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A MESSAGE TO WHITE AMERICANS


Every day I am amazed at the insanity I witness in our America and here is another example.

According to a report in The Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder is at it again with his racial preference policies:

Attorney General Eric Holder called upon the nation's school districts Wednesday to rethink "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that he said disproportionately punish minorities and push too many students into the justice system. Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing ‘disrespect' by laughing in class," Holder said during a speech in Baltimore.
So now the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder will use its power to enforce "civil rights protections" in school disciplinary actions. In fact, the DoJ and DoEd are putting schools on notice that they are prepared to use their authority to investigate the claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students.

Thus my message to white Americans:

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THE GLOBAL THREAT OF OUR TIME


"Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet.  The effort to slow climate change requires bold action... With a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all nations, not just some.  For the grim alternative affects all nations -- more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise.  This is the future we must avert.  This is the global threat of our time.  And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late.  That is our job.  That is our task.  We have to get to work." 

--President Zero, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2013
There is a great deal of sniggering about Zero's pathetic Brandenburg Gate speech yesterday (6/19).  The headline in the British London Telegraph summed it up: "Barack Obama Bombs in Berlin - A Weak, Underwhelming Address from a Floundering President."

Or, as the New York Post more pithily and succinctly described it:  "Mush from the Wimp."

Chrissie Tingle-leg Matthews blamed it on the sun shining on the TOTUS.

The above quote from the speech does, however, serve a vital purpose:  it focuses our attention on "the global threat of our time."  Which is...

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WHY SHOULD THERE BE AN AFGHANISTAN?


Last week, we learned that Afghanistan is The Doormat of Empires.  Yet the ignorant myth of the mighty invincible Afghan keeps getting repeated - even by conservative writers who really ought to know better.

Washington Times columnist Jeff Kuhner is an example, who has proclaimed (6/24) that Petraeus is "doomed to fail," that "the jihadist iceberg is about to sink the American juggernaut," because: 

Afghanistan is not Iraq. It is the graveyard of empires - a nation whose rugged terrain and collection of disparate warlords and tribes is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare. The vaunted Soviet Red Army was crushed in the 1980s. Imperial Britain was defeated - not once, but twice - during the 19th century. The reason: They got dragged into protracted wars of attrition. Eventually, the fierce, primitive mountains, caves and fighters of Afghanistan wore down much superior forces, slowly bleeding them to death.
This is ridiculously not true.  Kuhner has obviously neither been to Afghanistan nor studied its actual history but is simply repeating memorized slogans.  Thus he asks, "Who lost Afghanistan?" as if this is preordained.  Let's ask a different question instead:  "Why should there be an Afghanistan at all?"

Afghanistan is a problem, not a real country.  It is a pain in the world's ass.  The solution to the problem is not a futile effort of "nation-building" - that effort is doomed to fail - it is nation-building's opposite:  get rid of the problem by getting rid of the country.  It's a salvage operation - carve the wreck up and parcel it out to its neighbors.  Here's how to do it.

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REAGAN ON RUSHMORE


There is a growing movement among conservatives to have the image of Ronald Reagan carved into Mount Rushmore, joining George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

To facilitate this noble goal, former Congressman (and accomplished photographer) Fred Eckert and artist Ted Williams have created photo-art that realistically depicts what Reagan on Rushmore would actually look like:

reaganrushmore
 
They are offering gallery-quality prints that are display ready - no frame necessary, just put it up on the wall.  The photo-art is good enough to fool a gullible liberal.  "Haven't you heard?  Reagan's on Rushmore now - there's the proof!" 

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PREDICTING 2007


I am expecting a lot of things to happen in 2007.  Things that I won't be surprised by if they do happen.  2007 will be a wonderful year for the death of dictators - Castro croaking at last, Saddam hung at last, and with any luck Hugo Chavez will get himself assassinated.

Iran's Ahmadinutjob is not a dictator, as he serves at the whim of the ayatollahs.  Their whim seems to be now that he is no longer useful, so we may soon be rid of him.  With any luck, that will not prevent the Israelis from taking out Iran's nuclear facilities.  With even more luck, the Israelis will be smart enough to accomplish this via sabotage rather than airstrikes.

China should be on its best behavior for 2007 with no saber-rattling at Taiwan.  The Chicoms don't want anything to spoil their coming-out party at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

However... I'm going to stop now and turn the tables.  What I want is to ask you for your predictions.  What do you think will happen in the world and in America in 2007?

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THERE’S ALWAYS A MOSQUE


Some day we will be forced to deal fully with the war we are in, and when that happens we're going to discover a lot of very nasty problems about the future of America.

One of them has to do with, of all things, the First Amendment. Consider this story from Wednesday's (June 21) London Times about British jihadis coming to Queens to recruit Americans.  And where did they recruit them?  In a mosque, of course.

Because there's always a mosque, as my Italian friend Magdi Allam has been repeating for several years. Not all mosques are jihadi, but all jihadis come from a mosque.

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WHEN MALWARE REALLY GRIPS YOUR SYSTEM


When you’ve lost control of your computer to "malware," there are only two things to try. The first I’ll describe below. The second is to reformat your hard disk(s) and reinstall the operating system and all your programs. The second is apt to be painful, with a permanent loss of data unless you regularly back up your important data. I’ve discussed this in previous columns.

Here's my advice.

1) Download the following two items...

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COULD THE SICKEST MAN OF EUROPE BE GERMANY?


France may look like the sick of man of Europe, but Germany's woes run deeper, rooted in mercantilist dogma, the glorification of saving for its own sake, and the corrosive psychology of ageing.

"Germany considers itself the model for the world, but pride comes before the fall," says Olaf Gersemann, Die Welt's economics chief, in a new book, The Germany Bubble: the Last Hurrah of a Great Economic Nation.  (Released last month in a German edition, hopefully an English edition will soon follow.)

Mr. Gersemann says the Second Wirtschaftswunder - or economic miracle - from 2005 onwards has "gone to Germany's head". The country has mistaken a confluence of exceptional events for permanent ascendancy. It cannot continue to live off exports of capital goods to China and the BRICS as they hit the buffers, or by stealing a march on southern Europe through wage compression, a zero-sum game.

Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), makes a parallel critique in his new book, Die Deutschland Illusion, no translation needed.

It is the self-deception of a country "resting on its laurels," prisoner of the "household fallacy" that economies are like family budgets, and falsely reassured by the misplaced flattery of foreigners who rarely look under the bonnet at the German engine below.

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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL LOBBY SUPPORTS RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM


The Russian economy is highly dependent on oil and gas exports, and reducing Russian oil and gas exports would be the most direct way to cause pain to the Russian leadership. However, Europe is heavily dependent on Russian gas and oil, particularly gas.

The countries in the EU did not need to be in this position, because the EU has plenty of gas reserves that could be economically tapped using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Because of the environmental lobby, though, the EU has allowed itself to become dependent on foreign energy sources -- particularly Russian.

Perhaps Peter Foster said it best in Canada's Financial Post on March 8:

"Europe's alternative-energy policy is in a shambles. The EU would be even more vulnerable but for a typically unanticipated example of free-market ingenuity: hydraulic fracturing and the boom in oil shale gas. But guess what: Greens are everywhere resolutely opposed to fracking, and nowhere more than in Europe. [L]ike their peace march colleagues half a century ago, they are ultimately dupes for an authoritarian agenda."

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GLOBAL WARMING COMES TO AMERICA


Soon children will have forgotten what snow looks like...

See that white stuff floating down past the orange trees and landing on your alligators and manatees, Florida? That's global warming, that is.

See that frozen white thing by the harbor that used to look like a green woman with a spiky headdress, New York? That's global warming, that is.

How do we know this? Because Bryan Walsh of Time magazine says so.  And, of course, so does the Guardian say so....

Everything's global warming, America. Didn't you get the message yet from your President Zero (or is that President Zero Degrees now, TTPers?) and John Kerry and Al Gore and James Hansen, the whole GloWarm Gang? Everything!

That's why, if ever any of you want to see a day of sunshine again in your miserable, too-selfish-to-change-your-lifestyle carbon-addicted lives, here are a few things you absolutely are going to have to do:

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WHICH SIDE ARE CONSERVATIVES ON?


Are conservatives on the side of freedom or of fascism?

You'd think that would be a no-brainer, that of course they're on the side of freedom.  Yet in the last few days, a number of prominent conservative thinkers and leaders have had such a strong emotional reaction over Edward Snowden that they've allowed their amygdala to seize control of their prefrontal cortex. 

It's a temporary condition, and they'll soon be thinking rationally again.  Yet as TTP is "The Oasis for Rational Conservatives," let's assist them in doing so.

First, some examples of conservatives rushing to defend Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party from Snowden's whistleblowing.  Then we'll ask, What conservatives haven't drunk this Kool-aid? (Hint:  Rushbo is one.)  Then we'll get to the bottom line:

Rather than condemning Snowden, we should be celebrating him.  He has not done the slightest bit of damage to our real actual national security.  In fact, he has enormously enhanced it, and in two enormously important ways.

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HEALTH FREEDOM LEGISLATION


[I have been asked by a Republican Senator's office to suggest a GOP health reform package that would be in stark contrast to the now-failed attempt of the Democrats.  Here it is.  Please consider faxing or emailing this to Republican politicians in your state.]

Health care in America has become exorbitantly unaffordable because of government interference in the medical market place.  All the Democrats can offer is further government controls, mandates, and trillion-dollar increases in taxpayer-paid costs.

Yet health care costs can only be radically reduced by a radical reduction of regulations that stifle competition and subsidies to special interests.  Only genuine free market reforms can substantially increase both the availability and quality of health care.

What the Republicans can offer is Health Freedom as an alternative to the Health Fascism of Democrat ObamaCare.

Ten Specific Means By Which Health Freedom Can Be Achieved

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TO THE POINT BEACH PARTY!


OK, it's all set.  We gave you a heads up two weeks ago in Sarasota Rendezvous.  Now the details.  The To The Point Winter Rendezvous will be from Friday February 8 to Sunday February 10 at the Hilton Longboat Key Beachfront Resort in Sarasota, Florida.

We have blocked a number of rooms at amazing rate of $199 (that's for a double or less than $100 per person, and realize, this is right on the beach at the highest of high season, when everyone wants to escape from February snow and ice to Florida sunshine).

To reserve yours, just click on the Rendezvous picture on the TTP home page (top of the left side bar) or click here for Rendezvous Reservation.

The cost of the Rendezvous itself is $285.  That includes dinner Friday and Saturday nights, breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings, and all meetings and activities.  There will be in-depth briefings and discussions by me and To The Point stars such as Jack Kelly and Dr. Joel Wade.

And of course, there is the wonderful fun of getting together with your fellow TTPers.

We'll do so right on the beach with its world-famous white sugar sand - sunset beach parties with a bar set up on the sand just for us.

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THE GIFT OF TO THE POINT


We've just made it really easy to give a friend the enlightening gift of a subscription to To The Point.  There's a new option on our subscription page:  a one month only non-recurring gift subscription for $9.99.

Now what could you give a friend that could more open his or her eyes to the world and give them more insight upon it than this - and for less than ten bucks?

It's also the way to bring a currently non-member friend to the To The Point Rendezvous in Las Vegas next month (see Rendezvous at Mandalay).

Here's how it works. 

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IS ALLAH TICKED OFF AT IRAN?

 The mullahs have had a lot of bad news in recent days - news with a particularly sinister aura, in fact. So sinister that they are asking themselves what they have done to incur the Wrath of Allah.

I kid you not.

First is the loss of one of their terrorist stars, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the deus ex machina of the terror war against us in Iraq. Not only does that deprive the mullahs of a prime instrument for generating Sunni/Shia civil war, but it is a serious blow to recruitment throughout the terror network.

But the loss of Zarqawi is nothing compared to the clear message from Allah on the soccer fields of Germany. No, I'm not talking about the demonstrations against President Ahmadinutjob, I'm talking about the Mexican victory over Iran in the first round of the World Cup.

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