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MY NIGHT AT THE MARINE CORPS BALL |
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Written by Justin Timberlake
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 |
I'm writing this after attending an event that turned out to
be one of the most moving evenings I've ever had.
I had the honor and privilege last Saturday night (11/12) of attending The
Basic School Instructor Battalion 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball at the
Greater Richmond Convention Center with Corporal Kelsey DeSantis.
I knew I would have an evening that I wouldn't forget. Something I could tell
my friends about. What I didn't know was how moved I would be by the whole
experience.
I've always been very vocal about my support of our Armed Forces. I've always
felt like they offered us the opportunity to live our lives freely without the
fear that so many other nations have to endure still to this day. And, they do
it without asking for anything in return. I had this very feeling walking into
this dinner. So, to say I was stoked to be there would be more than accurate.
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DEMOCRATS ARE IN A CULT, REPUBLICANS ARE IN A TRANCE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 18 November 2011 |
There's a dynamic that cults use to indoctrinate and control their members.
It has been in operation politically in the United
States for many decades. It's time that we
identified it and rejected its premise.
I've studied the psychology of cult indoctrination, and have worked with a number of clients to snap them out of the trance the cult puts them into. Ever since FDR turned the Democrat Party into a political cult, it has become more and more dngerous, and is now on the verge of destroying everything that has made America exeptional.
Far too many Republicans in Congress are in a trance over this. We have to snap them out of it.
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DOES OBAMA WANT IRAN TO HAVE NUKES? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 |
Iran could start building a nuclear weapon "in a matter of
months," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report last Wednesday (11/12).
Scientists at a top secret facility in Parchin are
building high tech precision detonators essential for a nuclear device, and
developing a uranium core for a nuclear warhead, the IAEA report said.
Iranian scientists also are working on ways to
mount a nuclear warhead onto its Shahab 3 missiles, the UN agency said.
"The facts lay out a pretty overwhelming case that
this was a pretty sophisticated nuclear weapons effort aimed at miniaturizing a
warhead for a ballistic missile," U.S. arms control expert David
Albright told Reuters. "The level
of detail is unbelievable," agreed a Western
diplomat who was quoted anonymously by the New York Times.
Incompetence and stupidity may not be enough to
explain why this caught the Obama Administration by surprise.
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THE COLLEGE BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO BURST |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 |
The ultra-left wing Nation magazine is often
hilarious, though rarely intentionally so. In the Nov. 21 issue,
executive editor Richard
Kim paints a sympathetic portrait of Joe
Therrien, who quit his job and took out $35,000 in student loans to get a
master's degree "in his passion -- puppetry."
Now Mr. Therrien wonders why he can't get a job.
"Like a lot of the young protesters who have
flocked to Occupy Wall Street, Joe had thought that hard work and education
could bring, if not class mobility, at least a measure of security," Mr. Kim
wrote.
In his expectations and in his disappointment, Mr.
Therrien has lots of company. Few students major in subjects which will
do them much good. More major in the Visual and Performing
Arts than in engineering. American colleges now offer some 1,600 majors. It is a bubble, and it's about to burst.
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RICH CHINA, POOR CHINA |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 18 November 2011 |
Shanghai. "Air in many China
cities remains highly polluted." No, this is not a headline in the Onion
(satirical newspaper), but the front-page lead headline in the Shanghai Daily
on Nov. 8.
Shanghai is a city of 23 million
people, which at first glance appears to be the most modern city on the planet.
The architecture is spectacular and varied, with some of the new edifices
exceeding 100 stories. It looks prosperous - nicely dressed people; wide,
tree-lined streets; well-maintained flower beds; and the world's newest auto
stock on its many crowded expressways. To a lesser extent, the same thing can
be said about Beijing and other
Chinese cities.
China,
arguably, has today more people with a middle-class or higher standard of living than
any European country and even Japan,
only trailing the United States.
However, more than 80 percent of its people have yet to enjoy most of the
fruits of this prosperity. It is a bit ironic that a country that calls itself
communist has, perhaps, the greatest income disparity on the planet.
China is
both rich and poor at the same time.
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, NOVEMBER 4, 1949 |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 18 November 2011 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/11/11 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
The glass seems half empty this week.
The story that’s gotten the most coverage, is, again, the charges of sexual misconduct against Herman Cain. A new accuser came forward, an old one was identified. Both have credibility issues.
The Cain sex scandal was not the most important news. That could be Italy going the way of Greece . Europe induces sloth and indolence , and shouldn’t expect a bailout, said the chairman of China’s sovereign wealth fund.
The Department of Energy has been bailing out solar firms in Spain , too.
The IAEA finally saw evil in Iran this week. Despite this, Ron Paul wants to offer the mullahs an olive branch. How can a guy who is so right about economic issues be so wrong about everything else?
In Ohio, big labor won repeal of Gov. John Kasich’s bill curbing the power of public employee unions by a wide margin. A referendum opposing the individual mandate in Obamacare passed by a wider margin.
After Wednesday’s debate in Michigan, many conservatives said the GOP field may not be as bad as they thought previously.
Today (11/11) is Veterans Day. Thank one if you see one. Yesterday was the Marine Corps’ birthday. My beloved Corps was born in a bar (the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia). Its first mission was to the Bahamas. Gotta love ‘em.
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GORILLAS, PYGMIES, AND THE FRENCH |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 |
Bangui, Central African Republic. Pygmies are the original Africans. Africa
was populated almost exclusively by them for millennia. Then came larger folks like the Bantu who
exterminated them, pushed them deep into the rain forests of Central
Africa, and enslaved them.
There are now only a few groups of Pygmies left, scattered in pockets of
the densest jungles, still practicing the original human way of life, hunting
and gathering.
There are three kinds of gorillas.
The giant hairy kind you see in zoos, and the thuggish human kind who
rule over other people as "Big Men." Africa
has plenty of both. Then there's the
French colonial gorilla, which still has control over Francophone Africa.
The poster child for the French gorilla is the CAR. Of all of Africa's
capital cities, this one is at the bottom of the Dark Continent's
barrel. Most of the city's streets are
dirt with more potholes than road, what few streets are paved are more of an
asphalt quilt riddled with bumpy pothole patches, most buildings are decrepit,
there isn't one new modern building or establishment of any kind.
So why am I here? To arrange an
astoundingly awesome expedition. There
is a hidden pocket of the southwest CAR where it, Cameroon,
and Congo-Brazzaville come together.
This three-country region is the most uninhabited area in all
Sub-Saharan Africa. Save for two small
villages of a few hundred, no one lives there except for pygmies and gorillas -
tens of thousands of gorillas, outnumbering humans at least 100-1.
This only hints at the extraordinary profusion of wildlife. No one knows about it. And now I know how to take you there.
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FAILING SCHOOLS ARE A SIGN OF FAILING NATIONAL CHARACTER |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
During a workout last weekend, I watched and listened as
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan bemoaned our "crumbling
schools." Sorry, but it's not our schools that are crumbling, Mr.
Secretary: It's our values.
But we can't even discuss the problem honestly and have to
trim the conversation to keep it within politically correct
patterns. Well, when yet another survey trumpets that the U.S. has fallen
to sixth place in teaching math or science, or that
we're fifteenth in education overall, my reaction is "Okay, break those scores
out by specific school locations."
Generally, our suburban and many small-town schools still
deliver competitive (if less than optimal) educations. Our statistics skew
sharply downward because of the appalling conditions in the inner-city and
barrio holding pens and teacher's-union bunkers we pretend are real schools.
The left, for political advantage, has written off poor
blacks and browns educationally-confining them in schools that are now about
the unionized teachers, not the students. And let's be honest: Conservatives have made no serious
attempts to reform those schools, either.
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HOW THE LEFT LICENSES BAD BEHAVIOR |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
Buying "green" products may or may not help the environment, but it makes
people feel good and morally better about themselves - which can lead them to
behave badly.
When our kids see a Prius or other hybrid car, they jokingly call them
"smugmobiles," because their primary effect on the environment is to supply the
owners with an internal environment of moral superiority over owners of other,
"non-green," vehicles.
Such smugness easily leads to what researchers call the "licensing" or "halo"
effect: the tendency for a person to take what they deem to be good behavior as
a license to then engage in bad, dangerous, or ludicrously hypocritical behavior.
This applies to the left across the board, from Barack Hussein Obama to the OWS protestors to Warmists and their "Green" movement. Let's see how.
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THE US-INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY JOBS AND GROWTH |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
How much pressure would it take before you would sell out
your intellectual integrity? Those who are given responsibilities for
developing and promoting sound public policy are subject to never-ending
pressure by those in the political class to serve them rather than the public.
An extraordinarily well researched and provocative paper has just been
released, tracing how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), a major international organization, descended from promoting trade- and
job-creation policies among the nations of the world to one that is supporting
job-destroying tax cartels for the benefit of the high-tax countries.
What we are seeing is the growth of international, non-elected bureaucracies
that hack away at our liberties and economic freedoms, destroying jobs and
opportunity, all in the name of redistributionist and "tax-fairness" schemes.
But international organizations aren't the only ones that are destroying jobs
and economic opportunity in the name of tax fairness. The U.S. Treasury and
Internal Revenue Service are considering regulations that could cost Americans
millions of jobs.
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WARMIST FRAUDSTERS LOSE AGAIN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 |
"For the clueless and cynical diehards who deny
global warming, it's getting awfully cold out there," Washington Post columnist
Eugene
Robinson wrote Oct. 24.
It is indeed. Here in Pennsylvania we had last month the earliest snowfall anyone can
remember. This winter will be cold and stormy, the Farmers
Almanac predicts.
But that's not what Mr. Robinson meant.
"Despite denials for political agendas, global warming at the hands of man is
beyond doubt after a former skeptic's study," said the subhed over his column
in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Mr. Robinson was referring to the Berkeley Earth
Surface Temperature Project, which examined temperature measurements from 1800
to 2010 from 39,000 ground stations around the world. It's instructing to see how a warmist fraudster distorts it.
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CAIN, CLINTON, AND THE MEDIA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
Herman Cain's nightmare began a week ago Monday
(10/31) when the webzine Politico reported two women had accused him of sexual
misconduct when he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the
1990s.
The story was thin. James Taranto of the
Wall Street Journal summarized it this way: "Anonymous sources told Politico that unnamed
women alleged that Cain said unspecified things."
It triggered a media feeding frenzy anyway.
ABC, NBC and CBS reported on the Cain "scandal" 84 times in the first week.
This contrasts with 0 as in zero, the number of
times in 2008 ABC, NBC and CBS mentioned allegations of sexual misconduct by
former Sen. John Edwards, who ran for president that year.
And it contrasts with exactly 4, the number of
stories the broadcast networks ran in the week after Juanita Broaddrick said
she'd been raped by President Bill Clinton.
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NO MORE ON-THE-JOB NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING FOR A PRESIDENT |
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Written by Frank Gaffney
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011 |
Until recently, most politicians, pundits and others among the "smart
people" insisted that Election 2012 was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. The more
broad-minded contended that the related issues of the lousy economy and the
imperatives of deficit reduction also might feature. But that was all that
mattered, especially in the presidential contest.
Then, GOP candidate Herman Cain, a successful businessman who has risen in
the polls in no small measure on the strength of his claim to have actually
created jobs, gave an interview in which he seemed unaware that Communist China
has the bomb.
Without skipping a beat, the intelligentsia denounced him as unfit to serve
on the grounds that a man who was not proficient in national security and
foreign policy matters could never become president. The jobs-jobs-jobs
leitmotif gave way, at least for a time, to a new theme: The White House is no
place for on-the-job-training about the nation's defense.
How quickly they forget. What Barack Hussein Obama knew about U.S. security
policy before he became president amounted to little more than the
anti-colonialist sentiments of his father and the virulently anti-American
agitation of Palestine Liberation Organization flak Rashid Khalidi, terrorist William
Ayers, revolutionary Saul Alinsky and radical pastor Jeremiah Wright.
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THE MEDIAS GUIDE TO PROTESTORS |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
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