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INTERPOL IN A TEAPOT |
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Written by Brent Moody
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
[Many TTPers have
expressed concern over the recent (12/17/09) Amending
of Executive Order 12425 granting certain "privileges, exemptions, and immunities" to the International Criminal
Police Organization or Interpol. We are pleased to have TTPer Brent Moody,
former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement at the Treasury Department
address these concerns.]
Mr. Obama's EO12425 has created considerable paranoia within
the conservative blogosphere. Email
alerts and warnings entitled U.S.
placed under Interpol authority and jurisdiction by Presidential Fiat and
suchlike have become widespread.
I believe the brouhaha over revoking certain exceptions
from exemptions for Interpol and its officials from the International
Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) - exceptions instituted by President Reagan -
is based upon misperceptions of what Interpol is and by whom it is staffed here
in the US. [See Addendum for texts of both]
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CULTURE AND ENVY |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
Envy, fear of envy, and deflecting envy are very prickly aspects of human
nature, and we have to wrestle with them if we want a world that moves toward
greater freedom. As Jack wrote this week,
the West is being choked by the fear of envy.
Here's one example of the destructive power of envy shown by psychological
research. People are not particularly unhappy when they have very little, but
they do become very unhappy when they have less than their neighbor. Many
people, given the choice, would prefer that everyone be poorer, rather than
that everyone be wealthier (including themselves), while they themselves are
poorer (by comparison) than their neighbor.
Envy is real. It is a fact of human nature that we have to acknowledge and
confront. We can no more eliminate envy than we can eliminate greed. What, then, can we do to make America a less envious -- and thus a less liberal/leftwing -- place?
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THE POPE IN MAINE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
It wasn't reported in the news,
but Pope Benedict XVI took a couple of days off last fall to visit the rugged
mountains of Maine for some sightseeing. He was cruising along a campground
on the Penobscot when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the
woods.
A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a 'I ♥ Obama' hat and a 'Save the
Trees' t-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing
around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot black bear.
As the Pope watched in horror, suddenly out from the woods came a group of
Republican loggers at lightning speed. All were wearing "Go Sarah!" t-shirts and ‘Dick Cheney is
my hero' baseball hats. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest.
The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from
the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off
the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck, while the other
tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat. The Pope summoned them to talk to him.
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THE TO THE POINT BUSINESS NETWORK |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
We are pleased to announce a new special feature of To The
Point available to all TTP members: The To
The Point Business Network.
There is already the TTP
Social Network where TTPers can share their opinions and plan social
activities with each other. But what
about sharing business expertise and
opportunities with each other?
There is so much business experience, knowledge, and
creativity possessed by TTPers. So we
have decided to synergize it. These are
troubling economic times. But synergized
TTPers can help each other overcome them - and even flourish during them.
Whatever your business talents and abilities are, whatever your
economic situation, you'll find fellow TTPers willing to share their thoughts
and ideas with you, willing to help - just as you can help them.
The link to the To The
Point Business Network is in the left side bar of the TTP home page, just
below the Main Menu categories.
So join and sign up now, and start making 2010 a business success story for you
and your family. Many thanks to TTP general manager Miko, and Marco "The Wizard" Gilligan, for making this possible!
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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/01/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
Happy New Year! Doesn't it feel great to be rid of 2009? To
be rid of the entire furshlugginer decade of the Aughts? And what is to be our battle cry as we enter 2010?
Fired up and ready to
go!
The battle cry is ours now.
It no longer belongs to that failed schmuck who used it in the long past
days of yesteryear to con his way into the White House. Besides, his supporters are so dejected and
demoralized that if he tried to fire them up he would be pushing on a string.
So - what can we expect to accomplish, what can we expect
the world to accomplish, in 2010?
First, we can expect it to be chaotic - and the definition
of a chaotic system is that small differences in the initial conditions result
in really big differences in the outcomes, making the outcomes unpredictable at
the start. In other words, expect the
out-of-the-blue unexpected.
Second, realize that America
is not the center of the Universe. Not
any longer. More and more countries will
behave as if America
and its president are irrelevant - like tiny Honduras
not reinstating Zelaya or giant China
snubbing Zero in Copenhagen. Events in other countries will be more
world-changing than events in America.
The best current example is Iran.
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REVOLUTION AND THE BARBER OF SEVILLE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
Paris. Christmas in Paris
- what an extraordinary time to be in the City of Light. My wife Rebel and I attended Christmas Eve
Mass at the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur in Montmartre
and Christmas Mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is on an island, the Île de la Cité, in the Seine
River. If you cross over the Pont d'Arcole to Paris'
Right Bank and walk for a short block, you will come to
one of the city's most famous streets, the Rue de Rivoli. Walk along it to the left and you will reach
the Louvre. Turn right, and it
eventually becomes the Rue Saint-Antoine which ends at the Place de la
Bastille.
There's just a traffic circle there now, with cars racing
around a tall (154')
column of green bronze topped by a golden statue of a winged Mercury. 220 years ago, there was a huge brooding
fortress here, built in the 1370s during the Hundred Years War with England. Louis XIII (1601-1643) turned it into a state
prison, which housed but seven prisoners and a handful of guards when it was stormed
by a mob on July 14, 1789.
The French Revolution began with a chaotic frenzy of a
crazed mob - and no one could see it, nor understand its absurdity, better than
a man who lived in a resplendent mansion overlooking the Bastille. No one was better placed than he to grasp the
difference between a revolution based on a Christian love for freedom and one
based on anti-Christian hate and revenge.
No one - for as he gazed down upon the murderous mob
storming the Bastille, he knew the critical role he had personally played in
bringing about both the American and French Revolutions. How strange, he thought, that the uneducated
son of a poor clockmaker would come to play a pivotal role in history - twice.
So curl up by the fire in a comfy chair with your favorite
adult beverage, and let me tell you his incredible story - a story of
revolution and the Barber of Seville.
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THE DOUBLE-D CASH OPTION |
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Written by Tom Paine
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
Jack's Double-D strategy - Defund and Disobey - requires positive actions to make it a reality. Here is one simple, safe, costless, and effective step that you can personally take every day:
Pay cash for all small business transactions. This empowers the recipient to decide for himself whether the Federalies deserve any part of that cash income.
This is a zero-cost zero-risk strategy for the payor. When you pay cash to a small business, you empower them to decide for themselves whether to fund the cancer that is devouring America.
This won't work when you purchase from a big business or a chain; if you purchase a case of paper at Staples, their income will be reported whether you pay by credit card, debit card, check, or cash.
The situation is entirely different when you are dealing with a small business. When you purchase a dinner at an independent small business restaurant, pay cash, both for the tip and for the meal. If you pay via plastic or check, there will be a paper trail that will require the wise owner to report the income. If you pay cash, you empower the owner (and the waitress) to defund and disobey.
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THE WEAPON OF MASS HEALTH DESTRUCTION |
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Written by Dave Janda, MD
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
For years our military has been in
search of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our intelligence agencies have also been scouring the
world to unearth these threats.
Good idea.. wrong location. The
single greatest WMD, which will adversely affect every American, was not
developed on foreign soil: it is The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Health Care
Legislation. WMHD for short.
The heart and core of their plan
is based on the most inhumane and unethical means of cutting costs: the
rationing and denying of care. Even worse, the death panels that will ration
and deny care, according to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan, will be unelected and
unaccountable Federal bureaucrats.
On Sunday, November 22, Fox News
Sunday interviewed Senator Arlen Specter, who was a Democrat before he was
Republican before he was a Democrat. Senator Specter let the "secret
agenda" of Obama-Pelosi-Reid slip.
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WHY IS NOT HURTING THE FEELINGS OF MOSLEMS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROTECTING AMERICANS? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
It evidently didn't matter to Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab that Barack Hussein Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is
trying to close the prison at Guantanamo
Bay, and has sucked up shamelessly to the Islamist regime in Iran.
Mr. Abdulmutallab, 23, is the Nigerian who on
Christmas Day boarded Northwest Air Lines flight 253 with a sophisticated bomb
built into his underwear. That Mr. Abdulmutallab wound up doing more harm
to liberal shibboleths than to the 278 passengers is due to a faulty detonator,
and prompt heroic action by Dutch tourist Jasper Schuringa rather than to any action taken by the U.S. government.
But that didn't prevent Janet Napolitano, the
comically inept secretary of Homeland Security, from responding to the incident by imposing new restrictions on
travelers. Had they been in effect at the time, these restrictions would
have done nothing to frustrate Mr. Abdulmutallab's plans, but could have
subjected Mr. Schuringa, who did frustrate Mr. Abdulmutallab's plans, to
criminal prosecution.
The reason for such perversity is that we have a government far more concerned with not hurting the feelings of Moslems that with protecting Americans from Moslem Terrorism.
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OUR LEADERS ARE TERROR'S LITTLE HELPERS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
On Christmas Day, an Islamist fanatic tried to blow up an airplane whose
passengers were mostly Christians. And we helped.
Our government gets no thanks for preventing a tragedy. Only the bomber's
ineptitude preserved the lives of nearly 300 innocents.
How did we help Umar Abdulmutallab, a wealthy Moslem university graduate who
decided that Allah wanted him to slaughter Christians on their most joyous
holiday?
By continuing to lie to ourselves. Although willing -- at last -- to briefly
use the word "terror," yesterday President Obama still
refused to make a connection between the action, the date, and Islam. You and I know there is a connection. But our government refuses
to know it. Despite vast databases crammed with evidence, our leaders -- of
both parties -- still refuse to connect Islamist terrorism with Islam.
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A CENTURY OF EVIDENCE: GOVERNMENT GROWS, MARKETS FALL AND VICE VERSA |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
The long-term outlook for the stock market is not good, and here is why.
For the past 100 years, there has been an inverse relationship between changes in the size of government and the growth or decline in the stock market. The accompanying chart clearly shows the inverse relationship between the direction of the size of government and stock market performance.
The Stock Market and Government Spending
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Change in Government Spending as Percentage Share of GDP |
Stock Market Percentage Change in Real Dollars
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1910-1919
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-20.5 points |
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-26.8 points |
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THE TEA PARTY THEME SONG? |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
Many Teapartyers consider that Ray Stevens' "We The People" to be the
new theme song of their movement. Whether it is or not, it sure is fun
and funny...
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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/18/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
Wow - look at that vast array of gorgeously wrapped
Christmas presents under the tree. There
are so many - which one should we open first?
I'm glad you all liked TTP's Christmas present to our
country: The Double-D Strategy
for Rescuing America. Up only since
yesterday afternoon, it's already going wildly viral. I'm especially appreciative of your comments
on the Forum, such as this by Mitch Rapp:
Jack,
This is like bringing down the Soviet Union. This is the
kind of realistic, practical plan that can work.
TTPers: heed this call. Spread this
message far and wide. This is a free article, so send the link to everyone for
whom you have an email address. Troll every bulletin board website you know and
post the link. Go to your Congresscritter's homepage and send them the Defund
Pledge. Print out a copy and snail-mail it to their office. If they refuse to
sign it, they will be run out of office. Go to their local office and hand
deliver a copy.
This will work. We must spread the word.
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Before we start
opening presents, here's a question: Who
knew Copenhagen was in Mongolia? For the Danish capital is this week the site
of one of history's more gigantic Mongolian Cluster, ah, Foulups...
So - our first present is from Hillary Clinton, who...
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THE DOUBLE-D STRATEGY FOR RESCUING AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
A friend of mine lives in Kona
on the Big Island
in Hawaii. He has a fishing boat which he proudly named
the 44-DD after a spectacular feature of his wife's anatomy. This is not about that sort of Double-D.
While it may be difficult to
keep your mind off what that spectacular feature might look like - just as it's
hard to comply with the demand that you not think of a pink elephant - let's
try and focus on a Double-D that can rescue our country from the clutches of
the Fascist Democrat Party and the destruction being wrought upon it by
President Zero.
So - what does this Double-D
stand for? It's a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or
re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer wanting to take
individual action now against a
government that ignores the Constitution. Double-D stands for...
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NO CHANCE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE |
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Written by Senator James Inhofe
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
[This is the full text of the address given
by US Senator James Inhofe, R-OK, delivered to the delegates attending the UN
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Thursday, December 17.]
Copenhagen attendees, I want to
turn back the clock to December 2003, when the United Nations convened the
"9th Conference of the Parties" in Milan,
Italy, to discuss
implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. At the time, I was leading the
Senate delegation to Milan as
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works [Mr. Inhofe is
now Ranking Member of the committee].
Fast forward to December 2009: the UN is holding its 15th global
warming conference-and the delegates are haggling over the same issues that
were before them in 2003. I know this because I was there.
Recently, with the Copenhagen talks
underway, I reread the speech I delivered in Milan.
I found that the issues at stake in 2003 are nearly the same as those in
2009. In short, nothing has
changed and nothing has been done.
So the Copenhagen talks are
stalemated. It's clear to all that developing countries don't want
burdensome regulations to stifle their economies. I don't blame
them. Well, that's the way we feel right here in America.
That's why no global warming treaty that causes serious harm to the US
economy, or that doesn't include equal commitments from the likes of China
and India, will
ever be ratified by the US Senate. Further, I want to be sure the 191 countries
represented here understand this: an economy-wide cap-and-trade bill
stands no chance of passing.
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