Powered by Access Paid http://www.tothepointnews.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:32:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4208/85/ An amusing video of Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan striving mightily not to answer a question about the ground zero mosque... Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:50:50 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4195/85/ To View the Video Click Here Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:25:41 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4185/2/ The scene: It is November, 1943. We're in Camp Shelby, just outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where 5,300 German prisoners of war are interned. The Geneva Conventions are being strictly adhered to, with food (prepared by German cooks), clothing, and medical care equal to their captors. The German POWs have formed soccer and volleyball teams, with descriptions and results of the tournaments between them reported in the camp newspaper, The Mississippi Post. A Nazi church has been erected in the camp, where Nazi worshippers attend services held by Nazi chaplains. In their sermons, the chaplains instruct that: Nazism is the true religion, the Aryan Soul the only true God, our understanding of Whom has been brought to us by His Holiness, Adolph Hitler. Our Führer, Adolph Hitler is the true Holy Ghost. He is the human form of the Aryan Soul instantiated here on earth. We believe on this earth solely in Adolph Hitler and his sacred teachings. The Nazi Bible, Mein Kampf, is treated with careful reverence by the American camp guards. The Holy Mein Kampf must never be placed in offensive areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas, state the detailed rules issued by the Pentagon. Only Nazi chaplains may handle the Holy Nazi Book, or by guards only after putting on clean white gloves in full view of the POWs. The Holy Mein Kampf, states the Pentagon's directive, should be treated like a ‘fragile piece of delicate art.' Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:38:59 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4180/85/ st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#ieooui) } @page Section1 P.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } P.yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal { FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-name: yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } LI.yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal { FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-name: yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } DIV.yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal { FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-name: yiv1490640711ecxecxmsonormal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto } SPAN.yiv1490640711yshortcuts { mso-style-name: yiv1490640711yshortcuts } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 }I do not like `this' Uncle Sam, I do not like his health care scam. I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:20:56 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4168/87/ To the students and faculty of our high school as we begin a new academic year this September of 2010: I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people. I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against your country. First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. Guest Authors - Free Articles Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:44:48 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4173/80/ The things that most of us do that make life worth living - raising a family, creating or providing something of value, doing work that brings an income on which we can live, making tough decisions about where we spend our money, helping a neighbor in trouble, making a marriage work - these are the very things that the statists in our governments - Federal, State, and Local - are trying to relieve us of. Income redistribution is no longer about giving the destitute a safety net that keeps them from starvation, it is now about spreading the wealth around to solidly middle class, and even upper middle class folks, through free health care, retirement, and government jobs - not to mention huge bailouts of multimillion dollar companies. When that kind of money is being thrown around, what happens to the incentive for a roofer to work more hours to afford tuition for his kids, or to build his business so that he can hire more workers? What happens to the mom who wants to stay at home with her young kids when the government tells her to get her kids into nursery school to be socialized? The greatest theft taking place in our country today is not the theft of taxation, or of the coming inflation. The greatest theft is the trivializing, by the statist cultural elite in America, of the basic American values of personal achievement, self-responsibility, self-discipline, thrift, commitment to family and friends, and pride in doing whatever one does as well as he or she is able, according to his or her true abilities - and earning and keeping the rewards of his or her actions. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:21:33 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4174/85/ Jose and Carlos are both beggars. They beg in different areas of town. Carlos begs for the same amount of time as Jose, but only collects about seven or eight dollars a day. Every day, Jose brings home a suitcase full of ten dollar bills. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house, and has lots of cash to spend. Hey, amigo, Carlos says to Jose, I work just as long and hard as you do, so how come you bring home a suitcase full of ten dollar bills every day? Jose says, It's because you don't understand public opinion. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:07 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4165/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:26:27 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4149/87/ I am saddened by the NAACP's claim (http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/naacp-delegates-vote-to-repudiate-racist-elements-within-the-tea-pary/) that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow racists. The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand. In 2008, it seemed that with the election of our first black president, our country had become a new post-racial society. As one writer in the Washington Post stated (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=408166998434 h=4bf244baef9ba5dcb55d5416fd554590 url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2008%2F11%2F07%2FAR2008110702894.html): [Barack Obama's] election isn't just about a black president. It's about a new America. The days of confrontational identity politics have come to an end. We, as a united people, applauded that sentiment. We were proud of that progress. That's why it is so sad to see that 18 months later, the NAACP is once again using the divisive language of the past to unfairly accuse the Tea Party movement of harboring racist elements. The only purpose of such an unfair accusation of racism is to dissuade good Americans from joining the Tea Party movement or listening to the common sense message of Tea Party Americans who simply want government to abide by our Constitution, live within its means, and not borrow and spend away our children's futures. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:35:21 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4153/85/ By popular demand, more examples of The Highest Level of Language Development (content/view/4140/85/). 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. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:19:29 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4143/2/ 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? Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:50:47 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4147/85/ 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 Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:03:07 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4134/2/ Last week, we learned that Afghanistan is The Doormat of Empires (content/view/4129/2/). 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 (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/24/who-lost-afghanistan/print/) 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. Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:16:21 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4140/85/ The highest level of language development is the ability to make and understand puns. Here are the ten first place winners in the recent International Pun Contest: 1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger. 2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says Dam! 3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says I've lost my electron. The other says Are you sure? The first replies Yes, I'm positive. 5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:59:17 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4130/2/ On Monday, June 21, the demented state legislature in Albany passed a bill increasing cigarette taxes. A pack of smokes will average $9.60 across the state, and will be $11 a pack - $11 for a single pack of cigarettes - in New York City. This is not only pro-smuggling, it is pro-terrorist. Who do you think runs the most lucrative cigarette smuggling operations from Virginia and the South into New York? Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. The higher taxes will mean higher profits for them, which they will use to kill Israelis and Americans in Afghanistan. The state legislators who voted for the taxes should be tried for aiding and abetting terrorism for this alone. But the consequences could be vastly worse. New York's new tobacco tax law is an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences run amok. It's the coming nightmare of Crack Nicotine. Behind The Lines - Free Articles Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:25:46 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4126/85/ 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. Humor File - Free Articles Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:21:49 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4122/85/ 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. 4IS-GWc0tk8 Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:07:35 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4107/87/ 50 days in, and we've just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired yesterday (6/08), President Obama admitted that he hasn't met with or spoken directly to BP's CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434 h=f07ded7950ee0a5930fd03dba1aec165 url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoday.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F37566848%2Fns%2Fdisaster_in_the_gulf%2F%23ixzz0qH0sYLpa): Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions. First, to the informed and enlightened mainstream media: in all the discussions you've had with the White House about the spill: did it not occur to you before yesterday to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience (http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434 h=a36a0ebb09f616d53acf8ac9cad5417d url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolitics%2FSpill-reveals-Obama_s-lack-of-executive-experience-95819074.html) before occupying the Oval Office -- as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren't proof enough. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:10:31 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4115/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:28:59 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4100/2/ [This commencement address was originally published five years ago. We rerun it annually at college graduation time. Feel quite free to send this to any recent college graduate you may know.] Mr. Chancellor, Members of the Board of Regents, Members of the Faculty, Honored Graduates, Families and Friends: It's funny that they call this ceremony a Commencement, for you've all reached the finish line: college, goodbye, we're outta here. Yet of course, commencement means a beginning, not an end. But one is supposed to at least start - commence - a talk such as this by saying funny things. So I'll start by talking about Clark Gable movies. If you've heard of Clark Gable at all, you know he was the biggest movie star in Hollywood a long time ago. His most famous movie was Gone With The Wind. He made a movie in 1955 called The Tall Men with Jane Russell as his girlfriend and Robert Ryan as the heavy. It's a pretty ordinary Western flick with outlaws and cowboys and Indians - and at the end, Ryan, the bad guy, and his henchmen get the drop on Gable, the good guy, and all seems lost. Suddenly, surprise, Gable outfoxes Ryan and triumphs. Gable makes his exit, and after he does, Ryan delivers a line that I want you to never forget. Serendipity is funny, a very funny thing, finding something where you least expect it. Out of the blue, out of a movie awash with pedestrian dialogue, comes a line so profound it detonates inside your brain. Ryan turns to his men and says: Behind The Lines - Free Articles Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:36:14 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4104/85/ On May 29, 1943, with the outcome of World War II still very much in doubt, the cover of the Saturday Evening Post was a Norman Rockwell painting that quickly became an iconic expression of America's determination to defeat a deadly enemy. It was a painting of a woman - an aircraft assembly-line worker with a rivet gun in her lap taking a lunch break: Rosie the Riveter. While there was a real life Rosie - Rose Will Monroe from Somerset, Kentucky, who worked in a Ford factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan building B-29 and B-24 bombers - Rockwell took for his inspiration Michelangelo's painting of the prophet Isaiah on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A modern-day Rockwell who goes by the single name of Dale has now given us a new iconic expression of America's determination to defeat the deadly enemy she faces today: Sarah Para Bellum. I was trying to relate how Sarah Palin fit into the Rosie the Riveter mold, Dale says. Rosie the Riveter was a testament to the women who helped the war effort by working in the factories. And Sarah Palin is trying to uphold the traditions of traditional America, which I think is something worth saving. The para bellum, he notes, refers to the famous Roman proverb Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war. And if you point out that para bellum by itself means prepare for war, Dale will just raise his eyebrows. He explains his iconography: Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:11:37 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4097/80/ We as conservative/libertarian/constitutionalist people have for many decades now been drawn into a scenario where we have been continually asked to compromise with fascism. At each step, with each new administration - Republican or Democrat, including even our beloved Ronald Reagan, we have seen the power and centralization of our federal, state, and local government grow, its intrusion into our lives expand, and its presence in our daily lives become ever more insidious. Why do we condone this? How is it that we have allowed our politicians to betray the principles of our Constitution? Because we have accepted the premise of moral goodness claimed by those who would enforce equality of outcome through government force; or, said in slicker fashion, spreading the wealth around - at the point of a gun. This premise is wrong strategically, economically, definitionally, psychologically, culturally, historically, and morally. Here is why, one by one. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Fri, 28 May 2010 08:52:45 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4098/85/ While discussing the upcoming rationing of health care under ObamaCare with my sister-in-law the other day, I think we have found the solution. I am sure you have heard the ideas that if you're a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon. So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 3 bullets. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 28 May 2010 08:59:03 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4090/85/ This billboard is to be found in Marshall, Texas, a town near the Louisiana border off Interstate 20 connecting Shreveport with Dallas. TTP salutes E.M.-- Citizen who paid for it. Humor File - Free Articles Thu, 20 May 2010 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4082/44/ Mr. Kevin W. Toomy President and Chief Operating Officer Ruth's Chris Steak House Re: An incident of which you should be aware. Dear Mr. Toomy, As you are reading this, so are tens of thousands of people on the Internet. This past Monday evening, May 10th, with my wife at a dinner business meeting I decided to treat myself to a steak at Ruth's Chris - which I consider the best steak in America this side of Peter Luger's in Brooklyn. I arrived at the Ruth's Chris in Tyson's Corner, Virginia (8521 Leesburg Pike), a little after nine. My server was a very nice and competent lady named Shannon. As it was late, the place was fairly empty: two fellows in a booth across from me, a quartet at a table to my left, another group to my right, and a third group that I could hear but not see. Shannon took my order and soon afterwards, both the group on my right and left departed. Only the group that I couldn't see (plus the two fellows in the booth) were left and now that the other folks had gone, I noticed how loud they were. Really loud. As I listened, the language they were speaking was unmistakable. It was Arabic. TTP Intelligence Bulletin - Free Articles Fri, 14 May 2010 13:49:09 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4080/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 14 May 2010 10:47:00 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4071/130/ MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer is bummed the man who put a car bomb in Times Square isn't a right-winger with white skin. There was part of me that was hoping that this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country because there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or who come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way, she said on a radio show Tuesday (5/04). Presumably, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also was bummed to learn the bomber was Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized citizen of Pakistani extraction who is a registered Democrat in Connecticut. On Monday (5/03), Mr. Bloomberg had told Katie Couric of CBS he thought the bomber was homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something. When he learned the truth, Mayor Bloomberg did not apologize for his smear of people who don't like Obamacare. Instead, he smeared the people of New York City. Kelly's Panorama - Free Articles Thu, 06 May 2010 09:16:12 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4074/85/ When Adolph Hitler announced at huge Nazi rally in Berlin his intention to invade Russia - moving East, as he put it - it had all the fervor of a gospel sermon. This is a rare recording of that announcement. But who knew Hitler could sing? Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 07 May 2010 12:59:47 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4061/87/ A distinguished 70-year-old attorney in poor health has been sitting in solitary confinement in coercive incarceration in the notorious Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail without being charged, tried, or convicted of anything since March 4, 2009. In effect, he was thrown in jail for an indefinite period with no bail or hearing set for blowing the whistle on judicial corruption in California. The chain of events that led to his incarceration was set in motion in 2000, when Richard Fine became aware that L.A. superior court judges were receiving illegal judicial benefits payments from Los Angeles County, despite the fact that lawsuits against that county were often adjudicated by these same judges, thus creating clear conflict of interest problems. In other words, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, with taxpayer funds, was bribing superior court judges to decide cases in favor of the county. This is the greatest judicial scandal in American history, as Mr. Fine says, and he has become an American political prisoner because of it. Guest Authors - Free Articles Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:11:17 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4064/85/ The difference between the North and the South clearly explained....at last The North has Bloomingdale's; the South has Dollar General . The North has coffee houses; the South has Waffle Houses . The North has dating services; the South has family reunions. The North has switchblade knives; the South has .45's The North has the Rust Belt; the South has the Bible Belt . Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:22:21 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4056/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:54:42 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4047/80/ [Note from Jack Wheeler: What Joel has to say here is so critically important and beautifully written I am compelled to make it a Free Access article. Millions of Americans would benefit from reading and absorbing it.] If you give someone the choice between a great story and the truth, it's the story that usually wins out. This is something that the left understands well. This is why Saul Alinsky's method of attacking the character of individual opponents is so effective: it makes a compelling story; the kind of story that gets millions of people tuning in to the most awful news; the kind of story that gets people gossiping and wallowing in negativity. A story doesn't have to be uplifting and inspiring to have power, it can just as well be frightening, horrifying or degrading, playing into the worst impulses of human nature. We have a fantastic, epic adventure story all the way through to about the time of the Civil War and the days of the Wild West. Then we've got a few great chapters since. But ever since the progressive movement tried to usurp our constitutional republic and refocus our attention on making better people through more powerful government, all we've been doing, really, is trying our best to stop them. Where is our story of liberty? The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:25:14 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4048/85/ Everyone who voted for this man to be our president should grovel in apology to America. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:38:28 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4037/87/ The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: For more than seventeen years, I have had the privilege of serving my country as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including overseas assignments in imminent danger/combat areas in Bosnia and Afghanistan. The United States is an example to the rest of the world of a stable, civilized democratic government where all men are created equal and the rule of law is cherished and obeyed. The U.S. military teaches and promotes the rule of law and civilian control of the military to many other nations and militaries around the world. Every soldier learns what constitutes a lawful order and is encouraged to stand up and object to unlawful orders. This is called the duty to disobey. Guest Authors - Free Articles Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:42:25 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4040/85/ The smart kids get it. It's hard to con a smart kid. u3qiSXc1g3M (Ps: It loads in spurts, so let it load entirely while you mute it and do something else, then play it.) Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:31:18 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4029/80/ Years ago I heard a radio interview with David Gilmore, the guitarist for the angst-rock band Pink Floyd. It was during Margaret Thatcher's term as Prime-Minister, and he was trashing her, talking about how he was attacking her policies in his song On the Turning Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_sv5uswoY). During Gilmore's spiel on compassion and caring for the weak and the weary, the interviewer - quite innocently - asked Gilmore, How do you help the poor and disadvantaged in your personal life? This caught Gilmore completely off guard, and by the stunned silence and the awkward answer - Uh... Myself? Uh....Well, I don't really do anything personally, I argue for the government to do these things - It was obvious that this great weaver of musical tales advocating social justice had never considered that he could personally use his own substantial wealth, time and energy to actually help real people in need. No, this is all abstraction. It's all about who gets to move which people around the chessboard of life, in order that the mover can feel good and worthy and useful and proud. It's about fixing people; healing our world. This is the difference between the conservative vision and the progressive vision. The conservative wants to help, the progressive wants to fix. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:33:06 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4031/85/ Just Relax! Quit paying your insurance premiums. Free health care is here! The doctor will see you now. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:00:53 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4015/87/ Thomas Paine (1737-1809), one of America's great founding patriots, wrote this on December 23, 1776, when America was less than six months old. Substitute Democrats for Britain, RINOs for Tories, Obama for King George III, Pelosi for Howe, Reid for Gage - Sarah Palin for the Jersey maid - and he is speaking to us today. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:45:53 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4018/80/ To be a political leader in America involves a unique role that is different from political leadership in any other country in the world. Not just because we are big and strong, but because of why we exist. America is unique in the history of the world in terms of our purpose. America's purpose is philosophical, spiritual, and, at the same time, supremely practical. America's purpose is to protect, nurture, and grow individual human liberty. Anyone can be president, or a senator or congressman. But to be an American leader, to be a leader of the exceptional creation that is America, is to be true to America's purpose. America's purpose - and therefore a central duty for any American leader who upholds his or her oath to defend the Constitution of the United States - is to champion the individual's ability to say no. Which is why the leaders to whom we have granted temporary roles in our governance today are not fulfilling their roles as American leaders. They are betraying them instead. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:07:37 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4021/85/ Now we need an American Woman of the Year to salute President Zero in a similar fashion. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:25:26 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4005/44/ Do political and geopolitical events seem to you to be moving at warp speed? Do you feel you need a fix of sanity or else you might lose your mind with all the craziness swamping our country? Then you totally and truly need to come to the To The Point Spring Rendezvous in sunny San Diego this May 14-16. We're staying at the Westin San Diego (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1762 EM=VTY_WI_sandiego_1762_overview), minutes from the airport, minutes from Sea World, Coronado Island, the Gaslamp District, Mission Bay, and so much more - with every room overlooking San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean, and in perfect springtime California weather. So mark it down - Friday May 14 to Sunday May16 - gas up the family buggy if you live in CA, or book your flights right now. Your sanity requires that you bask in the Oasis for Rational Conservatives for this May weekend. We're going to start the Rendezvous right on Friday night with a special guest, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. You've seen Dana numerous times on Fox and other news channels, and he'll be giving you the inside scoop on just how evil the Pelosicrats are, and how the Republicans in Congress are going to reverse that evil. TTP Intelligence Bulletin - Free Articles Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:11:32 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4010/87/ If the Obama administration continues to betray Israel, will any ally ever trust us again? We've been viewed as a fickle (if mighty) partner at least since the 1970s, when we abruptly dumped allies from Saigon to Tehran. Now the White House not only delights in insulting our closest traditional ally, Britain, but has intensified its diplomatic pogrom against Israel -- our only respectable ally in the Middle East. President George W. Bush was mocked for shooting from the hip, but this administration fires with its eyes closed. Obama's unbalanced actions shrivel confidence among allies around the globe -- partners we need. Policy differences are one thing, but gratuitous attacks by the White House are quite another. Consistently, it seems, he is on the side our enemies and not our allies. Guest Authors - Free Articles Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:36:15 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4003/85/ A young cowboy from Texas goes off to college. Halfway through the semester, he has foolishly squandered all his money. He calls home. Dad, he says, You won't believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here in College Station that will teach our dog, Ol' Blue how to talk! That's amazing, his Dad says. How do we get Ol' Blue in that program? Just send him down here with $1,000 the young cowboy says. I'll get him in the course. So, his father sends the dog and $1,000. About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy calls home. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:13:00 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3996/85/ Tip of the ten-gallon hat to Texas TTPer Mitch Rapp Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:05:05 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3980/87/ There's an odd thing that happens when politicians get scared: They grudgingly call in the smart guys and let them loose. Most of us learn about this in elementary school: The smartest kid in the class is more or less abused until the class gets into real trouble; then they run straight to him and promise to do whatever he says. That was how the Internet was created. It was a smartest kid project. The event that scared the politicians into gathering the smart kids and setting them loose was Sputnik, launched in October 1957. The USSR surging ahead of the USA in space meant that they had to pull out all the stops. The resulting Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was where the Internet was born. The Internet is structured different than anything a controlling type would make. (People in government are mostly controlling types; the smartest kid in class is most always not a control type.) The Internet's fundamental design characteristic is decentralization. Let's see how we can use that to defeat the The Electronic Police State. (content/view/3978/87/) Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:36:01 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3987/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:16:35 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3978/87/ Perhaps you saw the story (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html) headlined on Drudge (2/11) about the Obama Administration asserting that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their cell phone conversations. It's yet another sign of the emerging Electronic Police State. When we think of a police state, most of us summon images of Nazi storm troopers or Stalin's henchmen dragging people out of their houses in the middle of the night. These images are accurate enough, but they reflect the conditions of the world over a half-century ago, and they really do not very well reflect what is happening in the world today. In other words, these images are mostly out of date. The modern police state is generally silent and transparent. It is electronic. I want you to think very hard and long on this: any email you have ever sent can be grounds for felony federal wire fraud prosecution threatening you with 20 years in prison. The email, or electronic transmission, does not itself have to be fraudulent. It can still be wire fraud if it is only somehow involved in what the government deems to be a fraudulent scheme. Nervous now? Guest Authors - Free Articles Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:33:10 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3979/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:10:04 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3970/85/ Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. 'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. 'How old are you?' 'I'm gonna be 16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out.. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed? Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:13 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3957/80/ I'd like to expand on a theme I briefly discussed at the Remember The Alamo Rendezvous this past weekend, because it provides such a stark contrast between us and the Left. That theme was: Capitalism... is fun! Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Obamaism, ideologies that seek to move masses of people as masses in some particular direction or other in order to fulfill some politician or bureaucrat's lofty and self-righteous vision... is boring. Such systems dwell on what's wrong with life, they view people as helpless victims, and they undermine the joy of living. One reason why I have such great hope for our country is that a defining characteristic of the American People is that we like to have fun. We're playful people. We like the excitement of a new possibility. We love to solve problems; we like to get applause for a talk, pay and appreciation for a job well done, rewards for a new path explored, a new idea, and an exceptional performance. This is fun. This is something Obama and the others have no understanding of. Obama with his chin upturned in communist art form style; Pelosi with her giddy school girl class president ideas of how we should all behave; Gore with his ascetic and moralistic Green religious zeal. It's all boring. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:53:24 +0100