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RECONQUISTA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
Santiago de Compostela. If you want to feel Christianity, feel it in
your bones, feel it resonate with history, feel its promise for the future,
here is where you come.
Sant Iago - St. James - is the patron saint of Spain,
and here is where the faithful believe he is buried. For over a thousand years, peregriños, pilgrims, have followed the
Way of St. James from all corners of Europe, over the Pyrenees,
and across northern Spain
to its northwestern corner in a region called Galicia.
Their goal is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which
houses the tomb of Christ's Disciple. As
it has been for centuries, so it is now.
Every day sees swarms of peregriños arrive, having completed their
pilgrimage, flooding streets of the ancient city, filling up the cathedral to
worship and pray.
Close to 200,000 Christians of all ages will walk to
Santiago de Compostela this year, and more are expected next year. They come to pay homage to the saint known as
Santiago Matamoros - St. James the
Moor-Killer - whose images of killing Moslems are here for all to see. St. James is the savior of Spain
from Islam. He is the patron saint of
the Reconquista.
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WHEN WILL HUGO CHAVEZ BE TAKEN OUT? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
In the summer of 2001, I was the keynote speaker at an
international business conference in Cartagena,
Colombia. Frankly, what I said up at the podium I don't
recall. What was memorable was the
private conversation I had with the collection of Venezuelan business leaders
attending the conference.
"As someone who helped bring down the Soviet
Union," they asked me, "could you tell us what can we do to bring
down Hugo Chavez?" I told them there was
one and only one answer to their question, there was no other.
He gives you, I explained, "absolutely no other alternative. This is his
choice, for he will not give up power any other way. Your
choice, then, is to accept his dictatorship or eliminate it by eliminating
him. Either-or."
But such either-ors do not consider third possibilities, and
now, eight years later, there might be one.
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WILL OBAMA GO TO OKLAHOMA? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009 |
It's
starting to feel like 1995 all over again.
Public anger against the Democrats and the Clintons was rising to the
boiling point - and suddenly was snuffed out when the Oklahoma
Federal Building
was bombed by a "right-wing terrorist."
Remember?
"It's only a matter of time" before that happens again, federal officials
are now warning in major media stories.
Yes, it is only a matter of time - until Zero and
his Chicago thugs perpetrate some heinous terrorist act for which they
and the media can blame "anti-government un-American right-wing hate groups ."
Don't think that Nancy Pelosi's accusation of
"un-American mobs" of "angry right-wing" protestors at town halls "waving
swastikas" was an emotional outburst. It
was setting the stage. Folks, we
are being set up. Just like in 1995.
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LOSING COOL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
Until very recently, the embodiment of cool, coolness
clothed in human flesh - especially for the young - has been President
Zero. So much so that the latest lexicon
of slang terms, published by the Linguistics Department of UCLA this month, lists
"obama" as a slang term meaning
"cool." "That's so obama" according to
the dictionary means "That's so cool."
Not any more. That's
so yesterday. Zero is no longer
cool. Proof is how completely
off-the-charts viral the Joker poster of Zero has gone in the last few days.
Google "obama" + "joker" today (8/06) and you get over 11
million hits. Two days ago it was 6.5
million. Zazzle now lists 2,461
"Joker Obama Gifts" for sale, like t-shirts and mugs. People are printing and posting them up in
public places all over the country, from LA to Atlanta,
from Sioux Falls to George
Washington University
in DC.
The character of The Joker played by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Night"
Batman movie (2008) was a genius of pathological evil. (It was an incredibly impressive performance,
for which Ledger justifiably won an Academy Award.)
To portray Zero as Heath Ledger's Joker, and for that
portrayal to go instantly and wildly viral, is a nation-wide recognition that
there is something evil in him. And
something very, very uncool.
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IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
In 1935, Cole Porter wrote a song for his musical Jubilee.
It's been a classic for crooners ever since, from Bing Crosby to Ella
Fitzgerald and of course, Frank Sinatra.
You've heard it a thousand times.
Millions of Americans this week began singing It Was Just One Of Those Things along
with FS to express their infatuation with President Zero.
Or as Kelly
King, a black female officer of the Cambridge Police Department expresses
it: "I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again."
In late February of 1989, I gave a briefing to a group of
Congressional staffers on the impact of the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan
(completed on February 15). "The entire
Soviet Empire will now begin to unravel," I predicted. "What will stun everybody is the speed of its collapse. This is going to happen fast."
Less than nine months later the Berlin Wall fell (on November
9th - formally designated by presidential proclamation as World
Freedom Day.)
It's been less than nine months since Zero was elected the
44th president of our country - and it's now safe to say that his
presidency is disintegrating as fast as the Soviet Union
was 20 years ago.
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