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TAXES AND THE TOOTH FAIRY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011 |
President Obama
said last week that we need to increase tax rates on the wealthiest Americans
to obtain an extra $100 billion in tax revenue, and he blamed the failure of
Congress' supercommittee on the unwillingness of the Republicans to increase
tax rates. Do you agree?
If you think
increasing tax rates on the "rich" is the correct economic policy, then you
also need to believe the following seven fantasies, each of which is like believing in the Tooth Fairy:
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WHAT YOU BELIEVE REALLY MATTERS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Tuesday, 29 November 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.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
--Henry Ford
There is so much cultural emphasis on how we are affected by outside forces - parents, teachers, husbands, wives, government, "the rich," "the freeloaders," etc. etc. - that you can lose sight of the most influential person to you on earth: yourself.
What you believe about yourself, what you believe about human nature, what you believe about your strengths and weaknesses, what you are or are not capable of, what your role is in your own success or failure, is a primary cause of what you do or do not do in your life.
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TTP'S FAVORITE BEER COMMERCIAL |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 02 December 2011 |
It's not our favorite beer, but it is a great ad....
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/25/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 25 November 2011 |
Perhaps the best characterization of this Thanksgiving week's events would
be droll, which means curiously
amusing.
We'll resist the temptation to name Tatyana
Limanova, a well-known news anchor on Russian television, the HFR Hero of
the Week for flipping the bird to Zero.
Who among us has not done the same when confronted with his repulsive
presence on our TV screens? Tatyana,
however, did so with 120 million Russians watching. You know a lot of them applauded, and so do
we.
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You're not going to get a better example of Joel Wade's Democrats Are In A
Cult, Republicans Are In A Trance than the Supercommittee
fiasco which so predictably ended in failure on Monday (11/21).
From start to finish, this was a charade engineered by Dems to sucker
hapless Pubs into keeping their perpetual spending machine running as
usual.
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Perhaps the best news of the week is the double-whammy Warmism took... And the Word of the Weeke is Eurogeddon...
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As you know, I was in Africa for the past while. Last weekend, Pope Benedict XVI was in Africa
as well, in a country called Benin,
which borders Nigeria. As it turned out, I was in Benin
at the same time...
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THE PILGRIMS WERE THANKFUL FOR THE BOUNTY OF CAPITALISM |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 24 November 2011 |
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and
friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence
has bestowed on their beloved country.
A deep appreciation of these blessings involves
understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how
"God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and
their First Thanksgiving at America's
birth.
This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on
the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom
that made that original Thanksgiving possible.
This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead.
The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe
of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims
how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and
watch the real thing. Here it is.
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CHRISTIANITY’S FRONT LINES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011 |
Oshogbo, Nigeria.
We are here in the Osun Sacred Grove, dedicated to the
Yoruba goddess of fertility, Osun (pronounced like ocean), and designated as a
World Heritage Site. We are alone and
have the place to ourselves.
Nigeria
is devoid of visitors. The only
foreigners are diplomats, international bureaucrats, and oil or oil-related
businessmen. They consider it so
dangerous to be here that they require a police escort to take them from their
hyper-expensive hotel in Lagos
(where all business is done) to the airport.
The thought that a lone American would get a plain car and
driver to take him 300
kilometers north of Lagos
strikes them as lunacy. Yet that's just
what I've done - with no problems in the slightest.
It is a revelation being here. I've been a lot of places in Africa,
but Nigeria is Africa
on steroids. More relevantly, Nigeria
is where Christianity is on steroids. If
you want to see where Christianity, every variant of it, is alive, muscular and flourishing like
nowhere else on earth, here is where you come.
Here is where you find the front lines between Christianity and Islam. Here is where Sharia Islam is going to lose.
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DARK TIMES MAY BE A DOORWAY TO LIGHT |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 25 November 2011 |
There are highly intelligent people with a wide
range of opinions on what promises and dangers the future holds. Some people
say that the financial disaster is past, while some say utter civil disorder is
imminent. In particular, some of my dearest friends have read a fictional
account called Patriots by J. W.
Rawles, and have taken it as a credible blueprint of the future.
It is the nature of the human mind to take a
highly detailed and specific story and commit it to belief - the more detailed
and plausible, the more they believe it. It is an unconscious mental reflex. On
the other hand, it is also a deeply engrained habit of people to think that
life will go on and they do not have to change their lifestyle - in part because
change takes work and people want to avoid work.
Personally, I believe that both views are very
incomplete and oversimplified. There will be great differences in outcome
depending on where you are and what you are doing. Here is what I see happening
and why:
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THE PIG FARM ON THE POTOMAC |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 |
In most countries for most
of history, people were pretty much locked into the social class into which
they were born. But in America men and women of modest means
could become rich -- if they had an idea for making life better, and worked
tirelessly to make their vision real.
Entrepreneurs such as
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Steven Jobs became very, very
rich. The rest of us were enriched, too, by the fruits of their genius
and their labor -- the electric light, the automobile and the computer, and
tens of thousands of other inventions and new, better ways of organizing
things.
People who don't have good
ideas and who don't want to work hard want to be rich, too. Some have
found a way.
CBS' 60 Minutes program
broadcast a report Nov. 13 on insider trading by Members of
Congress. Among the worst offenders are House Democratic Leader Nancy
Pelosi of California and Rep. Spencer Bachus, the Alabama Republican who
chairs the House Financial Services Committee.
There are many, many
others. "How do politicians who
arrive in Washington D.C. as men and women of modest means leave as
millionaires?" Sarah Palin asked. "How do they miraculously accumulate
wealth at a rate faster than the rest of us?"
The answer is, by running a pig farm on the Potomac.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MONEY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 |
Last week (11/16), the Cato Institute held its
annual monetary conference. Speakers included high-ranking officials from the
Federal Reserve and monetary experts from the academy, think thanks and
financial institutions.
There was unanimous agreement that the world
monetary system is in deep trouble, which is obvious to anyone who keeps up
with the news. It is easier to observe the problem than to come up with a
solution.
The problem is that the major world governments
are in the process of destroying the value of the money their citizens hold.
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THE KEYS TO WILLPOWER |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 25 November 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.
There have
been many voices, most all from the Left, over the past several decades that have minimized the need or
the desirability for a strong willpower, but they were just flat out wrong.
Willpower is one of the major determinants of success, happiness, and
satisfaction in life. Roy Baumeister of Florida
State University,
my favorite social psychologist, has written a wonderful book, Willpower, which describes some of
his great work in this area.
This week, in honor of Thanksgiving feasting, I want to draw from this book
to give you six keys to developing a strong and effective capacity for using your will.
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TURKEY LOVE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 25 November 2011 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/18/11 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 18 November 2011 |
What an exciting week! Lots of good news and bad, significant
developments and phony controversies. Events will have to play out some
more before we can tell whether the glass was half full this week, or half
empty, but I'm feeling optimistic.
The Supremes will rule on Obamacare. Dems think Zero might lose.
No matter how the Court rules, Republicans win.
The Pentagon successfully tested a flying bomb that can strike anywhere on
earth within an hour.
Speaking of bombs, with its violent but sparsely attended protests Thursday,
Occupy Wall Street has jumped the shark. "The whole world is watching, and it's
generally repulsed by what it's seen," said a pr expert.
The European debt
crisis is getting
worse. It's likely to spread
here because our six "too big to fail" banks hold some $50 billion in highly
suspect European bonds.
The deadline fast
approaches for the "super committee" to fish or cut bait on deficit
reduction, and no deal is in sight.
In the volatile Republican race for president, Newt Gingrich is up, Herman
Cain is down, and Ron Paul may pull an upset in Iowa.
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HOW OBAMA IS AFRICAN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 |
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
It took coming here, to the darkest pit of hellhole Africa, for it to
finally dawn on me who Zero really is, to what total extent he isn't American
at all, but African.
Freedom
House, in its 2011 Worst of the Worst report, highlights Equatorial
Guinea as "one of the world's most
repressive societies." Its dictator,
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,has ruled since 1979, declared himself to be his
country's God who "can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account
and without going to hell" in 2003, and last January was elected by leaders of
the 54 member-states of the African Union (AU) to be its Chairman.
Obiang uses his country's oil revenue as his personal piggy
bank, enriching his friends and family while the average citizen of his country
lives on $1 a day. But there is nothing
at all exceptional about him.
He is
merely yet another example of what in Africa are called Big Men - narcissistic
charismatic sociopaths who gain power however they can, never let go of it,
look upon themselves as demi-gods for whom ordinary morality does not apply,
utterly convinced they deserve to be worshipped with total obedience, and to
live in complete extravagance while being completely indifferent to the poverty
of others.
Remind you of anyone in America?
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MY NIGHT AT THE MARINE CORPS BALL |
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Written by Justin Timberlake
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 |
I'm writing this after attending an event that turned out to
be one of the most moving evenings I've ever had.
I had the honor and privilege last Saturday night (11/12) of attending The
Basic School Instructor Battalion 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball at the
Greater Richmond Convention Center with Corporal Kelsey DeSantis.
I knew I would have an evening that I wouldn't forget. Something I could tell
my friends about. What I didn't know was how moved I would be by the whole
experience.
I've always been very vocal about my support of our Armed Forces. I've always
felt like they offered us the opportunity to live our lives freely without the
fear that so many other nations have to endure still to this day. And, they do
it without asking for anything in return. I had this very feeling walking into
this dinner. So, to say I was stoked to be there would be more than accurate.
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DEMOCRATS ARE IN A CULT, REPUBLICANS ARE IN A TRANCE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 18 November 2011 |
There's a dynamic that cults use to indoctrinate and control their members.
It has been in operation politically in the United
States for many decades. It's time that we
identified it and rejected its premise.
I've studied the psychology of cult indoctrination, and have worked with a number of clients to snap them out of the trance the cult puts them into. Ever since FDR turned the Democrat Party into a political cult, it has become more and more dngerous, and is now on the verge of destroying everything that has made America exeptional.
Far too many Republicans in Congress are in a trance over this. We have to snap them out of it.
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