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SERENDIPITOUS HOPE FOR THE PROBLEM OF THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 |
Purple
Turtle Beach, Dominica. Serendipity is
finding something where you
least expect it. I found it on Purple
Turtle Beach.
This is just about the only appreciable beach on Dominica (da-ma-neek-ka),
a tiny island
Caribbean nation of 73 thousand folks, 290 square miles (less than 1/5th
the size of Rhode Island), and 365 rivers - more than one river per
square
mile. (You saw a couple of these rivers
in the Pirates of the Caribbean
movies filmed on Dominica.)
I'm here keeping a promise to an extraordinary lady I met 25
years ago. Eugenia Charles was Prime
Minister of Dominica in the 1980s, an ally of America's
and friend of Ronald Reagan. When a
Soviet-Cuban sponsored coup seized control of the island nation of
Grenada
in 1983 and began converting it into a Communist colony of the Kremlin,
Eugenia
Charles, in her capacity of chairman of the Organization of Eastern
Caribbean
States, appealed to President Reagan to liberate Grenada.
As we all know, Reagan did so, but he would not have been
able to without the unwavering support of Eugenia Charles. It
is thanks to her that the rollback of the
Soviet Empire began.
At the time of the Grenada
liberation I was in Angola
with the anti-Soviet UNITA guerrillas. I'll always
remember sitting by a campfire in
the Angolan bush listening to BBC reports on my short-wave radio - and
the
coughs of lions out in the darkness.
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SUNSHINE FOR THE CONSERVATIVE SOUL IN SAN DIEGO |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 |
The TTP San Diego Rendezvous was our 8th, and by
general consensus, the best one yet.
Yes, there are TTPers like Ken Glass, Don Parker, Mark Gilligan, and
Dan Barak who have been to all 8. There
are several who come close, like the Dynamic Blonde Duo of sisters
Eileen and
Maureen or Joel Berman. There were so
many TTPers who have become good friends over the years, and a goodly
number of
first Rendezvousers. We all had a
wonderful time.
And for those of you who couldn't make it - we had most
every session recorded by professional videographer (and TTPer) Mike
Maslow. Mike did a fantastic job and
we'll have CDs available soon.
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher started things off Friday
evening (5/14), who stressed the importance of Republicans proposing
viable
positive alternatives in addition to their necessary opposition to the
Dem
agenda.
This was followed by a tour
de force by Skye D'Aureous, the Forum's resident genius. In
response to my intro of him which mentioned
his IQ of 240, he wanted us to understand what IQ doesn't measure:
moral values, creativity, seeing the big
picture rather than focusing on complex small problems. Two
of his thoughts:
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THE FATE OF THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
San
Diego, California. The view from my
Westin hotel room overlooks San
Diego Bay and the Pacific
Ocean beyond. The bay is
filled with Navy warships, huge cruise ships, and small sail boats.
The weather is perfect, 69°, the skies
cloudless and smog-free.
California!
The Golden State. I grew up here, in the halcyon
1950s
portrayed in the Happy Days
television series and the Surf City ode
to it by the Beach Boys. So as I look
out at the gorgeous view, I can't help wonder:
How is it possible that Californians screwed their state up so
badly?
Because they ignored the warning of Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) after traveling through America
in 1832, that the greatest danger to America
was no external enemy but would come from within, when "the voters
discover
that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
You've all heard the Chinese curse: May you live in
interesting times. Hinges of history are always
interesting. They are forks in the road,
where the world or an important part of it must choose between freedom
and
cowardice. We have arrived at such a
fork, such a historical hinge.
Prominent economist Robert Samuelson has proclaimed the debt
crisis from Greece
to California as "The
welfare
state's death spiral." But
what sort of phoenix will arise from the ashes of Western welfare
states? Will it be Western at all? Or will
it be Chinese?
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CINCO DE REALITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
Today is May 5th - celebrated by American gringos as an excuse to drink cheap tequila margaritas and eat bad Mexican food by calling this day "Cinco de Mayo."
Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa's Cantina or some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US, just what is being celebrated today you'll get either a blank stare or "It's their July 4th " ignorance.
So first the real history. Then the reality - the horrific reality of how the fascists of the American Left are using Mexico to destroy their own country.
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THE BARBERS OF DUSSELDORF |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
One of Margaret Thatcher's more trenchant observations is: "The
problem with socialism is that sooner or
later you run out of other people's money."
The purpose in life for most politicians anywhere in the
world is to, by whatever sleight-of-hand shell game they think they can
get
away with, make that run-out-of-other-people's-money moment forever
later.
The world's spotlight is currently on politicians in Europe
who are frantically, hysterically, desperately engaging in this shell
game. The question of the immediate
moment is: will the barbers of Dusseldorf
let them get away it - or at last and for once, put an end to it?
For if they opt for the latter, they could precipitate an
end to Washington's shell game here
in America.
First, the background, starting with the Greek Limbo
Dance.
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