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HOW MONEY CAN BUY HAPPINESS

Guest Author October 13, 2026

The popular saying is that money can’t buy happiness.

The Beatles sang that they don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy them love.

I think the Beatles were mostly right about money and love.

But there are ways of spending our money that can actually make us happier.

After a few years of frugal living, Cindy and Jeff had saved enough for a down payment on a house they liked. They bought the house, which they like a lot. Even though the mortgage payment was a bit of a challenge, they could manage it. For years they put all the extra money they had into the house – new appliances, furniture, decorating, repairs…

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OLD HOTNESS: IMMIGRANTS STEALING JOBS FROM NATIVES | NEW HOTNESS: NATIVES STEALING JOBS FROM MIGRANTS

Guest Author October 13, 2026

Diversity is Britain's strength, we're told. But apparently the immigrants in Birmingham aren't so certain about that.

They are complaining that British natives are stealing their jobs, which explains why they are on welfare.

Since they can't find work by taking the jobs from white Brits, they are forced to rely on those native Brits' taxes to fund the welfare that keeps them living in comfort.

That seems to be the upshot of Michael Deacon's interviews in the migrant neighborhoods of Birmingham, where welfare use is through the roof. Wondering why, he decided to find out by asking the people who need it.

Over the past couple of decades, more than a few British people have accused immigrants of stealing their jobs, by under-cutting them on pay. At last, though, it seems that things may be starting to change. Because these days, apparently, it’s the other way round.

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PRINCESS RING ISLET

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 13, 2026

This is real, it actually exists as you see it. Princess Ring Islet is a small collapsed volcanic cone with a circular sunken crater. Talk about an awesome swimming hole. It’s several hundred yards off São Miguel Island in the Azores – and is just one of the many totally cool places we saw in our exploration of Atlantic Paradise.

At that time of year, the ocean around Princess Islet is filled with migrating whales and dolphins. The Azores are one of the world’s greatest whale-watching sites. You’d be very hard-pressed to find a cleaner, safer, more peaceful, more benign, and more astonishingly beautiful part of our planet than the Azores. And with more perfect weather.

The rest of the world and its craziness doesn’t exist here. Don’t you owe it to yourself and the one you love to escape here for at least a short time? Of course you do! (Glimpses of our breathtaking world #193)

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COLUMBUS DAY IS A CELEBRATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 12, 2026

Landing of Columbus October 12 1492” Capitol Building Rotunda, Washington DC

This Monday’s Archive was originally published on October 12, 2006. Today, America faces an existential choice between Patriots who revere Columbus and Western Civilization and their moral opposites who despise both. You might, then, consider reading what follows below to you children of grandchildren so they may understand the difference in the choice between Columbus Day and “Indigenous Peoples Day” graphically made clear between the painting above and this:

TTP, October 12, 2006

October 12 is for celebrating the 525^th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.

We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed discovered.

Unfortunately, Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend. What it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization – which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.

So there will be the usual spectacle of American Indians using the holiday to denounce the White Man and his genocidal war-mongering culture-destroying earth-murdering imperialism, blah blah blah – with self-hating White Liberals like the fascists of Antifajoining in, masochistically condemning their own civilization.

If it’s your misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil.

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THE POLISH SAVIOR OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 12, 2026

On September 12, 1683, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV as the Caliph of all Islam was on the verge of realizing the great Moslem dream of conquering all of Christian Europe for the glory of Allah. The great obstacle in his way – the city of Vienna – was about to be overwhelmed by the Sultan’s gigantic army of 140,000 Islamic Taliban of their day.

On the Kahlenberg hilltop above Vienna, the commander of the Christian forces, King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, gave the order to attack. Twenty thousand armed horsemen galloped down the slopes of Kahlenberg, the largest cavalry charge in history, with the Polish King and his Winged Hussars in the lead. The cavalry trampled the Ottomans and made straight for their camps.

Ottoman commander Kara Mustafa fled out of his tent and barely escaped with his life (it didn’t last long – the Sultan ordered him strangled). With the Christian victory at The Battle of Vienna, the Moslem threat to Europe was over. Sobieski wrote a letter to Pope Innocent XI, paraphrasing Julius Caesar:

“Venimus, Vidimus, Deus vincit” – “We came, We saw, God conquered.”

In turn, the Pope hailed Sobieski as “The Savior of Western Christendom.” Indeed he was, and still is so revered by the Polish people to this day – with no apology.

For the people of Poland stand out among those of all Europe for their pride in being part of Western Civilization – symbolized for them by this statue of their Hero King trampling the Ottomans in the beautiful Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. They will make sure visitors to the statue note that underneath the right forearm of the fallen Turkish soldier is a book – the Koran.

You owe it to yourself to visit Poland and meet the Polish champions of Christian liberty, having freed themselves from the Ottomans, the Russians, and the Soviets. We need more like them today. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #159 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/09/26

Mike Ryan October 9, 2026

The Global Order Confronts Reality

October 2026 is exposing the limits of a global order built on stable trade, reliable energy, and international institutions. Washington's confrontation with the International Criminal Court illustrates the growing conflict between national sovereignty and international authority.

The third anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel highlights the resurgence of traditional antisemitism alongside a newer ideological form rooted in radical Third-Worldism, which divides society into oppressors and oppressed.

When this thinking excuses political violence or collective persecution, it becomes a national security concern for all Americans, not simply Jews.

Meanwhile, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are disrupting petroleum refining and diesel supplies, raising costs throughout the industrial economy. Russia's financial difficulties reveal the economic limits of prolonged warfare.

Trade tensions between the United States and Canada threaten established supply chains, while political realignment across Latin America reflects growing voter dissatisfaction with insecurity and economic mismanagement.

These disturbances reinforce one another. Like an industrial plant operating without adequate reserve capacity, the international system is losing its margin for error. Strategic inventories, diplomatic agreements, and political promises cannot substitute for productive capacity, competent leadership, and civic trust.

The lesson is simple. The world has not escaped the discipline of reality. Nations that confuse political intentions with material capabilities will eventually pay the price.

Current events are certainly converging on a few themes. Come on over to this week’s HFR and have a peek.

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THE NEW RECONQUISTAS

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 5, 2026

As Rebel and I with a group of your fellow TTPers embark on our exploration of the Reconquista in Spain – Christianity’s greatest epic heroism, 40 generations of Spanish knights fighting to reconquer their land from Moslem invaders – this morning (10/05) a New Reconquista began in Spain by Christian patriots to liberate their land from their Communist leader and the 4 million African Moslems he imported to tyrannize them.

Yet that is only one of two continental tectonic shifts taking place in the last 24 hours. Last night (10/04), a New Reconquista was launched in Brazil to overthrow its Communist leader. Tectonic because the first will shift all of Europe to the right, ridding it of Islamic pestilence, while second will cement the entire continent of South America as Anti-Left, Pro-West, and Pro-America.

In Spain this morning, a man so criminally corrupt and so communist he can be regarded as truly evil – Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez – dissolved parliament and called for a snap new election on November 29. People are celebrating all over Spain for now they rid themselves of Sanchez. This in Madrid this afternoon:

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ELON IS COMING FOR PAYPAL. THE BANKS ARE NEXT

Rod D. Martin October 8, 2026

In case you missed it, Elon Musk has some unfinished business with PayPal.

I have more than a passing interest in this. I worked for Peter Thiel when he was CEO of PayPal, before and after the IPO, until we both left after the merger with eBay.

We were an insurgency out to change the world, and we did.

We asked people to trust a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley — our average age was 23 — with their money. And they did. In the company’s first two and a half years, in fact, around 25 million of them did.

In the process, we enabled the creation of over two million small businesses, small firms that used us instead of a then-stupidly expensive credit card merchant account. Despite that, our fraud rate was just one-third of Visa’s and MasterCard’s.

But we had bigger ambitions than that, ambitions that weren’t fully achieved before the sale.

Coming off the Mexican and Argentine currency devaluations, Peter was particularly interested in giving normal people around the world a free or near-free offshore bank account to protect themselves from their own governments. Crypto has partially achieved that now; stablecoins will be even bigger. But none of that existed yet.

Elon had his own take on things.

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ARE WE BECOMING GONDOR?

Victor Davis Hanson October 7, 2026

The Despair and Hope of J. R. R. Tolkien

The novelist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) repeatedly insisted that his epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, written from 1937 to 1949, was not allegorical.

But some scholars have argued otherwise, detecting contemporary, 20th-century influences in his storytelling.

Tolkien fought at the nightmarish Battle of the Somme in World War I. He witnessed the slaughter of the youth of Europe in the trenches that lived with him the rest of his life.

In the 1930s, he despaired over both the rise of the godless Communist Soviet Union and the transformation of a once-enlightened Germany into a monstrous fascist regime.

Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was dismayed not only by the growing power of these totalitarian empires but also by the West’s urbanized industrialism and secularized modernism on the eve of World War II.

In middle age, he lived through the even greater slaughter of World War II. Adding to his concerns, he finished his novel at the height of Soviet expansionism, as the Cold War began and nuclear weapons emerged.

The catastrophic decades of the 1930s and 1940s not only shaped his overall worldview but plausibly helped inspire at least some of the most dramatic elements of his novel.

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OCTOBER 7 AND THE AFTERMATH

Elise Cooper October 7, 2026

This October 7 will mark the third anniversary of the horrific attacks on Israel by Hamas.

Twelve hundred people were killed, primarily Israeli citizens, which made it the deadliest day for Israel since its independence.

Additionally, 240 people were taken hostage during the attack, and those alive have since been released.

Yet, since October 7, 2023, antisemitism has significantly risen globally. That includes increased violence and hostility toward Jewish communities.

Below is an interview from different outlets that delve into the threats against the Jews.

Clara and Julia Kuperberg’s new documentary, Hollywood and Hitler, explores the influence the Nazis exerted on American movie studios in the 1930s. It focuses on how some American film studios cooperated with the Nazis and highlights certain groups and individuals who tried to expose them.

It is relevant today because of all the propaganda being spread by pro-Hamas groups after October 7 that has created major antisemitism abroad and here in America.

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DEMOCRAT DONOR STRIKE COMES HOME TO ROOST

David Catron October 6, 2026

As the 2026 midterms rapidly approach, the consensus among the commentariat is that the Democrats will retake control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate as well.

This meeting of the “expert” minds is based primarily on the polls, despite their increasing tendency to underestimate GOP performance, and the fact that the president’s party usually loses seats in one or both houses of Congress in midterm elections.

But there is another factor at play this year that most of the pundit class has overlooked. The Democrats are usually flush with cash in midterm cycles and they use much of it to fund turnout and ad campaigns. But this year many of their donors deserted them.

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PRODUCTIVE SLEEP – NOT JUST CONKED OUT

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw October 8, 2026

For more than 40 years, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw studied the science of how the brain works.

They didn't believe the best answer to poor sleep was simply to "knock people out."

Instead, they wanted to understand why we sleep and how nutrition could help support the body's own natural sleep processes.

That philosophy led to the development of Productive Sleep™.

Rather than relying on habit-forming ingredients, Durk selected amino acids and nutrients that had been studied for their ability to support relaxation, healthy brain chemistry, and restorative sleep.

Many of these nutrients influence GABA, serotonin, neurotransmission, or other pathways involved in the body's natural sleep cycle.

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THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EMOTION

Dr. Joel Wade October 6, 2026

Envy is an ugly emotion with awful effects. Many religions forbid or warn against it, as with the 10^th commandment in the Old Testament; storytellers show its horrible effects.

We all know that it’s bad on a feeling level, yet envy persists as a powerfully destructive force.

It isn’t about having very little; we aren’t particularly unhappy when we have very little. But we do become very unhappy, depressed, and bitter when we dwell on having less than our neighbor.

Yet there is an antidote to envy: empathy, curiosity, admiration, and the effective redirection of our initial impulses. It can also help to more fully understand this destructive and bitter emotion.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A SULTAN’S ARABIA

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 9, 2026

Nakhal Castle, Oman. If you want to see an ultra-rich Arab sheikdom with exotically designed skyscrapers, you go to Qatar or Dubai. But if you want a more genuine Arabia of Sultan’s palaces, of forts and castles perched on rocky crags, of traditional villages tucked away in mountain fastnesses, of rock pools and grottoes gushing with spring water hidden in secret valleys, a place out of Arabian Nights rather than one of garish ostentatiousness – then you come here to the Sultanate of Oman.

Omanis are a polyglot people from all over Arabia, Persia, and India who’ve lived here for millennia, creating a cosmopolitan trading society that adheres to its traditional culture. There are fabulous hotels with great bars, concerts by the Omani Philharmonic Orchestra, and once outside the capital of Muscat, an Arabian wonderland so exotic it seems out of a movie. We'll be here again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #119 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE GOLDEN THRONE OF KING TUT

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 8, 2026

Now on display in National Museum of Egypt in Cairo, the 3,340 year-old artistic masterpiece of Pharoah Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenamun portrayed on facing back of the king’s throne chair was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

I was stunned beyond words when I first saw it in 1971, and every time I’ve seen it since, I’m shocked into the same state of awe. It’s not simply the sheer beauty of the blue lapis lazuli, the red carnelian, the silver and the solid gold plate, nor the breathtaking skill of artistry. It’s that the scene is so profoundly, so touchingly human. As she gently rubs oil on to his arms, they are looking into each other’s eyes with the tenderness of love.

This is not some God-King high and mighty ruler and haughty Queen far above their lowly subjects, but a very human man and wife in love. This golden throne speaks to us from 33 centuries ago that back then people were people like us. Our connection to history is our common humanity. I hope someday you will be able to see the Golden Throne of King Tut in Cairo, and be in awe of it for yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #168 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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