post would jump the gun so soon and wait a
little longer - but they decided Michelle Obama's incredible
not-proud-of-her-country admission was so damaging to her husband's campaign
that attention had to be re-directed to a juicy McCain adultery scandal,
replete with color pics of the hot blonde lobbyist involved. This morning (2/21), the photo
of Vicki Iseman is up on Drudge for millions to see.
In response, McCain did exactly the right thing: he attacked. He didn't simply denounce the story as a "smear," but he had his
campaign manager, Charlie Black, announce that McCain would now "declare war on
the New York Times."
Perfect. When you've
got lemons, make lemonade. And that's
just what conservatives must do now with the lemon of John McCain.
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HALF-FULL REPORT: 2/22/08 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
I have been saving a very special bottle of wine - a 1992 Chateau Vieux French Bordeaux - for a very specific occasion: to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro. Looks like I'll be opening it soon - for the best news of the week is Castro's announcing he has one foot in the grave by ending his 49-year run as Cuba's El Jefe Maximo.
I chose the vintage not just because 1992 was a great year for French reds, but because I went to Cuba that year. I told the story a couple of years ago in Cuba Libré. A meeting with Castro had been set up, at which I intended to tell him the Cuban people would some day urinate on his grave. He got wind of it and canceled the meeting. My wife was very relieved.
Dagny D'Anconia explained the dictator's slow and awful descent towards demise some time ago in The Partial Assassination of Fidel Castro. Drawn-out lingering nightmare agony - just the sort of hell a piece of murderous human garbage deserves.
What's hilarious is the lib media's portrayal of Raul Castro as a Cuban Mikhail Gorbachev reformer. Raul is a 76-year old alcoholic who hasn't much longer to go himself. The army and secret police still run everything, but with Fidel gone the regime has no legitimacy. Odds will increase for a really bloody revolution.
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BARACK THE SHADOW BOXER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Texas State Sen. Kirk Watson had an embarrassing moment the
night the candidate he is supporting for president won the Wisconsin
primary. MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked him to name a legislative
accomplishment of Sen. Barack Obama.
"I'm not going to be able to do that tonight," Mr.
Watson replied.
Or any other night. Barack Obama, noted National
Review's David Frum, has the thinnest resume of any candidate for president
since William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
Then 36 (the youngest man ever nominated for president),
Bryan had been a congressman for only six undistinguished years when, on July
9, he electrified the Democratic convention in Chicago with his Cross of Gold speech.
"Men and women screamed," wrote one eyewitness reporter, and
"like demented things, divested themselves of their coats and flung them high
in the air." He won the nomination the
next day.
Bryan got creamed in the general election, which suggests there is a limit to
how high a populist with little on his resume besides a charismatic personality
and a silver tongue can rise.
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PUBLIC EDUCATION AND HIGHER TAXES |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
Why do individuals and countries engage in self-destructive behavior? Many books have been written on the topic, but given the U.S. election campaign, it is worth examining why some politicians and other opinion leaders advocate policies contrary to both good theory and empirical evidence.
Despite this evidence of success, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to increase the top tax rates, though there is no evidence that raising the top rates will result in any more revenue but there is evidence it will result in slower growth.
They can get away with it because voters have had their brains mangled by public education.
Since education in almost all countries these days is chiefly in public institutions, except for relatively small numbers of students educated in U.S. private schools and universities, it should come as no surprise that the government employees doing the "educating" are biased toward the public sector and are anti-business.
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WHAT ARE CONSERVATIVES TRYING TO CONSERVE? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
People on the left think of conservatives as stodgy,
bigoted, selfish, mean, uncaring, money-grubbing fat cats trying to slow down
the progressive agenda of the left; people on the right sometimes see
themselves as nothing more than glorified handbrakes, standing athwart history
yelling "STOP!"
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is from the French Revolution of course that we get the
terminology of left and right. The left were the future murderous radicals of
the Reign of Terror, too impatient for change to wait for persuasion and reason
to sort things out; the right were those like Thomas Paine whose vision was
along the lines of the American Revolution, building a structure of laws and a
restraint on power to guide their passion for liberty.
The left has continued to follow this historical template
ever since - witness Obama's push for change, and his wife informs us that,
"Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved,
uninformed." The left will make you change... or else.
What about the right?
What is it exactly that we conservatives are trying to conserve?
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A WARNING AND A THANK YOU |
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Written by Mark Gilligan
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
This is a quick warning and a long thank you.
First, I need to warn you about a very dangerous new
computer virus, a "trojan horse" or "worm" traced to a group of malicious
hackers in China. It's called Mocmex
and it can destroy your PC Windows computer.
Another good reason to get a Mac!
Read the link to see how you can protect yourself.
Second, we'll get back to transistors and electrons next
week, but I am still coming down from the wonderful time I and my fellow TTPers
had in Sarasota. So pardon me if I wax
philosophical and take the time to share our blessings.
This being a techie column, let me put it in techie
terms. If life were a technological
device, what would be yours?
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A CONGRESSMAN'S FAVORITE BAR JOKE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
This is a tad risqué but since a Congressman told it to me
(whose name will go unmentioned, although I can tell you he's a Republican), I
can't resist sharing it with you. ---JW
A fellow walks into a bar with a dog. He sits on a stool at the bar and his dog
hops onto the stool next to him.
"Bartender," he calls out, "I'll have a scotch and soda, and a beer in a
bowl for my dog."
The bartender walks up and says incredulously, "Are you out
of your mind? We don't serve dogs in
here!"
The guy looks at the bartender condescendingly. "Bartender, you don't understand. This is Harry the Talking Dog."
Harry looks at the bartender with a low growl. "That's right, I'm Harry the Talking Dog,"
he says. "Now gimme a beer!"
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MCCAIN AS THE ANTI-REAGAN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
It's going to take a while for
conservatives to become fully resigned to John McCain's securing the Republican
presidential nomination.
They may never be if he does
some incredibly dumb thing like picking a Preacher Socialist - Mike Huckabee -
as his running mate, or his supporters continue to demonize conservative heroes
like Rush Limbaugh for not genuflecting at the saintly image of Sir Galahad
McCain.
No Knight of King Arthur's Round
Table, like Sir Galahad who McCain pretends to be, possessed "a strutting
self-righteousness... that goes hand in hand with a nitroglycerin temper." That memorably accurate description of John
McCain by Mona
Charen explains why McCain is the Anti-Reagan.
Aside from Ronald Reagan the
politician, statesman, or political conservative, Ronald Reagan the human being
was someone of great-hearted likeability.
It was almost impossible to dislike him. The contrast is stark. It
is almost impossible to actually like, to be genuinely fond of John McCain
because at the bottom of his character he is an insufferable jerk.
Because of his essential unlikeableness,
McCain cannot create conservative passion for him. This truth will outrage the McCainiacs, who
will thus angrily blame his loss in November upon conservatives. But as anyone should know on this
Valentine's Day, you can't force someone to love you.
You've got to entice them
instead. You don't angrily stomp your
feet and call them deranged if they don't love you. There's no bigger turn-off than that.
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THE HALF-FULL REPORT |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
You know the old glass half-empty/half-full perspective. Whenever it's mentioned I always think of Dennis Turner.
Many years ago, we were having a discussion whether the future of freedom was bright or bleak. Arguing for the former, I mentioned Reason Magazine's "Trends" feature, which itemized recent pro-freedom developments.
Dennis instantly responded, "Yes, but it's mis-named. It should be called "Anomalies."
But we are not eternal pessimists here at To The Point. We aren't naïvely Pollyannic either, but are instead rationally optimistic, always on the look out for opportunities and solutions instead of being bummed out on dangers and problems.
And we'd like you to participate in the hunt. So we are instituting the TTP Half-Full Report.
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WHAT A BEACH PARTY! |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
Sunset on the beach at Sarasota, Florida, with good friends and an adult beverage. Can't beat that, especially when those friends are fellow TTPers. All of us sure did have a good time. Here's a synopsis of what we did and what we learned.
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JW ON YOUTUBE: THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
While at the Sarasota Rendezvous, Brussels Journal webmaster Luc Van Braekel videoed Jack Wheeler holding forth on the Islamization of Europe while walking on the beach. Luc then posted it on YouTube.
It was spontaneous and unprepared, so be prepared for Jack to unload on Europe. It won't make him many friends among the Euroweenies.
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THE FOUR GOVERNMENT-CAUSED REASONS FOR OUR ECONOMIC MESS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
How much money would the government have to give you and every other American to avoid a recession? You cannot answer because the question contains a false conclusion, and when political arguments are about false conclusions, the wrong policies are pursued.
To try to reverse the current economic slowdown, one first must understand the real causes and then try to correct those causes. Many in Congress, the administration, and the Fed have misdiagnosed the problem and then given the wrong medicine -AKA "the stimulus package."
There are four government-caused reasons why Washington remains "stuck on stupid" regarding the economy.
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BACK IN THE USSR |
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Written by Dr. Ariel Cohen
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
If Yogi Berra happens to be in Moscow this coming May 9, we
know what he'd say: "Looks like déjà vu
all over again."
On that day, heavy military equipment will once again
roll down Moscow's Red Square for the Victory Day military parade. Tanks,
missiles, and 6,000 troops will be joined overhead by fighter aircraft and
military helicopters. The last time Moscow saw such a display of military
hardware was November 1990, before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The parade is designed to generate nostalgia among the Russian people and to
signal the U.S., NATO members and Russia's neighbors that Russia's power is
back. It also illustrates President Vladimir Putin's emphasis on the military
and security services at the expense of modern, democratic institutions.
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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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