2008.  That's the number that dooms North Korea's lunatic tyrant Kim Jong-il. 

If there's one thing the Chicoms in Beijing are not going to let anyone screw up, it's their coming-out party to the world, the 2008 Olympics.  They are not about to tolerate some nuclear fruitcake causing a million-death war on their doorstep.  That's why they are studying Romanian history, circa 1989.

That was the year that communist generals in the Securitatae (secret police) staged a putsch and seized power after executing Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.  Their death by machine-gun was videotaped.  Baby Kim has a copy, and is requiring all his subordinates to view it.  It's to teach them a lesson, but you'd think that it would give them ideas instead.

It's a good bet that the Chicoms will soon be instigating a Romanian-type overthrow of Baby Kim and installing a new regime in Pyongyang.  It won't be a pro-West democracy promising disarmament and union with South Korea - but it will be far less belligerent and far more peaceful.

Such a regime will be a colony of China and will resist demands for genuine democratic elections.  What it won't be able to resist is its being rapidly Christianized.

One year ago, in September 2005, you learned what is actually causing whatever global warming the earth is experiencing. 

Solar Warming explained the specific mechanism involved:  the sun's increased magnetic activity deflecting the rain of cosmic rays upon the atmosphere, resulting in fewer clouds reflecting sunlight back into space and thus a warmer earth.

This month, scientists at the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen released the results of very well-designed and controlled experiments demonstrating the chemical mechanism of cosmic ray action upon cloud formation. 

Folks, this a big deal.  These are the results of a controlled experiment by serious scientists, not some GIGO (garbage-in/garbage-out) computer climate modeling.  They experimentally demonstrate how the cause of global warming or "climate change" is the sun, not us.

The argument for man-made global warming is dead.

[This is the text of a speech I am giving on Friday, October 13 to an organization composed of prominent conservative leaders throughout the country called the Council for National Policy. --JW]
 
How many of you here have been members of CNP since the 1980s and remember the critical role the CNP played in generating support for anti-Soviet freedom fighters?  Please raise your hand.

Keep them up, thanks - now, the rest of you notice who these folks are.  Remember them, and after this panel, go up to them and ask them what it was like 20 years ago when the thought of collapsing the Soviet Union seemed completely off the wall. 

Yet it was the incessant, unrelenting, demand of thousands, millions, of conservatives who belonged to organizations led by members of the Council for National Policy, that enabled the Reagan Administration to support and supply with money, training, and equipment, anti-Soviet freedom fighters.  And that turned out to be the key to winning the Cold War.

I want to talk to you today about how you, as current members of CNP, can play the same role in winning the war on Islamofascist terrorism by ridding the world of its principal sponsor, the Mullahcracy ruling Iran.

When House Majority Leader John Boehner accused Democrats last week of wanting to protect the "rights" of terrorists more than the lives of Americans, a number of Republican Senators winced - because they knew Boehner's accusation also applied to three of their colleagues:  John Warner, Lindsay Graham, and most especially, John McCain.

A lot of folks who have had personal contact with McCain think a part of him is mentally unhinged.  It scares them to death that he might be president.  The upside of the debacle he has caused opposing President Bush's proposed legislation on terrorist interrogation is that there are enough voters now who see his mental instability to block his White House aspirations.

Yet if McCain is around the mental bend, even more so is the Supreme Court - or at least the five Justices (Breyer, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg) whose pro-terrorist ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (June 29, 2006) is the cause of this mess.

For those interested in the tortured logic of the Supreme Court, I am appending a discussion of it at the end of this article.

What we're going to talk now about is torture, and how it isn't necessary.  For there is a way, using a knowledge of brain chemistry, to make a terrorist quickly and easily sing like a canary - without any torture at all.

A careful reading of Pope Benedict XVI's speech on Faith and Reason, delivered at the University of Regensburg, Germany, on September 12 leaves one with the overwhelming impression of being in the presence of an absolutely world-class intelligence.  I could not encourage you more to read and study it entire.

At root and on purpose, the speech is a devastating assault on the metaphysical foundation of Islam.  It's become a commonplace to refer to our war with Islamofascism as a "War of Ideas."  The war is now joined for real.  The fight Benedict picked with Islam is exactly the fight we need.  It is a fight in which Islam is defenseless.

This goes far beyond the Kafkaesque hypocrisy of Moslem barbarians threatening to kill the Pope for accusing Islam of being a religion of violence rather than peace.  What Benedict really accused Islam of is being inhuman - because it's god, Allah, is inhuman.

In this speech, the Pope wiped away all the weepy touchy-feely "we all believe in the same God" claptrap.  The Pope's fundamental point was the connection between mankind and the Christian God, and the lack of it with the god of Islam.

Over a bottle of Di Majo Norante Sangiovese Tuscan red wine last night, the chiefs of staff for two Republican Senators, the chief of staff of a Democrat Congressman, and I bantered over the fate of Capitol Hill.

The Democrat was crowing over soon-to-be Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, who could hardly wait to launch impeachment proceedings against President Bush.  The Republicans enjoyed their wine and let him crow.  Then one of them lowered the boom.

"Dream all you want," he said, "but on November 7, gas will be way below $2 a gallon and you'll be kissing your majority goodbye."