Powered by Access Paid http://www.tothepointnews.com Wed, 16 May 2012 19:37:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4964/2/ The most destructive, dishonest, and criminally hypocritical people in America today are not Democrat politicians, black race hustlers, Ivy League Marxist professors, or crony/shyster capitalists. They are the publishers, editors, journalists, and commentators of the Liberal Media: Associated Press-New York Times-WaPo-ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-MSNBC et al. We'll abbreviate Big Liberal Media to simply BM - appropriately enough for their product is the same as what those initials usually stand for. One of the more astounding things about BM is that its slavish boot-licking of American Commiecrats is indistinguishable from that of Pravda's or Izvestiya's over Soviet rulers during the Cold War - yet with no gun at their heads nor threat of the Gulag. Winston Smith, in George Orwell's 1984, ended up genuinely loving Big Brother after his will was broken through torture. BM loves Big Brother of their own free will. This is so perverse it's almost anti-human, for it is normally against human nature to willingly be a slave. A stunningly perfect example of BM perfidy appeared in headlines in newspapers all over the country this past weekend. Behind The Lines - Free Articles Wed, 09 May 2012 12:20:14 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4970/85/ How many lawyer jokes are there? Only three. The rest are true stories. I used to think this was just another lawyer joke. But now we are watching the classics of this genre come to life in the spectacular meltdown of New York law firm Dewey Leboeuf. For this is a true story. Size, in and of itself, gives you greater flexibility in key markets, Dewey LeBoeuf's former chairman Steve Davis boasted in 2008. You're taken more seriously when you have 500, 600 attorneys in New York. Yes, and what do lawyers and bullfrogs have in common? Both have a big head that consists mainly of mouth. Mr. Davis had just completed a merger, creating a financial mess of 1,300 overpaid attorneys in a dozen countries. He did this just before one of the worst financial downturns in history. What can you say about 1,300 lawyers buried up to their necks in cement? Not enough cement. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 11 May 2012 14:49:30 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4955/87/ As Barack continues to bray about how he made the gutsy call to kill Bin Laden, it's been pointed out that the call wasn't his at all (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/26/Get-bin-laden-memo-CYA) - it was Admiral William McRaven's - whom President Gutsy Call would have been able to scapegoat if the op had gone sideways. We know this because of a memo (http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/memo.jpg) from CIA Director Leon Panetta, recently obtained by Time magazine. Yet Zero's campaign film, The Road We've Traveled, maintains the fiction, with Joe Biden saying: We sat down in the Situation Room, the entire national security apparatus was in that room, and the President turns to every principal in the room, every secretary, ‘What do you recommend I do?' And they say, ‘Well, forty-nine percent chance he's there, fifty-one ... it's a close call, Mr. President.' As he walked out the room, it dawned on me, he's all alone. This is his decision. If he was wrong, his Presidency was done. Over. Now we know it wasn't his decision, it was a CYA move - thus, the hero of the story is McRaven, not Zero. This is a good point - but there is a much bigger one - and it has been missed by all the media, including those on our side. Which means there's a real story here no one in public knows, which demonstrates how dangerously stupid Zero is. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 02 May 2012 10:31:15 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4959/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 04 May 2012 10:01:35 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4944/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:32:41 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4929/130/ Mitt Romney is boring. That's partly why he's had trouble nailing down the Republican nomination for president. But it's likely to be an advantage in the general election. In his private life, Gov. Romney is an Eagle Scout. That's a welcome change from what we've become accustomed to from politicians, but is neither colorful nor exciting. And though Mr. Romney isn't a bad speaker, his campaign rhetoric is neither motivating nor inspiring. He qualifies too carefully what he says, and leans overmuch on clichés. When he ran for office in Massachusetts, Mr. Romney, understandably, took positions to the left of most Republicans, so many think him a squish. He's shifted some views dramatically since, causing others to see him as a flip flopper. So he's had trouble closing the deal against deeply flawed, dramatically underfunded opponents. But once this dispiriting primary season ends, what have been liabilities for Mr. Romney will morph into assets. Here's why. Kelly's Panorama - Free Articles Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:37:54 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4927/85/ As China's most legendary philosopher, renowned for his wisdom and learning, Confucius (551-479 BC) spent a great deal of time in the bookshops in his hometown of Qufu in the state of Lu. One day, the Duke of Lu accompanied Confucius to a bookshop in search of a particular book. They searched every shelf but couldn't find the book they were looking for. Whereupon, Confucius told the Duke, Obviously, we are in the... Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:12:22 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4918/85/ On a street corner in Washington, DC, a fellow with a full beard dressed in a white Saudi thobe (traditional ankle-length tunic) and agal (traditional headdress) hails a cab. He gets in, gives the taxi driver the address he wants, and as they drive away, he asks the driver to turn off the radio. The driver replies, This is Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, one of my favorites. Is it too loud for you? I'll turn it down. As he lowers the volume, the Saudi man says, I do not wish to listen to infidel music. The Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him - was not subjected to such music and I do not wish to be. Further, there was no radio in the Prophet's time, so you must turn it off. The taxi driver pulls over to the curb and stops. He reaches back to open the rear door of the cab. Startled, the Saudi asks, What are you doing? The taxi driver looks the Saudi man in the eye and tells him... Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:16:07 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4893/85/ The best of Sandra The Fluke... And here are two more... Humor File - Free Articles Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:54:09 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4885/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:37:56 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4873/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:30:02 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4860/44/ Here are the top two speeches at CPAC. Daniel Hannan represents Britain in the EU Parliament. He exemplifies the extraordinary skill and eloquence of the classic British orator - combined with a passion for the principles of freedom that few American politicians can match, much less European. One American who does is the Magnificent Sarah. She is here at the top of her form, receiving over a dozen standing ovations. We should all be praying for a brokered convention that would finally select her as the GOP nominee. Palin-Perry 2012! 6U6v0pZ9f6k tXsrajvFGk8 TTP Intelligence Bulletin - Free Articles Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:25:52 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4867/85/ The Mechanic and the Surgeon A motorcycle mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his shop. The surgeon was there, waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his bike. The mechanic shouted across the garage, Hey, Doc, can I ask you a question? The surgeon walked over to the mechanic. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take valves out, fix 'em, put 'em back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I get such a small salary and you get the big bucks, when you and I are doing basically the same work? The surgeon paused, smiled, leaned over, and whispered to the mechanic... Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:34:33 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4859/85/ Down Memory Lane to witness the true magic of the Great Flydini... s9xKU8eYCFk Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:52:15 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4851/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:49:17 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4844/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:51 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4836/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:28:06 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4824/2/ It's starting to look like 1948 all over again. Mark Twain observed that while history doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes. The 2012 presidential campaign is now rhyming with that of 1948 in iambic trimeter - the poetic form tragedians of Ancient Greece such as Aeschylus and Sophocles used to best express portending doom. So let's revisit that extraordinary yesteryear of 1948, resulting in the most famous upset in American politics - Democrat Harry Truman defeating Republican Tom Dewey - and see how we can avoid a similar outcome by using it to our advantage. How to do so is an opportunity being handed to Rick Perry on a platter. The opportunity is to agree with Zero... Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:02:01 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4823/87/ This election -- including the Republican primary contest -- is about a fundamental question in American politics: We have an opportunity to decisively turn away from big government in Washington. Do we want to take it? Conservatives across the country are fed up with President Obama's Washington approach to governance. Massive, budget-busting, deficit spending (except on defense, where he proposes cuts that are downright dangerous). Bailouts. An ever-mounting national debt. A federal government that has reached its tentacles further into Americans' lives, by virtue of Obamacare with its noxious individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Excessive, bureaucratically dictated, job-killing environmental regulation. Dodd-Frank. Yet there are big government conservatives who argue that a big intrusive government is fine, desirable even, so long as it pursues conservative goals, which frequently when scrutinized are neither conservative nor worthy. Big government conservatives will never truly overhaul Washington because they need the status quo in place to accomplish their objectives. They don't want to rebuild the machine; they simply want to change the people pulling the levers. But that is not what the American people want. There is such deep and widespread discontent that nothing short of a complete overhaul will satisfy their justifiable demands. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:59:00 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4828/85/ Just because you are old, living in a retirement home, doesn't mean you can't have a lot of fun... _eR11SE0RA0 Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:06:22 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4818/87/ Earlier this week (1/04), the Chicago Tribune ran a little noted editorial (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-markets2-76-lines-jm-20120104,0,3387020.story) on the insider trading scandal plaguing Congress, calling out phony efforts to reform the rules and demanding that we finally put a stop to this outrageous and unethical behavior. It's not enough members of Congress make $174,000 a year, some -- from both parties -- are trading on inside information to use their public service to enrich themselves. This has to stop. And more. In addition to calling for tough measures to outlaw insider trading by Members of Congress, I've called for making Congress part-time like the Texas legislature, cutting congressional pay in half, and amending FOIA to apply to Congress and the White House. Guest Authors - Free Articles Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:39:40 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4814/85/ Koan are enlightened sayings of Zen Buddhist wisdom. Here is a selection Jewish Buddhist Koan: If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides. The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others. The Tao is not Jewish. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and not attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems. Humor File - Free Articles Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:08:03 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4809/85/ eYTv-kInxYw Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:49:13 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4800/85/ And next: Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:10:06 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4791/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:12:45 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4775/86/ GORILLAS PYGMIES EXPEDITION led by Jack Wheeler Sunday, February 26 to Sunday, March 04, 2012 This is real African adventure, an expedition to the most uninhabited jungle in Africa where gorillas outnumber people by 100-1. And most of the people are Ba'Aka Pygmies. There is an extraordinary profusion of wildlife. When you think of elephants in Africa, you think of the bush elephant like in the Serengeti - but there is another subspecies called the forest elephant (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/forest-elephants/belt-text) that you can see hundreds of at a time, if you know just where to go. There are chimps, hippos, crocs, at least eight different kinds of monkeys like putty-nosed monkeys and crowned guenons, baboons, leopards, forest buffalo, an incredible array of birdlife, rare antelopes like the sitatunga and the trophy hunter's dream, the bongo (http://www.foundalis.com/bio/zoo/bongo.htm). The region is called Dzanga-Ndoki, where Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, and the Central African Republic (CAR) come together. This is an opportunity to experience some of the rarest wildlife on earth in the remotest part of Africa, easily, in comfort and safety. I hope you will join me. Special Features - Free Articles Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:44:57 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4779/87/ [This is the text of Gov. Rick Perry's address to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington DC yesterday, December 7] It is an honor to be with you today and to share my thoughts on faith, foreign policy and the free State of Israel. As we gather today, I am struck by the coincidence that two of the American citizens being unlawfully detained abroad today are Jewish: Alan Gross in Cuba, and Warren Weinstein by al Qaida in Pakistan. In both cases their offense was spreading political and economic freedom to better the lives of less advantaged people around the globe. The repressive Castro regime should not be rewarded with increased tourism while Mr. Gross languishes in prison, and Pakistani authorities should clearly understand the significance of rescuing Mr. Weinstein from terrorist elements within their borders if they value the foreign aid they seem to take for granted. We have an Administration in Washington today whose foreign policy is an incoherent mess. They embolden our adversaries while isolating our allies. Guest Authors - Free Articles Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:28:59 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4783/85/ TTP has the rockers for you. Pro-American, pro-Constitution, a war drum for patriotism, named after Founding Father James Madison. That's the rock band Madison Rising. Lead singer David Bray says he wants kids to hear his music and say, I'm going to go and I'm going to do something a little bit more positive with my life. I'm not going stand around with a sign ... I'm going to start a business. Bray is not a liberal. Liberalism actually in my opinion is just an incapability to process capitalism and the truth and what needs to happen. He wants Madison Rising to be a band that stood up for the Bill of Rights and the constitution and being a patriot ... and no matter where they went they put up an American flag and played underneath it. Enjoy. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:25:16 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4774/85/ It's not our favorite beer, but it is a great ad.... 4Z3nHAi2oxw Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:54:15 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4762/2/ On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how God helps those who help themselves applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is. Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:13:26 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4766/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:06:21 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4750/87/ I'm writing this after attending an event that turned out to be one of the most moving evenings I've ever had. I had the honor and privilege last Saturday night (11/12) of attending The Basic School Instructor Battalion 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball at the Greater Richmond Convention Center with Corporal Kelsey DeSantis. I knew I would have an evening that I wouldn't forget. Something I could tell my friends about. What I didn't know was how moved I would be by the whole experience. I've always been very vocal about my support of our Armed Forces. I've always felt like they offered us the opportunity to live our lives freely without the fear that so many other nations have to endure still to this day. And, they do it without asking for anything in return. I had this very feeling walking into this dinner. So, to say I was stoked to be there would be more than accurate. Guest Authors - Free Articles Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:28:02 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4755/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:18:23 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4747/80/ Buying green products may or may not help the environment, but it makes people feel good and morally better about themselves - which can lead them to behave badly. When our kids see a Prius or other hybrid car, they jokingly call them smugmobiles, because their primary effect on the environment is to supply the owners with an internal environment of moral superiority over owners of other, non-green, vehicles. Such smugness easily leads to what researchers call the licensing or halo effect: the tendency for a person to take what they deem to be good behavior as a license to then engage in bad, dangerous, or ludicrously hypocritical behavior. This applies to the left across the board, from Barack Hussein Obama to the OWS protestors to Warmists and their Green movement. Let's see how. The Virtue of Happiness - Free Articles Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:41:35 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4748/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:47:06 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4740/85/ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:27:02 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4726/87/ [This is the text of Gov. Rick Perry's speech at the ISO Poly Films plant in Gray Court, South Carolina yesterday, October 25] Thank you. It is great to be in the stomping grounds of a great conservative senator, Jim DeMint. I want to thank ISO Poly Films CEO John McClure for opening his business as we discuss my plan to get America working again. Today I lay before the American People my cut, balance and grow plan. It cuts taxes and spending. It balances the budget by 2020. And it grows jobs and the economy. It neither reshuffles the status quo, nor does it expand the ways Washington can reach into our pocketbooks. It reorders the way they do business in Washington by reinventing the tax code and restoring our nation to fiscal health through balanced budgets and entitlement reform. In other words, it's the kind of economic stimulus President Obama could have achieved if he wasn't hell-bent on passing big government schemes that have failed American workers. We are on the road to ruin paved by state serfdom. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:02:36 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4731/85/ All of these words are insults Shakespeare (1564-1616) used in his plays. Most were in common use, but many are inventions of his own. To generate a classic Shakespearean insult that will greatly amuse your friends and bamboozle your dim-witted liberal adversaries, simply combine one word from each of the three columns, prefaced with You - or Thou if you're really into it. Examples: You goatish ill-nurtured clotpole! You spongy flat-mouthed foot-licker! Thou impertinent clay-brained maggot-pie! With practice, you'll never run out of insults for which there will be no come-back. You'll annoy liberals no end... Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:22:46 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4717/87/ [This is the text of Texas Governor Rick Perry's address to the Western Republican Leadership Conference, delivered yesterday, October 19, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.] Thank you, Senator Huffman (Joan Huffman, TX). It is special honor to be introduced by a state senator who has been a part of creating policies in Texas that have led to jobs and opportunity, including the sponsoring of a very important tort reform, our Loser Pays law. I am joined today by my best friend and partner in life, someone who will make a tremendous First Lady for this country, Anita Perry. And we are proud to be joined today by our daughter, Sydney. Being in the Venetian, I am reminded of the opening act of the Mark Wahlburg movie The Italian Job, where enterprising thieves escaped through the canals of Venice after ransacking a safe full of gold... but enough about The Federal Reserve. As Republican voters weigh the choice for president, they have an opportunity to put forward a clear contrast with our current president. This is not an election about small differences, it is about nothing less than a new direction for our country. Guest Authors - Free Articles Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:43:52 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4723/85/ If you have any friends who voted Democrat but have a difficult time intelligibly explaining why, give them this list. They can then pick their reasons from this Democrat Dozen. 1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene -- but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. 2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. 3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine -- as long as nobody is offended by it. 4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves, even though I'll be dead or mugged way before they have time to respond. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:39:04 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4713/85/ Presidential Libraries contain all the pertinent information about the respective presidents. This is all of their history before their nominations, the campaign papers, memorabilia, all of the papers from their presidency, and so on; a wealth of information about the man and his life both private and public. What would Barack Hussein Obama Jr.'s presidential library look like and what would they archive in it? Just exactly what would the design parameters be? Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:44:31 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4701/87/ With a fledgling economy the focus of the 2012 presidential campaign, there has been one glaring omission from the debate so far: the failure of our current trade policy, particularly with China. Trade policy affects national security by putting the safety of our people and their jobs at risk. Between 2000 and 2010, the United States ran an aggregate trade deficit in goods of $6.8 trillion. This is one measure of how much money went to support production and job creation overseas rather than here at home. Last year, the trade deficit in goods was $635 billion. The import share of the domestic economy has grown very rapidly in textiles, machinery, computers, electrical equipment and motor vehicles. We buy a third to a half of these products from overseas, leaving American factories idle and American people jobless. One-third of the trade deficit in goods over the past decade was with communist China. Our 2011 trade deficit with Beijing is on track to hit a record $300 billion. In their new book, Death by China (http://www.amazon.com/Death-China-Confronting-Dragon-Global/dp/0132180235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 qid=1317928847 sr=8-1), University of California at Irvine economists Peter Navarro and Greg Autry calculate that this deficit has cost America 10 million jobs over the past decade. Guest Authors - Free Articles Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:45:33 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4704/85/ This may be the cleverest political ad of the year. Roger Williams (http://www.rogerforcongress.com/meet-roger) is a small businessman, former Texas Secretary of State, and a Republican candidate for US Congressional District 33 west of Fort Worth. Good luck, Roger! F6etfJgZQ7A Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:09:08 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4690/2/ Warsaw, Poland. We killed it once, when it was disguised as the Soviet Union. But vampires have this way of not staying dead, and it has risen again to suck the life blood out of any country it can sink its teeth into. So it looks like we're going to have to kill this creature all over again. This time, let's drive a wooden stake through its heart and end it for good. Looks like the stake will be made in Poland. Poland's history is one of tragedies and triumphs. It starts in 966, when the chief of the Polan people, Mieszko (930-992), rejected the entreaties of other Slavic tribes to accept what was becoming the Russian Orthodox Church, and chose to be baptized as a Roman Catholic instead. It was a momentous decision that turned his people towards the West, rather than the East. Miesko's son Bronislaw created Poland as a Christian nation, with Pope John XIX declaring him the first King of Poland in 1025, and the Poles starting to participate in Western culture. The greatest Polish King, Jan Sobieski (1629-1696), is also one of the greatest heroes in the history of Western Civilization. In a word, he saved it. Behind The Lines - Free Articles Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:06:58 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4686/87/ Between now and Election Day, President Obama will have to create 8 million jobs just to tie for last place with the previous worst recovery since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, Americans are rightly demanding dramatic overhauls to get this country back on its feet. What does the president do? He doubles down on his philosophy of continuing the beatings until morale improves. My fellow presidential candidates, to varying degrees, have been tinkering around the edges. With all due respect, you don't prune weeds - you pull them out at the roots. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's 160-page, 59-point plan has faculty lounge written all over it. It protects most of the current tax code. Looking for an executive summary, I flipped to the appendix. Frankly, Mr. Romney lost me after his first two points: Maintain current tax rates ... and Maintain current tax rates. ... Are those rates really worth maintaining? Leave it to a politician to start with the current tax code and then move a step or two in the right direction. Leave it to a real businessman to start with what is right and get there immediately. Guest Authors - Free Articles Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:37:49 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4691/85/ A black guy, a Moslem, and a Communist walk into a bar........ Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:02:06 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4681/87/ [This the text of Gov. Perry's speech at the Israel-Palestine Conference held in New York City yesterday, 9/20.] Thank you. Let me begin by thanking Dr. Solomon Frager and Aron Hirtz for helping us organize this press conference today. I am joined today by a diverse group of Jewish leaders from here and abroad who share my concern that the United Nations could take action this week to legitimize the Palestinian gambit to establish statehood in violation of the spirit of the 1993 Oslo Accords. We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administration's Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasn't naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous. Guest Authors - Free Articles Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:33:09 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4685/85/ The division of the human family into its two distinct branches occurred some 10,000 years ago, when humans coexisted as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. In the pivotal event of societal evolution, beer was invented. This epochal innovation was both the foundation of modern civilization and the occasion of the great bifurcation of humanity into its two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain, and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle or aluminum can had yet been invented, so it was necessary to stick pretty close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed. Some men spent their days killing animals to barbecue at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of the conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting, learned how to live off conservatives by showing up for the BBQs every night and doing women's work like sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the liberal movement. Later, some of the liberals actually became women. Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:09:33 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4673/87/ In my recent speech in Iowa (content/view/4661/87/), some eyebrows were raised when I took on our government's enormous economic problems caused by crony capitalism. As if on cue, just days later President Obama selected someone who exemplifies a major crony capitalism problem to sit next to the First Lady when he delivered his jobs plan speech before Congress. He selected General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt as his honored guest. Having grown up with great respect for GE thanks to stories my grandfather shared with us about his days working for the company and even meeting GE spokesman-at-the-time Ronald Reagan during a company event, I am saddened at GE's leadership evolution. This corporation is now the poster child of corporate welfare and crony capitalism. Joining GE in the pantheon on crony capitalism is another Obama favorite that has been in the news of late: Solyndra. Guest Authors - Free Articles Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:14:16 +0100 http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4677/85/ XZPwDRZ6pTM Humor File - Free Articles Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:23:28 +0100