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WHY DOES YOUR FREEDOM MATTER TO YOU? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
Why does your freedom matter to you? This may seem like a silly
question,
with self-evident answers. But part of the reason why freedom continues
to be
eroded in America
is that for many people, it is something that is abstract, unseen, and
is taken
very much for granted... even while it slips away.
What is seen is the potential for
leveraging any given individual's personal agenda through the force of
government. People see possibilities for growing personal wealth, or for
"making the world better" through legislation, regulation, favors, or
contacts
within government, and their immediate and personal benefit can be much
more
powerful, tangible and important to them than the abstract freedom that
allows
for opportunities, but does not directly provide them.
The disparity between these two dynamics is in continual struggle. In a
struggle between the more tangible and the less tangible, the tangible
has the
distinct advantage. If we want to turn the tide and begin to increase
freedom
in America, we
need to make our freedom, and what it means to each of us individually,
much
more tangible, and much more personal.
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MORE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
By popular demand, more examples of The Highest
Level of
Language Development. Don't beg for
mercy.
A will is a dead giveaway.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies
like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/09/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 July 2010 |
Las
Vegas. It's
good to be here at Bally's in Vegas among several thousand pro-freedom
folks at
Mark Skousen's Freedom
Fest. It's also creepy that right across the Strip
from Bally's, Zero is at Caesar's as I
am writing this.
He gave a fund-raising speech
for Lost Harry Reid last night (7/08).
Believe it or not, his very first words of the speech were "Si,
si,
puede" - the chant in Spanish of illegal aliens, meaning "Yes, yes we
can
violate America's laws and live off the American taxpayer with impunity"
(then
become citizens and vote to keep Dems in office in perpetuity).
The Las Vegas Review
Journal eviscerated Zero's speech this morning in an editorial
entitled, Mr.
President,
Your Economic Policies Suck. Nevada
has the highest unemployment of any state in the US,
while Zero's "main economic goals," the LVRJ says, "seem to be the
punishment and prevention of capital
formation and business growth." You
should read the entire editorial.
One fear you'll hear expressed here - as well as on the TTP
Forum - is the Dems planning an orgy of fascist legislation during a
"lame
duck" post-election session, as described in the Wall
Street
Journal today (7/09). This fear is way overblown. Here are four reasons why.
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THIS IS NO ACCIDENT, COMRADES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 |
Ever since he was inaugurated in January 2009, inheriting an
economic basket case from his predecessor, Zero has done the absolute
exact
opposite of Ronald Reagan - which is why he is failing. Or
is he?
He is certainly failing at re-launching the American
economy. But what if he defines his
success to the extent he makes our economy worse, not better? Yes,
as someone who is not an actual
American, someone who truly and deeply hates our country, his goal is to
ruin America
as much as he can.
Yet this goal dovetails with that of the Democrat
Party's: the continuance and expansion
of its political power. A Second Great
Depression is the Democrat Party's path to power.
Are you thinking, aha, but wait until November 2nd? We'll
kick these evil Dems out and spoil
their dream! Electoral retribution this
November is our dream. What could the
Dems do to spoil it?
I have lost count now of the number of predictions being
made of a GOP "tsunami" in November.
Serious political analysts, soberly and without hyperbole, are
saying
that Dem losses in the House, Senate, Governor's mansions, et al, are
likely to
be of "historic" proportions.
And every one of them unfailingly comes with a caveat,
something along the lines of, "barring some huge unexpected disaster for
the
GOP." Now, if you were Rahm Emanuel,
what would that caveat cause you to think about?
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OUR SELFISH SCOFFLAW PRESIDENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 |
The political rationale for the lawsuit the
Obama
administation has filed to overturn Arizona's immigration law is clear. According to Gallup, Mr.
Obama's job approval rating this year has been pretty
stable among whites (low) and blacks (high). But it has declined from
69
percent to 57 percent among Hispanics.
So the lawsuit likely is an effort to boost
the
president's standing among Hispanics. But whether or not it raises Mr. Obama's
standing
among Hispanics, "the administration's lawsuit...ensures that the
immigration
debate will be front and center for the next few months," wrote Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post.
To the detriment of Democrats, which is why
it is
selfish of Mr. Obama to raise it. He's not on the ballot again until
2012. But the lawsuit all but dooms the re-election hopes of Arizona
Democrat Reps. Gabrielle Giffords, Ann Kirkpatrick and Harry Mitchell,
who were
elected in 2006 and 2008 in districts which lean slightly Republican.
It isn't just in Arizona where
Democrats will suffer.
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HOW ABOUT A CONTRACT WITH THE CONSTITUTION? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 |
It's this simple:
Most of the current
problems facing America stem directly from the failure of our elected
representatives to follow the Constitution. Much of what the Tea Party
activists are demanding is a return to the principles and procedures
found in
the Constitution.
Many of those running
for office are venting about excessive spending, deficits, taxation,
regulation
and so forth, but are struggling to say what they are for and what they
would
actually work to accomplish once they are elected.
To deal with this
problem, candidates for office should state that, if elected, they will
have a
"Contract with the Constitution," much like the Contract with America
that Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey developed for the Republicans in 1994.
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LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 |
Germany's
governing coalition is on the verge of collapse, but the country isn't.
Berlin's
the one major capital likely to survive the global economic plague in
strapping
health.
In the past, I've written mercilessly about German strategic
freeloading,
but it's time to give Herr Meier (the German Joe-Sixpack) his due: His
attitudes toward spending and saving are admirable.
Germany
isn't without problems. Its eastern states still haven't recovered from
the
triumphs of "real existing socialism." Its banks are dangerously
exposed to southern European debt. Yet Germany
books far more credits than debits. As much of Europe
stumbles into negative growth, the German economy's expected to expand
at 2.1
percent this year. That isn't dramatic, but it's solid.
President Obama insists that only added deficit spending can ease the
consequences of our previous economic irresponsibility, but no serious
German
political leader's buying into his call to throw more money away.
Instead, Germany's
leaders are playing a strong defense, cutting social benefits and spending instead. They have much to teach Mr. Obama.
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PETRAEUS' TO-DO LIST |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 09 July 2010 |
Gen. David Petraeus has an unprecedented opportunity to seize back the
momentum in Afghanistan:
Neither President Obama nor Congress wants a confrontation with this
general.
During his honeymoon, he can write his own rules.
And he needs to. Fast.
To turn the current situation around, Petraeus has to address hundreds
of
what-now-boss? issues -- but a 10-item to-do list should top his
priorities.
First, the big-picture stuff:
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IS LATE NIGHT TELEVISION TURNING ON OBAMA? |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 09 July 2010 |
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think
25
to life would be appropriate.
--Jay Leno
America
needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/02/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 02 July 2010 |
Sark, Channel Islands.
This is a uniquely interesting place from which to celebrate this
Fourth
of July weekend. As one of the Channel
Islands (as in the English Channel although they are much closer
to France than England),
it is a "Crown Dependency" - meaning it is sovereign and independent
except for
defense and foreign affairs.
Guernsey and Jersey
(along with small Herm and Alderney) are the other
islands and interesting as well - but Sark is
fascinating as the only feudal fiefdom left in Europe,
and for being a microcosm of a number of America's
difficulties.
Think of how useful to our freedom the Sark
tradition, dating back to 10th century Norman law, of Clameur
de Haro would be. If a citizen believes his rights
have been
infringed, he can confront the infringer and call out in the presence of
witnesses: "Haro, Haro, Haro! À
mon aide mon Prince, on me fait tort!" ("Haro, Haro, Haro! To
my aid, my Prince! I am being wronged!"). After which
he must recite The Lord's Prayer
- in French.
With this, and the complaint registered with the local
court, the accused must immediately cease his actions against the
accuser. Think of how this could stop fascist
tyrannies by bureaucrats, local to national!
Whoever is found by the court to be in the wrong - accused or
accuser -
is fined or penalized. Loser pays. Imagine
making a bureaucrat or politician
personally pay for trying to violate a citizen's rights.
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WHY SHOULD THERE BE AN AFGHANISTAN? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
Last week, we learned that Afghanistan
is The
Doormat of
Empires. Yet the ignorant myth of
the mighty invincible Afghan keeps getting repeated - even by
conservative
writers who really ought to know better.
Washington Times columnist Jeff
Kuhner is an example, who has proclaimed (6/24) that Petraeus is
"doomed to
fail," that "the jihadist iceberg is about to sink the American
juggernaut,"
because:
Afghanistan
is not Iraq. It
is the graveyard of empires - a nation whose rugged terrain and
collection of
disparate warlords and tribes is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare.
The
vaunted Soviet Red Army was crushed in the 1980s. Imperial Britain
was defeated - not once, but twice - during the 19th century. The
reason: They
got dragged into protracted wars of attrition. Eventually, the fierce,
primitive mountains, caves and fighters of Afghanistan
wore down much superior forces, slowly bleeding them to death.
This
is ridiculously not true. Kuhner has obviously neither
been to Afghanistan
nor studied its actual history but is simply repeating memorized
slogans. Thus he asks, "Who lost Afghanistan?"
as if this is preordained. Let's ask a
different question instead: "Why should
there be an Afghanistan
at all?"
Afghanistan
is a problem, not a real country. It is
a pain in the world's ass. The solution
to the problem is not a futile effort of "nation-building" - that
effort is doomed to fail - it is
nation-building's opposite: get rid of
the problem by getting rid of the country.
It's a salvage operation - carve the wreck up and parcel it out
to its
neighbors. Here's how to do it.
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WHICH SIDE WAS MCCHRYSTAL ON IN AFGHANISTAN? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
We're losing in Afghanistan. There
are four reasons why. Two are
self-inflicted wounds which easily can be corrected. But the two more
important reasons are much harder to fix.
Yet three out of the four can be laid to considerable extent at the feet of our now former commanding general in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal. When you add them up, you have to wonder which side was he on. So let's add them up.
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PETRAEUS' WAR |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
We're failing in Afghanistan.
Confirmed as our new commander there, Gen. David Petraeus has the
unenviable
task of producing something President Obama can call a success.
If Petraeus can salvage the situation so that our minimum needs are met,
he'll confirm his reputation as the greatest American soldier of our
time.
Should he falter, he'll go down as the general who sold the Pentagon a
disastrous doctrine.
Petraeus did not want this job. But our president didn't know to
whom else to turn in the wake of last week's debacle with Gen. Stanley
McChrystal. Petraeus did his duty, saluted and said, "Yes, sir."
Politically, Obama couldn't have made a shrewder choice. Petraeus enjoys
cult status on both the right and the moderate left. The question is
whether
he's the right man militarily.
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THE LOSER IN TORONTO |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
The Canadian government spent more than $1
billion
on the G-8/G-20 conferences last weekend in Toronto, epitomizing
the wretched excess that's largely
responsible for the worldwide economic crisis.
Other than the rioting, nothing much
usually
happens at these annual confabs.
"As predicted, it cost much and
accomplished
nothing," said Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations.
"No
decisions were taken, no minds were changed. Politicians had their
pictures
taken; the press hailed mushy communiques as breakthroughs and
delusional protesters
played silly ‘revolutionary' games."
But this summit was noteworthy in that for
the
first time ever, nobody paid much attention to the president of the United States.
Reuters published a list of "winners and
losers"
at the G-20. There were just two losers, according to the British news
service.
One was Brazil, because its president didn't show up. The other was America,
whose president did.
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IMPOSSIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
"Irresponsible"
refers to Congress and the Obama administration - and here's why. For
thousands
of years, businesses, organizations, governments and even individuals
have
relied on a basic tool to make sure they do not spend or borrow more
than they
can service - it is called a budget.
Yet, for the first
time since 1974, when the current rules were put into effect, the U.S.
House of
Representatives does not intend to pass a budget resolution. The main
purpose
of the budget resolution is to set discretionary spending caps for the
coming
fiscal year.
Without a budget
resolution, members of Congress are, in essence, able to spend as much
money as
they wish, subject only to the limitation of getting half plus one of
the other
members to go along with the spending proposal. The budget procedure was
put in
place to make sure members of Congress would not spend money as
irresponsibly
as many teenagers might if they were given unlimited credit cards.
If teenagers were in
charge of the federal budget, we might end up with a $1.5 trillion
deficit this
year. Ah, but we are going to have a $1.5 trillion deficit this year -
and
who's in charge?
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