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YOU MIGHT BE AN AFGHAN TALIBAN IF… |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
...You refine heroin for a
living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
...You own a $300 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford
shoes.
...You have more wives than teeth.
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HELPING RAMOS AND COMPEAN HAVE A HAPPIER CHRISTMAS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
For many conservatives, the most infuriating outrage of the
Bush Presidency has been the prosecution and imprisonment of two Border Patrol
agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in
the ass.
It is the drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, and the
federal prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, who belong in jail, not them.
For defending our border from mass foreign invasion, Ramos
and Compean will be spending Christmas in solitary confinement, rather than
with their families.
It's hard to think of a more Christian, a more pro-American
thing you could do this Christmas than send them a message of support and a
donation to their wives and children.
Here's how:
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BLUENOSES ON STEROIDS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
I suppose it's possible that there are things I could care
less about than Barry Bonds taking steroids.
The latest antics of Britney Spears or the fate of contestants on one of
those Survivor television shows, maybe.
But the whole Bonds "scandal," the whole Mitchell Report
bloviation about "rampant performance-enhancing drug use" in professional
sports, baseball in particular, ranks near the top of my list of news items in
the So What? category.
Except there's something about it that really bugs me. Nanny-state ninnies sticking their bluenoses
into none of their business. Fascist
prosecutors trying to put people in jail for lying about something that's no
crime. Increasingly louder demands for
more intrusion into athletes' lives, for wrecking their careers, for their
unending investigation, for their punishment.
Someone needs to tell the bluenoses, from George Mitchell to
George Will, from every insufferably
puritanical sportswriter to every self-important airhead sportscaster to shut
up.
Or else the real fascists, the ones in Congress who have the
capacity to shove government guns in our faces, will use the "scandal" - as
they do with every other such opportunity - as an excuse to restrict the freedom of us all.
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THE YEAR OF GLOBAL COOLING |
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Written by David Deming
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is
difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set
all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming,
but from cold weather hazards.
Antarctica is getting colder. Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in
2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had
the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest
June ever. South America this year
experienced one of its coldest winters in decades.
Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was
lost to a devastating five-day freeze. In
April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina's peach crop,
and 90 percent of North Carolina's apple harvest.
Extreme cold weather is occurring worldwide. On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature
was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius. If
you think any of the preceding facts can falsify global warming, you're
hopelessly naïve.
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A FATAL LIBERAL HANDICAP |
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Written by William Hawkins
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
The most consistent theme running through liberal-left
opinion since September 11, 2001, has been concern for the well-being of the
enemy. The latest example is the contrived scandal over the CIA destroying
tapes of interrogations of two captured terrorists.
The first instinct of responsible members of Congress is to fulfill their duty
to protect Americans from attack. Now they are pushed by ideological zealots to
not only accord foreign adversaries "rights" that will protect them
from effective U.S. counteraction but to harass their countrymen on the front
lines in this deadly conflict.
Indeed, for a liberal, the entire concept of an adversarial
"us and them" is to be rejected. Adversaries are just people whom we
have not taken the time to understand.
Nothing could be more fundamentally wrong as a basis for
dealing with the real world. An
unwillingness to differentiate between friend and foe is a fatal handicap in
making national policy.
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GUN FREE ZONES: AN INVITATION FOR MASS MURDER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
Matthew Murray, 24, entered the New Life church in Colorado
Springs as services were getting out Dec. 9, and opened fire, killing Stephanie
Works, 18, her sister, Rachael, 16, and wounding two others.
There were shootings earlier this year at shopping malls in
Omaha and Salt Lake City, where the body count was higher.
Murray attacked a church because if you want to kill
Christians, that's a good place to find them. Why the other would-be mass
murderers choose shopping malls for their murder sprees?
An obvious reason is because shopping malls are a target
rich environment. If you want to kill a lot of people, go to where there
are a lot of people to kill. The other reason is that these shopping
malls proudly advertised themselves as "gun free zones."
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THE CHINESE REVENGE |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
[Part 2 of The Clinton Cow in
the China Shop]
So, how did the Chinese feel about being thrown under
the bus by Hillary?
One very easy and effective thing they could do is out
Norman Hsu, thereby dredging up the Chinagate scandal. That would hurt Hillary where it would count.
Perhaps you remember Mr. Hsu: He is the mousey Chinese
guy who was recently exposed making large donations to Hillary and other
Democrat coffers. Hsu was a fugitive on
the lam for many years. Years ago he
ran out on a court date after setting up bogus apparel companies and defrauding
investors. As a bundler of Chinese
donations, he was responsible for passing money to the Hillary campaign and
other Democrats.
All it would take is a phone call to the Wall Street
Journal and the illicit payments to the Clintons would be exposed. On August 28th the Journal reported that the
Paw family that shared a home with Norman Hsu were making huge and inexplicable
donations to Hillary. On October 19th a
similar scam was revealed in New York's Chinatown.
Somebody who knew all about mysterious payments to the
Democrats from the Chinese community suddenly made it a lot harder for Hillary
to look electable. The Chinese who
sourced the money would have known all about Clinton and Hsu. Perhaps the Chinese were angry that Hsu had
failed to purchase the Clintons' support as he had promised. Chinese spymasters would have been furious
at both Hsu and the Clintons.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR YOUR PC |
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Written by Marco the Wizard
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
[Mark Gilligan is TTP's own "Marco," known to all participants in the TTP User Forum. His first column appeared last month: Marco The Wizard? His column will be a regular feature in 2008.]
It's the gifting time of the year and for your technological needs we have some suggestions that may make your life easier and your wallet less depleted. Here are a few...
The anti-virus software package offered by AVG is one of the best available - and it's free!
If you want the full capacity of Adobe's Acrobat Professional Apps and don't have the several hundred dollars in the budget, you can get its equivalent for only $9.95 at pdf995.com.
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CULTURE AND INDIVIDUALISM |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
It is a common dichotomy to frame world views in terms of
individualism vs. collectivism, not just in terms of political discussions, or
Objectivist philosophy; research in social psychology uses this framework as a
matter of course.
I don't dispute these characterizations. I have often talked
about the great virtues of individualism versus collectivism; but there may be
another angle to this that could help us to understand ourselves in relation to
others.
We were meant to exist within a human culture.
An individual fighting against or living apart from the
group can make for great Hollywood movie, but it does not, in the real world,
make for a very happy life.
We are happiest when we are in relationship with
other people whom we love and trust and enjoy. There may be times when a person
has to fight against his or her culture in a kind of heroic isolation, but this
is not a circumstance that I would wish on anyone.
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WE’RE NOT IN 2006 ANYMORE, TOTO |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
If you want to see a bunch of really happy folks who think
Christmas has come early for them and can't wait for the coming new year, come
to the Capitol Hill Club, the
power watering hole for Republicans in Washington.
There, you'll see GOP Congressmen, Senators, and their top
staffers all slapping each other on the back and saying, "We're not in 2006
anymore, Toto," or "2006 is like, so over." Happy, happy guys n'gals.
And why shouldn't they be?
The President's got their back and they've got the hapless Dems by the
short hairs. It's fun to be in
DC this December.
What's that? Do I
hear you saying in a tone of cynicism, "Yes, Jack, but the Pubbies never know
that when you've got your foe on the ropes, you put him down on the
canvas. As always, they'll let the Dems
off the ropes rather than finishing them off."
There's a lot of history to justify such cynicism. Arguing that it's different this time is
like the definition of a second marriage:
the triumph of hope over experience.
Yet there are three good reasons for such hope:
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DICK CHENEY’S SILVER LINING TO THE INTEL REPORT FRAUD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
As one who believes that diplomacy ought to be how to most
persuasively say "Nice doggie!" until your sniper gets the range, I've never
had much regard for the pinstriped weenies infesting our State Department.
Today this specifically includes the three of them who wrote
the nonsensically sensational National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - Thomas
Fingar, Kenneth Brill, and Vann Van Diepen.
But no matter how dubious its findings or motivations, the
geopolitical reality is that it has taken the military option for dealing with
the threat of Iran off the table. Yet
the threat remains.
There is only one solution for the geopolitical problem that
is Iran: regime change. The current mullacracy ruling Iran must be
replaced, removed from power. The only
question is how.
Not militarily, and not democratically, for the mullahs will
never allow free elections. The only
viable option for achieving regime change in Iran is revolution from
within.
Which brings us to the civil war in the White House between
Condi and Cheney. This NIE debacle is
her doing. And he sees a silver lining
in it.
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TO THE POINT BEACH PARTY! |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
OK, it's all set. We
gave you a heads up two weeks ago in Sarasota Rendezvous. Now the details. The To The Point Winter Rendezvous will be from Friday February 8
to Sunday February 10 at the Hilton Longboat Key Beachfront Resort in
Sarasota, Florida.
We have blocked a number of rooms at amazing rate of $199
(that's for a double or less than $100 per person, and realize, this is right
on the beach at the highest of high season, when everyone wants to escape
from February snow and ice to Florida sunshine).
To reserve yours, just click on the Rendezvous picture on
the TTP home page (top of the left side bar) or click here for Rendezvous
Reservation.
The cost of the Rendezvous itself is $285. That includes dinner Friday and Saturday
nights, breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings, and all meetings and
activities. There will be in-depth
briefings and discussions by me and To The Point stars such as Jack Kelly and
Dr. Joel Wade.
And of course, there is the wonderful fun of getting
together with your fellow TTPers.
We'll do so right on the beach with its world-famous white
sugar sand - sunset beach parties with a bar set up on the sand just for us.
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REAGAN ON RUSHMORE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
There is a growing movement among conservatives to have the
image of Ronald Reagan carved into Mount Rushmore, joining George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
To facilitate this noble goal, former Congressman (and
accomplished photographer) Fred Eckert and artist Ted Williams have created
photo-art that realistically depicts what Reagan on Rushmore would actually
look like:
They are offering gallery-quality prints that are display
ready - no frame necessary, just put it up on the wall. The photo-art is good enough to fool a
gullible liberal. "Haven't you
heard? Reagan's on Rushmore now -
there's the proof!"
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THE IRONY OF INTEL INCOMPETENCE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
"Blowback" is an intelligence term for adverse,
unintended consequences of secret operations. The CIA first used it in a report
on the 1953 operation that overthrew the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in
Iran.
Some in the intelligence community (IC) have been working
with liberal journalists and Democrats on Capitol Hill to embarrass President
Bush and to stymie his foreign policy initiatives.
The most successful of these covert operations was the
Valerie Plame affair, in which White House officials were falsely blamed for
"outing" a CIA undercover officer who was not in fact undercover. (It
was then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who inadvertently disclosed
Ms. Plame's identity.)
The most recent is the new National Intelligence Estimate,
which concluded Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and hasn't
resumed it. Michael Ledeen, a former consultant to the National Security
Council, described the NIE as "policy advocacy masquerading as serious
intelligence."
The apparent purpose of the NIE is to make it politically
impossible for President Bush to take military action against Iran. But the
effort has been so bald that it is blowing back on its authors.
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