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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM MEN IN BLACK ABOUT 2008

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 4, 2008

Nope, this is not an alien joke like Alien Al, much less one regarding the PIAPS, who was born only 3½ months after Roswell.

It is about the history lesson taught so arrestingly by Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K in Men In Black.

2008 is going to be a stressful year for a lot of folks. The fate of America, the fate of Western Civilization, the fate of mankind, will be decided this year - as far as folks who enjoy being Drama Queens are concerned.

As we plunge forward into the fateful unknown of 2008, let us, then, take a deep, calming breath and listen to the soothing words of Agent K.

His partner, Agent J played by Will Smith, is freaking out as a newbie man-in-black, unglued over the alien threat that will destroy the Earth in the next half-hour.

Agent J: Man, we ain't got time for this... I don't know whether or not you've forgotten, but there's an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that's about to...

Agent K: Kid, there's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they... do... not... know about it!

Welcome to the history of the world.

COULTER AND THE BRECK BOY

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 15, 2007

Ann Coulter's famously calling Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" at the CPAC conference here in Washington earlier this month has scandalized a great many conservatives and every single Republican candidate.

It was brilliant.

That's a description, not approval. I winced when I heard the forbidden word, not because it's forbidden but because it's so hurtful. It's purposefully demeaning to homosexuals, especially to those who really can't help what they are.

Yet Ann's use of the term was diabolically clever, for with it she accomplished her goal: demolishing Edwards' candidacy. With this one single word, she made sure John Edwards will never be elected President of the United States.

She knew exactly what she was doing.

DEMOCRAT HELL WEEK

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 13, 2006

The hit on Zarqawi has been described, quoting Churchill, as "the end of the beginning" towards winning the war in Iraq. What it and so much else also portends is the beginning of the end for the Democrat Party's dream of regaining power in Congress this November.

Week before last, the Dems were riding high. Bush's poll numbers were so disastrous Time Magazine ran a cover asking "How low can he go?" The liberal rag followed this with a cover story on the "massacre" of Haditha. Nancy Pelosi went on a speaking tour describing what she'll do as House Speaker next January. Harry Reid told his staff to start planning for when he becomes Senate Majority Leader.

Yep, the Dems had the Republicans on the ropes, and were gleefully acknowledging their impending victory to the cheering crowd - when without warning and out of nowhere, the Pubbies unleash a series of such punishing blows the Dems find themselves stunned, dazed, and on the canvas.

CIRCLE SQUARED: Iran, Iraq, Syria

Michael Ledeen January 11, 2005

In his final weeks in office, Secretary Powell has unfortunately continued to chant his mantra, "we are not working for regime change in Iran," as if he were proud of it. He, and his colleagues at State, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and the CIA, should be ashamed. The mullahs are active supporters of terrorism all over the world, including Iraq, and we cannot expect to win this war so long as they remain in power.

MORE ON REFORMATTING YOUR HARD DISK

ttpn September 8, 2004

A few weeks ago I discussed many of the precautions a person must take to successfully reformat his or her hard disk and reinstall an operating system and applications. I suggested some procedures and aids.

However, before I reformatted my own hard disk, I did a little thinking. Was I sure I could recover my Outlook address book, folders, and emails? What about my passwords? Was I certain that I could write them all down? Where exactly did Windows store them?

And what about my Windows settings? The screen resolution, the screen saver, and many other tweaks? Same for Outlook, my other Office programs, and those of other applications. Would I have to reconfigure all of them when I reinstall? Or is there a way of finding and saving the configuration files and restoring them after a reformatting and reinstallation?

Some of the answers are too geeky for this column. But many aren’t. I snooped around some support forums and asked some questions. I’ll summarize what I’ve learned. If you follow these additional instructions, you’re even more likely to be up and running within several hours.

HOW THE NEW DEMOGRAPHY OF WAR IS HELPING ISRAEL

Pinhas Inbari June 25, 2014

The current political and military upheavals in the Middle East are producing new and far-reaching demographic realities. They are primarily due to Bashar Assad's desperation to keep power at any cost.

Assad and his ruling clique are Alawites, a Shiite sect, while the rebels opposing him are primarily Sunnis. He thus has a policy of ethnically and religiously cleansing Syria of Sunnis. This includes the Palestinians in Syria. The impact his policy is having on neighboring countries like Lebanon and Jordan is tremendous - and often counter-intuitive.

So much so that various communities in the Levant and even in Libya are now expressing a positive attitude toward Israel and repudiating pan-Arabism. Here's what's going on and why.

HALF-FULL REPORT 01/10/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 10, 2014

I despise Gov. Fatso so I'm enjoying this.

The instantly-dubbed "Bridgegate" scandal erupted Wednesday (1/08). Christie held a long press conference yesterday (1/09) which resulted in more ridicule and condemnation.
We all used to like this guy. That was back in 2010, his first year as governor of Joisey, when he seemed a breath of conservative fresh air and eviscerated Democrats and Enemedia hecklers with aplomb. Jack Kelly and I began calling him the Fat Reagan.

But by January 2011, the HFR reported that Christie had nominated a Moslem attorney connected to the terrorists of Hamas and the Moslem Brotherhood to a New Jersey Superior Court judgeship. "Looks like Christie has fallen under the influence of the Islamist Svengali of the Right, Grover Norquist. What a terrible disappointment," I commented.

There have many more disappointments since. But what I most despise about Christie, however, was his last-minute help to get Zero reelected in 2012.

AMERICAâ€™S BANKRUPTCY WILL BE CAUSED BY INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPTCY OF DEMOCRATS

Richard Rahn October 1, 2013

"There is nothing left to cut," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last week when referring to the federal budget. Again, she displayed a complete disconnect with reality -- a disconnect reinforced by all those other fantasyland souls who make her their leader.

Outside of government, almost every good or service becomes better and less expensive in real terms each year. Government, though, is most heavily involved in education and health care. In both cases, costs have risen far faster than inflation for decades.

With education, there has been almost no measurable improvement in quality as measured by what students know. The teachers unions love to talk about how much is being spent per pupil, while ignoring the fact that there are many high-spending school districts with lower achievement levels than many lower spending districts.

The private sector -- unlike government -- constantly reduces costs and improves its products because of competitive pressures, and that creates real wealth. Those in the public sector measure success by the amount spent, not by what is accomplished.

AMERICAâ€™S WORLD-SHAKING SHALE OIL CORNUCOPIA

Matt Ridley July 9, 2013

In the US shale gas is old hat; it's the shale oil revolution that's proving a world changer, promising not just lower oil prices worldwide, but geopolitical ripples as America weans itself off oil imports and perhaps loses interest in the Middle East.

One of the pioneers of the shale gas revolution, Chris Wright, of Liberty Resources, was in Britain last month. It was he and his colleagues at Pinnacle Technologies who reinvented hydraulic fracturing in the late 1990s in a way that unlocked the vast petroleum resources in shale.

Within seven years the Barnett shale, in and around Forth Worth, Texas, was producing half as much gas as the whole of Britain consumes. And the Barnett proved to be a baby compared with other shales.

Like many shale entrepreneurs, Mr. Wright is now spending a lot of time in North Dakota drilling for oil. The success of America's shale gas revolution drove the gas price so low that in 2010 most drilling rigs switched to looking for oil. With spectacular results.

A new report (The Shale Oil Boom: a US Phenomenon) by Leonardo Maugeri of Harvard University, sets out just how astonishing this second shale revolution already is.

WHY THERE CAN’T BE PEACE WITH THIS PRESIDENT

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 13, 2012

"The fact is, we live according to Lenin's formula: Kto-Kovo?" explained Joseph Stalin in a speech to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in April 1929. And indeed, President Zero lives by it as well. Which is why there can't be peace with him - not for Republicans in Congress nor for any non-mooching American.

For Lenin, the only question that mattered in human affairs was Kto-Kovo? - Who-Whom?, who defeats whom, who wins and who loses. (For some perverse reason, you often see the phrase transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic as "Kto-Kogo." I insist on transliterating it as pronounced in Russian.)

It is the only question that matters for Zero. It is not just a stance, an intellectual assumption of faculty lounge Marxism. It defines his basic outlook on the world and makes him who he is - profoundly anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, and anti-American. It makes him, as was Lenin and as the Left has always been, metaphysically fascist.

Only by understanding this can Republicans on Capitol Hill prevent their being hopelessly steamrollered by him. Kto-Kovo? is far more than a political strategy for power. It is a statement about how the world works, about the nature of reality.

CHARLIE WILSON AND RONALD REAGAN’S WAR

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 26, 2007

This picture was taken during my wedding on May 25, 1986. The ceremony took place at the villa of a friend of mine in St. Tropez, France. My bride was a gorgeous California redhead named Rebel Holiday (yes, her born name). The dapper gentleman you see between us was serving as my best man. The reason he doesn't look like Tom Hanks is because he's the real Charlie Wilson.

So it was a strange experience for me to see the movie Charley Wilson's War, a movie portraying events I participated in, to see how it was both true and not true at the same time.

Hanks portrays Charlie as the hero he really was. A larger-than-life America-loving Communist-hating true blue patriot who used his power and influence to the max to stick it to the Soviets big time. That Hollywood would make a major motion picture about a genuine Anti-Communist hero, about a noble Anti-Communist triumph over the Evil Communist Empire of the Soviet Union is morally thrilling. The movie is magnificent.

Not taking anything away from the magnificence, it is also ludicrous.
http://www.rebelholiday.com/

A COMMUNITY OF VALUES

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 1, 2007

Wow. That's my and everybody else's reaction to our first To The Point Rendezvous in Las Vegas last weekend (1/26-28). The abundantly clear lesson we learned was: members of To The Point really get along with each other!

At every get together, I was so hesitant to begin speaking as I didn't want to interrupt folks who were having such an obvious good time together. Then again, I had such a good time.

Another thing I learned is that TTPers are a curious bunch. I can't begin to remember all the topics we discussed. Countries all over the world. The Washington circus. How politicians exemplify a Hyper-Peter Principle.

The Peter Principle, that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, applies to companies. Politicians (and bureaucrats in general) shoot way beyond it, into hyper-incompetence. The just-elected governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons, is a perfect example. He is an absolute fool, and is wife Dawn is an even greater ditz. Sad to say, he's a Republican.

Yet a neighbor Democrat governor, Bill Richardson, is...

THERE IS NO SUCH COUNTRY AS IRAN

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 1, 2006

At a meeting of the Nonaligned Movement in the Malaysian city of Putrajaya this week, Iran's Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki announced to reporters that "there is no such country" as Israel.

Since Israel does indeed exist, Mottaki means that Iran doesn't diplomatically "recognize" Israel's existence, that Iran wants to extinguish the political existence of Israel, that Israel's current existence is accidental, an illusion that will be swept away by the total triumph of Islam in the Middle East.

Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni should now feel free to announce that there is no such country as Iran. Its existence as an intact nation-state is make-believe. Its existence is as ephemeral as the Soviet Union's or Yugoslavia's, and is soon to break apart as did they.

Last week in Iran Unraveling? you learned about the protest demonstrations by Turkish-speaking ethnic Azeris (who make up over 1/3 of Iran's population) over a cartoon in a government newspaper depicting Azeris as cockroaches. The demos grew this week and are getting violent.

THE “INSURGENCY” OF THE TERROR MASTERS

Michael Ledeen December 22, 2004

The notion that we are fighting an "insurgency" largely organized and staffed by former elements of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime is now fully enshrined as an integral piece of the conventional wisdom. Like earlier bits of the learned consensus — to which it is closely linked — it is factually wrong and strategically dangerous.

That it is factually wrong is easily demonstrated, for the man invariably branded the most powerful leader of the terrorist assault against Iraq — Abu Musab al Zarqawi — is not a Baathist, and indeed is not even an Iraqi...

The clear strategic conclusion remains what it should have been long before Coalition troops entered Saddam's evil domain: No matter how strongly we wish it to be otherwise, we are engaged in a regional war, of which Iraq is but a single battlefield. The war cannot be won in Iraq alone, because the enemy is based throughout the region and his bases and headquarters are located beyond our current reach. His power is directly proportional to our unwillingness to see the true nature of the war, and our decision to limit the scope of our campaign.

EMERGENCY BULLETIN

ttpn August 5, 2004

If you use Internet Explorer to access the Web, you need to be aware of a dangerous “Trojan horse” that can steal your passwords to banking sites, and thus steal your money.

Below is an article describing the danger. Microsoft has not issued a “patch” for it, so if your computer is infected, you must correct it yourself. Here is how:

1. Use Search from the Start menu to find img1big.gif. That’s the file name of the Trojan horse. Make sure in the search that you opt to include hidden and system files and folders.
2. Delete each copy of img1big.gif, if any.
3. After the deletions, notify all financial institutions with whom you have electronic accounts that your account may be compromised.

I strongly urge you to do this immediately.

Dennis The Wizard

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