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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/13/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
Of all the headlines in all the news publications on the planet this week, there's one that struck me as the strangest. In today's (8/13) British newspaper The Independent, the headline blares out at you: Why Is The World Unmoved By The Plight Of Pakistan?
Just to make totally sure you get the guilt-trip, right at the top of the article is a close-up picture of an old woman's tear-filled eye.
The story is strange for two reasons. First, "The World" in the headline clearly means "The West." Why are we the world? Did all the oil-rich Moslem countries like Saudi Arabia (which spends billions on turning Pakistani boys into terrorists in their Wahhabi medressahs or Moslem indoctrination schools) just fall off the edge of the earth?
Here's the second reason. Instead of this guilt-trip headline, why isn't there a headline in any major news publication asking: Why Is Obama Unmoved By The Plight Of The Unemployed?
Far - far - more heartbreaking for Americans than Paks up to their butts in mud is the sight of their fellow Americans hungry, broke, and desperate for a job they can't find.
Yet Zero doesn't care - he really actually couldn't care less. He'd rather be playing golf. He has no intention whatever of increasing employment other than put more people on government handouts (or government jobs which is the same thing). Most folks intuit this to be true but don't understand the actual mechanism engineered to make it true.
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BLOW IT UP |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 |
It is important to drive this message into the thick
dhimmitized skulls of New York City's spineless political weasels:
The Ground Zero Mosque
will not be built - this will literally not stand. Whatever measures necessary to prevent its
existence will be taken. Period.
While the Dhimmi Pols fulminate over this statement, and
engage in the only behavior they know: call names - racist! bigot! - like a 5th grader as they are incapable
of logical argument, we can get to work answering questions, starting with:
How can the project be blown up as in economically sabotaged so it never gets built and has to be blown
up physically? When you think about it, there are lots of
ways to blow this thing up, as in ruin it, so that it never gets built at all.
The Ground Zero Mosque is, in fact, a perfect opportunity to
force the issue of Liberal/Democrat Moslem appeasement, to force the issue of
whether Islam really is a religion or a totalitarian political ideology disguised as, pretending to be, a religion.
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IF HITLER WAS GOD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 |
The scene: It is
November, 1943. We're in Camp Shelby,
just outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi,
where 5,300 German prisoners of war are interned.
The Geneva Conventions are being strictly adhered to, with
food (prepared by German cooks), clothing, and medical care equal to their
captors. The German POWs have formed soccer and volleyball teams, with
descriptions and results of the tournaments between them reported in the camp
newspaper, The Mississippi Post.
A Nazi church has been erected in the camp, where Nazi worshippers attend
services held by Nazi chaplains. In their sermons, the chaplains instruct that:
"Nazism is the true religion, the Aryan Soul the only true
God, our understanding of Whom has been brought to us by His Holiness, Adolph
Hitler. Our Führer, Adolph Hitler is the true Holy Ghost. He is the
human form of the Aryan Soul instantiated here on earth. We believe on this
earth solely in Adolph Hitler and his sacred teachings."
The Nazi Bible, Mein Kampf, is treated with careful reverence by the
American camp guards. "The Holy Mein Kampf must never be placed in offensive
areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet
areas," state the detailed rules issued by the Pentagon. "Only Nazi chaplains
may handle the Holy Nazi Book, or by guards only after putting on clean white
gloves in full view of the POWs."
"The Holy Mein Kampf," states the Pentagon's directive, "should
be treated like a ‘fragile piece of delicate art.'"
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MICHELLE ANTOINETTE AND LOUIS BARACK XVI |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
In what he imagines is a flattering profile of the
president and his aides, Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair noted Barack Obama
typically gets to the Oval Office about 9:30 a.m. That is, about three
hours later than did President Bush.
His aides told Mr. Purdum the president works late
into the evening. But not all those hours are spent on affairs of state.
"While President Obama's wife and younger daughter
were conducting international relations in Majorca ... the
commander in chief was at home hosting a fantasy camp for himself," wrote Dana
Milbank of the Washington Post Tuesday (8/10).
Mr. Obama is living well at our expense. But he's
a piker compared to his wife. Some are calling her "Michelle Antoinette" after
her vacation this month at a resort in Spain where room rates begin at $330 a night.
Gossip in the National Enquirer about a "feud"
between the first lady and second lady Jill Biden has fueled suspicion Michelle
Obama has regal pretensions.
"What's got her seething is that Jill doesn't seem
to treat Michelle with the reverence the first lady expects," the Enquirer's
source said. Reverence? Reverence that commoners must show to royalty?
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OUR KRYTOCRATIC GOVERNMENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 |
The majority on the Supreme Court was reaching the
"desirable" result in the landmark 1954 case of Brown
v. Board of Education, his clerk said to Justice Stanley Reed.
This observation was irrelevant and dangerous,
Justice Reed replied, because if judges voted for results merely because they
privately struck the judges as desirable, the Court would overstep its
jurisdiction and set the country on a path to krytocracy.
Krytocracy is government by unelected judges who
substitute their policy preferences for those of elected officials and
citizens. Thomas Jefferson warned: "The great
object of my fear is the federal judiciary. Advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until
all shall be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into
one."
Two recent federal court decisions are realizing Jefferson's fears.
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AN INCONVENIENT ECONOMIC TRUTH |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 |
Where is the
historical evidence to show that big increases in government spending as a
percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) lead to faster economic growth and
more job creation? Answer: There isn't any.
Compare the first
four quarters after the bottom of the recession in 1982 that resulted in an
average quarterly growth rate of 7.8 percent, versus an average quarterly
growth rate of just 3.2 percent in the first four quarters after the bottom of
the 2009 recession.
In addition, unemployment
fell sharply - 2 percent under the Reagan tax-rate-cut solution in 1982-83
versus no drop under President Obama's greatly increased government spending
"solution" - in the first four quarters of the recovery from the
bottom of each recession. Tax rate cuts trump government spending increases.
Tell this to those
who want even more spending, such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and
you'll get Krugman's silly rebuttal:
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CZAR VLAD IS GETTING SCORCHED |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 |
Red-headed spy Anna Fermanova is no longer the hottest thing in Russia.
Now it's the 500 out-of-control wildfires devouring thousands of square miles
of the countryside.
This conflagration makes California's
annual blazes look like Boy Scout campfires. The fires have consumed entire
villages and ravaged the critical wheat harvest; now they threaten a key
nuclear-weapons-research facility. A huge naval logistics base burned -- along
with 200 helicopters and planes.
But the reputation of Russia's
new czar, Prime Minister Vladimir "Czar Vlad" Putin, may have been scorched worst of all. The disastrous forest and peat-bog infernos encircling Moscow
have exposed the Potemkin-village nature of Putin's vaunted efficiency. All the
czar's men can't even put out a brush fire.
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KNOW YOUR ENEMY |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
The most perplexing element in the fight between those of us who value America's
founding principles, and those on the left, is the belief by the left that they
are advocates for freedom.
Their programs and policies all serve to expand government power, and they
have sought for over a hundred years to replace individual liberty with some
abstract concept of freedom that is incomprehensible to a classical liberal or modern
conservative.
We often dismiss their use of the words freedom and liberty as stupid or
misguided, or else we think that it is a kind of sleight of hand or
manipulation to fool people into accepting massive state control.
But if this is the extent of our understanding of liberals then we will make
the mistake of being ignorant of our enemies; and I think that understanding
the position of the mass of liberals may hold a key to regaining the ascendance
of our founding principles. Let's get to know our enemy better.
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THE POWER OF THE PROPHET IN YOUR POCKET |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
A Members Only Humor File, folks! Make sure the kids are playing outside and your speakers are on.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/06/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 06 August 2010 |
Relax. Close your
eyes, take a deep breath, then another, think of a beautiful sunset and the
smell of an ocean breeze. If it's not
too early - the sun is over the yard-arm somewhere
- pour yourself three fingers of your favorite adult libation. It's going to be okay.
True enough, parts of
the world around you went even more nuts this week. A left-wing looney with contempt for the
Constitution became a Supreme Court Justice.
A left-wing limp-wrist judge with contempt for the very basis of what
makes us human and for millions of his state's voters forces his homosexuality
upon us all.
Yet there's also good news, good judicial news. While Judge "Swish" Walker was emasculating
Prop 8, the California Supreme Court upheld
Prop 209 - 6 to 1! - this week (8/02) which bans "affirmative action,"
i.e., preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school
admissions, government hiring and contracting.
The Left took a real hit on this one. Yet that wasn't the only one, for on that
same day (8/02) the Left suffered a double-whammy when US District Judge Henry
Hudson refused
to dismiss the State of Virginia's
suit against ObamaCare on the grounds of unconstitutionality.
This, potentially, is a much
bigger deal than banning affirmative action. Here's why...
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REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTIONALISM |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 |
Required reading for most any course in the Philosophy of Science is Thomas
Kuhn's The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
Kuhn distinguished between "normal science," which is essentially
puzzle-solving - trying to answer unsolved issues arising within a framework or
"paradigm" of accepted scientific principles - and "revolutionary science,"
which is when the unsolved issues can no longer be answered within the paradigm
and must be replaced by a new paradigm.
The classic historic example is Ptolemaic astronomy, which tried to explain
the motions of the planets within the geocentric paradigm - that the sun
revolved around the earth. This "normal
science" finally became so unbearably complicated that it broke down, to be
replaced by the heliocentric "Copernican Revolution" - that the earth revolved
around the sun (which Sir Francis Bacon accepted but called "a rape of the
senses").
So let's talk about The Structure of Political Revolutions.
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MARRIAGE AND THE MISSING LINK |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 22 May 2009 |
[In the wake of homosexual judge Vaughn Walker overturning the California Marriage Protection Act, which added to the California Constitution the provision that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," TTP is republishing this article from May, 2009.
It explains how, for one million seven hundred thousand years, monogamous pair-bonding or marriage and the resultant nuclear family has been the foundation of human society - and why the Left constantly wages war against it.]
Our immediate human ancestor, Homo Ergaster, emerged 1.7 million years ago. The males of Ergaster's ancestors, Australopithicus and Habilis, were twice as large as the females - meaning they were polygamous. In species where males have a lot of competition for access to mates, the bigger the male is the greater his selective advantage. The more sex he has with as many females as he can, the more his genes get replicated.
This changes with Ergaster. The males became 50% bigger than their ancestors, while the females became 70% bigger. This reduction of dimorphism signals that the greatest revolution in human society was occurring: pair-bonding. One man mating with one woman, the nuclear family as the foundation of a human community.
"Pair-bonding" is what paleontologists call it. We call it marriage. Marriage - monogamous pair-bonding for mutual support and to raise children (human infants are far more helpless than those of other primates - this again starts with Ergaster) - is what made us human. Marriage is the missing link.
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PHM: THE NEXT INSANITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 February 2004 |
[In the wake of homosexual judge Vaughn Walker overturning the California Marriage Protection Act, which added to the California Constitution the provision that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," TTP is republishing this article from February, 2004. Its prediction of what's next is now more clear than ever.]
My friend Tony Perkins, who capably runs the Family Research Council, has been issuing dire warnings in the wake of Massachusetts’ outlaw Supreme Court creating an alleged right for homosexuals to marry out of constitutional thin air.
“Senator (Rick) Santorum (R-PA) was right when he predicted that demands to legalize polygamy would come in the wake of homosexual marriage,” Tony says. “What argument could the Massachusetts Supreme Court offer today against legalizing polygamy?”
Tony is right, but more right than he knows. For the loudest demands to legalize polygamy will not come from heterosexuals -- it will come from homosexuals. Get ready for it, folks. The next cultural insanity will be a movement to legalize Polygamous Homosexual Marriage: PHM.
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WILL DEMOCRATS BECOME BIRTHERS? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
Democrats may have more to fear this fall from
disappointed liberals than from the Tea Party, thinks Robert Reich, who was
Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration.
"A friend whom I'll call David raised a ton of
money for Democrats in 2008 and now tells me they can go to hell," Mr. Reich
wrote Monday (8/2) on his blog at the liberal American Prospect, which he
co-founded.
He quoted David as saying of Democrats: "They're
all lily-livered wimps, and Obama has the backbone of a worm."
Democrats are enraged at Mr. Obama for not being socialist enough. Thus the most interesting question arises: are they mad enough to become birthers?
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BUSH WON THE WAR IN IRAQ, IS OBAMA LOSING THE PEACE ON PURPOSE? |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
One president gave his premature "Mission Accomplished" speech
about Iraq on
the deck of an aircraft carrier. Now another has given his own version as part
of a Chicago-ward-politics sales pitch to disabled veterans.
The difference is that the first guy was sincere.
President Obama's pork-barrel speech to the Disabled Veterans of America
yesterday (if you want to help our vets, Mr. President, shut up and do it)
would have drawn a blush from those Soviet propagandists who cropped purged
Politburo members from Stalin-era photographs.
Ignoring his own opposition to the liberation of Iraq,
supporting our troops and the surge, Obama spoke as if all's well in Baghdad
-- thanks to him.
We won
that war, but we still can lose the peace. Obama shunned the fact that, almost
half a year after its last national election, Iraq
doesn't have a new government. Determined to abandon "Bush's war,"
Obama's been AWOL in Baghdad. Does he want to lose Iraq and throw away the sacrifice of all those Americans who died to win there?
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