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MOSLEMS IN THE NEWS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 15 December 2011 |
These days, we're constantly being subjected to news reports
of Moslem antics in various parts of the world.
This steady drizzle increased to a downpour over the past week, a global
deluge of Islamic weirdness. Here's a
sample of examples:
Gujranwala, Pakistan.
(Gujranwala is Pakistan's sixth largest city with 2.5 million.) On December 12, the Pakistan Express
Tribune reported that a local villager, Asif Ali Babar murdered his mother
for refusing to force her 12 year-old daughter (and thus his sister) to marry
his brother-in-law in a "vani" settlement.
Vani is the Islamic practice
of selling a daughter in a child marriage as a means of settling a dispute
between two families.
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Over a
million British tourists come to this Red Sea resort a year (and more from
other Western countries). Tourism is the
only hope for recovery of the Egyptian economy devastated by the chaotic overthrow
of Hosni Mubarak last February.
Nonetheless, Islamic fundamentalists who are winning political power in
the current elections announced today (12/15) that they intend to ban
bikinis and booze at Sharm el-Sheikh and other Western tourist
watering-holes.
Oh, and the beaches must
be separated into men and women only areas.
This way, the fundies say, Westerners can "enjoy a vacation without
sins." What fun.
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YOU GET ONE GUESS WHY DEMOCRATS HATE VOTER ID |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 15 December 2011 |
The state chairman of Indiana's Democratic party resigned
Monday (12/12) as a probe of election fraud in
the 2008 Democratic presidential primary widened.
State law requires a presidential candidate to
gather 500 valid signatures in each county to qualify for the ballot.
Barack Hussein Obama may not have met it. Investigators think 150 of the
534 signatures the Obama campaign turned in in St. Joseph County were forged.
Measures to guard against vote fraud are racist
Republican plots to disenfranchise minority voters, Democrats say. Republicans "want to literally drag
us back to Jim Crow laws," said Rep. Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz, D-FL, chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Now why would she say this? You get one guess.
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NEWT AND THE PALESTINIANS |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
For many, it was evidence Newt Gingrich is too
reckless to be president of the United States. Palestinians are an "invented people," Mr.
Gingrich said in an interview with a Jewish cable network last Friday (12/9).
That was "the most racist remark I have ever
seen," said one Palestinian leader. The Arab
League condemned his remarks as "irresponsible
and dangerous."
Mr. Gingrich is a "bomb thrower," former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney said during the GOP presidential debate
Saturday (12/10). But Mr. Gingrich isn't wrong about the
Palestinians, Mr. Romney conceded.
Newt, it turns out, got it right. Maybe because he read Jack Wheeler's Philistines and
Palestinians (December 2006) for the history.
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TERRORIST SUPERHIGHWAY |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 |
President
Obama deserves credit for authorizing the execution of Osama bin Laden and for
significantly intensifying the drone campaign against terrorists. He's
largely stopped romanticizing the Palestinians; has recognized that Putin made
an ass of him; and has even hinted that he might stand up to China on some
issues.
But
even if he turns into a combination of Ike, Reagan and Carl von Clausewitz in
the coming months, his administration's foreign-policy record will forever be
defined by his disastrous rush to leave Iraq - then brag about it.
Does
anybody at the White House look at a map? I realize that, thanks to the
left's death-grip on our education system, we've stopped teaching trivial
subjects like geography in favor of gender studies, but you don't have to be
able to name all 17,000 islands belonging to Indonesia to recognize that simply
quitting Iraq opens a terrorist superhighway straight from Iran, through Iraq
and Syria, to Lebanon, Hezbollah, northern Israel and the eastern
Mediterranean.
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THE DENOUEMENT OF THE DEBT CRISIS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
It became
increasingly clear last week how the debt crisis will end - and it is not going
to be comfortable.
The latest phony
solution is for the large, "responsible" countries to demand more fiscal
responsibility from the smaller and purportedly "less responsible" countries.
In Europe, Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are demanding
that other European states give up some of their sovereignty and agree to
strict limits on their deficit spending.
President Obama
and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, as well as British Prime Minister
David Cameron, have been lecturing the European Union about being more fiscally
responsible. How odd and hypocritical, based on their own behavior.
The simple fact is that most democracies are unable to police
their own fiscal behavior, let alone the behavior of other countries. As a result, the denouement of the debt crisis is upon us. Here is what we are facing.
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WORRY PURPOSEFULLY |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 |
I have a holiday special going now until the end of the year. See below for details - you won't get a better price on personal coaching from me than I'm offering right now.
You probably wouldn't expect me to recommend worrying as part of your to-do list for Mastering Happiness. But that's exactly what I'm going to do today.
Ideally, instead of worrying about something, you determine some effective action that you can take to remedy your situation so that you don't have to worry about it.
But I'm not a big fan of "ideally." "Ideally" doesn't actually happen much in this world. "Delightfully" happens; "wonderfully" happens. "Ideally," not so much.
If you find that you're spending a lot of time and energy worrying, set aside 20-30 minutes each day to worry deliberately. But I don't want you to just sit there and stew; there's a very specific strategy for worrying effectively:
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THE FEDERAL BUDGET EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE ENGLISH |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 16 December 2011 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/09/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 December 2011 |
Why didn't I ever think to call Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin The
Gremlin In The Kremlin? It took the
London Telegraph to come up with the cleverest headline of the week. At last, Russians are realizing what a punk
Putin is, who tries so achingly hard to be a macho-man. (You know I have personal experience over
what a lightweight he is.)
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Meanwhile, the hammering of Newt continues. What's really gone viral - particularly in Iowa - is
this video hit comparing Newt's values to those of Kim Kardashian. Ouch!
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It's a contest as to who should be the HFR Hero of the
Week. We report, you decide.
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Now for the HFR Word of the Week. Rehypothecation. It's literally a trillion-dollar word. To understand why, we need to talk about
Cameron and Corzine.
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THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 08 December 2011 |
There is a genre of historical fiction writing called
Alternate or What-If History. Its
purpose is to focus on one of history's critical forks in the road, and by
speculating on what might have happened had a different fork been taken (e.g.,
if Lee had won at Gettysburg or if Booth had missed) it can advance our
understanding of what did happen.
It can only be useful in that regard if it is to be anything
other than pure entertainment and idle speculation - for history cannot be changed. What did happen, happened, and not something
else. History is stochastic, a series of
uniquely unrepeatable events.
Nonetheless, what-if alternate histories do help us realize
that some events are more important than others, suddenly determining an outcome
affecting the fate of very large numbers of people for generations to come.
Ideally, they could be forward-looking, helping
us distinguish between inconsequential forks we're facing and those we need to
pay attention to - most especially enabling us to see when we're headed for a major
Fork of History, one that future historians will be writing about.
Like right now. A Fork that will determine the fate of the
world, how the lives of billions of people will turn out. A Fork that will be endless fodder for future
what-if histories. A Fork of History
down one path of which lies doom, down the other lies liberation.
We're there, folks. It's time to choose. There's only one thing that can extricate the
world from the calamity descending upon it.
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GORILLAS & PYGMIES EXPEDITION |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Monday, 05 December 2011 |
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GORILLAS & PYGMIES EXPEDITION
led by Jack Wheeler
Sunday, February 26 to Sunday, March 04, 2012
This is real African adventure, an expedition to the most
uninhabited jungle in Africa where gorillas outnumber people by 100-1. And most of the people are Ba'Aka Pygmies.
There is an extraordinary profusion of wildlife. When
you think of elephants in Africa, you think of the bush elephant like in the
Serengeti - but there is another subspecies called the forest
elephant that you can see hundreds of at a time, if you know just where to
go. There are chimps, hippos, crocs, at least eight different kinds of
monkeys like putty-nosed monkeys and crowned guenons, baboons, leopards, forest
buffalo, an incredible array of birdlife, rare antelopes like the sitatunga and
the trophy hunter's dream, the bongo.
The region is called Dzanga-Ndoki, where Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, and the
Central African Republic (CAR) come together. This is an opportunity to experience some of the rarest wildlife on
earth in the remotest part of Africa, easily, in comfort and safety. I
hope you will join me.
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AMERICA AND NEHEMIAH |
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Written by Rick Perry
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Thursday, 08 December 2011 |
[This is the text of
Gov. Rick Perry's address to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington DC
yesterday, December 7]
It
is an honor to be with you today and to share my thoughts on faith, foreign
policy and the free State of Israel.
As
we gather today, I am struck by the coincidence that two of the American
citizens being unlawfully detained abroad today are Jewish: Alan Gross in Cuba,
and Warren Weinstein by al Qaida in Pakistan. In both cases their offense
was spreading political and economic freedom to better the lives of less
advantaged people around the globe.
The
repressive Castro regime should not be rewarded with increased tourism while
Mr. Gross languishes in prison, and Pakistani authorities should clearly
understand the significance of rescuing Mr. Weinstein from terrorist elements
within their borders if they value the foreign aid they seem to take for granted.
We
have an Administration in Washington today whose foreign policy is an
incoherent mess. They embolden our adversaries while isolating our allies.
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THE GREATEST FRAUD IN HISTORY GOES DOWN IN COLD FLAMES |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 09 December 2011 |
Unseasonable
cold greeted delegates to the UN conference on climate change in Durban,
South Africa Nov. 28. They were chilled more by the impending collapse of
the biggest, most brazen scam in the history of the world.
The warnings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the
world faced imminent doom from anthropogenic (man-made) global warming were
based on peer-reviewed scientific literature, the IPCC chairman claimed.
But when Canadian journalist Donna
Laframboise checked the 18,531 references in the 2007 report, she found
5,587 were newspaper and magazine articles written by non-experts, unpublished
doctoral theses, and pamphlets produced by environmental groups.
IPCC reports were written by leading scientists, the UN claimed. Ms.
Lafromboise found many of the authors were graduate students selected more for
political connections and "diversity" than for expertise. This explains,
in part, why these reports contain so many factual errors.
Fraud is a better explanation.
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THE OSTRICHES OF WASHINGTON |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 |
It was Roman author Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius
Secundas, 23-79 AD) who, in his 37-volume "Natural History," first said the
ostrich, when it feels threatened, will bury its head in the sand.
Such a maneuver would, of course, do little to
protect the ostrich from a predator. But, the theory goes, it made the
ostrich feel better, because it could no longer see the doom descending upon
it.
Pliny triggered a myth which, 2,000 years later,
is still going strong. He was wrong. Ostriches don't bury their
heads in the sand when a predator threatens. (Mostly they run away;
sometimes they don't: an ostrich kick
can kill a lion.)
Well, not wrong in Washington. Because among
the bird-brains in DC -- where ostriches with their walnut-size cranium vastly
outnumber hawks and wise old owls -- the most common response to a threat is to
pretend it doesn't exist. As a result, we are slouching toward a war that could go nuclear.
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DEMOCRACY VS. BUREAUCRACY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 |
The financial
crisis in Europe has resulted in the appointment of new prime ministers in both
Greece and Italy, by in reality the Germans and French, rather than through the
ballot box in Greece and Italy. This raises the question, "Is it possible to
have both a bureaucratic welfare state and a democracy that protects individual
liberties?"
In the United
States, as well as most other countries, the people are increasingly governed
and regulated by unelected bureaucrats who create "administrative law."
The rise of the Bureaucratic
State, at least in the U.S., is only about 80 years old. The number of federal
employees grew slowly over the first hundred years of the American Republic so
by the time of the first Grover Cleveland administration in the 1880s, there
were still fewer than 100,000 federal civilian employees. By 1925, the number
had grown to about a half a million, and now there are almost 3 million
civilian federal government employees, plus another 17 million state and local
government employees.
There are two
fundamental reasons for this trend:
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YOU CANNOT FORCE COMPASSION |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 |
I
have a Christmastime special going now until the end of the year. See below for
details - you won't get a better price on personal coaching from me than I'm
offering right now.
The great moral argument of the left is that the government
policies they advocate create a fairer and more compassionate world.
Everything they advocate flows from the overt
assumption that if you want a fair and compassionate society, their policies of
forced fairness and compassion are
for you; and, conversely, if you don't support their policies, then you by that fact itself cannot want a fair
and compassionate society.
That is the logic they present us with, and most on
the left go to great lengths to prevent anybody (including themselves) from
looking into whether or not those policies actually deliver on their stated
goals.
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