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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/24/13 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 24 May 2013 |
The Drudge
Report has been running hilarious headlines this week on Anthony "Little"
Weiner's run for Mayor of New York. It
was one year ago (last week of May, 2011) that Weinergate broke, resulting in
the punniest week
ever for the HFR.
How could
Drudge resist red-siren headlining the news of New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo's putdown of Weiner's candidacy as PREMATURE ELECTION, and subtitling the headline with an altered
quote of Cuomo: "Shame on us if we erect him."
Nothing is
deadlier to a politician than to be a joke in the eyes of the public. Jay Leno did it to Zero on The Tonight Show Monday night
(5/20). Here's the transcript but be
sure and watch the embedded video of Kids
Ask Obama the Darndest Questions.
You know the
HMS (His Majesty's Ship) Zero is in
danger of sinking when the rats of the Libtard Media have started abandoning
it.
On Wednesday
(5/22), the editorial staff of the New
York Times ran an official op-ed condemning "the Obama administration" for "threatening
fundamental freedoms of the press."
And
yesterday evening (5/23), the entire home page of HuffPo, the Libtard media's
main website, was devoted to a demand that Eric Holder resign: "TIME
TO GO" blared HuffPo.
The only
news this week that could possibly be better than Holder soon to be an ex-AG is
this.
Mrs.
Zero will be taking an "extended
vacation" for the next few months, running away and hiding from the world and shutting up so we won't have to suffer
her insufferable busybody hectoring.
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OBAMA IS A PIKER |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 |
Last week's
Humor File was Nixon
Was A Piker compared to Barrack Milhous Zero. Like all good humor, it's funny because it's
true: Nixon was no piker in the scandal
and mendacity department, but Zero is far worse.
Yet, at this
particular conflation of events, as we simultaneously rage at Zero's awfulness
and revel in its ongoing exposure, it's useful to step back and regard what's
going on in America today in the context of history and economic reality.
We'll start
with the case for Nixon being more destructive
of our economy and freedoms than Zero, then on to the worse case regarding
FDR. For the lesson is: it's hard to keep America down. We
go through crises and dangers, and then bounce back. No matter how much FDR's Reds tried to
support the Soviet Union, we thrived in the 1950s - and eventually got rid of
the Soviet Union itself.
We can see this happening right before our
eyes as we suffer the Curse of Zero. It's
not just that we all have tingles of joy running up our legs over Zero being up
to his jug ears in one scandal after another.
It's that, no matter how hard Zero has tried to hamstring and
suffocate the American economy, he has failed. And we can take such advantage of his failure.
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HOW DO WE GET RID OF THE IRS? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 24 May 2013 |
As
we all know now, in 2012 the Internal
Revenue Service targeted conservative groups (but not liberal groups)
applying for tax exempt status, demanding the names and addresses of their
members and donors, and their contacts with journalists and legislators.
"Please
detail the content of the members of your organizations' prayers," the IRS
asked a pro-life group in Iowa.
Tax
collectors have no right to demand such information from Americans. We must
find out who is responsible for targeting critics of the Obama administration,
and hold them accountable.
But
the more important reason for getting to the bottom of this breathtaking abuse
of power is so we can keep it from ever happening again. The only way to do it is to eliminate the IRS. But how?
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THE IRS: END IT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT MEND IT |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 |
Every few years, at least from the time of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, there is a scandal involving abuse of power at the
Internal Revenue Service. We are again in the midst of one of these periodic
abuse scandals, with many solemn promises that the problems will be corrected
and will not happen again.
As always, the rhetoric is far from the reality for two
basic reasons. The first is the nature of the income tax, which, by definition,
is subjective in its interpretation of the definition of "income" and
thus subject to abuse. The second is the type of person that the IRS attracts
as an employee.
In the former, the agency is corrupt in the Orwellian sense.
When the federal government's General Services Administration or the IRS takes
a number of its employees to Las Vegas for a conference, is this a taxable
benefit (income) or not? The answer is this case is "no" because this
is the type of benefit the political class enjoys.
In the latter, because the IRS is feared, loathed and resented, it attracts all too many workers who are insensitive to the needs
and problems of others, and some even enjoy
being bullies.
These flaws of the IRS cannot be mended -- thus the only real solution is to put an end to the IRS itself.
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HOW LOW WILL GOLD GO? |
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Written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 |
The curse of hedging
that blighted gold in the 1990s is making a comeback, and threatens to loom
over the market like Banquo's ghost.
London-listed gold producer Petropavlovsk has said it will
pre-sell 55pc of its future output planned for the second quarter of 2014, at
an average price of $1,408 an ounce. This is the first time that a big producer
has hedged more than half its future sales.
"We have a huge investment program and thought a little
price protection in the short-term will let us sleep better at night," said
chairman Peter Hambro.
Tyler Broda from Nomura said this may signal the return of
"structural hedging" across the industry, with other companies scrambling to
lock in forward contracts. "This could increase the pressure on the spot gold
price over the coming years," he said. The risk is a vicious circle as hedging
leads to lower prices, leading to more hedging.
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THE ARAB COLLAPSE |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 |
The Arab Spring has unleashed the Arab Collapse. Everybody
still standing in the region is picking the flesh of the helpless. The Islamist
cancer proved more virulent than Arabs themselves expected, while dying regimes
behave with unrestrained ruthlessness.
And our diplomats still think everyone can be cajoled
into harmony.
We're witnessing a titanic event, the crack-up of a
long-tottering civilization. Arab societies grew so corrupt and stagnant that
violent upheaval became inevitable. That's what we're seeing in Syria and Iraq
- two names, one struggle - and will find elsewhere tomorrow.
We can't stop it, we can't fix it, and we don't understand
it. But we can stay out of it. Here's how we can and why we should.
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OBAMA LEFT THEM BEHIND |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 |
It
was drummed into us in boot camp that "Marines go back for their wounded. Marines go back for their dead. We leave no one behind."
I
found the same ethos in the Army Special Forces when I joined them later. During the Vietnam war, the Air Force went to
extraordinary lengths to rescue downed pilots.
But
on 9/11/2012, Americans at our consulate in Benghazi were left behind.
It
may well be true, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claimed, that military help
couldn't be sent because it was unavailable.
But if that is true, somebody screwed the pooch, big time. Was it the POTUS?
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DON’T FORGET YOUR PLAN A |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 |
It's good to have a back-up
plan, or a Plan B, especially in uncertain times; but it's also important to
remember that this is only for when your plan A is threatened. Often the best
thing you can do is to fully commit to your primary vision; sometimes the best
defense is a good offense.
It's excellent to have a plan
that you can fall back on if things don't work out; but today I want to talk
about some elements of committing to your plan A that can be easily neglected...
because we take them for granted.
If you're thinking of moving
away from your home, be it out of state or out of the country, before you do
so, consider what you will be leaving behind. Be very careful before you abandon your Plan A.
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OBAMA DENIES ROLE IN GOVERNMENT |
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Written by Andy Borowitz
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Friday, 24 May 2013 |
WASHINGTON -President Obama used his weekly radio address on
Saturday to reassure the American people that he has "played no role
whatsoever" in the U.S. government over the past four years.
"Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no
one is angrier than I am," he said. "Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had
no involvement in such an organization."
The President's outrage only increased, he said, when he
"recently became aware of a part of that government called the Department of
Justice."
"The more I learn about the activities of these individuals,
the more certain I am that I would not want to be associated with them," he
said. "They sound like bad news."
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/17/13 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 17 May 2013 |
Agent
Sadusky (Harvey
Keitel): "And what about you?"
Ben
Gates (Nicolas Cage): "I'd really love not to go to prison. I can't
even describe how much I would love
not to go to prison."
Agent
Sadusky: "Someone's got to go to prison, son."
---National Treasure (2004)
"My question
isn't about who's going to resign -- my question is who is going to jail over
this scandal?"
---House
Speaker John Boehner, May 15, 2013
"A few more days like this, and Obama's going to claim he was born in Kenya."
--- comedian
Dennis Miller
Now, I know
you all think that this week, the HFR glass is as overflowing as much as the
glass in Ronald
Reagan's favorite Irish joke. However, after we've yelled Bunga! Bunga! a few dozen times watching
the news and mooned Zero every time we see his disgusting face on the screen,
let's see if we can't discuss what's happening with a smidgeon of
sobriety. I admit it won't be easy.
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A HAT TRICK OF SCANDALS |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 |
Though
arguably the least significant of three burgeoning scandals that have made this
the worst fortnight ever for the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the
Justice Department's covert seizure of the telephone records of Associated
Press reporters may cause him the most grief.
Journalists unmoved by evidence his Justice Department ran guns to
Mexican drug cartels and promoted vote fraud are very,
very upset.
Some
Democrats who faithfully parroted administration talking points on Benghazi
jumped ship after the Internal Revenue Service admitted targeting Tea Party
groups. The FBI has now launched a
criminal probe.
Fewer
have been willing to parrot the party line on Benghazi since the number two guy
in our embassy in Libya testified
that during the attack on 9/11/2012, he told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
it was the work of terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. All told, this is a Hat Trick of Scandals.
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THE ROAD AHEAD FOR A BENGHAZI COMMITTEE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 |
Thanks
to the testimony of whistleblowers last week, and subsequent reporting of how
"talking points" were systematically scrubbed of every reference to the truth,
we know for sure President Barack Hussein Obama and senior aides were lying
when they blamed a Youtube video for the attack on our consulate in Benghazi.
More
important is what is being covered up.
To get to the bottom of what may be more a looming national security
crisis than a scandal in the past, we must have answers to a large number of critical
questions.
The way to get them is for
the House of Representatives to form a Select Committee, armed with subpoena
power, to investigate what was going on before and during the attack on
9/11/2012, and what's been happening since.
Here's
how to form it, who should be on it, and what its members should focus on. Hint: not
impeachment. There are very good reasons
why - at least not before the mid-term elections in November 2014.
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THE HUMILIATION OF JOHN KERRY |
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Written by Michael Ledeen
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013 |
The secretary of state was back in Washington a few days ago
(5/09), begging the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to take
it easy on the poor Iranians. Enough with the sanctions, he
said. Secretary Kerry has joined decades of his predecessors,
buying into the latest version of the 30-year old illusion that we can
make a deal with the Tehran regime if only we deal properly and humbly with
them.
He said there was a "window of opportunity" for a couple of
months. It doesn't much matter if he really believes this legend, or is
following instructions from President Obama, who is still pursuing this unholy
grail despite five years of swift kicks in his behind. The one he so
loves to lead with. Either way, it's an embarrassment.
But then, our new secretary of state has great flair for
embarrassing us. In Obama's community of narcissists, Kerry is a bit
different. He excels at self-humiliation, as he showed in his recent
sortie to Moscow, where Czar Putin kept him waiting for many hours before
sparing some time to "discuss" Syria and related topics, no doubt including
Iran.
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TOO LATE FOR SYRIA |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013 |
To borrow the climactic line from Easy Rider, "We blew it." Or,
to be fully accurate, President Obama blew an unprecedented chance to aid
Syria's then-moderate opposition back in 2011.
We could have helped end the monstrous Assad regime, gaining
good will and practical advantage in a hopeful new state.
Now it's too late. And Obama may be ready to act at last.
The result could be disastrous.
Strategy isn't only about doing the right thing, but about
doing the right thing at the right time. Doing what appears to be the "right
thing" too late often makes things worse.
How did the window for aiding the Syrian rebels close?
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IMMIGRATION AND PRODUCTIVITY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 |
[Note from JW: Dr. Rahn here presents an economic discussion
of immigration - after all, he is an economist.
It is not a discussion of the national security threat of immigration,
specifically that of illegal immigration from Mexico. A lively discussion of
Dr. Rahn's arguments is expected on the TTP Forum!]
How many new immigrants should the United States allow each
year? How many guest workers? These are not easy questions, which is why there
is as much fierce debate within the two parties as between them.
The two main reasons given for restricting current
immigration are the myths that immigrants take away American jobs and that
immigrants are more likely to go on welfare, thus putting an additional burden
on the taxpayers.
Rather than taking away American jobs, good economists
understand that immigrants who work create wealth in America, which in turn
creates more and higher paying jobs for everyone.
To explain the economics of this adequately would take more
space than this entire commentary, but the truth of the assertion can be seen
in the fact that high-wage countries with many immigrants such as Switzerland,
Australia and Canada tend to have much higher labor force participation rates
and lower unemployment rates than low-wage countries.
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