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THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN’S GUIDE TO RAPE JIHAD

ToThePoint January 22, 2016

The Cologne Mayor's recent advice on how women should handle themselves with
immigrants/refugees did more harm than good, in terms of our progressive dreams and hopes.

In hopes of perfecting our Progressive world, women must learn their proper progressive place when it comes to state decisions on immigrants and refugees. One must make themselves subservient to the state.

As such, we have put together a helpful guide for progressive women. Copies are free and can be found at any local DNC chapter or local Planned Parenthood.

Mothers - get one for your daughters. Daughters - get one for your mothers. Fathers - get one for yourself - just in case.

From the guide:

HALF-FULL REPORT 01/15/16

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 15, 2016

Ted Cruz Makes Donald Trump His Mitch. That’s got to be the best headline on last night’s Pub debate. And it was so satisfying to hear the audience boo Trump as he made a horse’s ass of himself.

Beyond the fireworks and one-liners, however, was a useful lesson in morality and patriotism….

Meanwhile, I’m breathing easier this morning with Cruz looking like he’ll win Iowa after all. Trump lied last night when he said he was leading in all the latest Iowa polls. Plus this bleak story Wednesday (1/13) in the NYT about how lousy Trump’s ground game is in Iowa. Then there are the two Gallup polls released Wednesday…

Now that’s all out of the way, let’s get to the best news of the week: The PIAPS is going over the edge. Here she is on Tuesday (1/12) equating “white terrorism” and “police violence” with ISIS…

We’ll also have some fun, explain why food prices are sky high, reveal a wonderful Hero of the Week, and close with a personal thank you from me.

THREE STRIKES AND I’M OUT

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 15, 2016

I’ve never used TTP as a confessional, but there’s always a first time. I’m in a state of existential crisis.

Maybe it’s sparked by what happens tonight in Charleston, South Carolina. It could be a pivot point of history – for the world, for America, and my own life.

Strike One for me was my countrymen in the millions being literally deranged enough to elect a man who wanted God to damn America.

Surely, I thought, this must be a temporary insanity. Normal people have the capacity to go around the bend, then come to their senses, happens all the time. As Zero proved himself to be just as evil as I knew he was, I comforted myself in the conviction that the Curse of Zero would be over in 2012. It was impossible, inconceivable, unimaginable, that Americans would re-elect him.

Yet they did. It doesn’t matter that the Dems rigged the vote. What matters is that the election was close enough for them to cheat and rig it. That was Strike Two.

Still, it never occurred to me that there would ever be a Strike Three. Now it has.

AMERICA’S PROBLEM IS DEMOCRATS, NOT GUNS

Daniel Greenfield January 15, 2016

America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out West where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown.

Chicago is America's mass shooting capital. 2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running.

Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common. They're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

These cities are the heartland of America’s real gun culture. It isn’t the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in red state territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it’s Obama’s own voting base.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

CHINA IS TRAPPED IN THE IMPOSSIBLE TRINITY

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard January 15, 2016

China is perilously close to a devaluation crisis as the yuan threatens to break through the floor of its currency basket, despite massive intervention by the central bank to defend the exchange rate.

The country burned through at least $120bn of foreign reserves in December, twice the previous record, the clearest evidence to date that capital outflows have reached systemic proportions.

“There is certainly a sense that the situation is spiraling out of control,” says Mark Williams, from Capital Economics.

China’s reserves have dwindled from $4 trillion to $3.33 trillion and are no longer far from the $2.6 trillion deemed to be the prudent threshold by the International Monetary Fund, given China’s $1.2 trillion dollar liabilities.

In economic parlance, China is trapped in what is known as the Impossible Trinity.

GREENIE ELECTRIC CARS ARE GOING EXTINCT

James Delingpole January 15, 2016

No one wants to buy electric cars, Bloomberg reports (1/06):

“Americans bought just 102,600 such vehicles in 2015, a 17 percent decline from the previous year, according to researcher Autodata. Nissan Motor Co. sold 43 percent fewer of its all-electric Leaf and General Motors Co. reported an 18 percent drop for its Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in model that’s driven by an electric motor and has a gasoline engine to recharge its batteries.”

And who can blame them?

Apart from being poky and tinny and smug and expensive and utterly useless for long distances, electric cars are also terrible for health and the environment, as even environmentalist Bill Gates has recognized.

This is the glory of the untrammeled economic system: it is the collective product of million upon million voluntary decisions by free individuals. No economist, no government functionary could ever replicate this system through management or regulation because they could never hope to gain access to the complex and ever-changing data which informs all these consumer decisions.

But that’s never going to stop Obama from trying, is it? Last night (1/12) in his thankfully final SOTU, he blathered on about how “we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy.” That was just after he took credit for “gas under two bucks a gallon.”

HOW ABOUT REAL QUESTIONS INSTEAD OF GOTCHAS?

Richard Rahn January 15, 2016

Do you know what type of person the various presidential candidates would appoint to the Supreme Court?

The next president is likely to be able to pick several Supreme Court justices, and those decisions will influence the direction of the American republic for decades in the future.

Despite the fact that we have had numerous "debates" between the candidates, we still know little about their governing philosophies. It would be helpful if the moderators for this Thursday's debate (1/14) delved more deeply into the way they would conduct themselves as president than just asking questions about current events or what they think about the other candidates.

Here are some real questions the moderators could ask instead of gotchas.

HITTING THE PAUSE BUTTON

Dr. Joel Wade January 15, 2016

Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. – Aristotle

It’s easy to get caught up in emotions, to follow the flow and intensity of our impulses. It’s natural… animal… primal. And without intervening with our consciousness, it can be dangerous. This is how we operated throughout much of human history… which is why most of human history was so terribly, horribly violent.

It’s also what characterizes violent criminals.

But it’s not how most of us today usually operate, because we have a choice. Over time, particularly through the Enlightenment, we’ve culturally refined our ability to choose – and that ability is central to what makes us human.

When we feel like reacting with anger, fear or hurt feelings – anything that feels like it’s an automatic, purely emotional response – we can react without thinking, blindly following the tides of our emotions.

Or we can choose to do something different.

THE EMPTY SEAT PRESIDENCY

ToThePoint January 15, 2016

EmptySeat

HALF-FULL REPORT 01/08/16

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 8, 2016

It was last night over a glass of Russian River’s Pliny the Elder Double IPA that I decided to open this week’s HFR about beer and freedom.

I came of age in days of yore, when “American beer” – Schlitz-Pabst-Miller-Bud – was a watery tasteless oxymoron compared to real beer like in Germany or Belgium. Today is completely different.

From Denmark’s Faroe Islands north of Scotland to Gibraltar, I have had guys in pubs tell me they had to admit the best beer in the world now is American. Look at RateBeer’s Top 100 Beers in the World. 79 are American. The American craft beer industry has left the rest of the planet in the dust.

That’s because there is a connection between beer and freedom…

There’s something that Ted Cruz did this week that I dare not make explicit. I can only allude to it, and if you get it, you’ll quickly grasp that he’s not just smart, he’s scary OMG smart…

Let’s go global and see what’s been afoot in the world this week. Germany is getting exactly what it deserves for idiotically letting in Moslem welfare beggars by the million. And North Korea did not set off an H-bomb. We explain why….

And it’s obvious who’s the Hero of the Week.

BARACK OBAMA HAS DELIBERATELY WEAKENED AMERICA

Marco Rubio January 8, 2016

[This is the text of Marco Rubio’s foreign policy speech in Hooksett, New Hampshire yesterday January 4^th]

Though the media isn’t covering it, today is actually the anniversary of a historic moment in global affairs.

Eight years ago today – January 4th 2008 – was the first day many people around the world heard the name Barack Obama. They awoke to the news that a little-known Senator from Illinois had won the Iowa caucuses the night before, and that a political frenzy was sweeping the United States.

As that year went on, many around the world who resented America’s influence found a lot to like about this man.

There have always been voices in our country who say America’s not that different, that every country thinks they’re special – voices who question our role abroad, who think of America as a bully rather than as a leader. But in 2008, for the first time ever, one of these voices was elected president.

A man was elected who condemned America for having “arrogance” and the audacity to “dictate our terms” to other nations. A man who apologized for America and bowed pitifully to foreign leaders. A man willing to abandon our allies, make concessions to our enemies, and worst of all, to make historic, devastating cuts to our military and intelligence capabilities.

For a while, many thought all of this was the result of naivety. But it wasn’t. It’s now abundantly clear: Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America.

HOW CRUZ CAN WIN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE NOMINATION

Fritz Pettyjohn January 8, 2016

It’s the ethanol, Sherlock. As in IBD’s editorial yesterday (1/05): A Profile In Courage In Iowa: Cruz Won't Bow To Ethanol Lobby.

Ted Cruz thinks he's going to win Iowa on Feb 1^st, and then compete for the nomination with whomever of the establishment candidates wins New Hampshire on Feb 9^th. But he's selling himself short. He should also win New Hampshire.

Winning both would give him the clear momentum to win South Carolina on Feb 20^th, Nevada Feb 23^rd, SC 20^th, NV 23^rd ST March 1^st

allowing him to wrap up the nomination on Super Tuesday March 1^st with 45% of the delegates needed (565 out of 1236).

Here’s the key: if Cruz wins Iowa, he will have defeated the ethanol lobby. And beating Big Corn on its home turf is what can propel him to a win in New Hampshire.

People in New Hampshire hate ethanol. Ethanol is corrosive, it destroys engines. Go to any tavern in New Hampshire and you'll hear an earful. And they despise craven politicians seeking the White House whoring in Iowa for the votes of a special interest that the rest of the country is forced to put up with – like Donald Trump, declaring “I love ethanol” at rallies in the state.

IT’S NOT GOING WELL FOR IRAN

Michael Ledeen January 8, 2016

It’s always a challenge to check on information having to do with Iran, and the latest round of rumors and this information has confirmed the rule.

There were stories that the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had been rushed to the hospital, while the other major figure in the regime, General Qassem Suleimani, had recovered from his battlefield injuries and had met with his co-conspirator Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Khamenei’s health is awful, but no worse than usual. General Suleimani, on the other hand, remains hospitalized. He’s had at least one big transfusion, and his prognosis is not great.

Meanwhile, the Iranians have appointed a new commander for the Syrian theater, where their casualties continue to be high.

WHY DOESN’T THE ECONOMIST UNDERSTAND ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS?

Richard Rahn January 8, 2016

Those who have not studied economics often rely on the press, who are often equally ignorant of economics and, hence, are unable to differentiate between sense and nonsense. While The Wall Street Journal (and particularly the editorial page) normally gets it right, The New York Times and many other newspapers too often let political bias get in the way of the facts.

It is particularly disappointing when a former great newsmagazine, The Economist, allows very sloppy reporting and analysis on serious economic topics. This week, The Economist published an article, “Indecent Disclosure” (1/02) describing tax reform proposals of the Republican candidates as “exorbitant,” putting forth “hugely expensive” plans before “accounting for economic effects.”

The whole point of tax reform is to reduce the economic drag of the current US tax code -- which The Economist correctly describes as “a mess.”

But the article implies that higher tax rates will always bring in more revenue (which they appear to view as desirable) and lower tax rates will bring in less revenue. For very low rates that is true, but for high rates, it is false.

HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE ON PURPOSE

Dr. Joel Wade January 8, 2016

Look behind every championship team and you'll find an extraordinary coach. That's why men like John Wooden, Vince Lombardi, Bear Bryant, Don Shula and Phil Jackson are household names.

The same phenomenon exists in business. What would Apple have been without Steve Jobs or Berkshire Hathaway without Warren Buffett?

In our own lives, we face personal challenges too. We often get off track or struggle in our personal relationships. Wouldn't it be great if someone could consult with you and guide you, to lend encouragement and practical advice to help you live the life you've always dreamed of living?

Well, in fact, it is possible. There are now hundreds of licensed psychotherapists and family counselors in the United States who work as certified life coaches. I know. I'm one of them.

As a life coach, my goal here in these Virtue of Happiness columns – for 12 years now in To The Point! – is to show you:

How to maximize your wellness.
How to live your life on purpose.
How to design and create the life you desire.
How to be a catalyst for others' growth and development.
How to be a better spouse (or partner) and effective parent.

Let me begin by explaining a little bit about what I do...

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