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THE MEETING THAT WON’T CHANGE THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 |
At least it was cordial.
But the 150 or so "movement conservatives" gathered at Paul Pressler's
this weekend (1/13-14) were a fractured lot.
Maybe 10% were for Perry. Almost
all of them were against Romney. Well,
sort of. Caveat below.
When the case was made that Perry was the only candidate who
actually understood the Constitution and the power of the 10th
Amendment, the only one who was not a big government guy, the most successful governor
in the country who has a rock solid record of job creation and conservative
judicial appointments - they just didn't care.
I want that to sink in.
These conservative leaders really do not care about jobs,
people hurting like the Great Depression, America's economy falling into an
abyss. All they care about is "the
family as the fabric of society," and other Rick Santorum social conservative
platitudes. So a majority of them voted
for Santorum.
They could care less that
Santorum would not do anything to reduce metastasizing government, much less
castrate it (like Perry would), or has not the slightest trace of executive
experience of any kind, government or private.
When asked one-on-one why they were going for Santorum when
they knew he had no money, no organization, and stood not a ghost of a chance
to win the nomination, the truth came out:
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MOSLEM NAZIS AND OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 January 2012 |
The Moslem
Brotherhood (Ikhwan) was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian
schoolteacher. He sought a world wide caliphate governed by Islamic law
(Sharia). "Allah is our objective," says the Ikhwan's motto. "The
Prophet is our leader. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah
is our greatest hope."
Al
Banna admired Hitler. He had Mein Kampf translated into Arabic. The
Nazis subsidized the Moslem Brotherhood. The ranks of the SS Handjar
Division were filled mostly by the Ikhwan.
Mein
Kampf is still, after the Koran, the Ikhwan's favorite book. "This stuff
we now see in the Islamic world looks like Nazism because it comes from the
Nazis," said journalist Claire
Berlinski.
In a
2009 sermon, Yusuf
al Qaradawi, the Moslem Brotherhood's leading jurist, said: "Thoughout
history, Allah has imposed upon (the Jews) people who would punish them for
their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Adolf Hitler...
Oh Allah, count their numbers and kill them, down to the very last one."
The Moslem
Brotherhood is today the world's largest and best financed Islamist
organization. It's in 70 countries, including ours. And Mr. Obama wants to be its friend.
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PERRY AND TURKEY'S "OPEN PRISON" |
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Written by Alex Alexiev
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 |
In the Republican candidate debate
in South Carolina last Monday night (1/16, link is to debate transcript),
moderator Bret Bair of Fox News asked Governor Rick Perry:
"Governor Perry, since the Islamist-oriented party
took over in Turkey, the murder rate of women has increased 1,400 percent
there. Press freedom has declined to the level of Russia. The prime minister of
Turkey has embraced Hamas and Turkey has threatened military force against both
Israel and Cypress. Given Turkey's turn, do you believe Turkey still belongs in
NATO?"
And Gov. Perry replied:
"Well, obviously when you have a country that is
being ruled by, what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists, when you
start seeing that type of activity against their own citizens, then yes. Not
only is it time for us to have a conversation about whether or not they belong
to be in NATO, but it's time for the United States, when we look at their
foreign aid, to go to zero with it."
This prompted outrage by Ankara, condemnation by the liberal
media, and a strong defense
by Perry of his claim. So is Perry right?
Let's take a look at what is actually going on in Turkey today.
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ROMNEY AND CAPITALISM |
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Written by Star Parker
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
The two most
anti-capitalist groups in America today are university professors and big
businessmen.
--- Milton Friedman,
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Our nation is at a genuine crossroads. Even if we could scale back the
trillions in new spending that Obama has larded into our federal budget, we
would still be in trouble. Government
has taken over major parts of American life and to regain our vitality,
significant reforms must be made.
Reforms of major areas of American life where Americans have grown accustomed to
the heavy hand of government will be impossible if a large percentage of our
population is mistrustful of free markets and business. To get this kind of change, leadership that inspires trust in free enterprise
is essential.
There's good reason for skepticism when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
showcases his business background as the reason he will inspire this kind of
trust.
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WHY ONE COUNTRY IS RICH AND ONE COUNTRY IS POOR |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
Ambergris Caye, Belize. The Cayman Islands are rich, and Belize is
poor. Why?
Both are small
Caribbean countries with the same climate and roughly the same mixed racial
heritage, and both were English-speaking British colonies. Belize (the former
British Honduras) received its independence in 1981, while Cayman is still not
fully independent but is self-governing at the local level, with its own
currency, laws and regulations.
Belize should be
richer: It has a larger population than Cayman (345,000 as contrasted with
Cayman's 54,000). Belize has a much larger and more varied land area with many
more natural resources, including gas and oil, and some rich agricultural land
that Cayman lacks. Both have nice beaches, but Belize has the second-largest
barrier reef in the world after Australia and also has Mayan ruins. Yet Cayman,
with fewer points of interests, has done more to attract tourists.
Back in the early
1970s, Cayman was as poor on a per capita basis as is Belize today. Both
countries had ambitions to be tourist and financial centers. Cayman succeeded
and has about six times the real per capita income of Belize. What did Cayman
do right and Belize do wrong?
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CAPTAIN ZERO |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 20 January 2012 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/13/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 January 2012 |
We begin with the announcement many of you have been
patiently waiting for: The 12th
TTP Rendezvous (RXII) will be in California on Memorial Day weekend, Friday May
25 to Sunday May 26. Monday the 28th
is Memorial Day, which gives everyone a day to either relax or return home at a
leisurely pace.
RXII will be The Plan
B Rendezvous. We'll have a few
sessions where a speaker talks and folks listen. But the main focus is for this to be a working rendezvous, discussing what
strategies you can avail yourself of to best protect and prepare yourself for
an increasingly probable fascist maelstrom.
We all hope for an end to the Zero Presidency this November
(actually next January). Yet we can't
bet our farms on this, nor that there won't be extremely severe economic,
social, and political problems in the aftermath of its desired demise, due to
the inertia of fascism it has built up.
How you and your loved ones surmount those problems is quite
likely to depend on how good your Plan B is.
The purpose of The Plan B Rendezvous is to enable you get a Plan B that
really works for you. A number of TTPers
have already done this, and they'll be there to teach you how. I'll see you there.
Now here's a
question of the week: What is Rick Perry's Plan B? He does have one, you know.
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PERRY, OBAMA, AND HARRY TRUMAN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 |
It's starting to look like 1948 all over again.
Mark Twain observed that while history doesn't repeat
itself, it often rhymes. The 2012
presidential campaign is now rhyming with that of 1948 in iambic trimeter - the
poetic form tragedians of Ancient Greece such as Aeschylus and Sophocles used
to best express portending doom.
So let's revisit that extraordinary yesteryear of 1948,
resulting in the most famous upset in American politics - Democrat Harry
Truman defeating Republican Tom Dewey - and see how we can avoid a similar
outcome by using it to our advantage.
How to do so is an opportunity being
handed to Rick Perry on a platter. The
opportunity is to agree with Zero...
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WILL THE TEA PARTY THROW OUT THIS INCOMPETENT REPUBLICAN CONGRESS? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 |
Despite pledges to cut spending by the new
Republican House majority, it appears spending during the current fiscal year
(FY2012), which ends on Sept. 30, will actually be greater than in fiscal 2011.
The House Republicans were filled with good intentions, but they got snookered
by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Fool me once, shame
on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The Tea Party crowd and other Americans who
believe in fiscal responsibility are unlikely to be tolerant of and re-elect
Republicans who are so incompetent that they cannot reduce federal spending and
continue to fund programs that most of their voters oppose.
The Constitution is clear. Article I, Section 9
states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of
Appropriations made by Law." That is, only Congress can authorize the spending
of money.
The House Republicans
can insist on reductions in overall spending and, particularly, get rid of
unpopular and nonessential programs as a price for passing any of the necessary
appropriations bills. They didn't. Why should they be reelected in November?
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THE CHOICE |
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Written by Gov. Rick Perry
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
This election -- including the Republican primary contest -- is about a
fundamental question in American politics: We have an opportunity to decisively
turn away from big government in Washington. Do we want to take it?
Conservatives across the country are fed up with President Obama's
Washington approach to governance. Massive, budget-busting, deficit spending
(except on defense, where he proposes cuts that are downright dangerous).
Bailouts. An ever-mounting national debt.
A federal government that has reached its tentacles further into Americans'
lives, by virtue of Obamacare with its noxious individual mandate to purchase
health insurance. Excessive, bureaucratically dictated, job-killing
environmental regulation. Dodd-Frank.
Yet there are "big government conservatives" who argue that a big intrusive government
is fine, desirable even, so long as it pursues "conservative" goals, which
frequently when scrutinized are neither conservative nor worthy.
Big government conservatives will never truly overhaul Washington because
they need the status quo in place to accomplish their objectives. They don't
want to rebuild the machine; they simply want to change the people pulling the
levers.
But that is not what the American people want. There is such deep and
widespread discontent that nothing short of a complete overhaul will satisfy
their justifiable demands.
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A PRESIDENT MORPHING INTO A DICTATOR |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 |
Liberals once
expressed great fear of an "imperial presidency." Rep. John Conyers,
D-Mich, then chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, held hearings on the subject in 2008.
"George W. Bush is
the imperial president James Madison and other founders of this great republic
warned us about," wrote Robert Scheer in 2007.
To the founders,
Mr. Bush "would seem less like a president than a king," Adam Cohen, assistant
editorial page editor of the New York Times, wrote that year.
They were upset
chiefly with measures Mr. Bush took to fight the war on terror.
"The danger of an imperial presidency is particularly great when the president
takes the nation to war," Mr. Cohen said. But, said Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise
Institute, Mr. Bush's "overall behavior is consonant with what the
Constitution's framers would have expected from a president facing such a
threat."
Most of Mr. Bush's
critics must secretly agree with Dr. Schmitt, because when President Obama
continued policies they'd railed against, they uttered scarcely a peep.
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DO YOU BELIEVE A WEAKER AMERICA IS A STRONGER AMERICA? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 |
A weaker America is a stronger America, President
Barack Hussein Obama said last week in unveiling his new defense strategy.
Mr. Obama didn't use those words. But that's
the effect of his
plans to cut more than 100,000 troops from the
Army and Marine Corps; reduce the Navy from 300 to 238 ships; cut Air Force
strategic bombers by a third, and Air Force fighters by half.
Our military will be "leaner," the president
said. "Leaner" is an adjective more appropriately applied to cutting fat,
not muscle.
Mr. Obama
has reduced spending for defense by $480
billion since he assumed office. The cuts he previewed last week would
reduce defense spending over the next ten years by $487 billion more.
The cuts are necessary, the president said,
because of our mammoth federal budget deficits. But defense can't be
responsible for the $1.5 trillion he's added to the national debt, since he
already has cut so much from the defense budget.
The failed $821 billion stimulus cost
as much as the war in Iraq. Spending for
defense is mandated by the Constitution. Providing pork to political
cronies is not.
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ARE WE REALLY CAUSING THE OCEANS TO DIE? |
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Written by Matt Ridley
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
Coral reefs around the world are suffering badly from overfishing and
various forms of pollution. Yet many experts argue that the greatest threat to
them is the acidification of the oceans from the dissolving of man-made carbon
dioxide emissions.
The effect of acidification, according to J.E.N. Veron, an Australian coral scientist,
will be "nothing less than catastrophic.... What were once thriving coral
gardens that supported the greatest biodiversity of the marine realm will
become red-black bacterial slime, and they will stay that way."
This is a common view. The Natural Resources Defense Council has called ocean acidification "the scariest
environmental problem you've never heard of." Sigourney Weaver, who
narrated a film about the issue, said that "the scientists are freaked out." The
head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls
it global warming's "equally evil twin."
But do the scientific data support such alarm?
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WILLFUL HAPPINESS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 13 January 2012 |
I
have a new service that I'm offering. See below for details
Willpower, the capacity to regulate your own
behavior, is one of the changeable elements of personality.
There are other qualities, like optimism, gratitude,
and positive emotions; and there are learnable skills such as improved
communication and a multitude of different habits that can be learned and
developed; but all of them require some degree of willpower in order to make
them your own.
What distinguishes people with a high capacity for
self-regulation from those with less capacity for self-regulation is that the
former don't spend very much time resisting temptation. They set up their lives
in such a way that they naturally avoid problems and temptations. This creates
a life with much less stress, and more room for positive, expansive application
of their willpower.
Let's see how you can do this too.
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SENIOR OLYMPICS SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 13 January 2012 |
Just because you are old, living in a retirement home,
doesn't mean you can't have a lot of fun...
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