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OBAMA IS GETTING OUR SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN FOR WHAT? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
The United Nations confirmed yesterday
(6/21) it
is moving staff out of Afghanistan because of rising violence there. So far this
month
59 international soldiers, 36 of them Americans, have been killed, and a
governor in a key district has been assassinated.
It remains to be seen whether this June
will be
the bloodiest month ever for U.S. and NATO troops. But it's clear things
have gotten worse since President Barack Hussein Obama decided last
December to
send 30,000 more troops there.
Three obvious reasons why this is so are
the
deadline the president set for next year to begin withdrawal of U.S.
troops;
ridiculous rules of engagement, and the poisonous relationship Mr. Obama
has
established with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
So what exactly is it that our soldiers are dying for in Afghanistan?
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PUTIN IS SCREWING OBAMA IN CENTRAL ASIA |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 |
Last Friday (6/19), Kyrgyzstan's
interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, flew to the site of this month's
ethnic
violence -- and raised the estimate of the dead to 2,000.
Some 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks have become refugees, with 100,000 safely
across
the border in Uzbekistan
and 300,000 trapped in Kyrgyzstan.
Their homes have been burned, their relatives beaten, raped or
slaughtered.
The Kyrgyz military and police stood by and let it happen -- or pitched
in.
The interim government couldn't control them, once the ethnic cleansing
began.
And it matters to us. Remote Kyrgyzstan
has permitted our forces to use Manas air base to shuttle troops and
supplies
into Afghanistan.
The base is vital, but our continued presence was already iffy. Now the
Yankees
may be told to go home.
This latest bout of butchery also matters because it fits in with
Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's strategy of re-establishing Russian
hegemony
over Central Asia. That's why he denied a Kyrgyz request
for Russian peacekeepers. That's why he's screwing Obama in Central Asia.
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THE BATTLE OF EUROPE – REALITY VS. ITS DENIAL |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
Brussels, Belgium. For the past 200 years, much
of the fate of Europe has been determined near this lovely city. That is
equally true at the moment, as the leaders of Europe meet in what slowly
is
becoming the capital city of Europe to make decisions that well may
determine
whether the euro and even the European Union will continue to exist.
As
every schoolchild knows, Napoleon was finally defeated two centuries ago
at the
battle of Waterloo - close enough to Brussels to be considered a suburb.
Great
battles of World War I were fought largely within a drive of an hour or
so from
Brussels, such at Ypres to the west..
Dunkirk,
where the British army escaped from continental Europe in 1940 to fight
again
is a relatively short drive to the northwest of Brussels. Finally, the
Battle
of the Bulge in 1944 - the last great battle of World War II on the
Western
front - was fought in an area not all that far south of Brussels.
The
current battle being fought in Europe is between the economic realists
and the
reality deniers. Who will win?
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ELENA KAGAN AND MOSLEM LAW |
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Written by Frank Gaffney
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
Hats off to Senator Jeff Sessions! The top Republican on the Senate's
Judiciary Committee has opened up an important new front in the debate
over
Solicitor General Elena Kagan's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court:
Her
attitude towards the repressive legal code authoritative Islam calls
Shariah
and her enabling of efforts to insinuate it into this country.
By so doing, the Alabama
legislator has given his colleagues and the country an opportunity not
only to
flesh out and evaluate the thin public record of President Obama's
second
nominee to a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court. The
Senator
has also afforded us all what Mr. Obama might call a "teachable
moment."
Specifically, this Supreme Court nomination offers a prism for examining
the
concerted and ominous campaign underway to bring Shariah to America,
thanks to the troubling role Ms. Kagan played during her tenure as dean
of
Harvard's Law School.
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WHY THE TRUTH MATTERS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
We share a world of objective reality. There is nothing ambiguous about
the
physical structure of the chair in which I am sitting; the weather
outside at
the moment is overcast whether I want it to be sunny or not.
But we will often do things in order to avoid facing what's true.
There are actually specific times when such self-deception may be
useful,
but as a way of life, it can be devastating.
How can self-deception possibly be useful? There are times when to fully
acknowledge the truth of a situation would be psychologically
overwhelming. At
such times, by denying some part of that truth, a person can allow
themselves
time to adjust, to adapt to some tragic event or difficult circumstance.
As a
short term strategy this can sometimes literally save a person's life.
We each have a self-image; a general sense of "I am a person who...."
This
sense of self is the structure of our personality. We rely upon it more
firmly
than you might imagine; to the point where people will not change in
crucial
ways in order to avoid having to disturb this fundamental self-image.
People
will continue smoking, drinking heavily, or behaving in hurtful ways
rather
than disturb their self-image. Yet the truth matters.
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A STORY OF TOOTHBRUSHES |
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Written by To The Point News
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 |
The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were
very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a
talk
on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: "I sold girl scout cookies and I
made $30," she said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the
customer's civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious
success."
"Very good," said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next:
"I sold magazines," she said, "I made $45 and
I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current
events."
"Very good, Jenny," said the teacher..
Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/18/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
Do you hear that music?
Sure sounds beautiful. As the
Left becomes more disenchanted with Zero, folks inside the Zero White
House are
leaking what's going on to leftie blogs.
Here is a compilation of those leaks that is appearing all over
the
liberal-left blogosphere.
Disturbing and mesmerizing whispering that the Oval Office
is the scene of stormy and romantic melodrama between POTUS and his most
senior
and trusted advisers. Whispering that POTUS is sleeping
poorly and is much aggrieved at slights, shortfalls, interruptions.
Whispering
that POTUS is vulnerable to jet lag. That POTUS has returned to
chain-smoking.
That POTUS hesitates to heed his advisers, because POTUS frets that he
is being
sand-bagged by experts, allies, confidantes. Whispering that POTUS
frailties
most in display in West Wing settings. That POTUS
evidences a Nixonian persecution mania. Can any of this be confirmed?
Not
easily. Less detailed, POTUS is said to express his opinion to pals in
Chicago
that he dislikes his job. Wilder whisperings that some pros are now
weighing
that POTUS try an LBJ exit after one term - rather than face a Carter
collapse.
What music to our ears.
You may recall this from The Zero
Resignation
Challenge from a year ago (June 2009):
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AMPUTATE OR DIE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
It was a sobering dinner party last night (6/16). Hosted
by a London
billionaire in his exquisite home - a Boccaccio hung on the wall behind
me -
the wine flowed liberally, but the conversation between the ten of us
was
stone-cold serious.
There were lighter moments, as when I proposed a toast to "a
great hero of Europe - Geert Wilders." Every one raised
their glass in a smile, but
the biggest smile was that of a spectacularly gorgeous super-model
(you've seen
her in many a high-fashion ad). She was
from Holland.
Then a well-known Hollywood producer
raised his glass to toast his hero - Ronald Reagan. "We
need him again," he commented. I guarantee you've watched
one of his TV
shows.
But when a self-made billionaire with an 11-figure private
equity fund and a clear grasp of Austrian economics starts to talk about
America's
prospects, you listen. So we all
listened.
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A LITTLE MAN IN A BIG OFFICE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 |
Journalists who in the past have had orgasms
when
President Barack Hussein Obama spoke were unimpressed by his speech from
the
Oval Office Tuesday (6/15) on the oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We know that the country is eager for
reassurance," the New York Times said in an editorial. "We're not sure
the American people got it from a speech that was short on specifics and
devoid
of self-criticism."
"President Obama said he is going to use
the Gulf
disaster to immediately push a new energy bill through Congress," said
comedian
Jay Leno. "How about first using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf
disaster?"
The most hilarious line of the evening came
when
Mr. Obama said: "the one approach I will not accept is inaction,"
because
inaction is what has characterized his response in the first 57 days.
This president doesn't act in a crisis. He
reacts -- sluggishly -- and does so chiefly to deflect blame from
himself.
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MORE REGULATION MEANS LESS FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
If a
sports league set up a permanent office with a number of lawyers to
write new
regulations for its particular game (basketball, for instance), what do
you
think would happen after a few years?
The lawyer-regulators
would know that if they stopped writing new regulations, whether needed
or not,
they would be out of a job. Over time, the regulations would grow in
both
number and complexity, and the players would have a more and more
difficult
time understanding what the rules were and would increasingly, though
unintentionally, run afoul of them.
As the United States becomes one vast
regulatory state, our economy is being strangled by its own
regulations. As is our freedom.
No individual can know the vast number
of laws
and regulations to which he is subject, and hence, the government (if it
chooses) can target anyone and almost certainly be able to find some law
or
rule that the targeted person has violated.
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A TRILLION DOLLARS' WORTH OF BAD NEWS |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
Afghanistan
just got its worst news since the Soviet invasion three decades ago:
American
geologists have charted as much as a trillion dollars' worth of mineral
deposits in that tormented landscape.
Up to now, Afghanistan's
internal factions and neighbors have been fighting over worthless dirt,
Allah
and opium. Assigning the battlefield a trillion-dollar value is not
a
prescription for reconciliation. Expect "The Beverly Hillbillies"
scripted by Satan.
Even were Afghanistan
at peace, its endemic corruption would generate a grabocracy -- a
Nigeria,
not a Norway.
Throw in inherited hatreds and the appetites of its neighbors, and
Afghanistan
may end up more like eastern Congo,
a playground for state-sanctioned murderers and looters.
Beyond reportedly vast deposits of rare minerals (lithium, etc.)
essential
to popular technologies, there's copper, cobalt, iron and gold in them
thar
hills. Afghanistan
never before offered so much to fight over.
Afghanistan's
one hope was that, eventually, outsiders would leave it alone. That
hope's gone
now. Development of a full-blown mining industry will take decades, but
that
just means decades of violent competition.
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THE MORAL VIRTUE OF SELF-INTERESTED WORK |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
People are appreciated when they give to others through charity,
volunteer
work, or other acts of kindness, and rightly so. When you can help
another person
in some way that helps them with their troubles, it creates a spirit of
goodwill, and it's good for your own sense of joy and meaning in life as
well.
What is often overlooked though is how much time, money, and energy each
one
of us invests in significantly helping other people every day - through
the
work that we do.
In the popular media, and in many other liberal/progressive circles,
this
time, money, and energy is dismissed when it comes to the ideal of
"helping
people," because we're doing it "for the money." As though that cheapens our efforts, makes it base, selfish, or the
favorite
pejorative of the left: materialistic.
Baloney.
When left wing
demagogues lecture young college graduates to forego making money, and
instead
to do something to "give back," something that helps people, they are
telling
them that what they will do to make money is of little or no value.
This, of course, is exactly the opposite of the truth.
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THE THREE TERRORS |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
Maestro Caroline Glick presents The Three Terrors -- Ahmadio Domingo (aka Ahmadijejad), Erdogano Pavarotti (aka Recip Erdogan) and Assad Carreras (aka Bashar al-Assad) for your listening enjoyment.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/11/10 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
Well, hasn't this been a fun week. An icon of the liberal
media - the execrable Helen
Thomas - is exposed as a disgusting anti-Semitic racist and her life
career
ends in ruins. Zero exposes himself as a
no-class punk president who belongs in Junior High School rather than
the White
House.
His kick-your-ass taunt is that of some 8th-grade
wimp trying to pretend he's tough. All
such a taunt gets is derision and ridicule.
It invites the response for which the Brits are applauding London
Mayor Boris
Johnson - "Hey, STFU!"
On both sides of the Atlantic, this
summer's most enjoyable pastime promises to be Dissing Zero. Kicking
things off, America's
favorite Congresswoman, Michelle
Bachmann (R-MN) views Zero as "infantile," and "the worst president
in US
history." That was followed by the
leader of that cabal of America-haters, the ACLU,
saying "I'm disgusted with this president."
Now for more fun...
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DEMOCRAT WEEDS IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL GARDEN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
Here is the great conundrum of our day: Why can't
conservatives and Republicans be as
ruthlessly and passionately focused on reducing government power as
liberals
and Democrats are on expanding it?
Until a solution to this is found, government guns and
bureaucrats will relentlessly continue to control ever more of our
lives, as
they have for generations. The most that
can be achieved, such as under President Reagan, is to marginally slow
down the
continuing advance of fascism.
Here's a metaphor.
Suppose you had a beautiful garden and you let the weeds grow in
it. The only gardening you did was
half-hearted because you had to work to make a living and couldn't take
the
time - or you were just too lazy - to trim and prune and de-weed
adequately.
How would your garden look after a few years? After a
hundred years? Would the folks who originally created the
garden recognize it? No - of course not,
it would be an overgrown morass of weeds and brambles that had choked
the
garden out of existence.
Democrats are the weeds in America's
garden of government. Republicans are
supposed to be the gardeners - and they've done such a lousy job they've
let
the weeds take over. The problem is not
so much that too many of them are RINOs or insufficiently principled.
It's that they don't understand the job Republicans
are supposed to do.
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