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THE ARCTIC OCEAN PIE

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 3, 2007

While chilling here in Sumatra (see Sumatra Sunrise) after writing an exposition of one entire ocean (the Indian: see The French Ocean), I never thought I'd soon be writing about another, and one so far away.

Yet the Russians' stunt of planting their flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole is such a dangerous joke that I'm compelled to do so. The joke is on the Russians, for there already is an American flag planted there.

Evidently, the six Ruskie explorers in their Mir mini-subs didn't look around very much when they reached the sea floor at 14,000 feet down. If they had, they would have seen the stars and stripes - or at least what it's encased in.

It's quite a story of how that American flag got there. And it provides quite an opportunity to create an Arctic Ocean Pie - one that the UN doesn't get a slice of.

IT’S SINATRA TIME

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 8, 2006

Yes, it's Sinatra Time - meaning, recall FS's lyrics in That's Life, take a while to feel like garbage over Americans electing people who hate their country to run Capitol Hill, then pick yourself up and get back in the race.

Yes, this is not going to be easy. I lived through the old joke this morning - waking up at dawn to survey the wreckage of yesterday, telling myself to cheer up as things could be worse. So I cheered up and sure enough, things got disastrously worse when Bush threw Rummy to the wolves of the left - and announced the worst possible replacement.

Bobby Gates' nickname at the CIA was The Little Prick. He is a pompous, incompetent, squishy witless fool. He is the total tool of the Jimmy Baker-Brent Scowcroft crowd that so horribly ran foreign affairs for GW's daddy. To put such a man in charge of the Pentagon - the one bastion of pro-Americanism remaining in our foreign policy establishment - is an unmitigated catastrophe.

Conservatives can get back in the race by blocking this awful nomination. They did it with Harriet Miers, it can be done with Little Bobby.

FOR LIBERALS, IT’S NEVER TERRORISM IF AMERICA IS ATTACKED

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 27, 2006

Ever so often, the America-hating depravity of liberals is exposed with breathtaking clarity. Normally, they try to hide their embarrassment at being an American. Or they'll get angrily defensive. "Are you questioning my patriotism?" they'll intimidatingly ask. To which the answer is: "I would if you had any patriotism to question."

They fudge and smudge over the fact that they are always on the side of America's enemies. They always blame America for any problem in the world, and root for America to lose in any conflict.

What they hide best is their secret admiration for Osama Bin Laden. They know how many Americans would like to tar and feather them if they admitted they were thrilled that a guy in a beard and turban living in an Afghan cave destroyed the world's tallest buildings in America's greatest city, killed thousands on American soil, and humbled the Great Superpower in the eyes of the world.

So liberals keep this to themselves. Once in a while, though, one of them exposes himself and reveals the ugliness of his soul.

Like a fellow named Richard Marshall did in an email to me this week.

THE IRANIAN FOUNT OF TERRORISM

Michael Ledeen August 18, 2004

The war in the Middle East — for it is a regional war, not merely a battle for Iraq — cannot be analyzed at the level of the individual terrorist groups, because the terrorists are part of a larger context. The organizing center is, as Spanish Magistrate Balthazar Garzon publicly put it, a "directorate" located in Iran, that works closely with Iranian intelligence organizations, including the Revolutinary Guards. Those organizations, in turn, work with their counterparts in other friendly countries.

A NEW SPY SWEEPER, NEW INTRUDER TRICKS, AND MORE

ttpn July 6, 2004

Spy Sweeper 3.0 has been released. And it’s quite an upgrade from version 2.6, the version I recommended.

Also, I’d like to discuss a different threat. There’s a technique by which a malicious hacker can hijack web sites and insert ads or other features that appear daily. Thus you need to think twice between you click on any ad.

HOW ANTI-ISRAEL IS THE POPE?

Caroline Glick May 28, 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman were right when they blamed the noxious anti-Israel incitement rampant in Europe for Saturday's (5/24) murderous shooting attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and the assault and battery of two Jewish brothers outside their synagogue in a Paris suburb later that day.

Anti-Israel incitement is ubiquitous in Europe and is appearing in ever-widening circles of the Western world as a whole.

Until this week, the Catholic Church stayed out of the campaign to dehumanize Jews and malign the Jewish state.

Pope Benedict XVI was perceived as a friend of Israel, despite his childhood membership in the Hitler Youth. His opposition to Islam's rejection of reason, eloquently expressed at his speech at the University of Regensburg in 2006, positioned him as a religious champion of reason, individual responsibility and law - Judaism's primary contributions to humanity.

His predecessor Pope John Paul II was less willing to confront Islamic violence. But his opposition to Communism made him respect Israel as freedom's outpost in the Middle East. John Paul's visit to Israel in 2000 was in some ways a historic gesture of friendship to the Jewish people of Israel.

Alas, the Golden Age of Catholic-Jewish relations seems to have come to an end during Francis's visit to the Promised Land this week.

HALF-FULL REPORT 11/29/13

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 29, 2013

Well, so much for Papal Infallibility.

Jorge Bergoglio spent his 77 years devoted to his religion, which is a fine thing, but in so doing he learned nothing about how business and capitalism actually works - living his life until recently in autocratic anti-capitalist Peronist Argentina.

Last March, he was elevated to the papacy. This week (11/26), as Pope Francis I, he chose to issue an Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, that very unfortunately contained a collection of thoughtless socialist bromides condemning capitalist "greed" and "inequality." The Global Enemedia had a field day. "Pope Francis' Stinging Critique of Capitalism" was the WaPo's celebratory headline.

As the IBD explains, it is incredibly ignorant to argue that the free market is a "new tyranny... that rules instead of serves." Rush thinks "it's sad because this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about."

Instead of reciting memorized Marxist slogans of his teachers in Buenos Aires, he could have thought for himself and identified just what is the most powerful institution of greed in the world, composed of the greediest and most selfishly profligate people on the planet who demand to live like royalty and treat those who support them like slaves....

....A Marxist Pope makes the world a more dangerous place. And there was a lot more bad news creating a lot more danger this week as well.

....But is there any good news around here? Yes! Here's the question. What do Dennis Rodman, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus, and Anthony Weiner have in common with Zero?

ENDLESS EXCUSES FOR MORE RUINOUS REGULATION

Richard Rahn August 6, 2013

Terrorists, money launderers, drug dealers and tax evaders use automobiles, airplanes, telephones, computers, banks and countless other goods and services that we all use. Yet all too many government policymakers think that if we make these things very difficult to use, the bad guys will go away -- forgetting, of course, that all the rest of us suffer from mindless regulation and control.

Banks and other financial service firms have become the targets of choice for the unthinking government class and its allies -- because in popular culture, bankers are often cast as the evil villains, despite the fact that the world economy could not function without them.

Thirty years ago, the excuse for more financial services' regulation was that "drug dealers" used banks. That argument morphed into "banks facilitate money laundering," which was made a crime in the United States in 1986.

Then after Sept. 11, 2001, that excuse evolved into "terrorists use banks." More recently, the justification for more rules has become "banks around the world enable businesses and individuals to avoid taxes." There are always new excuses for more regulation -- but the demands remain the same:

WHY I AM A REPUBLICAN

Elbert Guillory June 17, 2013

Note: Elbert Guillory is a State Senator in the legislature of Louisiana. A graduate of Rutgers Law School, he has been a practicing attorney in Opelousas for many years, and turned to politics in his 60s - elected as a State Representative in 2007, then State Senator in 2009 as a Democrat. Opelousas is heavily black and Democrat.

On May 31, he formally switched his party affiliation to the Republican Party, becoming the first black Republican in the Louisiana Senate since Reconstruction in the 1870s. He is widely considered now to be a formidable candidate for Lt. Governor in 2015.

Guillory calls himself a "Frederick Douglass Republican." Here is his explanation. It brought tears to my eyes, and it may well to yours. - Jack Wheeler

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PREPARING FOR THE NOBAMA FUTURE

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 2, 2012

Looks like no one will be able to recognize Zero's political hit man, David Axelrod, after next week, as he'll be shaving off his mustache. The Nightmare of Zero will soon be over. It's time to start thinking about and preparing for the coming Nobama Future.

You can start preparing for the Nobama Future right this very moment by reading Joel Wade's Rat Brain. Joel describes it:

"The feeling sense - the sensation in your body of stress and anxiety when you feel the urge to check the polls, or linger too long surfing the web for hopeful news stories; coupled with the anticipation of relief or reward when you find some good news, and a great compulsion to go toward that reward - is your rat brain at work."

Is this you? I confess - it sure is me. With four days to go until America's fate is decided, my rat brain is in hyper-drive. Joel's advice on how to handle this comes just in time, and I'm taking it to heart. I'm ordering my dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to tell my rat brain to shut up - as it understands that Romney is going to win going away.

So - the next thing to do in preparing for the Nobama Future is making sure you'll be at the TTP Victory Rendezvous next weekend (Nov. 09-11). We have added a number of extraordinary speakers (see below).

One thing we'll be focusing on at RXIII is the dreaded Transition - the 76 days between Election and Inauguration Days, an enormously long time during which Zero could engage in a gargantuan amount of mischief and revenge. What damage could he do?

TO THE POINT SUMMER RENDEZVOUS: AN INVITATION

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 10, 2007

To: Members & Friends of To The Point
From: Dr. Jack Wheeler

I would like to cordially invite you to attend our To The Point Summer Rendezvous to be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado from Friday August 24^th to Sunday August 26^th.

Our Rendezvous in Las Vegas last February was such a success that no one wanted to wait an entire year for another.

This is not a conference. It is a rendezvous, a gathering of members of To The Point for the purpose of their spending time with each other. It is an opportunity for TTPers to meet and talk with me - and vice versa! - and with other TTP contributors such as Joel Wade, Jack Kelly, and Dagny D'Anconia.

In other words, this is a family affair, a gathering of the TTP Family. If you were at the Vegas Rendezvous, you know what I mean. TTPers share a common bond, a set of shared values that makes their being together intensely enjoyable.

That's the best description I can give for what you'll experience at the Summer Rendezvous: intensely enjoyable.

To make this possible is taking a lot of effort on the part of To The Point's General Manager, Miko Reyes, and a number of TTPers who have so kindly volunteered to assist him.

That's because I'm writing this from Antanananrivo (Tana for short), the capital of Madagascar. So Miko has to try and put everything together while I'm in the middle of the Indian Ocean. That's not easy.

Like the Vegas Rendezvous, this is "Dutch Treat" where everyone pays their own costs and nothing is added on. There will be range of places to stay from costly (like the Broadmoor) to not (like the Best Western). Whatever the costs are for dinners and activities, we'll all share.

We'll start with a reception and dinner Friday evening the 24^th. A "Pre-Rendezvous" tour of the Air Force Academy that afternoon may be arranged.

Saturday, we'll hike and picnic in the spectacular and nearby Garden of the Gods. Then we'll gather again for another evening of dinner and friends.

After Sunday brunch, we'll head back home, our heads overloaded with new perspectives and heightened grasp of what is going on in our world - and with friendships you'll treasure.

To participate in the Summer Rendezvous, please contact Miko immediately at info@tothepointnews.com.

Only fifty - 50 - TTPers may attend. That's right, just 50.

I should mention that all those attending will receive a free one-year To The Point membership, or have their current membership extended one full year.

I really hope I see you at our Summer Rendezvous. Please let Miko know if you can join us.

Jack Wheeler

KAFKA IN MANAGUA: Ollie North Is Helping A Communist Win In Nicaragua

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 2, 2006

Franz Kafka couldn't make this up. Ollie North is doing his best to see that his Sandinista foe, Daniel Ortega, responsible for the Communist tyranny in the 1980s that took so many lives of his (and my) Contra friends, will be elected president of Nicaragua this Sunday, November 5th.

He's not doing it on purpose. Just like Democrats who are so filled with Bush-hatred they will support anything that hurts Bush even if it hurts America, Ollie is so filled with State Department-hatred that it is blinding him to what he is doing.

I know it's hard to believe - and that Foggy Bottom has gotten something right for once adds to the Kafkaesque weirdness.

The story begins in 1997....

THE FRAUD OF ANCHOR BABIES

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 21, 2006

The myth of Birthright Citizenship is one of the more extraordinary frauds committed in America today. Liberals insist that the "Citizenship Clause" of the 14^th Amendment - which states "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" - means that children of illegal aliens born on US soil automatically are US citizens.

The 14^th Amendment means no such thing. When it was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves, the Citizenship Clause's author, Senator Jacob Howard, made it explicitly clear that the clause did not apply to "persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States."

THE 9/11 COMMISSION’S GUARANTEE OF FAILURE

Michael Ledeen August 10, 2004

The call for a new intelligence overseer in the executive branch is downright silly. Any CEO of a distressed firm who retained failed managers and simply added new personnel and new organizational boxes would face open rebellion from his board and shareholders. Yet that is what the commission wants to do. Its recommendations finesse or exacerbate the real problems.

Without doubt, our two greatest failures are political, not structural. The first is relentless congressional tinkering with the CIA and FBI, reaching outright caricature on the eve of 9/11 — when the FBI could not even clip newspaper articles about advocates of jihad in America, and the CIA needed special permission to contact foreign officials whose human rights violations wouldn't pass muster at the ACLU.

SAFELY ENCRYPTING EMAILS WITH PGP

ttpn June 24, 2004

Last week I discussed the shortcomings of web surfing anonymizers. Although they have some use, they are useless against anyone who is targeting you in particular.

Another concern of my readers concern emails. Emails pass through numerous way stations on the way from the sending to your mailbox. Also from your email application to someone else’s inbox.

One method that can keep emails and instant messages private is strong encryption. The most popular application is PGP. PGP is a tongue in cheek term for Pretty Good Privacy. PGP actually offers strong encryption.

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