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THE HEART OF DARKNESS

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 29, 2012

Monrovia, Liberia. This is a horror story - far grimmer than anything Joseph Conrad ever imagined, much less experienced when he captained a steamboat on the Congo River in the Belgian Congo in 1889. Conrad's famous novel, Heart of Darkness, was fiction and only very loosely based on fact. This story is true - and it's not from the 19^th century, it's contemporary.

Steel yourself, because we're in for a stomach-turning rough ride. How human beings can be capable of such evil seems inexplicable. It is not true that all of us are so capable - Conrad was wrong about that. Very wrong. Yet enough people are to make this a cautionary tale, as the odds of a maelstrom in our land mount along with those of Zero's reelection. It was such a maelstrom that recently engulfed West Africa.

The country of Liberia is unique in Africa, founded in the 1820s by American freed slaves, with a constitution and government structure based on America's, and the capital named in honor of President Monroe - Monrovia.

The colonists called themselves Americo-Liberians, immensely proud of their American heritage, with an Antebellum South lifestyle that included wearing top hats and morning coats, and living in homes with columned porches. Their party, the True Whig Party, ruled Liberia for over 130 years. Then, in 1980, the descent into madness began.

PRISON NOT PROFITS FOR INSIDER TRADING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

Gov. Rick Perry January 6, 2012

Earlier this week (1/04), the Chicago Tribune ran a little noted editorial on the insider trading scandal plaguing Congress, calling out phony efforts to reform the rules and demanding that we finally put a stop to this outrageous and unethical behavior.

It's not enough members of Congress make $174,000 a year, some -- from both parties -- are trading on inside information to use their public service to enrich themselves. This has to stop. And more.

In addition to calling for tough measures to outlaw insider trading by Members of Congress, I've called for making Congress part-time like the Texas legislature, cutting congressional pay in half, and amending FOIA to apply to Congress and the White House.

FROGMARCHED INTO RAILROAD CITY

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 16, 2005

You saw the above-the-fold front page headlines, saw the prime time television news stories late last week about Adam Kidan being arrested by federal agents for wire fraud, right? What’s that? You never heard of Adam Kidan? Of course you haven’t because he’s a nobody.

That’s why the feds politely called his lawyer and asked he show up at their offices in Florida at a convenient time for him. The fellow you read about on the front page and saw getting busted on national TV was Kidan’s business partner - someone the Washington Post and the New York Times have spent years demonizing, the infamous Jack Abramoff.

USE SNOPES!

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 19, 2005

Has anyone emailed you this picture of the December 26 tsunami hitting Phuket, Thailand? It’s all over the web, yet if you’ve ever been to Phuket, you know this is a fake. The city is actually Antofagasta, Chile with phony Photoshopped waves.

We all have friends with the terrible habit of forwarding some shocking claim worthy of National Enquirer on to everyone in their email list, without bothering to check its veracity out first. There’s no need to be upset at them, for they’re excited and just want to share something they think is cool - but now you can tell them how to easily find if any claim is for real or not.

Just go to Snopes.

SOLVING SOCIAL SECURITY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AT THE SAME TIME

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 7, 2004

When I mentioned to Interior Secretary Gale Norton at the White House Christmas Party this week that she was the key to solving Social Security and US energy independence - both at the same time - you can imagine how much her eyes widened. “I am?” she responded with wonderment and her beautiful smile.

"You sure are," I said. "Here's how..."

CHINA’S IMPOSSIBLE CONTRADICTION

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard October 31, 2013

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is to unveil sweeping economic reforms at the Party's Third Plenum next month, with an assault on the state behemoths and the Party patronage machine (really?).

Yet he also wants to tighten the grip of the one-party, one-ideology, authoritarian state. Here's a good account from Wiang Xiangwei at the South China Morning Post.

The Development Research Center (DRC) in Beijing has published its road map of reform measures. It is being taken very seriously since it is written by none other than reformer Liu Wei and by President Xi's right-hand man on economic affairs, Liu He.

The problem is that these proposals skirt over/contradict the core finding of a joint DRC-World Bank report last year. It said China would not succeed in jumping to the next stage of economic development and would languish in the the "middle income trap" unless it embraces the whole package of modern free thinking. It did not quite say democracy, but that is what it meant.

REGULATORY GROWTH MEANS BUSINESS DEATH

Richard Rahn December 11, 2012

Last week, Christine Jacobs, the CEO of Theragenics Corp., a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange that makes medical devices and is involved in cutting-edge cancer cures, wrote a letter to President Obama explaining why it was necessary to "begin moving our U.S. manufacturing to Costa Rica."

The power players in Washington still do not get that many businesses are being forced to flee America or just plain shut down because it is no longer profitable or too risky to continue to do business in the historical home of entrepreneurial capitalism.

Businesses operating in the United States, and even businesses outside of the country that have a small nexus with the U.S., are going to be hit with a slew of expensive job- and growth-destroying taxes and regulations beginning the first of the new year, even if the "fiscal cliff" is avoided.

The more government regulation grows, the more business in America dies.

THE AFRICANIZATION OF AMERICA

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 21, 2012

Accra, Ghana. When Britain granted Ghana full independence (the first African colony to gain it) in March of 1957, it was the richest tropical country in the world, with huge foreign currency reserves from massive sales of cocoa, coffee, gold, timber, and bauxite.

The Brits had provided the new nation with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary, a fair electoral system with competent elected politicians, and a prosperous middle class.

Yet they allowed a man to lead Ghana who was a charismatic charlatan, an intellectual lightweight, a self-proclaimed Marxist who hated capitalism, a self-worshipping narcissist of the highest order, and a black racist who hated whites and the West. To the surprise of no one with unblinkered vision, but to the shocked surprise and denial of every fawning liberal on the planet, he proceeded to run Ghana straight into the ground.

The parallels with Zero are obvious. That white liberal guilt is responsible for Zero is fairly well-recognized among those who are intellectually honest. What is little understood, however, is that it is also responsible for what inevitably happens as a consequence of African Big Man government: the Africanization of that government.

AMERICA AND NEHEMIAH

Rick Perry December 8, 2011

[This is the text of Gov. Rick Perry's address to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington DC yesterday, December 7]

It is an honor to be with you today and to share my thoughts on faith, foreign policy and the free State of Israel.

As we gather today, I am struck by the coincidence that two of the American citizens being unlawfully detained abroad today are Jewish: Alan Gross in Cuba, and Warren Weinstein by al Qaida in Pakistan. In both cases their offense was spreading political and economic freedom to better the lives of less advantaged people around the globe.

The repressive Castro regime should not be rewarded with increased tourism while Mr. Gross languishes in prison, and Pakistani authorities should clearly understand the significance of rescuing Mr. Weinstein from terrorist elements within their borders if they value the foreign aid they seem to take for granted.

We have an Administration in Washington today whose foreign policy is an incoherent mess. They embolden our adversaries while isolating our allies.

CLEANING OUT N’AWLINS

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 7, 2005

What’s the difference between a disaster and an election in New Orleans?

The buses run during an election.

Why isn’t New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin worried about all the dead people being found in Katrina’s aftermath?

Because they’ll keep right on voting anyway.

Tasteless? Here’s what really tasteless: Cleaning up New Orleans physically without cleaning it up politically. Not draining New Orleans’ political cesspool of organized crime and corruption. Not evacuating Mayor Ray Nagin and every city official and police officer on the take before they get their greasy hands on all those billions of taxpayer dollars to rebuild the place.

SHORTING THE EURO

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 25, 2005

When Ted Turner compared Fox News to Hitler this week, a Fox spokesman commented that “Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind - we wish him well.” It is time to feel such sympathy for other famous businessfolk who have similarly lost their minds - such as Warren Buffett.

The legendary investment guru has allowed his newly acquired left-wing politics to idiotize him. Just like Turner, he sets up an assumed liberal populism as an envy-deflection device, ends up hating America and the capitalist system that made him wealthy - and becomes a fool in the process.

To be clear: only a fool would bet long-range on the euro now.

AESCHYLUS AND AMERICA

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 31, 2004

“Aeschylus and America” is an essay I wrote for a book edited by Rod Martin and released this week, Thank You, President Bush. It is available at Amazon and I encourage you to get a copy. This is a lengthy essay, which may be easily read by clicking on “printer-friendly format” in the top right corner and printing a hard copy. It is a summation of my thoughts on America’s recent history and the choice America faces this November.

AESCHYLUS AND AMERICA
Chapter Eight of Thank You, President Bush, Los Angeles: World Ahead Publishing, September 2004.

Includes the following sections:

Aeschylus and Homer
Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong
Getting Drunk
Getting Sober
The Evil Eye
Terrorism As a Pathology of Envy
Liberalism As a Fear of the Evil Eye
The Masochism of Liberals
The Pathology of Bush-Hatred
Aeschylus and George Bush

THE COMING CAPITALIST SALVATION OF INDIA

Karma Singh October 31, 2013

Hi, everyone. I'm Karma Singh, a longtime TTPer in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley. I was with Jack Wheeler on his incredible Hidden China adventure last month, and we talked about what's going on in India, the world's second most populous country and China's rival for superpower status in Asia.

Our conversations got pretty interesting, so Jack suggested I write an India Report for TTP. Here's my first effort. Let's jump right in.

India's major drawback is the people administering the country. Plagued with monumental amounts of corruption, there are no words to describe these monstrous looters. According to an article published back in 2010, unofficial estimates of black money obtained through government corruption is pegged around 1.4 Trillion US Dollars.

The hope for India lies in the elections next spring. For there is a man being hailed by the Indian press as India's "capitalist hero." He is the amazingly successful governor of one of India's largest states, and he stands an excellent chance of being our next Prime Minister. His name is Narendra Modi.

THE REGRET MATRIX

Richard Rahn December 4, 2012

If you are a member of Congress and you wish to be re-elected, do you increase your chances of winning by voting for or against raising taxes on the "rich"?

In decision theory, "regret" is defined as the difference between the actual payoff and the payoff that would have been obtained if a different course of action had been taken. In the upcoming votes on the "fiscal cliff," members of Congress will be making decisions about what is best for the economy and the nation - and what is best if their highest goal is re-election.

You may think that these two decisions are at odds. But members of Congress need to know that the Regret Matrix shows they are not.

SHARIA FOR REAL

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 13, 2012

Famboun, Cameroon. This is a Ndiki Drum. It is used by the Sultan of Bamoun to call his subjects to their end-of the-year Nguon festival over which he presides. It can be heard for miles.

The carved wooden forearms and hands propped up at the drum's end are not the drumsticks. They are symbolic for what the real drumsticks used to be. Until the British and French put an end to the custom in the 1920s, the Ndiki drumsticks were human arms, amputated at the elbow off captured slaves. Four drummers were needed to properly pound the drum, each requiring two drumsticks: eight amputated human arms in total.

The Bamoun Sultanate was a Moslem Slave State. It derived its power from enslaving neighboring peoples. Amputating slaves' arms for drumsticks was one of the many ways the Sultan broke their will to resist and keep them in bondage. It was founded by this guy:

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