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MACHIAVELLI IN TEARS

Michael Ledeen December 1, 2006

The liberal media got itself in such a tizzy this week over the "leaked" memo of National Security Advisor Steve Hadley to President Bush that disparaged Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki.

It hasn't dawned on our genius reporters that the memo was written to be leaked. I can't believe that the president's national-security adviser would write something so long, so rambling, and so mediocre to George W. Bush. I mean, I'd die of embarrassment before I let any such thing go into the Oval Office with my name on it.

You can see it's a group effort, because with one exception - the sensible suggestion that, at long last, we expand the program that embeds U.S. military personnel in Iraqi military and police units - there's hardly a serious thought in the whole document.

WIRELESS PIRATES

ttpn December 9, 2005

While setting up a wireless network is easier today than ever, it’s not the type of thing a computer novice is likely to try on his or her own as it requires at least some degree of technical awareness.

One could assume that people who have set up their own wireless networks would be among the users of anti-virus and other security programs. They are almost certainly among those who avoid opening e-mail attachments, who check downloads for viruses, and set up firewalls to keep out unwanted intruders.

But most people’s concerns over security stops at the entrance to their hard drive, it seems.

HALF-FULL REPORT 07/18/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 18, 2014

"Murder In The Air" was the cover of Newsweek when the Kremlin shot down Korean Air 007 on Sept. 1, 1983. To this day, the Kremlin has never apologized for what Reagan termed "the savagery of their crime against humanity."

Sound familiar? This morning we learned that there are recordings of pro-Russian separatists talking with a Russian GRU (military intel) colonel about their shooting down the Malaysian airliner yesterday (7/17), and that they have recovered the airliner's black box and sent it to Moscow. Putin Huilo promptly blamed Ukraine for the atrocity - while refusing to deny his mercenaries in Ukraine did it. Indeed, he denies any of his total sponsorship of the "rebellion" in eastern Ukraine.

The fallout of the MH17 shootdown is that Russia economically and Putin Huilo politically are both seriously screwed...

... But when, we ask, will Zero be screwed? On Monday, the liberal paper of Capitol Hill, The Hill, helpfully answered in a story headlined: Obama The Pariah. Yet to realize just how much a pariah Zero has become, there's the feel-good story of the week, that of Peggy Joseph...

... The HFR gives three cheers for three countries this week. First is, believe it or not, for France!

... The puzzle of the week: How can such a teeny-tiny fraction of folks in the US be so fascistically powerful? ...And here's the best news of the week:

HOW THE GOP CAN REPLACE THE OBAMA MALAISE

Richard Rahn May 20, 2014

What is the Republican Party's vision for America? You may have a hard time answering other than "not President Obama and his policies."

Most Republicans plan to run their fall campaigns focusing on the Obama scandals -- admittedly a target-rich area -- with scandals involving Obamacare, Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service and Veterans Affairs. All of this is not a vision of the future, though.

It is hard to build a consensus -- but smart, strong-minded individuals in the past have been able to articulate a vision that attracted not only the public but other politicians. Ronald Reagan accomplished this, and he was fortunate to have a visionary economic evangelist by his side who helped shape much of the Reagan program and became its principal salesman.

The GOP needs this man's vision and passion to end the Malaise of Obama.

SURVIVING OBAMA

Caroline Glick March 12, 2014

Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg minced few words in discussing the interview that US President Barack Hussein Obama gave him on the eve of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's latest visit to Washington.

Speaking with journalist Charlie Rose, Goldberg equated Obama's threat to stop supporting Israel in international forums to the talk of a mafia don. Obama told Goldberg that if Israel doesn't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, "our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited." He added, "And that has consequences."

Obama's statement, Goldberg noted, was a "veiled threat" and "almost up there with, ‘Nice little Jewish state you've got there. Hate to see something happen to it.'" Goldberg saw the interview as Obama's way of showing that he is beginning to abandon the pretense of supporting Israel, now that he no longer faces reelection. In Goldberg's words, "It's not that the gloves are coming off. It's more that the mask of diplomatic language is coming off."

Now that he no longer has to concern himself with the wishes of the American public and its representatives in Congress, Obama has dropped the mask of opposition to Iran and forged ahead with a diplomatic process that all but ensures Iran will acquire nuclear weapons.

So what can Israel do? Well, here is Priority #1: Israel needs to directly attack Iran's nuclear installations - by covert action as well as through overt military strikes, as required. And Obama be damned.

MY FAVORITE MUSEUM

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 5, 2013

My wife and I spent much of the summer in our favorite museum. It's called Europe. Not a museum in Europe, but Europe itself.

Since America is an island, Americans tend to be insular and consider their problems to be the world's best. But it is not so.

For Americans, the rest of the world is thousands of miles away across the Pacific or Atlantic, while Canada is that cold place far to the north where they say "eh" all the time, while Mexico is that sweltering place all the illegals come from - hence Americans see their country as a giant isolated island. A separate universe.

When things are going good, we think there's no place better - a perspective for which there is justification. When things are going bad, we think no place on earth is going to hell in a handbasket faster. We consider Zero to be such a horrendous disaster because we've never been deranged enough to engage in electoral masochism before.

This is a first for us - but for much of the rest of the world, it's the norm. Masochism, in the form of people accepting subjugation from thugs who declared themselves chiefs, kings, and emperors, has been the political way of life for most of human history. We view America as "the exceptional nation" because it is the exception to this history.

Our cultural progenitor enabling this exception was Europe. Now that Europe is regressing, our fear is that we are too. But fear is a waste of time. Unless we use fear to assess the extent of actual danger, we'll just wallow in it and not rationally act to get rid of what we're scared of.

So a glance at Europe could be helpful to see where it's fallen into the masochistic mire so we can avoid doing so.

THE COUNTRY THAT DOES EXIST

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 22, 2011

Berbera, Somaliland. I originally called this place the country that doesn't exist, because no other country in the world will diplomatically recognize it as a sovereign nation even though it's been so for 20 years.

Nonetheless, this is a real country with a sovereign functioning government. This is no pariah-outlaw state. That's Somalia, the truly non-existent failed state that Somaliland seceded from. The story of Somaliland is a heroic saga, epically inspirational. Let me tell you the story.

REGIME CHANGE IN KOREA

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 8, 2007

Note that neither "North" nor "South" is prefixed to Korea, for we are talking about coming regime change in both.

The current ruling anti-American, anti-capitalist, pro-appeasement party ruling South Korea is about to be replaced by its opposite: pro-American, pro-capitalist, anti-appeasement.

Its leaders are determined to precipitate the collapse of North Korea's communist tyranny. They plan to do it with the help of the Communist Chinese. And George Bush.

RICE AND “REASONABLES”

Michael Ledeen October 5, 2006

She's a Renaissance woman, whose talents run from scholarship to music and sport. But in this interview with Bret Stephens of the Wall St. Journal, Condoleezza Rice often seems oddly detached from the life-and-death quality of the war against the terror masters.

Indeed, she doesn't even call it a war, and the things she says about it are sometimes striking - headline quality remarks - but more often very peculiar.

To begin with, she doesn't expect us to win this "battle, if you will, or a struggle," during the Bush presidency. Her mission for the next two years is not victory, but to put "some fundamentals in place."

I wish the interviewer had asked her to define these "fundamentals," so that we could better judge whether or not they are worth the lives and limbs of our children.

WHAT ARE ADWARE AND SPYWARE, REALLY?

ttpn October 13, 2005

Symantec Corporation said recently that it found itself forced to start dealing with spyware and adware simply because users of Symantec antivirus programs really couldn't tell the difference between a system infected with malware (virus, Trojan, worm, and so forth) and a system infested with adware or spyware.

For the past 3 months, nearly one out of every five calls for help to Symantec ended up involving spyware or adware rather than what they call malware. To The Point readers know that I’ve been using the opposite terminology. Viruses, trojans and worms were in one category, and spyware and adware I called malware.

These days, virus experts recognize that certain threats should rightly be called blended, in that they combine virus, worm, and sometimes even trojan characteristics within a single executable.

HALF-FULL REPORT 07/11/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 11, 2014

Obama Huilo!

I had to save this for the HFR instead of shoehorning it in to Putin Huilo! on Wednesday.

And yes he is. He is not just a "hapless putz" as Andrew Klaman claims. The Obamahuilo is opening the floodgates of our border with Mexico on purpose - the purpose being revenge and spite. He wants TB and other diseases brought by illegals to spread.

He wants to do damage to us more than ever, now that Americans have proved themselves not worthy of him, in having the inexcusably immoral temerity to think he's the worst US president rather than the best.

As a pathological narcissist, his rejection by the American people is proof they need to be punished for not recognizing his magnificence. As Clint Eastwood put it:

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Even Dems agree, sensing public outrage over Zero's "Katrina Moment." Dem Congresscritters don't get more libtard partisan than Steny Hoyer, but even he's saying deport the illegals: "The US cannot be expected to give sanctuary to every single child in the world."

So let's start making this crisis into an opportunity.

DO YOU WANT MORE GOVERNMENT OR MORE PROSPERITY?

Richard Rahn May 13, 2014

Do you think there would be more jobs, less poverty and higher real incomes if government was 60 percent or 18 percent of gross domestic product?

Fortunately, a global economic-growth experiment has been underway for more than a half-century. Some countries have opted for the big-government model, others for the small-government model. Based on the data, the small-government crowd wins.

Periodically, as new data becomes available, I revisit the topic of how big or small government should be. Many on the left in the United States want a big government like they have in France, which they think will be fairer and provide better services.

There are success metrics, such as real per-capita incomes, economic growth, job-creation rates and life expectancy to give us a good indication of what works and does not work.

This table gives us recent data about how well 10 rich countries are doing:

“WE NEED TO ABOLISH THE IRS”

Senator Ted Cruz March 6, 2014

You may have seen the headlines that yesterday (3/05) at the CPAC conference in Washington, I called for the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service. It's true. I said "The IRS should go the way of the dodo."

The IRS is currently considering new rules to limit the free speech of the very same groups it illegally targeted. In short, the Obama Administration is trying to do through regulatory fiat what it was unable to legally do before: limit the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Below is the letter I sent to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for a special prosecutor to investigate IRS's illegal targeting of conservative groups.

My speech at CPAC was entitled How We Win. I explained that "If you want to lose elections, stand for nothing."

By contrast, you win elections by standing for principles and believing that there is a better tomorrow.

How do we inspire people? Number one we tell the truth.... The truth is Washington is corrupt. As more and more people make great wealth in Washington, young people, single moms, and small business owners suffer. Real change is changing the corruption that is here in Washington, D.C.

HOW DO WE FIX AMERICA?

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 29, 2013

I must admit that I was prepared to be skeptical when I started reading Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. Our country's problem is not the Constitution, it's a government that disobeys it, that uses every method of fascist trickery to distort and get around it.

The solution, I thought, is to somehow force the federalies to stop being outlaws - for that's what we have now, an illegitimate outlaw government - and start obeying the Constitution we already have, instead of changing it.

America was blessed at its inception with a founding legal structure that has never been surpassed in history up to the present day for enabling the flourishing of its citizenry while preventing tyranny. Its distortion and corruption by all four branches of the federal government - executive, legislative, judicial, and bureaucratic - is what needs to be fixed, not the structure itself.

Now, after I read the book, I must admit that Levin is a persuasive guy. Not convincing, but certainly persuasive. Let's talk about where he hits the target, where he misses, and to what extent - if any - does he explain how we fix America.

MAKING BOEHNER’S BONES

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 13, 2011

As the Loughner Lefties at the New York Times realized they jumped the shark in blaming the Arizona Massacre on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Right, they smoothly shifted their strategy yesterday (1/12).

In a transparent ploy to monkey wrench the 112^th Congress' program to dismantle ObamaCare and other Dem disasters, the NYT is now claiming that Boehner & Co must "play a less partisan role," and not "allow the House to slide back into confrontational politics." Translation: Republicans need to surrender to the Democrats.

And Boehner's response? As Eliza Doolittle said to Professor Henry Higgins, "Not bloody likely!" Zero and the Dems (and the Enemedia) are going to get the shock of their lives when they learn what Boehner has planned for them.

Get ready for this, folks, for it's going to knock the polka dots off your undies. This is going to make Boehner's bones.

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