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THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS MORE PRO-AMERICA THAN THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
The contempt with which the
president of France regards the president of the United States was displayed in public last week.
Nicolas Sarkozy was furious with
Barack Hussein Obama for his adolescent warbling about a world without nuclear
weapons at a meeting Mr. Obama chaired of the United Nations Security Council
last Thursday (9/24).
‘President Obama dreams of a world
without weapons...but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact
opposite," Mr. Sarkozy said. "Iran since 2005 has flouted five Security Council resolutions, North Korea has been defying Council resolutions since 1993."
What kind of world are we living in when the president of France represents America's interests better than the president of America?
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THE DESPOTS AND WEAKLINGS OF 1939 AND 2009 |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
1939 was not a good year. World War II started, and much
of the world was still in the Depression. The leaders of too many countries
were either despots or naïve and weak.
2009 has not been a good year. There's been a global recession. And seventy
years later, as in 1939, the leaders of too many countries are either despots
or naïve and weak. Too many of today's leaders all too closely resemble the
leaders of 1939 and seem equally capable of starting the chain of events that
destroyed much of mankind in the 1940s.
Who among the leaders of free democracies is not a weakling, who has the courage to stop the despots? Who among them is a Churchill and not a Chamberlain?
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AMERICA IS A HORROR TO HER FRIENDS AND LAUGHED AT BY HER ENEMIES |
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Written by Caroline Glick
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
Since Obama took office, he has been abandoning one US
ally after another while seeking to curry favor with one US
adversary after another. At every turn, America's
allies - from Israel
to Honduras, to
Columbia, South Korea
and Japan, to Poland
and the Czech Republic
- have reacted with disbelief and horror to his treachery.
And at every turn, America's
adversaries - from Iran
to Venezuela to
North Korea and
Russia - have
responded with derision and contempt to his seemingly obsessive attempts to
appease them.
The horror Obama has instilled in America's
friends and the contempt he has evoked from its enemies have not caused him to
change course. The fact that his policies throughout the world have already
failed to bring a change in the so-called international community's treatment
of the US has
not led him to reconsider those policies.
His stubborn insistence on advancing
his feckless foreign policy in the face of its already apparent colossal
failure is of a piece with his unswerving commitment to his domestic agenda in
spite of its apparent colossal failure.
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OPENING THE DOORS OF YOUR LIFE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
John Lennon - the Beatle - wryly observed that "Life is what happens while
you're busy making other plans."
You could take this quote to mean that there's nothing you can do to change
anything, so just don't worry and go with the flow - sort of a passive,
helpless approach to life.
But I think most people look at this and think, "Yeah, that's true. I spend
a lot of time planning and thinking that I'm going to have more of an impact on
certain things, but meanwhile, I'm living and working and my family's growing
and time goes by. Then I look up and
notice it's years later and wonder how they went by so fast."
There is plenty of uncertainty in life. There is a great deal that we have
little or no control over. And if you're trying to plan everything with
certainty, or control what you can't, then you're wasting your time. But how
can you have more conscious control over the direction of your life? Is that
even really possible?
Yes, it is... to a degree. Here's how to get to that degree.
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A NEW WONDER DRUG FOR POLITICIANS |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 9/25/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
Mr. Tough Guy here, Mr. "real Indiana Jones," has a
confession. I couldn't get through
reading Sarah
Palin's speech in Hong Kong without crying like a baby - several times.
The contrast of who she is, what she stands for, and what
she could do for America
as President, compared to who the current president is, what he stands for, and
what he is doing to America,
was too much to take without emotionally breaking down.
Last week we were all on an emotional high, with the
historic Million Conservative March in Washington,
the ACORN take-down, et al. This week
there are too many reminders of the massive, perhaps even mortal, damage being
done to America
by the man Palin should replace in 2012.
The damage mounts by the day. America
may not have until November 2012. America
may not have until November 2010.
An observation and a question encapsulate this
quandary.
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THE SPICE ISLANDS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
This is a story of hobbits and eggnog, of English heroes and
Dutch murderers, of adventure and treachery and astonishing history, of
genocidal slaughter and massive corruption, of Communist dictators and of
Moslem butchers getting the justice they deserve, a saga that begins over a
million years ago and ends with an inspiration - perhaps a quite profitable
one.
It is the story of 17,000 islands stitched together in a
country that nobody thought had a chance a few years ago and now is emerging as
a land of the future. This will take a
while, so let's settle in with a tankard of ice cold Bir
Bintang and a snack of babi kecap, pork in sweet soy sauce. Shall we start with the hobbits?
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COMMON SENSE CONSERVATISM |
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Written by Sarah Palin
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
[Text of speech
delivered at the CLSA Pacific Markets Conference in Hong Kong on September 23, 2009]
You can call me a common-sense conservative. My approach to the issues
facing my country and the world, issues that we'll discuss today, are rooted in
this common-sense conservatism... Common sense conservatism deals with the
reality of the world as it is. Complicated and beautiful, tragic and hopeful,
we believe in the rights and the responsibilities and the inherent dignity of the
individual.
The opposite of a common-sense conservative is a liberalism that holds that
there is no human problem that government can't fix if only the right people
are put in charge. Unfortunately, history and common sense are not on its side.
We don't trust utopian promises; we deal with human nature as it is.
Common sense tells you that when you're in a hole, you have to stop digging!
A common sense conservative looks to history to find solutions to the problems
confronting us, and the good news is that history has shown us a way out of
this, a way forward from recession. Ronald Reagan, he was faced with an even worse recession, and he showed us
how to get out of here.
If you want real job growth, you cut
taxes! And you reduce marginal tax rates on all Americans. Cut payroll taxes,
eliminate capital gain taxes and slay the death tax, once and for all. Get
federal spending under control, and then you step back and you watch the U.S. economy roar back to life.
We're not interested in government fixes; we're interested in freedom! Freedom! And why shouldn't we be? We're Americans.
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ECONOMIC MEGATRENDS THAT WILL DRIVE OUR FUTURE |
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Written by Jeff Harding
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
The economic world has changed. There are new trends, megatrends if you
will, now at work in our economy. They are "mega" trends because they overarch
and impact everything else in the economy and will do so for quite a while.
There are other major trends at work as well, but they have been operating
as a part of the basic framework of our economy for decades. These megatrends
have emerged from the credit cycle because people change their behaviors in
response to a crisis, and it would be foolish to assume that everything will
just go back to the way things were before.
These aren't predictions of the future, because circumstances change. How many economists predicted this crisis? Very, very few. Think of these
megatrends more as chalk marks on the playing field that will guide human
economic behavior for some years.
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THE COMING NUCLEAR EXPLOSION OF THE DEBT BOMB |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
In just the last eight months, the Congressional Budget
Office estimates of the amount of additional federal debt to be held by the
public grew by an astounding $4 trillion for the 2010-19 period; and that the
amount of federal debt held by the public grew from $5.9 trillion to $7.5
trillion in just the last 12 months.
The federal government
(i.e., taxpayers) now owns (primarily through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) or
insures (through the Federal Housing Administration and other government
programs) about 80 percent of the $14.6 trillion of home mortgages outstanding
in the United States.
Last week, Congress passed
a bill (House Bill 3221) requiring all student loans be made by the federal
government rather than banks, which means the taxpayers will be 100 percent
liable for any student loan defaults.
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
is considering tapping its Treasury credit line for up to $500 billion. It
needs to do this because of the high number of bank failures and because each
bank account is insured by the government (i.e., taxpayers) up to $250,000.
Very soon, the debt bomb is going to go nuclear.
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MORE MUSH FROM THE WIMP |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
On March 14, 1980, Kirk Scharfenberg of the Boston
Globe wrote a mock headline over an editorial the Globe was planning to run on
a speech President Jimmy Carter had made, planning to replace it with a serious
headline before publication.
To Mr. Scharfenberg's horror, the mock headline
was inadvertently printed in 161,000 copies. The headline was: "More Mush
from the Wimp."
The headline resonated with millions of Americans
because of Mr. Carter's perceived weakness on foreign policy. Iranian
militants were holding Americans hostage in our embassy in Tehran, and Mr. Carter didn't seem to be able to do anything
about it. He said he was surprised by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and he didn't seem to be able to do anything about that,
either.
The Carter administration, Henry Kissinger said,
had achieved at one and the same time "the worst relations with our allies, the
worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the
developing world since the end of the Second World War."
Today, Messrs. Scharfenberg and Kissinger would be talking about Mr. Carter's vertebrae-challenged successor now in the White House.
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT YOUR WORRY, ANXIETY, AND STRESS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
These are serious and troubling times. Everybody's worried, trying to keep a
sense of hope amidst the radical change that's being forced on us, both
politically and economically.
If you run a business with employees, if you have a family to take care of,
if you have other people who are counting on you in any way, the pressure and
stress and burden can be even more daunting.
How can you keep your sense of optimism? How can you find some sense of
peace and joy within you? And how can you maintain a positive, encouraging, and
even playful attitude with your loved ones, and with those very people who are
counting on you the most?
Let's look at a few things that you can do to see yourself and those whom
you love, and who depend on you, through these difficult times:
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THE BEST SIGN AT THE MILLION CONSERVATIVE 9/12 DC MARCH? |
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Written by To The Point News
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 09/18/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
Maybe we should call this The Cornucopia Report this
week. The deluge of astonishingly good
news keeps pouring down, with the moonbat left in response drowning in its own
bile of rage and going off the cliff berserk-o.
Where to begin amidst this treasure trove? Of course: the Million Conservative March on Washington
last Saturday (9/12). With the LFM
(Lunatic Fringe Media) desperately ignoring and disparaging it - reporting,
e.g., that there were only "tens of thousands" when there were at least close
to a million or more - this event marks a genuine turning point in American
political history.
The only other event comparable was the August 28,1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom which launched the modern civil rights movement and at
which Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the
Lincoln Memorial.
There was, however, one major lack and disappointment. Everyone remembers (or learns about in
school) that 1963 event because of King's speech. Where was our Dr. King? Where was the speech that the vast multitude of
conservatives wanted to hear? In other
words, where the hell was Sarah Palin?
If there's a parade of history, get out in front and lead it
- or the parade and history will pass you by.
Carpe diem - or your day will
be gone. Sarah had better stop hiding
from the world, stop confining herself to posts on Facebook, or this Teaparty Juggernaut
will quickly find other leaders. It's
not too late, Sarah, but you are burning daylight.
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WHAT A RENDEZVOUS! |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
This was Rendezvous VI.
Starting in Vegas in early 2007, and after Sarasota,
Colorado Springs, Boston,
and Carefree, Arizona, many folks
said while they were great, this one in Williamsburg
was the best.
As one Rendezvous veteran, "Dr. Roseanne," posted on the TTP
Forum:
"I can't even say enough good things about this Rendezvous.
It was phenomenal. I actually wish it could have been longer as there was so
much to learn.... The speakers are so available and approachable and knowledgeable!
[TTP-ers] are the most wonderful, rational, freedom-loving people... They are ‘the
salt of the earth.' I am happily sleep-deprived from staying up and visiting
with some of them. I already miss my TTP friends! Can't wait for San
Antonio! Hope you will all plan to be there!"
The good doctor put her finger on why these Rendezvous are
such a memorably enjoyable experience - it's because of the TTPers
themselves. We all enjoy each other's
company so much. About half the
attendees were first-timers, and they were overjoyed to be welcomed into a
rational, freedom-loving, salt-of-the-earth community.
I, too, can hardly wait for San Antonio
next January. So - what went on last weekend? Here are some highlights.
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