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HOW CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING TO GET IN BED WITH NANCY PELOSI |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
How many times have you heard that old adage, "politics
makes for strange bedfellows"? But no
matter how many times that's been, you're not going to believe how many
conservative Republican Members of Congress are about to jump in bed with
Speaker Pelosi.
One of the things that most drives these folks around the
bend is the sell-out of their party's principles to Country Club Corporate
America. They can't stand Big
Business's addiction to cheap labor.
It's an addiction that blocks effective attempts to stem the flood of
illegal alien immigration from Mexico, or to stem the flood of trade deficit
dollars to China.
The list of issues that conservatives in the House will
oppose Pelosi on seems endless, and amnesty for illegals plus refusing to fence
them out is certainly one of them. But
there is one issue not on that list, an issue of the gravest national security
on which they are sure cooperation with her is possible.
That issue is...
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OPENING THE DOORS OF ISLAM |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
It has become a commonplace observation that Islam today
requires a Reformation with an Islamic Martin Luther. This is the absolute last thing Islam needs now, the
triumph of faith over reason with resultant bloodshed and sectarian slaughter
lasting over a century (ca. 1520-1648) and costing the lives of millions.
That horror was the Reformation. What Islam needs instead is an Enlightenment.
It turns out there is a term in Arabic for enlightenment,
for analysis and interpretation through reason, that has an honorable tradition
in Islamic jurisprudence and thought.
Get to know the word, for it is the salvation of Islam: Ijtihad.
For every verse in the Koran the moderates can cite, the
Islamofascists can refute them with a dozen.
There is no possibility of women’s rights in Islam or an end to Islamic
terrorism, for example, until verses like Sura 4:34 that condone wife-beating,
or those that condone slavery and killing infidels and spreading Islam with
violence, on and on, are challenged as not being the true words of Allah.
That they are being challenged by a growing number of Moslem
scholars, that there is an emerging Ijtihad Movement stirring within Islam, is
the best hope for an Islamic Enlightenment.
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THE GIFT OF TO THE POINT |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
We've just made it really easy to give a friend the
enlightening gift of a subscription to To The Point. There's a new option on our subscription page: a one month only non-recurring gift
subscription for $9.99.
Now what could you give a friend that could more open his or
her eyes to the world and give them more insight upon it than this - and for
less than ten bucks?
It's also the way to bring a currently non-member friend to
the To The Point Rendezvous in Las Vegas next month (see Rendezvous at
Mandalay).
Here's how it works.
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PHILISTINES AND PALESTINIANS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
Responding to Moses in Mecca,
TTP member "Marco" has asked about the historical lineage of the ancient
Philistines and their connection to modern-day Palestinians after whom they are
named. OK, Marco, here goes.
The origins of the Philistines are unclear. Genesis 10:14 lists the Pelishtim as among
the sons of Ham, shorthand for the Hebrews' traditional enemies which also
included Egyptians and Canaanites, while Amos 9:7 claims they come from
"Caphtor."
At least two things about them are clear. They are not aboriginal to the Levant (east
coast of the Mediterranean) and they are not Semitic.
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PUTIN AND THE NEW COLD WAR |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
Russian critics of Putin have been assassinated in a way
that only the most brazen of criminal organizations would do. What would possess the Russians to now send
such a shamelessly brutal message to the world?
The big picture is a panoramic view of intrigue, money
and power that stretches back to the time the USSR fell apart. The bottom line today is that Putin runs a
Mafia Capitalist enterprise and is using it to conduct a New Cold War against
America and the West.
It's as if Putin has said: "You want to have us compete as capitalists? We will beat you at your own game by
becoming the most ruthless bloodthirsty capitalists the world has ever seen."
Here's how it started and here's why it works.
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ADIOS AHMADINEJAD |
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Written by Michael Ledeen
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
The first step toward understanding the Iranian "elections"
last Monday (12/18) is that they weren't. Elections, that is, at least in our
common understanding of the term, namely the people vote and the counters count
those votes and so we find out what the people want.
That's not what happens in Iran, where both the candidates
and the results are determined well in advance of the casting of ballots. Yes,
people get mobilized and go to the polls and mark their ballots and put them in
the ballot box. But then Groucho Marx comes into play: "I've got ballots. And
if you don't like them, I've got other ballots."
So, as usual, candidates (featuring, as usual, the
unfortunate Mehdi Karubi, the eternal loser who nonetheless remains at the top
of the mullah's power mountain) complain that ballot boxes disappeared, and new
ones magically appeared, and numbers change, and counters are replaced. It's
all part of the ritual.
Which is not to say they weren't significant. They certainly were. They mean that Mr. Ahmadinejad usefulness to Iran's real rulers may have run its course.
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PRESIDENT BUSH AND CAPTAIN PATRIQUIN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
Sir Thomas Gresham noted that: "bad money drives out
good." A kind of Gresham's Law applies in politics and journalism. Bad
advice drives out good.
The recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (composed of 10
famous people who know next to nothing about either the military or the Middle
East) received enormous attention from the news media. But the report
last week from people who actually know what they're talking about received
little.
Aside from the surreal recommendation that we ask our
enemies, Iran and Syria, for help in quelling the violence they are largely
responsible for fomenting, the ISG recommended, essentially, that we do more of
what hasn't worked very well.
President Bush has been asking a lot of people what he
should do next in Iraq. But he should have consulted with Travis
Patriquin.
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TRIVIALIZED COMMITMENT |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
"Commitment" in some quarters of our culture has become a
game, an empty word that now more accurately means, "A tendency to meander in a
general direction so long as it's comfortable." The founder of Gestalt Therapy,
Fritz Perls, had a famous poem that sums up this new American relationship to
commitment:
I do my
thing and you do your thing
I am not in this world to
live up to your expectations,
and you are not in this world to
live up to mine.
You are you
and I am I
and if by chance we find each other,
it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped
Thanks for
sharing, Fritz. I suppose there is something to recommend about an element of this - the attitude of
self-acceptance, a primitive understanding of the biological differences of
temperament styles, a willingness to respect and see the good in the
differences of others without having to embrace those differences at one's own
expense.
But there
is a deadly serious flaw to it as well: the
trivializing of commitment.
Trivializing commitment is the most serious weakness
that we exhibit today as a culture. It puts our country in mortal danger of our
enemies, leaves our children more at the mercy of harmful cultural forces, and
it undermines the great character and strength that has defined us as Americans
for centuries.
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A MAN GETS LONELY IN A CAVE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
Whether Osama Bin Laden is alive or dead is quite unclear,
for he has produced no hard evidence (such as a time-dated video) of his
existence for a long time now. But the
real brains of Al Qaeda, an Egyptian physician named Ayman Al-Zawahiri is
definitely still around.
He recently recorded another Islamofascist rant, which some
quite clever folks have "re-translated" into a Christmas message announcing
Zawahiri's conversion to Christianity.
It is a brilliant spoof and moving as well. You will likely laugh out loud as it brings tears to your eyes at the same time. We suggest you send it to everyone on your
Christmas list.
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THE SCANDAL OF STUPIDITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
If you've seen the story
all over the media about incoming Democrat Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee Silvestre Reyes botching basic questions about Middle East politics,
you've probably asked yourself - are these guys really that dumb?
Here's one way to answer the question. Until he was tapped by President Bush to run
the Security & Exchange Commission, Chris Cox (R-CA 1989-2005) was
acknowledged for years to possess the most formidable brains on Capitol
Hill. There is absolutely no doubt - he
is breathtakingly bright.
But when I tweaked him once about his reputation (I've known
Chris since 1986 when he joined the legal counsel's office in the Reagan White
House), he gave me a bemused smile and said, "Jack, being the smartest man in
Congress is like being the tallest building in Topeka."
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GET BACK, MOHAMMED: TONY BLAIR DOES THE BEATLES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
One of the most all-time famous songs of the Beatles is Get
Back. It was first performed
publicly on the rooftop of their Apple Studios in London on January 30,
1969. Not until that April was it
released as a single recording. It's
solid fun golden rock n' roll, which you can enjoy by watching the rooftop performance of Get
Back.
As you do, listen carefully to the melody and the words of
the first verse. For it seems that British Prime Minister Tony Blair
performed what musicians call a "cover" of the Beatles' song, when he delivered
a speech last
Friday (12/08) to an invited audience at Downing Street (the British White
House).
Blair declared he expected Moslem immigrants to conform to
the common values of British culture:
"Conform to it, or don't come here. We don't want the
hate-mongers." He was in effect singing
Get Back with these revised lyrics:
Momo was a Moose-limb and a true
believer
Thought he'd kill some infidel
scum
Momo left his home in Quetta,
Pakistana
For a Lon-donistan slum
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once
belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once
belonged.
Get back, Momo. Go home.
Get on home, Mohammed.
Your momma's waiting for you....
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MOSES IN MECCA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 15 December 2006 |
Have you ever wondered why Arab Palestinians think Jerusalem
is so important to them? Why they say
there will never be Arab-Israeli peace until they control it? They say it's because of the "sacredness" of
the Al Aqsa Mosque.
So here's a thought experiment: What if it were discovered that Moses, of whom the Bible says, "no
man knoweth of his grave site," was buried in Mecca?
What would be the response of the Islamic world if millions
of Jews began claiming that Mecca was sacred to them now just as it is sacred
to the Moslems, and demanded that they had the right to build a Dome of Moses
next to the Kaaba as a pilgrimage shrine honoring the Founding Patriarch of the
Jewish People?
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RENDEZVOUS AT MANDALAY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
The response we've gotten regarding our To The Point
Rendezvous announced last month has really been gratifying. Here are the latest details.
You know when and where:
Las Vegas, Nevada - starting Friday evening, January 26th and
ending Monday morning, January 29th. There is no conference fee and folks are free to stay where they
want. Costs (meals, activities, etc.)
are Dutch Treat.
Yet we've been swamped by emails asking where am I staying
and where will we congregate. The
answer is Mandalay Bay.
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Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE NIGHT OF TEARS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
The Jade Steps
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Night of
Tears
Malinali looked at each of the men
standing silently around her. Several
of them were weeping. She caught
Bernal's eye. "We mourn for him, Doña
Marina," he said quietly to her, "and not just those of us who were unable to
protect him from his own people today.
All of us are in sorrow, for he showed such kindness to us."
That she would be holding the hand of
an Aztec Emperor as he died, that the Aztecs themselves would murder their
King, that these mysterious men from another world who had come to conquer his
kingdom would weep openly over his death - these were thoughts she found
overwhelming. She crossed herself and
prayed silently to the Virgin Mary for comfort and understanding.
It was Cortez who broke the
silence. "Doña Marina, please select a
noble from Montezuma's entourage and have him deliver a message to the people
of this city: He is to tell them that
their Lord is dead at their hands, that they have killed their king. They must now give him the funeral and
burial rites he deserves, and after that they must allow us to leave the city
in peace."
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FRENCH ANTI-ISLAMOFASCISTS? MON DIEU! |
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Written by Cinnamon Stillwell
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
Among American
conservative and hawkish political circles, it's an article of faith that much
of Western Europe is anti-American.
Whether it be
dislike for President Bush, opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the
American refusal to be governed by international institutions, the growing
Eurabian alliance or simple resentment of U.S. military and economic
superiority, many of our Western European allies seem often to be more like
enemies.
None more so than
France, with whom our country has developed
shared hostility in the post-9/11 world.
So it was with great
surprise that I found myself in the company last weekend of French people who
are fervently pro-American. It was a dinner party held in the San
Francisco Bay Area and given in honor of Philippe Manteau, the French founder
and president of a think tank called the Euro-American Liberty Institute
(EALI).
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