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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 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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WORLD ESCAPE HATCHES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
[This is my talk at
the Financial
Plan B Workshop in St. Louis yesterday, December 9th.]
With our country under assault from the Fascist Left and a
president who hates America,
many of you are considering locating an "escape hatch" somewhere in the world until
we regain our freedom. What guidelines
are there in determining what places are right for you?
One place to start researching places to live overseas is
the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) compiled
by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation. The web address is: heritage.org/index. One place to be careful of is the "Quality of
Life" index put out by International
Living. Any such index that lists France
at the top, Number 1 on its list of 194 countries, is not to be trusted. It even claims France's
climate is better than Tahiti's!
That said, let's take a quick world tour of a number of
promising candidates for a second home, a retirement haven, a bolthole until
Hurricane Obama passes by and America
becomes safe to live in again under a President Palin.
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THE SIEGE OF MALTA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
Valletta, Malta. This small European island country in the Mediterranean
south of Sicily and close to the
north coast of Africa is where civilization emerged from
the Stone Age. It is where Western
Civilization was saved from being conquered by Islam.
Today, Malta
is under siege again, from another horde of Moslem invaders. This time, there are no Knights of Malta to
protect the Maltese - almost 100% of whom are Christian Europeans - and the
barbarian aliens invading their nation are aided by barbarian liberals within
Europe. The story is both ancient and is
at the vanguard of the future. Europe's future, America's future, and the future of Christianity vs. Islam.
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WHY LIBERALS CAN'T CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 26 November 2009 |
The reason is history.
Not the childish make-believe of your kid's grammar school play of how
the noble Squanto taught the helpless Mayflower Pilgrims how to feed
themselves. No, the real thing. Here it is.
The real history of the Mayflower Pilgrims was recounted by
their leader, William Bradford (1590-1657) in his book Of
Plymouth Plantation, completed in 1647.
It is from Bradford that we learn of Squanto, who
did indeed show the Pilgrims how to "set" or plant corn (a new unfamiliar crop
for them). Then we learn that the
Pilgrims taught the Indians how to grow more corn than they ever had before:
"The Indeans used to have nothing so much corne as they have
since the English have stored them with their hoes, and seene their industrie
in breaking up new grounds therwith."
Reading the real history of the Pilgrims is so revelatory
that I want you to see it at length. The
Pilgrims landed in December 1620, suffered a horrible winter, figured out how
to fish and hunt that spring and summer so that there may have been some sort
of feast with friendly Indians in the fall of 1621 - although Bradford
doesn't recount the incident.
But by 1622 they were starving. There was no "Thanksgiving" that year. There was the next - for 1623 saw the
Pilgrims in well-fed abundance, and thus was the year of the real First
Thanksgiving. What made the difference? Here are Bradford's
own words describing Anno Dom.1623:
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