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THE COMING NIGHTMARE OF CRACK NICOTINE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
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.
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THE DOORMAT OF EMPIRES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
I couldn't agree with Jack Kelly
more
in his approval of Zero's firing General McChrystal.
Stanley McChrystal is an insufferably arrogant putz whose
criminally stupid Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan
deserve more than being relieved of his command.
They deserve a court-martial and prison. His "courageous
restraint" ROE's are directly responsible for getting our
soldiers killed. He thinks the lives of
Afghans are more important to save than Americans. As of
last week, one of those Americans
fighting and risking their lives to bring freedom to Afghanistan - and
one of
those lives McChrystal's political correctness is jeopardizing - is my
son.
Afghanistan
is personal - for me, and because of 9/11, it should be for all
Americans.
Here we'll dispense with the idiotically ignorant myth that Afghanistan
is the "Graveyard of Empires." Afghanistan
has been steamrollered by conquerors for millennia. Then,
next week, we'll discuss how easy it
would be for us to do so and why it's important that we do.
In 327 BC, Alexander the Great married a beautiful princess
named Roxanne in Balkh, capital of Bactria. She was the
daughter of the King of Bactria,
Oxyartes, and Alexander had just conquered his kingdom. Bactria
is
now northern Afghanistan
- Alexander's wife was Afghan.
At this moment, US and NATO forces are preparing to secure Afghanistan's
second largest city, Kandahar. The city was founded by
Alexander in 330 BC
and is in fact named after him, from the original Iskandaria
(Alexandria
- Iskander being the Persian
pronunciation of Alexander's name).
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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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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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OBAMA IN OKINAWA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 |
Yukio Hatoyama is a weird guy, so weird his countrymen have
nicknamed him "E.T.", the Extraterrestrial.
What possessed the
people of Japan to, 8½ months
ago (Sept. 2009),
select Yukio Hatoyama as their Prime Minister is a mystery for
historians to
unravel. He screwed things up so badly
with such a massive mix of incompetence and corruption that yesterday
(6/02) he
resigned.
The excuse he gave
was Okinawa.
Yes, Okinawa. No one in mainland Japan really cares about Okinawa. No
one, certainly, in Hatoyama's party - the DJP (Democratic Party of
Japan) - which
won a landslide victory that sent the long-ruling LDP (Liberal
Democratic
Party) into the political wilderness last September.
What DJP
politicians care about is preserving their power - which they look sure
to lose
in the upcoming elections next month, July 11.
Heading towards electoral disaster, they threw Hatoyama under the
bus. Okinawa is just the cover
story.
Now - do you know
of any other political party that won a landslide victory in their
country's
last election, and is now staring Electoral Armageddon in the face
because of
the gargantuan incompetence, corruption, and unpopularity of its leader?
Any party, any leader, any country come to
mind?
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