The most amazing conference took place earlier this month in Riga, Latvia. It was entitled The Conference on The Future of Democracy Beyond the Baltics -- and it was organized by Arizona Senator John McCain... This is no Euroweenie peace-through-dialogue morally-equivocating diplomatic drivel. This is full-throated American moral heroism. John McCain wants Alexander Lukashenko in a spider hole.

Late last month, on January 26, a lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves against companies whom they claimed profited from slavery was dismissed in federal court. Unfortunately for those who thought that this act of judicial sanity will put an end to the Reparations cause, the case was dismissed without prejudice, which means the plaintiffs can file an amended complaint -- which they intend to do.

Thus we are due shortly for another round of racist demands from slave descendants that billions of dollars be extorted from American taxpayers and deposited into their beggar bowls. There is only one way to put an end to the Reparations argument, and that is by explaining just who owes reparations to whom.

Even in a time of an unceasing barrage of demagogic drivel from the Bush-haters, the manufactured flap over the “missing WMD” has got to set some kind of world record for red herring chutzpah.

Ariel Sharon’s announcement on February 4, that the 7,500 Jews hunkered down amidst 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have to leave, is giving heartburn to Israel supporters like Mort Klein, head of Zionists of America. Mort thinks Arik (Sharon’s nickname) has lost his nerve and is selling out. The reality is that Mort only sees the settler’s trees and not a sovereign Israeli forest. Sharon is a strategic genius and just as Machiavellian as ever.What Sharon’s critics and all supporters of Israel need to understand is this: Sharon is building his Security Fence in order to precipitate a Palestinian Civil War.

Today is the 93rd birthday of the greatest American of the 20th century: Ronald Reagan. More than any other American of our day, he embodied the moral ideal personified by Aristotle as the man of Megalopsychia, the Great-Souled ManThe Great-Souled Man had a character of such integrity, inspiration, and achievement in the real world that his life expressed, for Aristotle, the Kalon, Moral Beauty. Five years ago, I wrote the following tribute to this extraordinary man. It will be published in To The Point on every February 6th from now on.

To go beyond all the outraged wailing and shocked gnashing of teeth over the MTV Super Bowl Half-Time Show, and understand what is really going on culturally, the place to begin is with William Strauss & Neil Howe’s 1991 book, Generations: The History of America’s Future-1584 to 2069.

If you were to describe in one word the Democrats fantasizing they can beat Bush in November, you would say Dean is a hothead, Clark an egomaniac, Sharpton a hustler, Edwards an ambulance-chaser, Kucinch a kook, Lieberman a moderate, and Kerry…?The word that Democrats want to apply to Kerry is “electable.”  What does this mean?  Exactly nothing, for that’s all he is -- that somehow he possesses some magical capacity to defeat GW.

The critical insight about the Soviet Union that led to its downfall was -- as I explained in countless Reagan Doctrine briefings during the 1980s -- that the Soviet Union didnt simply possess an imperialist empire of colonies beyond its borders: it was itself a colonial empire within its borders.

Well, if Bush’s immigration reform proposal isn’t about either, then what is it about? Special interest politics, of course. Please pardon the redundancy — for all politics in the US today is about special interests.

The Greeks called it the Euxine Sea. Jason and the Argonauts sailed across it to steal the Golden Fleece from the King of Colchis. The great city of Byzantium was built at its entrance, which became Constantinople, which became Istanbul.The 20th Century didn’t hear much about the Black Sea because, except for its southern Turkish shore, it was a Soviet lake. Early in the 21st Century, however, to the chagrin of the Russians and the joy of non-Russians who populate its shores, George Bush is transforming the Black Sea into an American Lake.

Let’s say there’s this fellow named Joe. He makes a living as a highway bandit robbing travelers. Any victim who gives him any trouble he kills. Joe has a special hatred for Jews. “Kill Jews wherever you find them,” he tells the members of his gang. At age fifty, Joe tells his best friend that he fallen in love with his daughter and wants to marry her. She is six years old. They are married and Joe starts having sex with the little girl when she is nine years old. Joe tells his gang that God talks to him. As the Messenger of God, every word of Joe’s is the Word of God. Anyone who refuses to believe this, Joe has his gang members kill them. Here’s the question: Is Joe a criminally insane pervert and moral monster, or is he worshipped by hundreds of millions of devout followers who deeply believe that he is the most moral human being who ever lived? The answer is: he is both. Joe’s real name is Ubul Kassim, an Arabian bandit chieftain who became known as Mohammed (“The Praised One” in Arabic) and founded the religion of Islam…

It wasn’t that long ago that a good many European Jews swore an oath: Never Again. Never Again will Nazi-like anti-Semitism be tolerated. Never Again will Jews be meekly herded down a path that leads to Zyklon-B showers. So in response to the explosion of anti-Semitism in France, what is the advice of France’s chief rabbi, Joseph Sitruk? Replace yarmulkes with baseball caps. "I ask young Jews to be alert, to avoid walking alone, to avoid wearing the yarmulke in the street or in the subway and consequently becoming targets for potential assailants," Rabbi Sitruk cautions. "I ask them to replace the yarmulke with the baseball cap.” This is the best way, he warns, “to protect our young people." Au contraire, Monsieur Rabbi. The best way for your young people to protect themselves would be for them to learn how to beat the crap out of those who attack them. Someone needs to make Rabbi Sitruk write 500 times on a blackboard the French translation of: The Best defense Is A Good Offense…

The older you get, the more staying in shape is like being the Red Queen of Wonderland: You have keep running faster and faster to stay in the same place.I want to wish you all a healthy and strong 2004. I can’t tell you how to achieve this, however, because I’m not you and we all have our individual differences and preferences. What I could do is tell you what works for me. This means I don’t have to insert any boilerplate blather about “consult your physician before doing any of this stuff.” You get to make up your own mind about that, and adapt for yourself whatever you think may be useful...

None of all the momentous events that occurred in 2003 -- the recovery of the US economy, the invasion of Iraq and military overthrow of Saddam’s regime, the capture of Saddam, the capitulation of Libya’s Kaddafi, you name it -- was the most important. The single most important event of 2003 is the one that didn’t occur: there was not one single successful terrorist attack in the United States.This is the single greatest achievement of the year -- and note the identifier achievement. This is not a lucky accident -- although luck and chance played a role as in most everything else in life. But those who are truly wise know that to a very considerable extent, you make your own luck, and this is what George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft have done.One of the most amusing sights of 2003 was to see so many people turn their brains into jello over John Ashcroft. Anyone who has personally known Ashcroft can testify to his decency and integrity. Yet he and his Patriot Act became the focal point of hate for both the Loony Left and the Loony Right -- the Hollywood Left and Dizzy Dean Democrats see eye-to-eye with Jane Fonda Libertarians like Lew Rockwell, Pro-Moslem Conservatives like Grover Norquist, and Hate-Israel Paleocons like Pat Buchanan…

Merry Christmas! Wait — that was yesterday, wasn’t it? Nevertheless, today, December 26, is the First Day of Christmas. Ancient Christians celebrated “The Holidays,” as our militant secularists insist on referring to them now, starting with the day after the birth of Jesus and ending on January 6th, the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2:11 known as the Epiphany. Start with 12/26 and end with 1/6 and you get: the Twelve Days of Christmas.

You may be really tired of hearing Christmas songs by now, including this one, yet you may still be wondering what the heck partridges in a pear tree and eight maids a-milking have to do with the birth of the founder of Christianity. So I thought we might take a break from Serious Thoughts About World Events, and take a look at the song’s origin and meaning.

The earliest printed version of The Twelve Days of Christmas is in a children’s book published in London in 1790, Mirth Without Mischief. It is called a “memory and forfeits” game played by children in the form of a song, where the leader recites a verse, each player in turn repeats it, the leader keeps adding verses until a player’s memory fails him and has to forfeit a piece of candy (if a girl, a kiss on the leader’s cheek).

Kids in 18th Century England, however, learned the game from French kids, who had been singing their version, “In Those Twelve Days” since at least 1625. We know the song was originally French, as for example, partridges were introduced into England from France in the 1770s.

Even though The Twelve Days of Christmas was a kids’ song-game, it nonetheless had a deep religious meaning. Unlike the PC Happy Holidays of today, centuries ago Christmas was above all a religious celebration. All of the song’s twelve gifts are Christian symbols.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

A Christian’s “true love” is God.

A partridge in a pear tree…

The partridge is Jesus; the pear tree stands for the Cross. The French revered the mother partridge, which would feign injury to draw predators away from her nest and willing to sacrifice herself for the life of her children, and used the bird as a symbol for Jesus who lamented in Matthew 24:37: “O Jerusalem… How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so.” Why a pear tree? Because it’s a song in English full of alliteration: partridge-pear, two-turtle, maids-milking, swans-swimming, lords-leaping, pipers-piping, drumers-drumming.

On the second day…two turtle doves…

The sacrifice Joseph and Mary made for Jesus (they actually sacrifice two turtle doves in Luke 2:24). The French original refers to the two gifts of the Old and New Testaments.

On the third day…three French hens…

The three things that abideth of I Corinthians 13:13 — faith, hope, and charity. In the French original, the three persons of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.

On the fourth day… four calling (in the English original, “colly” or black) birds…

The four Evangelists and their Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.

On the fifth day… five golden rings…

Not rings on your finger, but ring-necked pheasants in keeping with the bird theme of the first seven verses; the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament known collectively as the Books of Moses.

On the sixth day… six geese a-laying…

The six days of Creation.

On the seventh day… seven swans a-swimming…

The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, much discussed by Augustine and Aquinas: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord.

On the eigth day… eight maids a-milking…

The eight Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:3-10.

On the ninth day… nine ladies a-dancing…

The nine fruits of the Holy Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

On the tenth day…ten lords a-leaping…

The Ten Commandments.

On the eleventh day… eleven pipers piping…

The eleven loyal Disciples. We all know what happened to the twelfth.

On the twelfth day…twelve drummers drumming…

The twelve points of The Apostle’s Creed.

That’s the meaning. Now on to the myth. There is an “urban legend” floating in the Internet ether that the Twelve Days is a Catholic protest song, a secret catechism sung by English Catholics after Elizabeth I abolished “the old worship” in 1559, forbidding the open practice of Roman Catholicism (finally repealed by Parliament in 1829). Yet all twelve enumerated gifts of the song were believed in common by both Catholics and Anglicans — there is nothing in it exclusively Catholic needing to be secret and hidden. Further, the song originated in France, not England.

This myth was created by a Byzantine Catholic priest in Granville, New York named Hal Stockert in 1995. He claimed he had done all sorts of research in 16th Century Latin texts and letters from Irish priests. When pressed to provide it, his dog had devoured his homework: “All of my notes were ruined when our church had a plumbing leak and the basement flooded.” Oh, he did make an electronic copy, but sadly it is on “a computer floppy disk that is so old that nobody has a machine that can read it anymore.” Look me in the eye, Hal. You’re lying.

I have to tell you it was my 11 year-old son Jackson who gave me the idea to write this. The most wonderful Christmas present a man can have is his family and I am truly blessed with my wife and two boys. Christmas gives us the opportunity to reflect upon and appreciate the blessings we all have in our lives. Merry Christmas — all the way to January 6th.

The founder of the Palestinian terrorist movement was Amin al-Husseini. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, he organized Arab rampages killing Jewish settlers in Palestine throughout the 1920s, formed an alliance with the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s, met with Adolph Hitler in Berlin in November 1941 to encourage him to slaughter Jews in Europe so they couldn’t escape to settle in Palestine, ordered Arab families to flee Israel upon independence so Arab armies could invade in 1948, founded the Palestine Liberation Organization, mentored his nephew Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, and turned the leadership of the PLO over to him. His nephew assumed the alias of Yasser Arafat.

If I ask you to think of India, the image that most likely appears in your minds eye would be the Taj Mahal. Arguably the most famous building in the world and considered by many to be the most beautiful structure mankind has ever created, it was completed in 1648 by the ruler of India, Shah Jehan, to immortally entomb his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal.There is a painful problem with this image, however, for the great majority of folks in India: the Taj Mahal isnt an Indian building. Its Moslem, and thus for Indians a symbol of Islamic imperialism.

Bill Safire is normally the only thing worth reading in the New York Times, and he proved it with his latest column (datelined 12/8/03), which is devoted to completely messing up the mind of every Bush-hating Democrat in America.

It is a commonplace in a story or article about the Arab-Israeli conflict that mentions Jerusalem to repeat the Moslem mantra that “Jerusalem is the third holiest city in all Islam, next to Mecca and Medina.” You’ve heard this innumerable times -- but how come? Just why is Jerusalem so important to not just Jews and Christians but Moslems as well?

This is a black day, a day for anyone associated with the Republican Party to be ashamed and embarrassed. Piling a new trillion-dollar Medi-Pander entitlement to appease geezer-beggars on top of all the others that the Republicans should be busy eliminating is way, way beyond scandalous. Why, then, has the Republican Party from President Bush on down become determined to betray its basic principles?

Let’s play fill-in-the-blanks. In general, Americans and Europeans are Christians. Arabs are Moslems. Indians are Hindus. Chinese are _________? If you have trouble filling in the last blank, it’s because the answer is blank. From time immemorial, the Chinese have been the least religious of any of history’s major civilizations. Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism are rationalistic quasi-religions lacking any personal relationship with a transcendent deity or deities. The ancestor- and spirit-worship of Chinese folk religion is individualized to families only.

A year from now you and I will be celebrating George W. Bush’s re-election. It’s in the bag, and the reason why is deeper than the economy or Iraq. It’s because GW figured out Bill Clinton’s secret while the Dems forgot it.

I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator’s name:  SAH-dum, not sah-DAM.  Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means “One Who Confronts,” the former means “Barefoot Beggar.”  Be assured that when GW says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing it on purpose.

The Barefoot Beggar has finally agreed to let in UN inspectors because he is confident he can hide his WMD — weapons of mass destruction — from them.  But if GW tells Dick Cheney to give his former colleagues at Halliburton a call about utilizing oil field discovery technology, that confidence will evaporate.

Sah-dum has hidden his WMD in secret underground tunnels and bunkers, some of which are flooded, underneath his palaces.  There are dozens of them.  The Baghdad Republican Palace has over 700 buildings.  According to French engineers who worked on the Qasr-Shatt al-Arab Palace, it is bigger than Versailles.  A mason who worked on the Maqar-el-Tharthar Palace west of Baghdad, and escaped to the West, says it is “four or five times bigger than the White House.” 

Many of these palace compounds have artificial lakes.  The Tigris River was diverted near Sah-dum’s hometown of Tikrit to form a lake at his Baiji Palace.  Sah-dum has built WMD storage depots underneath the lakes as well.  He knows that the ground-penetrating radar brought by the UN inspection teams will not see through steel-reinforced concrete palace and factory floors and the water of the lakes.

That’s why Cheney needs to call his buddies in the “oll bidness,” as they say in West Texas, to tell them, “Guys, we want the best doodlebuggers you’ve got to go to Iraq.”

“Doodlebuggers” is the nickname of the folks who search for oil and gas with seismic technology.  They are capable of finding oil deposits under thousands of feet of rock and ocean water.  Shallow lakes and steel-reinforced concrete slabs in Sah-dum Land will be no problem.  They’ll use a state-of-the-art technology called “3D Seismic,” used for extremely accurate mapping of the earth’s subsurface.  Here’s how it will work.

The two basic items the Doodlebugger teams will use are Geophones and Vibroseis machines.  The Geophones can float on a lake surface, driven into the ground in a palace compound, or placed on a palace’s concrete floor.  The Vibroseis machines, either in a small truck or towed by a pickup, vibrate the ground surface with a force of 70,000 pounds per square meter.  It does no damage to structures, and can be operated up to hundreds of yards away from a specific suspect site.

The geophones get a seismic recording of the vibrations as they penetrate the surrounding area.  Data is beamed up to a satellite, together with their precise location via a GPS locator.  It is beamed back down and compiled by e.g., Halliburton’s or Exxon’s supercomputers.  The result will be a complete and detailed map of  what’s under the palaces, factories, and lakes.

A huge contrast will show up in the seismic maps between dirt, sand, water, air, and reinforced concrete.  Whatever storage areas, tunnels, and bunkers are down there, the maps will show just where they are.  Should the Iraqis refuse to disclose the entrances, a device called a fluorine lance ignited by a small thermite charge can burn through over six feet of steel reinforced concrete in about 20-40 seconds.  A swimming camera can then be inserted in the hole, as is used in inspecting sewers and pipelines.

Once WMD stores are located, we’ll know where to drop the thermobaric penetrating bombs.  These penetrate below the surface to the underground depots, then detonate with such force and temperature that all nerve gases and biochemical agents (such as anthrax) will be oxidized into carbon dioxide and water.

Of course, it is most likely that Sah-dum’s petroleum geologists will explain to him what the Vibroseis units are for, and he will prevent their use.  Thus their introduction in the inspection process will quickly precipitate the violation of the UN Resolution, providing the basis for the US military to take care of the problem.

It is vitally necessary that such precipitation happen soon.  We cannot wait until next summer when it is far too hot in Iraq for US soldiers to wear chemical protection suits.  For the Evil of the Barefoot Beggar to be terminated, it must be done quickly. 

[Note that if the seismic mapping is incomplete when the inspectors are ejected, geophones with GPS transmitters can be airdropped en masse around the palaces, then GPS-guided bomblets to provide seismic sources.  In a few days the maps will be done, showing just where to target the thermobarics.]

Given that oil has been the source of this evil’s wealth and power, it would be ironic justice for American oil companies to play a heroic role in such termination.

Jack Wheeler is the President of the Freedom Research Foundation.

Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it?  It's the Left -- liberals, left-wingers, socialists, commies, pinkos, the Noam Chomskys and Alec Baldwins and Barbra Streisands -- that hates America.  But the Right -- good old flag-waving patriotic God Bless America conservatives?  How could they possibly be anti-American?  It sounds ridiculous.Yet whatever sense or nonsense it makes, Anti-Americanism is seeping into the entire conservative movement and is threatening to splinter it into pieces.

It is only with the most extreme caution and reluctance that someone making repulsive and racist statements should be labeled a Nazi.  Hitler's crimes were so monstrous that most comparisons to them cheapen and insult their horror.  Yet there are times when such comparisons are justified and Malaysian leader Mohammed Mahathir's now-infamous speech is one of them.

It was a gorgeous spring day in Washington D.C. when I got a call from Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). The year was 1995. "Hey, Jack, can you come to my office late this afternoon? The Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and his entourage will be here and I'd like you in on the meeting."

Ordinarily, I suggest that you forward my articles to any friends whom you think would appreciate them — but this is an exception. I’m going to ask you, as a TTP member, to keep this to yourself.

There is talk in certain, shall we say, “corridors of power” here in Washington about an “Ultimate Solution” to the whole Arab-Israel Gordian Knot that is so breathtaking and mind-blowing that I’d just like to keep it between ourselves for now.

Here’s the background and the outline.

We start with how the countries of the Middle East were created out of the shards of the broken-up Ottoman Empire after World War I. The Brits were trying to colonize as many pieces as they could by installing various sheikhs of the Hashem family as their rulers.

The family claimed descent from Mohammed himself (via a daughter as he had no sons), and were thus in charge of maintaining Islam’s holiest shrine, the Kaaba mosque at Mecca. An obscure British junior officer, T.E. Lawrence (made famous by the dispatches of journalist Lowell Thomas who dubbed him “Lawrence of Arabia”), promised the family’s leader, the Sharif of Mecca, kingdoms for his sons if they led an Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks.

The holy Moslem cities of Mecca and Medina were in a region of the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula called the Hejaz. Thus the Sharif’s eldest son was anointed by the British as King Ali of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz in the wake of WWI, while another became King Faisal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Syria.

The French, however, thought Syria was theirs, so they organized a revolt against Faisal. A third son of the Sharif, Abdullah, raised an army and started off from Mecca to rescue his brother. By the time he got to the end of the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba, Faisal had been thrown out of Damascus and the Brits were on their way to giving him the consolation prize of a Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.

Abdullah was now in the territory between Hejaz and Syria designated by the British, in accordance with the Balfour Declaration, as the Jewish National Homeland. All the focus here was on Jerusalem and west of the Jordan. No one was paying any attention to the desert wastelands east of the Jordan. Noticing this and having nothing else to do with his army, Abdullah exclaimed the Arabic equivalent of carpe diem, and announced that he was now the ruler of the Jewish National Homeland east of the Jordan River.

The British, of course, should have sent a military detachment and sent Abdullah hightailing it back to Mecca. But they didn’t. And so the country of Jordan came into being, first as the Emirate of Trans-Jordan, then the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which it is to this day. Its current ruler, Abdullah II, is the great-grandson of Abdullah Hashem.

But what happened to the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz? It was conquered by the Saudis. The Saudi patriarch, Abdul Azizz Ibn Saud, and his army, swept out of the sands of central Arabia in 1924, kicked the Hashemites out, and annexed the Hejaz together with the holy cities of Mecca and Medina as part of Ibn Saud’s private kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The bottom line to focus on at this point is the bottomless depths to which the Hashem family, led now by Abdullah II of Jordan, hates the Saudis’ guts.

That’s background fact #1. Here’s #2. Only the ruling elite of Jordan’s population is Hashemite. 70 to 80% of Jordan’s people are Palestinians. In all the clamor for a “Palestinian State” ripped out of Israel, what is never discussed is that there already is a State of Palestine. It’s called Jordan.

With these two facts in mind, let’s concentrate on Saudi Arabia, the world’s primary sponsor of Moslem terrorism, the world’s worst religious dictatorship, the world’s worst violator of women’s rights, the world’s largest supplier of the world’s most important resource — oil — which is run by the world’s most corrupt family composed of 40,000 Royal Leeches (called “Princes”) driving it into complete financial ruin.

Saudi Arabia is a time bomb. Its people could explode in rage against the Royals when there isn’t enough money to placate them any longer.

Keep all three of these descriptions in mind simultaneously, start thinking out of the box, and the Ultimate Solution suddenly emerges.

This is one way it would come down. An emissary of the President pays a visit to Abdullah II in Amman, Jordan’s capital, to ask: “How would you like to get the Hejaz back? Have your family rule Mecca and Medina as they did for so many centuries, and reap the vast revenues that come from overseeing the Hadj (the annual pilgrimage millions of Moslems make to Mecca every year)? More to the point: How would you like to exchange Jordan for the Hejaz?“

It would be an offer the Hashemites couldn’t refuse. Yet Abdullah II would ask in return: But what happens to Jordan? The answer is: It becomes Palestine. All the Palestinians living in Jordan would have their own country. All the Palestinians living in the “West Bank” and Gaza of Israel, all the Palestinians living in the squalid refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon, they get to move to their own country.

Israel remains whole, in one intact piece, peacefully depopulated of Palestinians. Israel is left to the Israelis, and the Palestinian Arabs now get to have a country almost 15 times the size of the entire West Bank and Gaza combined. Meanwhile, the Hashemites are back in their ancestral homeland where they have always dreamed of returning, where they would be welcomed as an uncorrupt sacred family to protect Islam’s holy of holies.

Now for the “Ah, excuse me…” moment. Just how exactly do we get the Saudi Royals to buy into the dismembering of their country, you’re asking, right? The answer is: They get to keep the rest as the alternative is losing it all.

The future of the Saudi Royal Family right now is bleak. They are either going to lose their country or their lives and quite possibly both. The civilized world cannot afford to have Saudi Arabia collapse into chaos — and it cannot hold off the forces driving it into collapse for very much longer.

Radical solutions are going to be necessary and soon. So you might as well go for one that also solves the other monster problem — Israelis vs. Palestinians — at the same time.

At the very least, just the consideration of the Ultimate Solution can be used as an intensely persuasive threat to force the Saudis to stop their financing of terrorist training camps in the Medressas of Pakistan, spreading their Wahhabi fanaticism everywhere including 80% of the mosques and Moslem schools in America, allowing saboteurs to infiltrate into Iraq, and start giving more freedom to their own people.

Remember, let’s keep this between ourselves for now. This is the most exciting proposal for solving seemingly intractable problems in the Middle East for many decades. I’ll keep you posted on its prospects.

As the libs gloat and revel over the travails of Rush Limbaugh, their books bashing Bush take over the bestseller lists, their media hails Democratic presidential wannabes as saintly saviors of America and subjects us to a daily deluge of disaster in Iraq, it's time for the good news.

The now-legendary late-hit of the Los Angeles Times on Arnold five days before the election has had the salutary effect of making the major media's liberal bias unavoidably clear to all.