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DEALING WITH IT |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 09 September 2011 |
Life's been pretty tough for most of humankind's existence.
War, torture, genocide was much more common to primitive man than even during
the severe bloodlettings of the twentieth century (See War Before Civilization). Poverty
has been the norm, xenophobia (fear of the "other") has been not just pervasive
but necessary to survival (if you saw someone who looked different from you in
primitive times, it likely meant somebody was going to try to kill you... or
worse.), and life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today.
Somehow, we survived and flourished and created the nearly
miraculous civilization that we now enjoy - at least in the west.
Somewhere along the way, we began to think of ourselves as
fragile.
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JIMMY OBAMA |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 09 September 2011 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 09/02/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 02 September 2011 |
These are the Dog Days of the Democrats. From the time of the Ancient Greeks, the end
of summer has been known as the "dog days," when the heat and humidity caused
"the seas to boil, wine to turn sour, dogs to go mad, and men subject to
burning fevers, hysterics, and frenzies."
(The origin of the term:
The Greeks called the brightest star in the sky Seiros - the searing, the scorcher - Latinized now to Sirius. 2,500 years ago, it rose at sunrise in late
summer - which it no longer does due to the earth's axial wobble causing
equinox/zodiacal precession.
(Sirius is the main star in a constellation the Greeks
called Kyon and the Romans Canis, the Dog, named after the magical
dog Laelaps that Zeus gave to Europa.
Laelaps would always catch its quarry, so Europa had it hunt the magic
fox of Teumessa which could never be caught.
Zeus then placed Laelaps in Canis
Major, big dog, and the Teumessan fox in Canis Minor, little dog, so the chase would continue unresolved for
eternity.)
The lectionary (calendar of when certain scriptures are to
be read) of the 1611 King James Bible states that the Dog Days begin on July 6
and end on September 5. But for the Dems,
their Dog Days have just begun and won't be over for a long, long time to come.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD IN THE CONSTITUTION |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 |
One word is the single most important word in our government's founding document
to understand - for the entire edifice of the modern liberal administrative
state is built on the willfully perverse misinterpretation of it.
The meaning of this word is the hill on which to make our
stand for recovering our American birthright of freedom. The good news is that the cavalry is on its
way to rescue us from the forces of fascism - and it's led not by John Wayne
but by a 63 year-old black man.
Don't you love Providence's
sense of humor?
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OBAMA AND BELUSHI |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011 |
Why does the President of the United States
sound like John Belushi in The Blues
Brothers?
Because Mr. Obama has never learned that when you don't take responsibility
for the consequences of your actions, you wind up at the mercy of your actions.
If you want to be effective in any activity, you have to be willing and able
to look at the truth of a situation, face up to your mistakes, learn from your
successes and failures, and change course accordingly. This is what allows you to learn, to grow, and to adapt to reality.
The trouble for Obama and others on the left is that their deeply held
beliefs do not match with reality, so to learn and grow from their mistakes
would be to question their deeply held beliefs. This is an extremely difficult
thing for people to do. Yet that is the kind of choice the left is faced with right now.
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A SIMPLE FIVE STEP PLAN FOR RESTORING AMERICAN FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY |
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Written by Skye
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Friday, 02 September 2011 |
Many in Washington
care little or nothing for the well being of Americans, other than themselves
and their cronies. The widespread continued lying about the soundness of Social
Security and Medicare isn't due to ignorance -- it is due to politicians aggrandizing
power regardless of the cost to others.
Either their careers will have to be terminated by a better informed electorate
- not impossible, as demonstrated by Canada and Sweden - or the US central
government and the scores of millions who depend upon it will crash and burn.
The US central
government is on the road to either radical reform or self destruction.
Continued kicking the can down the road would soon send it over the economic
cliff where the USA
would join the USSR
on the ash heap of history.
Radical reform could be as simple as
refusing to increase the debt ceiling, auctioning the Ponzi scheme operator's
assets off for the benefit of the Social inSecurity and MediScam victims,
allowing unlimited expensing for all business capital investments, requiring
that all regulations be voted on by Congress before becoming laws, and
legalizing competing precious metal currencies.
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ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR WASHINGTON DUMMIES |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011 |
Did you know that in
Denmark, the poorest 30% pay 14.1% of all taxes and the richest pay 48.7% -- while in the United States, the poorest
30% pay just 6.1 % of all taxes and the richest 30% pay a whopping 65.3%?
The surprising thing
is not that the richest pay most of the taxes but that the U.S. has nearly the
most progressive tax system in the world, while the Scandinavian countries have
about the least progressive tax systems, contrary to commonly held belief.
The above facts,
along with hundreds of other useful tidbits, are found in a compelling new
book, Government
Versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State (Cambridge
University Press, 2011), by one of
the world's most highly regarded economists, Vito Tanzi. It, and one other book, should be required reading for Washington dummies.
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WHY DO THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE MEDIA STILL CARE ABOUT CAIR? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011 |
We've known since 9/11 that some Moslems want to
kill us. It would seem prudent to find out who they are, and how many of
them there are. These are people who
politicize Islam into Islamism, a radical ideology akin to Communism and
Nazism. That's why they're called
Islamists.
It may be even more important to learn which Moslems
share our values and oppose the Islamists, and how many of them there are.
But the Obama administration and most in the news
media are remarkably incurious. In July, the American Islamic Leadership
Coalition issued a policy statement which said U.S. counterterror strategy is too soft on Islamists. The
administration and the "mainstream" media ignored it.
Perhaps liberals ignored that statement because
they assume the Islamist Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) speaks for America's Moslems. Turns out CAIR speaks for almost no American Moslems at all.
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RINOS AND LIBS UNITE IN THEIR FEAR OF PERRY |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 |
"We plan to declare war on Rick Perry and do all
in our power to crush him," the editor of a major newspaper told GOP consultant
Mark
McKinnon.
I doubt he was surprised. This is what
the "mainstream" media did to Sarah Palin in 2008, and what likely is in store
for anyone Republicans nominate.
But liberals will go after the Texas governor with special venom. "It's almost as if Perry's political persona was
constructed by bundling together all the fears and phantoms in the left-wing
anxiety closet." he said. Some East Coast Republicans share these
concerns.
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KINKY ON PERRY |
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Written by Kinky Friedman
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Friday, 02 September 2011 |
Rick Perry has never lost an election; I've never won one. Maybe that's
what's wrong with the world. On the other hand, I've long been friends with
Bill Clinton and George W., and Rick Perry and I, though at times bitter
adversaries, have remained friends as well.
It's not always easy to maintain friendships with politicians. To paraphrase
Charles Lamb, you have to work at it like some men toil after virtue.
Yet, simply put, Rick Perry and I are incapable of resisting each other's
charm. He is not only a good sport, he is a good, kindhearted man, and he once
sat in on drums with ZZ Top. A guy like that can't be all bad.
These days, of course, I would support Charlie Sheen over Obama. Obama has
done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/26/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 26 August 2011 |
If you don't read the TTP Forum, then you may not have heard
the announcement of the Obama Administration's that the US Geological Survey
has identified the source of the earthquake that shook Washington
DC last Tuesday (8/23).
The USGS is saying that it occurred on an obscure fault line
that runs directly under the White House known as "Bush's Fault."
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Speaking of Zero... the HFR Word of the Week is palilalia. It's a speech disorder, the involuntary or
obsessive repetition of the same words or phrases - such as "millionaires and
billionaires," "corporate jets," "redistribute the wealth," or "Bush's fault."
Clearly, we have a palilaliatic president, who is incapable
of saying anything creative or new, but endlessly repeats the same moronic
liberalisms over and over. What was
Einstein's term for doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results?
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The most uplifting news of the week comes from Wisconsin. On Monday (8/22), the Washington Examiner
reported: Union
Cash Cutoff Has National Implications.
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THE ENERGY OF LIBYA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 |
We are witnessing in Tripoli
today what it takes to get rid of a brutal dictatorship determined to keep
power at all costs, and how the dictator's thugs will continue to desperately
fight on as they face inevitable doom.
We will witness the same struggle here in the US
in 2012.
The Demagogue Party and its moocher minions will put up a
ferocious struggle to maintain their power and paychecks - and they will lose
as surely as has Muamar Gadaffi. For
they fight with lies, deceit, and thuggery, while we have unstoppable
technology and no-longer-deniable truth.
The key to it all is energy.
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THE OBTUSE ORACLE OF OMAHA |
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Written by Robert Agostinelli
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Friday, 26 August 2011 |
Warren
Buffett is a world class investor. He is also entitled to his opinion even when
it demonstrates larceny with the truth.
His
grand and magnanimous genuflection to "fairness" is fraught with
dishonesty and does no service to the debate on the nation's economic future. "We have abundance but we don't have as much
fairness as we might have in the system," he announced
at a fund-raiser he held for Mr. Obama in Omaha
last week (8/16).
"Fairness"
is a code word of the left which has its origins in the class hatred so beloved
by Marx . It is meant to arouse the "masses" (another term of haughty
illiberal insult to citizens ) to demand their illusory "rightful"
share from the rich . It fabricates an enemy out of capitalism and implies some
form of theft that must be redressed.
This
is the essence of Barrack Huessein Obama's indoctrination and Mr. Buffett is
simply feeding the beast.
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THE BLACK DILEMMA |
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Written by Star Parker
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 |
Election of our nation's first
black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population.
Blacks are discovering that what a
man or woman does -- their actions -- is what matters, not the color of their
skin.
It is not hard to understand why
black Americans were happy that a black man was elected president of the United States. It was kind of final and most grand announcement that
racism has finally been purged from America.
But for the highly politicized
parts of black America this was certainly not the only message. Because for the
highly politicized parts of black America, the point has always been to keep race in American politics.
For black political culture that
dominated after the civil rights movements, the point was not just equal
treatment under the law, but special
treatment under the law. Plus the assumption that more black political power --
defined by more blacks holding office -- would mean that blacks would be better
off.
Now blacks have a dilemma. We have
a black president and blacks are worse off. Not just a little, but a lot worse
off.
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A GLOBAL REALIGNMENT? |
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Written by Mohamed El-Erian
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 |
Who would have thought just 18 months ago that a member of the eurozone, the
most elite club of economies in Europe, could have a
worse credit rating than Pakistan?
And yet this is the case for Greece
today, perched on the verge of a debt restructuring; two other eurozone
countries (Ireland
and Portugal),
meanwhile, are already in Europe's intensive care unit,
receiving large bailouts.
And who would have thought that a rating agency would dare question the
sacred AAA credit rating of the United States,
the sole supplier of global public goods such as the international reserve
currency (the dollar) and a financial system that serves as the nexus of
international capital flow?
There are, of course, several custom-made reasons for these developments.
But together, they speak to major realignments that are fundamentally changing
the character of the global economy and how it functions. Three things in
particular have had a significant influence, and they will continue to shape
the world we live in for years to come.
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