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THE TRAGIC TREASON OF WIKILEAKS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
If we needed yet another example of Washington's
self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified data on
AfPak.
Government officials promptly freaked about the political
consequences. The rush to insist that "there's nothing new here" and
that the leaks "really don't change anything" was dishonest even by
DC standards.
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies!
The victims of this tragic event aren't punch-drunk White House staffers or
members of Congress up for re-election. They're not the wed-to-Pakistan wonks
at State or even the Pentagon's hide-the-bad-news generals.
The forgotten victims are our troops on the ground. And the Afghans
who've risked everything to help them.
And what troubles Washington?
The administration, which blithely assured voters it knew how to fix Afghanistan,
is worried about eroding poll numbers. Congressional Democrats tied to the
president's AfPak policies to prove their toughness on national security are
panicked about voter backlash. The troops come last to them.
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WIKILEAKS IS NO SURPRISE TO TTPERS |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 |
Over this past weekend, the Web organization
WikiLeaks made available to selected news organizations copies of nearly 92,000
classified documents about the war in Afghanistan.
The vast majority, according to the accounts published
Monday (7/26) in the New York Times, the British newspaper the Guardian, and
the German magazine Der Spiegel (the Mirror), are reports, classified at the
relatively low level of "Secret," from American junior officers and
non-commissioned officers.
The chief "revelation" is that Pakistan's CIA, the Inter-Service Intelligence agency, has been
providing massive assistance to the Taliban.
"The one good thing to come out of this latest
leak...is that it could spell the end of Pakistan's repulsive double game," said former Wall Street Journal
editor Tunku Varadarajan. "This is a game in which that country takes
billions of dollars of our aid money...and then blithely, devilishly,
mendaciously stabs us in the back by arming, protecting, financing, hiding and
advising the same forces against whom this country is at war. We pay them
money so they can help our enemies kill us."
For readers of To
the Point, this is not news, for you learned about this long ago.
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THE GOOTW SOLUTION |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
The Obama administration estimated July 23 that
the budget deficit this year will be a whopping $1.47 trillion. Unless
spending is cut and more revenues found, catastrophe will ensue, CBO has
warned.
Popular programs will have to be trimmed if
disaster is to be averted. And because the deficit is so huge, we must
proceed with caution with tax cuts, the tried and true method of getting out of
recessions past. So we must do all we can to spur economic activity and
increase government revenues without increasing spending or cutting taxes.
How can we do this? With what could be called the GOOTW Solution.
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WHY ARE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS SURPRISED BY THEIR IGNORANCE? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
Do
you think more government spending helps economic growth or harms it?
Last
Friday (7/23), the White House again increased its federal
budget deficit forecast and reduced its economic growth forecast for 2011.
It is abundantly clear that the economic program the Democrat Administration
and Democrat Congress instituted 18 months ago - primarily massive increases in
government spending - is not working as advertised.
Surprise,
surprise. Isn't it interesting how Democrats are always surprised by their ignorance?
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STATISM AND SNOBBERY |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
The things that most of us do that make life worth living - raising a
family, creating or providing something of value, doing work that brings an
income on which we can live, making tough decisions about where we spend our
money, helping a neighbor in trouble, making a marriage work - these are the
very things that the statists in our governments - Federal, State, and Local -
are trying to relieve us of.
Income redistribution is no longer about giving the destitute a safety net
that keeps them from starvation, it is now about spreading the wealth around to
solidly middle class, and even upper middle class folks, through free health care, retirement,
and government jobs - not to mention
huge bailouts of multimillion dollar companies.
When that kind of money is being thrown around, what happens to the
incentive for a roofer to work more hours to afford tuition for his kids, or to
build his business so that he can hire more workers? What happens to the mom
who wants to stay at home with her young kids when the government tells her to
get her kids into nursery school to be "socialized?"
The greatest theft taking place in our
country today is not the theft of taxation, or of the coming inflation. The
greatest theft is the trivializing, by the statist cultural elite in America,
of the basic American values of personal achievement, self-responsibility,
self-discipline, thrift, commitment to family and friends, and pride in doing
whatever one does as well as he or she is able, according to his or her true
abilities - and earning and keeping
the rewards of his or her actions.
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UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC OPINION |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
Jose and Carlos are both beggars. They beg in different
areas of town.
Carlos begs for the same amount of time as Jose, but only
collects about seven or eight dollars a day.
Every day, Jose brings home a suitcase full of ten dollar
bills. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house, and has lots of
cash to spend.
"Hey, amigo," Carlos says to Jose, "I work
just as long and hard as you do, so how come you bring home a suitcase full of
ten dollar bills every day?"
Jose says, "It's because you don't understand public opinion."
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/23/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
Psalms 23:5. That's
what comes to mind this week. Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
There will be weeks when our cup is bone dry. This week is not one of them, for truly, our
cup is running over the top.
We start with the death of the Great New Cause of the Left,
its substitute for Marxism as a rationale for control of everyone's life,
Warmism.
Its insufferably sanctimonious champion had the final nail
driven into his reputation's coffin Wednesday (7/21), as two more women came
forward with rape-abuse charges. Algore
is belly up.
That came on the heels of one of the liberal media's most
prominent mouthpieces, Newsweek, declaring (7/12) The Green
Retreat - that Warmism is over as a major political force.
Confirmation came yesterday (7/22), with Reid and Kerry throwing
in the Cap and Trade towel. As the
Wall Street Journal reported:
"Senate Democratic leaders Thursday shelved their effort to
cap greenhouse-gas emissions as part of a broad energy bill, putting aside
indefinitely a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's ambitious effort to
transform the way Americans produce and consume energy."
That should make any freedom-lover's week. But there's so
much more.
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RATIONAL OPTIMISM |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
As "The Oasis for Rational Conservatives," To The Point espouses a
world-view that
could be called rational optimism. It is
encapsulated every week in (and in the
very title of) The Half-Full Report.
Smart-aleck cynics claim the term "rational optimism" is an
oxy-moron. We can thank them for
sharing, and suggest they learn a little history - such as about the
most
successful presidency of modern times, that of Ronald Reagan whose
success was
due in large part to his cheerful - and rational - optimism.
Sober cynics, however, who have studied history, claim that
any optimism expressed today as America's freedom and prosperity are
being
maliciously destroyed by the Fascist Left is like the devil-may-care
insouciance expressed in the movie Cabaret.
The scene is Berlin
in 1931 as Weimar Germany
is facing the emerging Nazi threat.
Germans wishing to ignore the threat are welcomed to the Kit Kat
Club
with the movie's theme song:
No use permitting
some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!
But this is irrational
optimism, stupid, adolescent, and cowardly.
Rational optimism is based on
brains and gonads focused on optimizing the vulnerabilities of the evil
with
which you are confronted.
It is also based on as wide a context as possible. So
we're going to start 500,000 years ago,
and work our way right down to upcoming state legislature races. Buckle
your seat belts.
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THE COMING CHRISTIAN CRUSADE AGAINST ISLAM IN AFRICA |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
The Islamists have it wrong: Islam isn't the world's fastest-growing
religion. By birth numbers and convert tallies, it's Christianity.
And Africa's at the forefront -- a fact that's going
to body-slam Moslem extremists sooner or later.
The bombings that recently butchered World Cup fans in Uganda
were just the latest in a long line of crazed attacks on African
Christians by
Islamist fanatics. In the central states of Nigeria
-- Africa's most-populous country -- religious pogroms
and counter-pogroms between Moslems and Christians have become routine.
In Kenya, al
Shabaab terrorists from neighboring Somalia
stir up trouble and make grotesque threats. And we all know what bestial
acts Sudan's
Islamist government has perpetrated against black Christians over the
decades.
Throughout the region, patience is wearing thin. Africa's
impassioned forms of Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity won't turn
the
other cheek forever. The coming backlash could be ferocious. Here comes the next Christian Crusade.
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WHO COULD BE SURPRISED AT OBAMA'S RACIAL MESS? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
In 2008, liberal journalists discussed
using false
charges of racism to discourage news coverage of Barack Obama's long
time
association with his hate-spewing pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
"If the right forces us all to either
defend
Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose," Spencer
Ackerman,
now of Wired magazine, said in an email to colleagues on
Journolist. "Instead, take one of them -- Fred Barnes, Karl
Rove, who cares -- and call them racists."
Journolist was a list-serve created by the
Washington Post's Ezra Klein. He shut it down this week after
conservative
journalists Tucker Carlson and Andrew Breitbart obtained emails members
sent to
each other.
But when the race card is played clumsily,
it can
backfire, as the National Association of Colored People and the Obama
administration learned also this week. It is, as Drudge calls it, a "Racial Mess." Who could possibly be surprised?
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OUR RACIST – ANTI-WHITE RACIST – GOVERNMENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
Founded in Dallas in 1989, the New Black Panther party is described by the
Anti- Defamation League as "the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black
militant group in America," and the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "black Ku Klux Klan."
In a National Geographic special, prominent NBP
leader Samir Shabazz was filmed declaring, "I hate white people, all of them,
every last iota of a cracker I hate him," and shouting at a black man with a
white girlfriend: "You're gonna have to kill some crackers. You're gonna
have to kill some of their babies."
Here's the video,
aired on Fox News.
J. Christian Adams, in testimony to Congress, said
he resigned as a career attorney with the Justice Department last month when he
was told that cases of voter intimidation (such as that perpetrated by Mr.
Shabazz and the NBP) will not be pursued if the victims are white, nor will
laws be enforced against vote fraud.
We now have a racist - anti-white racist -
government in America.
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TWO KEYS TO STATE SOLVENCY: NO INCOME TAXES AND PUBLIC WORKER UNIONS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 |
Did you know there
are nine states that have no state
income tax? The non-income-tax states (see chart below) are
geographically and
economically diverse, ranging from the state of Washington in the
Pacific
Northwest, to Texas and Florida in the South, and up to New Hampshire in
the
Northeast.
Why is it that some
of the states with the biggest fiscal problems have the highest
individual
state income tax rates, such as New York and California, while some of
the
states with the least fiscal problems have no state income tax at all? Further, on
average, schools, health and safety, roads, etc. are no better in states
with
income taxes than those without income taxes.
Where is all the extra money from these
state income taxes going? It
is going primarily to service debt, and to pay for inflated salaries and
employee benefits. Thus, as two recent studies by my colleagues at the Cato Institute show, the keys to state solvency are no state income taxes and no public worker unions.
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THERE'S MORE TO MASTERING HAPPINESS THAN MEETS THE EYE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
When you read about some of the skills that I recommend in
these columns and elsewhere, it can be helpful at times to understand some of
the underlying dynamics.
On the one hand, many the skills of living a happier life
are straightforward and often very simple. On the other hand, they also have
the effect of reaching deep within our psyches and can have the potential of
fundamentally altering the course of a life for the better.
For example, when you practice the skills of learned optimism - disputing the
negative, "decatastrophizing" a crisis situation, looking for effective action
that you can take to solve problems or capitalize on opportunities - you are
moving your entire being from a way of life where helplessness and defeat are
your natural set points, and towards a way of life where effectiveness,
competence, and joy become your basic ground of being.
All of this is contained in a skill as simple as noticing
how often you allow yourself to indulge in rumination or gossip, and making a
conscious choice not to allow yourself that indulgence any longer.
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ZERO AND UNEMPLOYMENT |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/16/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
Last week (7/08) in This Is No
Accident,
Comrades, we discussed this possibility:
"Our country is faced with an
impending economic catastrophe, a Second Great Depression. It is being
brought about on purpose by a political party that cares only for
keeping and
expanding its power, and looks upon prosperity as a threat to that
power.
That party is now being threatened with being thrown out of power. If
that party is evil enough and fascist enough to cause an economic
catastrophe,
it is certainly evil and fascist enough to cause a physical catastrophe,
an
Ultimate October Surprise, that will frighten and enrage voters enough
to preserve
its power in November.
What could this be? The most likely would be another 9/11, a massively
horrific terrorist attack, perhaps even nuclear."
This week (7/13), the London
Financial
Times interviewed a key power-broker of the Democrat Party, Robert
Shapiro, Clinton's
Undersecretary of Commerce and founder of the hyper-liberal Progressive
Policy
Institute, on Democrat prospects in November.
Here's the money quote:
"The bottom line here is that
Americans don't believe in President Obama's leadership. He has to find
some
way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who
can
command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma
City bombing, I can't think of how he could do that."
Did you just say, OMG?
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