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WHY PUTIN WILL GET AWAY WITH MURDER

Erick Erickson July 23, 2014

It is certain that a Russian made anti-aircraft missile fired by Russian armed, trained, and commanded Ukrainian "separatists" shot down Malaysia Air flight MH-17 last week killing all 298 passengers and crew aboard.

Yet even if this was a conscious act perpetrated by the Russian government under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, we already know what is going to happen to Putin in particular and Russia in general. Nothing.

Despite widespread disgust at Russia's involvement in this act of terrorism the odds are that Putin simply toughs it out and moves on.

The Kremlin's standard strategy will work once again: 1) obfuscate and confuse the truth by spreading several made-up disinformation stories; 2) delay or block any attempt to find out what happened; 3) depend on European (and now American) cowardice in confronting the Kremlin; 4) double down in the face of criticism.

Putin realized from the earliest moments that his thugs in eastern Ukraine, if not his army, were behind this operation. The last wreckage from MH-17 had hardly stopped bouncing when Russian media was reporting two different stories. These were for the consumption of its domestic audience and of subscribers to Ron Paul's newsletters.

FREE LUNCHES ARE NEVER FREE

Richard Rahn December 10, 2013

Last week, President Obama said that "income inequality" is the major problem that his administration would focus on for the remainder of his term. He proposed increasing the minimum wage as a way to solve this issue.

The president's statement is a perfect example of how politicians misdiagnose problems and then offer solutions that make matters worse.

The real problem is the lack of economic growth, which reduces economic opportunity, particularly for the least skilled. Increasing the minimum wage helps those who actually receive an increase in their wage, but it makes it worse for all of those who lose a job or can't get one because the minimum wage is far above the market clearing rate.

As can be seen in this table, most minimum-wage workers are young people who quickly obtain higher wages as their work skills improve.

THE DEMISE OF AND ANSWER TO SKYPE

Paul Rosenberg August 21, 2013

Skype began as a very cool service. I used it and recommended it - a lot.

Skype (originally Sky peer-to-peer) was a peer to peer voice system, which means that there was no central computer controlling everything. It was also encrypted, though the internal details were never revealed.

But, as will a lot of good tech ideas, the developers were persuaded to sell it. In this case, to eBay in 2005. (For $2.5 billion, which is a lot of persuasion!) Then, after doing very little with the tech for several years, eBay sold it to Microsoft for $8.5 billion in 2011.

That's when the serious trouble began. Here are the highlights:

THE SQUARE MOGADISHU PEG, THE ROUND SOMALIA HOLE

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 1, 2013

Mogadishu, Somalia. Who would ever guess that you can have a fantastic lobster dinner here, in what is billed as "the most dangerous city in the world"? And that there's a first-class restaurant that serves it?

Ahmed Jama managed to escape the bloody horror of warlord anarchy that enveloped Mogadishu in the early 90s. As a refugee in London, he borrowed money from relatives and opened a restaurant that did well - but he always dreamed of returning to his country when the time was right.

His friends though he was crazy when he said the time was 2008. The hyper-terrorist lunatics of Al-Shabaab still controlled most of the city. Ahmed went back anyway - and his restaurants promptly became a terrorist target. The latest attack was last September, when two Al-Shabaab suicide bombers killed 18 people at his The Village restaurant.

Ahmed rebuilt and reopened it in less than a month. Here is Ahmed in front of it today:

IS OBAMA ON DRUGS?

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 22, 2008

The number of extraordinary gaffes committed by Obambi has been proliferating of late. Among those just this month are not knowing Afghans don't speak Arabic and that his own state of Illinois doesn't border Kentucky. Most incredible of all is his telling an audience, "I have now been to 57 states with one left to go," then says that one is "Alaska and Hawaii."

No matter how exhausted from campaigning you are, you don't make a mistake like that under any normal circumstances. Saying there are 57 states - actually 58, or is it 59? - is such an egregiously stupid error that it is evidence of brain malfunction.

A neuroscientist with years of research into drug abuse and brain chemistry tells To The Point that the behavior exhibited by Obama is consistent with the use of either amphetamines or cocaine.

In his book, Dreams From My Father, Obambi admitted his drug use when young: "Pot (marijuana) had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow (cocaine) when you could afford it. Not smack (heroin), though."

Teen-age drug use isn't, of course, evidence for its use in one's 40s. But when someone who may be elected President of the United States starts behaving suspiciously, then it's justified to ask that those suspicions be allayed.

Thus, To The Point calls for Barack Hussein Obama to be drug tested.

JOHN MCCAIN AS THE PERFECT LIBERAL

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 18, 2007

My friend and Marine ‘Nam vet Bill Gregory is just blown away by the User Forum comments regarding Thompson Bummer. "What an intelligent, insightful group of people you have as subscribers!" he effuses, and I can only agree.

He was especially impressed with a new commentator with the wonderful forum name of "melliefluous," and those of such regulars as John Nehring (johnwss), Chris Baldi (cephran), Marco, "gary," and "prosenberg," among many others. "Great thought-provoking exchanges," notes Bill.

Our TTP Salon is turning out to be a terrific place to discuss the pros and cons of the 2008 presidential candidates (mostly the Republicans, for what, really, is there to say about the goofy folks the Dems are serving up?).

I have to say my disappointment with Fred Thompson at his speech last Saturday (5/12) was tempered a bit with his devastating quick put-down of Michael Moore on YouTube. I would still love to see him declare and participate in the GOP candidate debates.

The debate last Tuesday (5/15) in South Carolina (here is the transcript) was intensely revealing. Folks saw that Duncan Hunter would be A President to Watch America's Six, and that Ron Paul, like all libertarians, is not.

But what the debate most clearly exposed is John McCain as the Perfect Liberal.

OUR SECRET VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 14, 2006

The last thing America's Traitor Media would report is that we are winning in Afghanistan. Yet that's what's happening. NATO forces - combining US, Canadian, Australian, Polish soldiers plus 1,000 French (!) - have been rolling up the Taliban in a ball over the last several months.

The "resurgent" Taliban that Democrats like John Kerry claimed today (9/14) are "running amok across entire regions" of Afghanistan are in reality being wiped out. Victory over them is quite near.

Taliban guerrillas are being killed by the gross - dozens, scores, at a time, hundreds a week. Over 500 have been killed in one single district (Panjwayi) west of Kandahar (the main city in southern Afghanistan) in the past two weeks alone. It's being called The Great Taliban Turkey Shoot.

NUKE THE WHALES

Michael Ledeen October 28, 2005

Tuan Le, "of Atlanta," according to this weekend's Washington Times, is accused of having smashed Nguyen Quoc Huy in the face last June 21, in the course of a protest at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel here in Washington. Le is the son of "a black U.S. soldier who was killed in action during the Vietnam war." He came to this country in 1993 from Vietnam and is a legal permanent resident. Huy is the vice chairman of the prime minister's office of Vietnam.

Le's lawyer, Kenneth Robinson, plans to present "a possible psychiatric defense," because he was tortured as a child in Vietnam. Among other things, Robinson says, Le was ordered to dance by Communist soldiers. When he refused, "the soldiers stuck bayonets through the backs of his heels." Le didn't walk for a year. And, still according to Robinson, some of Hy's security guards recognized Le and taunted him.

Le may be facing deportation from a court system that apparently has to find him insane or punish him. To which my question is, who's crazy here? Le seems to me to have taken reasonable, albeit somewhat undiplomatic, action. To call him insane seems totally nuts to me. Isn't he entitled to hit the guy in the face? But then, I'm not a lawyer…

BROWSER HELP OBJECTS, continued

ttpn November 18, 2004

After you download and unzip BHODemon, navigate to the download folder. You’ll see the help file and the icon for installing the program.

Double-click the icon and the program will install in a second. I also suggest you separately double-click the short help file and read it before you start using BHODemon.

Once installed BHOD will immediately scan your registry for browser help objects. In my case, Norton and Spy Sweeper notwithstanding, I had seven. Seven, notwithstanding that only a week before I had reformatted my hard disks, reinstalled Windows XP Pro, Norton and Spy Sweeper, configured my internet account, and then installed Microsoft Office 2003, my development tools, and a number of other programs.

IS AMERICA CLINTONED OUT?

Victor Davis Hanson July 16, 2014

Barack Obama did not blow apart Hillary Clinton's huge lead during the 2008 Democratic primaries just because he was a landmark African-American candidate, new to the scene, and a skilled campaigner. Even Democrats were all Clintoned out.

By such weariness, I don't suggest that either of the Clintons is unpopular. Indeed, Americans apparently look fondly back on the high-growth 1990s as the continuation of the Reagan-Bush boom years, and a time when Democrats and Republicans finally fixed budget deficits.

(Note well that when Obama went back to the Clinton-era tax rates for the more affluent, the deficit dipped, but certainly did not approach the balanced budget that was once achieved by spending discipline under the Clinton-Gingrich compromise.)

The problem instead is Hillary Clinton herself. She is not a very good speaker, and is prone to shrill outbursts and occasional chortling. She has a bad habit of committing serial gaffes (e.g., speaking too candidly), and what she says on Monday is often contradicted by her rantings on Tuesday.

She seems cheap and obsessed with raking in free stuff. When Bill steps in to correct her mistakes, either sloppily or out of some strange psychological spite, he usually makes things even worse. We saw that often in 2008 and are seeing it again now. But aside from the cosmetics of her political style, the Clintons are faced with two fundamental obstacles in 2016.

HOW OBAMA PLANS TO GET THE WOMEN’S VOTE BACK

Steve Grammatico December 27, 2013

News item: New York Post, December 27, 2013: Women Comprise Biggest Opposition to Obamacare

OBAMA: That's impossible. I'm polling below zero?

WHITE HOUSE POLLSTER: I've never seen anything like it, sir. The "negative numbers" poll hypothesis was discarded a generation ago. The only explanation is that even the imaginary voters we regularly survey to boost your ratings are down on you.

OBAMA: Intolerable. I want my blocs back. Women--my women!-- have slip-slided away. HHS?

KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: We're paying for abortions now, Mr. President. Regain women's loyalty by paying them to have abortions, say $500 per protoplasmic blob. And think of the benefits to humanity of all the fetal stem cells we'd harvest.

OBAMA: Make it so. George?

SOROS: Giff generous bonus for twins und triplets, zir.

OBAMA: Excellent! New fertility and abortion clinics will spring up all over the country to cash in, meaning an uptick in the next year's jobs reports.

JOE BIDEN:

OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOW NOT A PROTECTOR BUT A DESTROYER OF LIBERTY

Richard Rahn December 3, 2013

Have you noticed that many government regulations are so complex and vague that it is impossible to know if you are in compliance?

Examples are the 70,000-plus pages of Internal Revenue Service regulations and the reported 30,000-plus pages of Obamacare regulations. Who do you think has a self-interest in all this complexity and vagueness?

The Food and Drug Administration was set up to protect us from consuming bad food or drugs. It has morphed into an agency that keeps potentially beneficial drugs from us, and now is even banning our ability to know what diseases to which we may be prone, and thus, blocking our ability to take potential corrective or preventative action.

The FDA has gone from being a protector to a destroyer of health and liberty. Other overreaching government regulators are also squeezing liberty out of existence. Here are some examples.

SHALE GAS IS REARDEN METAL

James Delingpole August 19, 2013

For my summer holidays I have been mostly reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand has her faults but, boy, was she prescient. She wrote it back in the 1950s.

One of the things she foresaw was the current nonsensical, dishonest, canting campaign against shale gas. In Atlas, it takes the form of Rearden Metal, the miracle technology which is going to transform the US economy if only the progressives will let it. But of course, Rand's fictional progressives don't want Reardon Metal to succeed any more than their modern, real-life equivalents want shale gas to succeed.

Why not? For the same rag-bag of made-up, disingenuous scare-mongering reasons which progressives have used to justify their war on progress since time immemorial: it's unfair, it uses up scarce resources, it might be dangerous.

As they are attempting to do now in Britain's West Sussex, and have succeeded in doing in New York.

Here's a relevant excerpt from Rand.

THE TRAITOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 20, 2013

This past weekend I had a private dinner with three Congressmen. I can't tell you who they are, other than one is the chairman of a powerful committee, the second the chairman of another major committee, the third a freshman. I can't tell you where the dinner took place either.

Ostensibly, we gathered to discuss threats to national security such as Islamic terrorism, Iran, Pakistan support for the Afghan Taliban, and the Chicoms. After we got into this for a while, I decided to see what would happen if I said what I really wanted to say:

"Fellas, what about the single greatest threat to America's national security, far greater than anything else? That's the traitor in the White House."

I expected them to recoil in shock and dismay, but they didn't blink an eye. All three nodded grimly in agreement.

OBAMA IN GREECE

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 2, 2008

If you could bring the playwrights of Ancient Greece - Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes - from 5^th century Athens to watch the Democrat primary race of today, they would recognize it instantly. It is a perfect Greek tragedy.

All the incredible amounts of money being spent, all the frantic energy and hysteria, the entire swirling maelstrom created by a vast cast of characters - all of it is for naught, for there can be only one outcome, an inescapable outcome of doom.

The old playwrights would scoff at our naïve notions of free will, our arguments that each of the participants in the tragedy - such as the "superdelegates" - really do have the capacity to act for themselves.

No, they would say, the characters have no choice, for no matter what they do, they are drawn into a trap of ineluctable fate, like a fly caught in a web of invisible silk strands, so invisible he doesn't know he's caught while the spider approaches.

The 5^th century Greeks would have understood the play. A 4^th century Greek would understand what happens to the audience watching the play.

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