I'm Ron Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.

This week, we celebrated something called "Presidents Day."  I thought you might enjoy the most revealing comments the many Secret Service agents I interviewed made regarding the Presidents and First Ladies they protected.  They are all quotes from my book.

We start with John and Jacqueline Kennedy and end with Barack and Michelle Obama.  Here is what Secret Service agents actually think of them.

The scene:  It is November, 1943. We're in Camp Shelby, just outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where 5,300 German prisoners of war are interned.

The Geneva Conventions are being strictly adhered to, with food (prepared by German cooks), clothing, and medical care equal to their captors. The German POWs have formed soccer and volleyball teams, with descriptions and results of the tournaments between them reported in the camp newspaper, The Mississippi Post.

A Nazi church has been erected in the camp, where Nazi worshippers attend services held by Nazi chaplains. In their sermons, the chaplains instruct that:

"Nazism is the true religion, the Aryan Soul the only true God, our understanding of Whom has been brought to us by His Holiness, Adolph Hitler. Our Führer, Adolph Hitler is the true Holy Ghost. He is the human form of the Aryan Soul instantiated here on earth. We believe on this earth solely in Adolph Hitler and his sacred teachings."

The Nazi Bible, Mein Kampf, is treated with careful reverence by the American camp guards. "The Holy Mein Kampf must never be placed in offensive areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas," state the detailed rules issued by the Pentagon. "Only Nazi chaplains may handle the Holy Nazi Book, or by guards only after putting on clean white gloves in full view of the POWs."

"The Holy Mein Kampf," states the Pentagon's directive, "should be treated like a ‘fragile piece of delicate art.'"

I had my say about Ron Paul in No Paulista.  Yet the good gynecologist from Lake Jackson, Texas, has a devoted following among TTPers, and it is in their honor that To The Point is holding a contest.

And that is for the greatest Libertarian Motion Picture.

What movie ever made, in your opinion, best celebrates individual freedom, private property, the loathing and ridicule of government tyranny, the glory of the individual human being, and which has the most fun doing so?

There are a lot of choices.  We think of Hollywood as an anti-American cesspool of liberal lunacy.  But once you begin to look around, there's a wealth of pro-freedom entertainment.

With no prospects for a successful legislative agenda in Congress and even his talk of governing by executive order not impressing either friends or foes, President Barack Hussein Obama seems to be drifting inexorably toward lame-duck status.

But there is no better indication of just how politically toxic Obama has become than the rumblings that came out of last week's meeting between the president and Senate Democrats. As Politico reports, the White House has agreed to stay out of most of the key races that will decide whether Democrats retain control of the Senate this year.  

In 2008, Obama was a Messiah.  In 2014, Obama is now a Leper.  To an increasing number of Democrats.  Here's why.

Ever since he was inaugurated in January 2009, inheriting an economic basket case from his predecessor, Zero has done the absolute exact opposite of Ronald Reagan - which is why he is failing.  Or is he?

He is certainly failing at re-launching the American economy.  But what if he defines his success to the extent he makes our economy worse, not better?  Yes, as someone who is not an actual American, someone who truly and deeply hates our country, his goal is to ruin America as much as he can.

Yet this goal dovetails with that of the Democrat Party's:  the continuance and expansion of its political power.  A Second Great Depression is the Democrat Party's path to power.

Are you thinking, aha, but wait until November 2^nd?  We'll kick these evil Dems out and spoil their dream!  Electoral retribution this November is our dream.  What could the Dems do to spoil it?

I have lost count now of the number of predictions being made of a GOP "tsunami" in November.  Serious political analysts, soberly and without hyperbole, are saying that Dem losses in the House, Senate, Governor's mansions, et al, are likely to be of "historic" proportions.

And every one of them unfailingly comes with a caveat, something along the lines of, "barring some huge unexpected disaster for the GOP."  Now, if you were Rahm Emanuel, what would that caveat cause you to think about?

Topping my personal list of mondo bizarro stories this week was the headline in papers all over the country, Ex-Congressman Charged in Terror Case.  The story reveals that:

Former congressman from Michigan Mark Siljander was indicted Wednesday (1/16) as being part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter. He's accused of lying about lobbying on behalf of an Islamic charity (The Islamic American Relief Agency or IARA) that was accused of sending funds to terrorists... The government accuses IARA of sending approximately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated a global terrorist..