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THE PRESIDENT’S SNOW JOB ON GLOBAL WARMING


An Open Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President:

My apologies for missing your commencement address at the University of California at Irvine on June 14, honoring the 50th anniversary of one of our fine academic institutions. Meetings with my constituents just seemed more pressing, and, of course, we can meet back in Washington whenever it's convenient for you.

In any case, between fundraisers and enjoying the "Zot! Zot! Zot!" chants of the graduating Anteaters, the questions I have raised about your "green" agenda clearly were on your mind. You evidently determined that ridiculing those, like me, who question your "settled" science would be the best way to make your case.

To the laughing grads, you said: "And today's Congress is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence about climate change. They will tell you it is a hoax, or a fad. There was one member of Congress who mentioned a theory involving ‘dinosaur flatulence' - which I won't get into."

Mr. President, we both know I have referred to the theory of man-made global warming as a "hoax," and, yes, I once used the phrase "dinosaur flatulence" as lighthearted ridicule at what I considered to be climate alarmism.

What I have learned is never to underestimate humorless zealots, especially those cloaked in the pretensions of "science." One of the traits of a fanatic is the willingness to conduct personal attacks, to limit debate, to use questionable facts and to seek government to impose policy on others.

Sir, my congressional colleagues and I cannot ignore costs when making decisions. Simply put, no matter how apocalyptic the theory behind it, we cannot make this crony-capitalist concoction of yours into a policy priority.

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THE REVOLUTION OF 2014


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This could be what I call a "FS Year" - like Sinatra sings in It Was A Very Good Year, 2014 could "pour sweet and clear" for freedom in America, if only we take advantage of the opportunity history is handing us.

Pick your metaphor or adage.  The setup for a political "perfect storm," an epic "correlation of forces," an ideal example of "the greater the danger, the greater the opportunity" is here before us. 

We have a chance at victory on not just one, but on both of our country's most important battlefields.  The stakes couldn't be higher.  Which means if we blow it this year, surmounting 2016 will be as hard as climbing Everest without oxygen.

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LENIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE


There are many contenders for who is the most evil human being to walk the face of the earth - and there is no doubt that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is among them.

He was born on the Volga River in Russia but he wasn't Russian. His father was an Oirat Mongol, his mother was Jewish-German/Swedish.  He grew up in prosperity with his father as a prominent professor.  He turned radical Marxist in college (Kazan University) becoming the devotee of Georgi Plekhanov ("the Founder of Russian Marxism"), and was exiled to Siberia for three years for subversive activities.

While in Siberia, copying Plekhanov who adopted the revolutionary name "Volgin" after the Volga River, he invented his own revolutionary name after Siberia's Lena River:  Lenin.

As the great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises explained, his understanding of business was that of a filing clerk. A filing clerk soon to become a ruthlessly fascist tyrant.  And today in America, we have our very own Lenin in the White House.

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THE CHINESE MIRACLE ON CAPITOL HILL


A miracle took place on Capitol Hill yesterday, July 31, 2008.  Democrats and Republicans in the House united on a vote of 419-1 to explicitly and in itemized detail condemn the Chicom government of China.

The single lone Congressman to vote No was Ron Paul (R-TX) - demonstrating once again that his total incapacity to defend America against its foreign enemies is why his presidential campaign failed.

House Resolution 1370 is the most pro-American statement of Congress in modern times.  For it is China that is and will be the greatest national security threat to America for the foreseeable future.  Far more than Islamic crazies running around chanting allahallahallah, and believing that blowing themselves up will somehow force the world back into the 7th century.

To The Point is thus pleased to provide the full text of H. Res. 1370.  It is an astounding compendium of Chicom perfidy.

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THOMPSON BUMMER


Say goodnight, Fred.  Last night, Saturday (5/12), in a huge ballroom at a hotel in Washington I can't name at a meeting of a group I can't mention, Fred Thompson was the dinner speaker to 500 of conservatism's crème de la crème.

The energy in the room was crackling.  Here's the guy, everyone was either thinking or hoping - the big man who could fill Reagan's shoes, a true conservative who could electrify Republicans and sweep them to victory in 2008.

There were cheers and yells when he was introduced, as everyone stood in sustained applause, then sat down in quiet excited anticipation.

I'm not at liberty to reveal what he said, as this was a closed meeting, a private off the record address.  But I can tell you my reaction and that of the several dozen folks I talked to afterwards.

What a bummer.

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ENOUGH ALREADY


There's an easy answer for the deep thinkers now torturing themselves for an explanation of the Iranian seizure of 15 British hostages:  The mullahs took the hostages because that is what they do. They've been doing it for a long time.

Why now? Because now is when they succeeded in doing it; they've been trying all along.

The interesting and important question is what we - yes, we - are going to do about it.

You can be sure that the "professionals" in Foggy Bottom and Whitehall are giving learned memos to their leaders in which the word "de-escalate" appears with some frequency, along with "diplomatic solution."

I doubt many of them will lose much sleep over their own considerable responsibility for the current unpleasantness, but let's write a footnote to their memos that says: The Brits have labored mightily for many years to prevent the United States from pursuing vigorous action against Iran.


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COMING TO YOUR CAR SOON: 3-D NAVIGATION


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Do drivers want to see a photorealistic image of the road ahead on their navigation displays?

Google, Volkswagen, and nVidia think so, and they're working on a mapping and navigation system that could present Google Earth satellite images of highways and buildings.

Since 2005, Volkswagen of America's Electronic Research Lab in Palo Alto, California, has been developing prototype vehicles with the system. While there’s no projected date for the concept to become reality in production vehicles, it’s not far off.

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LIBERAL LIBEL IN LOUISIANA

It is settled wisdom among mainstream journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow. “Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during a dire national emergency,” wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert in a somewhat more strident expression of the conventional wisdom.

But the conventional wisdom is the opposite of the truth.

Liberal journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out.

So they libel as a “national disgrace” the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history.

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POLYGAMY AND VIOLENCE


[Note:  this essay may be most fruitfully read in conjunction with Terrorism and Tiny Zibbs from September 2003-JW]

When the Kurdish peshmerga forces broke the siege of Mount Sinjar last week, there was no trace of the 5,000 Yazidi women and children abducted from the area in August.

It is thought that they have been mostly sold as concubines to jihadist fighters of Islamic State. When the London Times reporters posed as two British girls interested in joining Islamic State, they were told: "The only way to guarantee being together is marrying the same man."

Meanwhile, the 219 girls still missing in Nigeria after being abducted in April have been "married off," according to the leader of Boko Haram.

My point in connecting these incidents is that throughout history polygamy has fueled violence. Might it be worth suggesting to Moslem leaders, religious and secular, that they push for monogamous norms as one way to reduce violence and bring more peace to the Middle East and to north and west Africa?

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HALF-FULL REPORT 09/19/14


Right now and for the next 46 days until November 4, we are in a street fight for the life of America.  Which is why Ann Coulter said yesterday (9/18) that the only thing that matters right now is winning the Senate.  She's right.  There's no possible way to even slow down Zero's commitment for America's demise with Harry Reid still Majority Leader for the next two years.

But she forgot about Louisiana...

Compounding the bad news (good news for us) for Putin's Russia is a host of threats by ISIS to "liberate Chechnya and all the Caucasus" from Russia.  Lots of Chechens are getting their "terrorist field training" with ISIS, and will now be bringing their skills back to their homeland. 

Chechnya is one of a half-dozen regions of the Russian North Caucasus with a predominately Moslem population...

Meanwhile, the Zero Madness continues in DC.

On Monday (9/15), he announced he wants to send 3,000 US soldiers to Liberia to somehow combat the Ebola virus.  This is criminally insane.  But here's the big question, asked by IBD: 

If protecting us from Ebola far away in Africa is so panic-button-pushing important, why is Zero doing nothing or saying anything about "the strange new diseases now spreading and infecting Americans here, which at least one prominent U.S. doctor says may be spread by illegal aliens now in our country with zero health care screening as part of Obama's open borders policy"?

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THE ATTEMPT TO END FINANCIAL PRIVACY WORLDWIDE


Do you want the Obama administration sharing all of your financial information with the Russian, Chinese and Saudi Arabian governments? You may be thinking, not even President Obama would go that far. Not so, read on.

This past week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its full proposal for a global standard for the automatic exchange of financial information. The rationale behind this despicable idea is to more effectively enable governments, such as that of France and the United States, to identify tax evaders.

This might sound like a good idea until one realizes that every individual and business will be stripped of all of their financial privacy if this becomes the law of the land - and it is very close to being just that.

Under the OECD proposal, all of the information that financial institutions now report to the U.S. government to try to ensure income-tax compliance, including your account balances, interest, dividends, proceeds from the sale of financial assets - would be shared with foreign governments.

The United States and other governments will, of course, claim that your sensitive financial information will remain confidential - and that you can trust the governments.

It is bad enough when American officials leak or misuse sensitive financial information about U.S. citizens and businesses, but just think what is going to happen when all of those corrupt officials in foreign governments get ahold of it.

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AMERICA’S WORST ECONOMIST BLAMES AYN RAND FOR CLIMATE DENIALISM


New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has come up with an exciting new theory as to why the world's economies are still proving reluctant to bomb themselves back to the dark ages in order to "combat climate change."

Apparently, it's all the fault of a certain uncompromising Jewish Russian emigree:

Well, think about global warming from the point of view of someone who grew up taking Ayn Rand seriously, believing that the untrammeled pursuit of self-interest is always good and that government is always the problem, never the solution. Along come some scientists declaring that unrestricted pursuit of self-interest will destroy the world, and that government intervention is the only answer.

It doesn't matter how market-friendly you make the proposed intervention; this is a direct challenge to the libertarian worldview. And the natural reaction is denial - angry denial. Read or watch any extended debate over climate policy and you'll be struck by the venom, the sheer rage, of the denialists.
Next week, he could maybe tell us why racism is caused by listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd.  What's certain is that Krugman badly needs a career change. He trained, I believe, as an economist but what's palpably clear when reading his article is that he doesn't really understand his subject at all.

Let me give you some examples of what I mean.

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THE PRISON GUARDS OF THE PAST


It's a brilliant metaphor, isn't it? 

It's all encompassing, describing Democrats led by their Prison-Guard-in-Chief, Establishment RINOs from Boehner on down, public unions, teachers unions, the welfare-state/social-worker bureaucracy, EPA fascisti, climate alarmists, eco-luddites, the Enemedia, the majority of professors and administrators in academia, all supported by a libtard judiciary.

All of them, epitomized by our Zero of a President, are prison guards of the past, desperately demanding they keep their corrupt perks and power by keeping us locked up in a prison of the status quo and government failure by force of arms - government guns and thieving taxes.  

I'd love to claim the metaphor as mine, but it's not.  It's Newt Gingrich's in his new book Breakout.  It's even in the subtitle: Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate.

We've had an entrepreneurial information revolution - but we have seen no remotely revolutionary advances whatever in education, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, much less government.  How come?  Because the old order has a veto.  Because the prison guards of the past are the enemies of the future.

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THE SELF-HATING DISHONESTY OF THE MEDIA


The most destructive, dishonest, and criminally hypocritical people in America today are not Democrat politicians, black race hustlers, Ivy League Marxist professors, or crony/shyster capitalists.

They are the publishers, editors, journalists, and commentators of the Liberal Media:  Associated Press-New York Times-WaPo-ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-MSNBC et al.

We'll abbreviate Big Liberal Media to simply "BM" - appropriately enough for their product is the same as what those initials usually stand for.  One of the more astounding things about BM is that its slavish boot-licking of American Commiecrats is indistinguishable from that of Pravda's or Izvestiya's over Soviet rulers during the Cold War - yet with no gun at their heads nor threat of the Gulag.

Winston Smith, in George Orwell's 1984, ended up genuinely loving Big Brother after his will was broken through torture.  BM loves Big Brother of their own free will.  This is so perverse it's almost anti-human, for it is normally against human nature to willingly be a slave.

A stunningly perfect example of BM perfidy appeared in headlines in newspapers all over the country this past weekend.

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A PESHMERGA’S QUESTION


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This is Mir Mokhsen, a Peshmerga or Kurdish freedom fighter who has fought in hundreds of battles for Kurdish freedom for half a century.  He has faced Saddam Hussein's tanks, Russian-made helicopter gunships, chemical weapons and poison gas, the unspeakable brutality of Saddam's soldiers countless times - and survived.

He has never given up.  Never.  This revered warrior has a question for you:  As an American, the freedom he has risked his life so much for has been given to you - so what are you doing to preserve it?

Mir Mokhsen has heard that there will be a gathering of Americans dedicated to preserving their freedom in Boston at the end of August.  He wishes he could attend, but he belongs in the mountains of his beloved Kurdistan.  You, on the other hand, belong in Boston, where the American Revolution began.

The To The Point Revolutionary Rendezvous is August 22-24.  Don't disappoint Mir Mokhsen.  Don't disappoint yourself.  Be there and join your fellow TTP'ers for a revolutionary good time. 

To participate, click on the Rendezvous box in the TTP left side bar, and call TTP General Manager Miko de los Reyes at 703-992-4529 or miko@tothepointnews.com.  Please call or email Miko right away.  No procrastinating.  That means now!

After all, you wouldn't want Mir Mokhsen to think you're not a freedom fighter, would you?

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