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ROMNEY IN POLAND

Mitt Romney August 1, 2012

[This is the full text of Mitt Romney's speech in Warsaw yesterday (7/31). As inspirational as it was to the Polish people, it is also a call for Americans to be inspired by the Poles to have the courage to be free and to prosper. -JW]

Thank you all very much for the warm welcome to this great city.

It has been a privilege to meet with President Komorowski, Prime Minister Tusk, Foreign Minister Sikorski, and Former President Walesa.

This is a nation with an extraordinary heritage that is crafting a remarkable future. At a time of widespread economic slowdown and stagnation, your economy last year outperformed all other nations in Europe.

I began this trip in Britain and end it here in Poland: the two bookends of NATO, history's greatest military alliance that has kept the peace for over half a century. While at 10 Downing Street I thought back to the days of Winston Churchill, the man who first spoke of the Iron Curtain that had descended across Europe.

What an honor to stand in Poland, among the men and women who helped lift that Iron Curtain.

WILL WE BE FORCED TO FEED THE STARVING CALIFORNIANS?

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 17, 2012

Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer (like our Treasury Secretary), Alastair Darling, has gotten a lot of UK press recently for claiming that if Greece doesn't get its bailout money and its economy collapses, countless billions will have to be sent there anyway in order to "save starving Greeks."

We think that America is in deep debt kimchee because we're $15 trillion in the hole. Since there's some 300 million of us, that's a per-person debt of $50K. The total debt hole of Greece owed to foreign banks and governments is $550 billion - and there's little more than 11 million Greeks.

Same as us, $50K per Greek. And dolts like Darling see the only solution is to keep pouring increasingly worthless euros into the bottomless Greek abyss.

The typical Greek attitude regarding this is epitomized by a retiree in Athens being interviewed by German television. "How old are you?" he was asked. "56." "And what does your pension pay you?" "I'm guaranteed 80% of my final salary for life." When told that most Germans would object to this, he exploded in indignation. "What?! Do you expect us Greeks to live like Germans??"

Reminds me of folks in California.

SHOPPING AT THE WASHINGTON MALL

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 19, 2006

Here’s a question: Would you go shopping for shoes at a grocery store?

Why not? Oh, yes, grocery stores don’t sell shoes. You only go to a particular store because it’s selling what you want to buy. You don’t go to a store that doesn’t sell what you want to buy. Right, boys and girls?

This Kindergarten lesson came to mind when I saw the Democrats over at the Library of Congress yesterday (January 18) ostentatiously signing what they called their “Declaration of Honest Leadership and Open Government.”

CRYSTAL BALL 2006

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 29, 2005

The title is a tease – because contrary to what some think, I really don’t have a crystal ball. That’s because there’s no such thing as the future. How could there be – it hasn’t happened yet! What there are in reality is a large number of possible futures – some of which are more possible than others.

The trick is to not confuse what you want to happen with what’s likely to happen to best handicap the possibilities. That’s not easy.

I have to admit that 2005 has left a bad taste in my mouth. The dominant story of the year has to be the treasonously vicious and pathologically dishonest war of the liberal “mainstream” media and the Democrat Party waged relentlessly against the Presidency of George W. Bush.

Yet I see 2006 as a far better year than 2005. Here’s why…

THE MOSQUE OF NOTRE DAME DE PARIS

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 14, 2005

The great cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris has been called "the noblest architectural conception of man." Its construction was begun in 1163 by Maurice de Sully (c.1110-1196), the Bishop of Paris, and completed 87 years later in 1250.

The small island in the River Seine has been a sacred site for millennia. It was a sacred grove for the Celts who held their most holy rituals there, then for the Romans who built a Temple of Jupiter. Upon the ruins of this temple, Childebert (496-558), son of Clovis who founded the French Merovingian dynasty, built a basilica to St. Etienne in 528. Since that time, the site has been sacred to Christians.

Elena Chudinova thinks it won’t be for very much longer. One of Russia’s most popular writers, her latest novel, The Mosque of Notre Dame de Paris is currently a runaway best seller in Russia. So current that it has not yet been translated into English. Let’s hope it soon will be.

GOING WIRELESS

ttpn September 2, 2005

WiFi has turned out to be a hacker's paradise; unlike with wired networks, you don't need to be connected by wire to a computer, directly or indirectly, in order to "invade" a system. With wireless, a determined hacker could tap into the radio signals as your computer collects them.

A "radio hacker," for example, can't change the record playing in the studio and can't remotely change the station on your radio - but they can listen to the same station you're listening to on their own radio. Same thing here; the data on the server is (hopefully) protected, and the data on your hard drive is protected by your firewall or other security system.

But while you're downloading your data from the Internet wirelessly, you're vulnerable.

ABLE DANGER AND ATTA

Michael Ledeen August 12, 2005

At first I thought there was a short circuit in my ouija board, because there were sparks coming out of the thing, just when I thought I’d finally connected with my old friend, the late James Jesus Angleton, former legendary head of CIA counterintelligence.

But then I realized that it was, indeed, Angleton, cursing and sputtering (his poetic side — the side that made him the editor of The Yale Literary Review when he was an undergraduate in New Haven back in 1940 — somehow got lost when he got angry).

ML: Hey! That used to be my ear...

JJA: Sorry, sorry, but this Able Danger business is just too much.

ML: You mean Congressman Curt Weldon’s discovering that a military intelligence unit called Able Danger figured out a year before 9/11 — from open sources — that Mohammed Atta was part of an al Qaeda cell inside the United States, but Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick stopped them (three times!) from telling the FBI?

JJA: Damn right, but that’s not even the half of it. All these stories, all this faux shock, “oh my gosh, we knew it but we couldn’t act on it”, they just make me sick.

THE FIVE SURPRISES OF INHERITED IQ

Matt Ridley December 17, 2013

Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, outraged the Left by claiming people of low IQ need people of high IQ to carry them on in life. Mr. Johnson has thus sparked a recent burst of interest in IQ, that despite the Left's apoplexy has been encouraging in one sense.

As Robert Plomin, probably the world's leading expert on the genetics of intelligence, put it to me, there used to be a kneejerk reaction along the lines of "you can't measure intelligence," or "it couldn't possibly be genetic." This time the tone is more like: "Of course, there is some genetic influence on intelligence but . . ."

The evidence from twin studies, adoption studies and even from DNA evidence is relentlessly consistent: in children, in Western society, the heritability of IQ scores is about 50 per cent. The other half comes equally from family (shared environment) and from unshared individual experiences: luck, teachers, friends.

This numerical precision easily misleads us into thinking genes and environment struggle against each other. In fact, they are like two pillars supporting an arch: nature makes you seek out nurture, which brings out your nature. But here is where things get interesting.

The acceptance of genetic influence on intelligence leads to some surprising, even paradoxical implications, some of which turn the assumptions of both the Right and the Left upside down. Particularly to those of Mr. Obama, who is totally clueless in this regard.

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/14/13

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 14, 2013

Fifty-one years after her death, Marilyn Monroe still remains the most iconic movie star of all time.

Last Sunday (6/09), the London Daily Mail ran a story with the headline, "I Listened to Marilyn Die." The daughter of a famous Hollywood private detective, Fred Otash (1922-1992), recently found eleven boxes of her father's files and notes in a storage unit. The files reveal that Otash had been hired by Howard Hughes to bug the home of Marilyn Monroe.

Otash's notes say that on August 5, 1962, she had a violent argument with Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford (Bobby's brother-in-law), yelling that she had been "passed around like a piece of meat" by the Kennedy brothers (Bobby, Teddy, and JFK). The notes continued:

"She was really screaming and they were trying to quiet her down. She's in the bedroom and Bobby gets the pillow and he muffles her on the bed to keep the neighbors from hearing. She finally quieted down and then he was looking to get out of there."

That is followed by the note: "I listened to Marilyn Monroe die."

The tape has never been found. Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962. Otash never talked or wrote anything published about this. His private notes seem to confirm what many have suspected over the years: That Bobby Kennedy killed Marilyn Monroe.

IN PRAISE OF THINK TANKS

Richard Rahn January 29, 2013

A "think tank" is an organization where scholars and specialists seek to find solutions to problems and then promote their findings. Some think tanks deal with many public policy issues, and others concentrate on one or a few, such as medical care, defense, foreign policy or economic policy.

Both the number and size of think tanks has grown exponentially in the past several decades. One reason is the growth of governments, which has created a need for organizations to feed government policymakers with ideas and information -- and, more importantly, to fulfill the need for independent research to critique the many bad ideas emanating from policymakers, politicians and the media.

For instance, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Peter Wallison, a former general counsel of the U.S. Treasury, has just written a book explaining, with all the supporting evidence, how a politically inspired, false narrative about the financial crisis led to the destructive Dodd-Frank Act and what corrective action is needed.

It's: Bad History, Worse Policy: How a False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act.

ROMNEY AS REAGAN

Mitt Romney July 25, 2012

[This is the full text of Mitt Romney's extraordinary speech last night (7/24) at the VFW Convention in Reno, Nevada. I entitled it "Romney As Reagan" as it is a speech Ronald Reagan could have given and would be proud of. -JW]

Thank you. Commander Richard DeNoyer, I appreciate the introduction, and I'm proud to see a combat veteran from Massachusetts serving as National Commander of the VFW...

I am an unapologetic believer in the greatness of this country. I am not ashamed of American power. I take pride that throughout history our power has brought justice where there was tyranny, peace where there was conflict, and hope where there was affliction and despair.

I do not view America as just one more point on the strategic map, one more power to be balanced. I believe our country is the greatest force for good the world has ever known, and that our influence is needed as much now as ever.

And I am guided by one overwhelming conviction and passion: This century must be an American Century.. I will not surrender America's leadership in the world. We must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

This is very simple: if you do not want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I am not your President. You have that President today.

STANDING UP TO MOSLEM BULLIES

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 13, 2006

Remember when you were a kid in grade school, and if you really want to show contempt for someone you’d say, “He can dish it out but he can’t take it”? Moslems are like that.

They can dish out insults to infidels, arrest Christians for praying in Saudi Arabia, confiscate their Bibles and throw them in the trash, call Jews pigs and monkeys, and spit on the whole human race that isn’t Moslem. But they go into frenzies of righteous outrage at the slightest criticism of their history and beliefs.

Because a newspaper in Denmark, the Jyllands-Posten, circulation 158,000, published a dozen cartoons of Mohammed, the Organization of the Islamic Conference representing 57 Moslem countries issued a statement on January 1^st, 2006, claiming “hundreds of millions of Moslems around the world” are offended.

Last week, the foreign ministers of the 22-nation Arab League demanded an apology from the Danish government.

Not only did Danish Prime Minister Anders Rasmussen refuse to apologize, he refused to meet with a delegation of eleven Ambassadors from Moslem countries who wanted to “discuss” the controversy.

Now there’s a hero for the Western World – the kind of guy you wanted beside you in a confrontation with schoolyard bullies.

A CHRISTMAS LETTER ADDRESSED TO ANTI-CHRISTIANS

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 21, 2005

This was written a year ago for Christmas 2004. We will run it every Christmas season.

Merry Christmas. If that offends you, why should I care? It’s your problem, not mine. Let me explain your problem a little more fully. America is a Christian country. It’s your job to deal with that, because you’re not going to change this fact. America has always been a Christian country, and - open wide now, because you’re going to have to swallow this - it will continue to be.

It will continue to be because most Americans aren’t Euroweenies. They haven’t lost the moral courage to be proud of their country and their civilization. Notice the “most” - which you are not a part of.

You are anti-Christian because you are anti-American. You are anti-American because you are anti-Western Civilization. You are anti-Western Civilization because you are afraid of and intimidated by the envy of the world’s impotent. Fear of being envied defines your soul.

BLASPHEMOUS CARTOONS

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 20, 2005

In addition to Lafif Lakhdar in Tunis (see Sheikhs of Death ), there are folks in Denmark who also refuse to be intimidated by Moslem fanatics. The Copenhagen newspaper Jyllands-Posten, for example, which recently ran a story about a Danish author writing a book about Mohammed.

In response to the author’s complaint in the story that nobody dared to illustrate the book – for fear of angering Moslems as it’s supposedly sacrilegious to depict their prophet – 12 illustrators sent in cartoons which the newspaper promptly published.

A CABINET OF EVIL

Michael Ledeen August 19, 2005

Iranian President Ahmadi Nejad has been busy putting together a cabinet for the Islamic republic. While all real power remains firmly in the clammy hands of Supreme Leader Khamenei, it's worth taking a look at some of the new ministers, if only because it tells us two important things:

(1) The face the regime wishes to show to the world at large, and (2) the policies the regime intends to unleash on the long-suffering Iranian people.

Let's start with the interior minister:

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