Dr. Jack Wheeler
AMERICA THE AUTOPHAGOUS
What was it I said about sausage and the law last week? What emerged as "the debt ceiling deal" since could not possibly be called edible sausage. It is such a putrid malodorous maggot-infested dog's breakfast that no non-deranged dog would eat it. Yet it's only the appetizer. The main course America is dining on today is itself. Autophagous mean "self-devouring." Our country is committing suicide by devouring itself. America has become an autophagous nation. I always request a window seat on an airplane. No matter how many times I've flown across the US, I always see something memorably beautiful I've never seen before. To see that beauty below is so heartbreaking now, to gaze down upon such a blessed land so perversely destroying its blessings. Washington DC has long been a fetid fever swamp of political insanity - but the level of lunacy is now full-on psychotic, and on both sides. Both the Dems and the Pubs, both the enemedia and the normally more sane punditry. The editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal were smoking crack when they wrote A Tea Party Triumph on Monday (8/01). To call a $2.4 trillion debt increase a "victory for the forces of smaller government" is way beyond delusional. We're into Flat Earthism here. Folks, the Tea Party Reagan Republicans have been screwed blue and tattooed by Boehner & Co. They got nothing, while Zero got exactly what he wanted all along - enough funny money trillions to spend all the way to his re-election.
THE SUPERCOMMITTEE IS DANGEROUS TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
At this writing, many details of the debt-ceiling deal wrangled out over the weekend remain fuzzy. One thing is clear, unfortunately: The national security of the United States is going to suffer greatly. The Pentagon stands to be whacked by as much as half of the $1.5 trillion that an as-yet-undesignated congressional "supercommittee" is supposed to come up in "deficit reduction" by Thanksgiving. The trouble is that more than $400 billion has already been cut from our national security investments over the past few years. Thus even if no further reductions are made in the spending allocated to defending our people and interests around the world, we will see ominous reductions in the capabilities needed to meet those vital responsibilities. The warnings of what will befall our military and country as a result are beginning to accumulate.
CLEAVER AND SATAN
Black Caucus chairman Democrat Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri produced a headline-garnering sound bite following the passage in Congress of the debt ceiling compromise bill. Even as this bill didn't by any means manage to demonstrate Congress's serious understanding of economic reality, Cleaver said that the bill amounts to "a sugar-coated Satan sandwich" - by which he meant that it amounts to the defiance of centuries of teachings of the world's greatest religions about how one must look out for the poor and needy as one lives one's life. Most all religions do implore us to lend those in need a hand, to help the poor and indigent. Indeed, there is no ethical system that doesn't make some room for this idea. Yet the use to which Rep. Cleaver wants to put this idea is quite perverse. He doesn't urge us to be generous, kind, compassionate, charitable and such. No, he urges us to engage in robbery and to use the loot we obtain by this means to provide help to those the robbers believe should get some of it.
CUTTING THREE GORDIAN KNOTS
[Note from JW: Skye posted this response to Disraeli's Tea on the Forum, which by TTPer acclamation was requested to be a full article. Happy to comply. Also - as I have been on the road so much, Jack Kelly was to write the HFR this week but is unable to do so for health reasons. I apologize for there being no HFR today.] The central government has become so titanic that slowing its rate of growth would simply slightly delay the inevitable crash. The Federalies must be cut down to size, and voting NO on the debt limit increase is currently our best chance for doing so. Vote NO on increasing the debt limit. The deficits must be stopped or America will be pushed over the economic cliff onto the ash heap of history where it will join the Soviet Union. If the deficits are not stopped now, then when? But if they are, you can then cut three Gordion Knots at once that have hogtied our economy.
DISRAELI’S TEA
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), one of Victorian England's most prominent Prime Ministers (1868/1874-1880), once commented to a friend: "There are two things that the public should never be allowed to see how they are made: sausage and the law." We are witnesses today of just how immortally trenchant Disraeli was back in the 19th century. For in truth, observing our politicians handling the current "debt crisis" is a far more repulsive sight than the inside of a sausage factory. If Disraeli were here now, he'd smile sardonically and remind us that (he was fluent in French) plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - the more things change, the more they stay the same. Yet there has emerged a conservative movement determind to put an end to this: the Tea Parties. I have spent the last week criss-crossing the country meeting with Tea Party leaders. My jaunt was capped by a private dinner last night with three Congressmen at the home of one of them on Capitol Hill. While I can't quote any of these folks by name, here's what they said. First the Tea Party leaders.
NORWAY AND THE UNHOLY AXIS OF ISLAMISTS AND THE LEFT
The predictable narrative has already begun to take hold, regarding the despicable, murderous attack by a madman in Norway last Friday (7/22) . The confessed perpetrator of a bombing of government offices in Oslo and a seek-and-destroy slaughter at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island, Anders Behring Breivik, is depicted as a "Christian," "conservative" and "right-wing extremist." His attacks, we are told, were animated by a delusional ambition to save his country from an Islamic takeover. Much remains to be learned about this evident psychopath and his precise motivations for acting in such a deranged fashion. Still, an unholy axis of Moslem Brotherhood operatives and those on the Left - groups whose spokesmen, ironically, endlessly inveigh against precipitous judgments when jihadists are the perpetrators - have been quick to find in this attack proof of their favorite meme: That conservatives and Christians are as much a threat to domestic tranquility - if not more - than those seeking to impose the totalitarian Islamic politico-military-legal doctrine of Shariah. Somehow, the axis overlooks Mr. Breivik's admiration for the terrorists of Al Qaeda and Iran. In his 1,500 page "manifesto," Mr. Breivik states that he will: "consider working with the enemies of the EU/US hegemony such as Iran, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab or the rest of the devout fractions of the Islamic Ummah with the intention for deployment of small nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical weapons in Western European capitals and other high priority locations."
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/22/11
No doubt who's the HFR Hero of the Week this week, is there? Who else but Congressman Allen West (R-FL)? This guy is becoming the essence of pro-American cool. Pretty soon Allen West jokes will replace Chuck Norris jokes, like "Some people wear Superman pajamas - Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas," or "Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack - his heart isn't foolish enough to attack him." Insert Allen's name in these. On Tuesday (7/19) in response to an attack on him by hyper-lib, hyper-obnoxious Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL, whose district adjoins West's, and is also the current Chair of the Democrat National Committee) on the House floor, West wrote her a letter that has long been deserved. Here's the money quote: "Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up." Dem demands that West apologize are thunderous, to which West is responding with a shrug. At last we have a Republican with major stones, who understands the best defense is a go-for-the-jugular offense, that the way to win is to put your opponent on the defensive, and to stand your ground with no apology. GO ALLEN!
PTOLEMAIC POLITICS
The level of snake-oil shell-game flim-flammery going on in the Washington Circus has now reached levels of Ptolemaic astronomy. Although certain ancient Greek astronomers had argued that the earth revolves around a "central fire" (along with the sun, like the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: Philolaus, 480-385 BC) or the sun (Aristarchos of Samos, 310-230 BC), Christian theologians declared the geocentric astronomy of Ptolemaios (90-168 AD) as official dogma. Geocentrism argues that the earth does not move at the center of the universe, that the sun, planets, and stars revolve around it. Since the earth is the sinful dross of the universe while the heavens are perfect, the sun, stars, and planets revolve around it in perfect circles. The problem, among others, is that they do not have circular orbits in regular motion. Especially the planets, which is the Greek word for "wanderers." From the earth, they appear to stop, reverse, and switch direction at various times - whence, e.g., the expression "Mercury in retrograde." This is an illusion, caused by the earth's orbit around the sun being slower or faster than those of other planets (like cars going slower or faster than you on a race track). The only way for Ptolemaic geocentrists to explain planetary wandering was to invent "epicycles" (orbits within orbits) that spun around a make-believe point called an "equant" which was the center of a make-believe orbit called a "deferent." What they ended up with looks remarkably like the schemes Dems and Rinos are inventing to explain how to solve the debt ceiling problem, as convoluted as what the special-interest, crony-capitalist, constitution-trashing universe of the federal government has become. Call it Ptolemaic politics. It needs to be junked, like Ptolemaic astronomy was. There is a way to do this.
AMERICANS ARE MORE COURAGEOUS THAN THEIR PRESIDENT
Amidst this debt ceiling debate, this president and his Democrat minions' arguments have descended from straw men to bogeymen in their attempts to scare Americans. Our seniors were told their hard-earned Social Security checks would be stopped. Our brave veterans were told the services our grateful nation provides them (never mind that there is much more we could do) could be stopped. Our entire citizenry was told America could face an economic Armageddon. But we Americans are more courageous than the president and Democrats credit us. Thus, we must tell President Obama and his minions to stop; join with Republicans to seize this moment to cut, cap and balance the federal budget; and start restructuring Washington Big Government into Main Street self-government.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/15/11
The current crisis du jour over the debt ceiling makes me think of Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Flynn's best friend was David Niven, with whom he starred in a number of movies. Flynn was the handsomest and most charming man in Hollywood. It was impossible not to like him - or as many a Hollywood actress attested, not to love him. Yet Flynn had a fatal character flaw - his unreliability. As Niven once commented: "You can depend on Errol to always let you down." Just like Republicans. We can hope against hope, but in the end, you know they're going to cave. Trump's assessment looks accurate: they are doing "another el foldo." Aside from begging LtCol Allen West to smack Boehner and Cantor upside their heads and ordering them to take the debt ceiling hill, what can we do?
THE SPEECH I’D GIVE IF I WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
I am running for president because freedom in America is being systematically destroyed by Demagogues in Washington, and I am determined to restore it. That capital "D" is there because it is the more appropriate label for Democrats. The Democrat Party should be referred to as the Demagogue Party, and that is what I shall do until the day comes when they abandon their opposition to fundamental American values and their advocacy of Marxist-Fascist ideology. We are gathered here today to discuss solutions to the economic crisis the Demagogues have created - a crisis to which they claim there is no solution. Their Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner, has stated this publicly, saying that for a lot of Americans, their lives are going to be, quote, "harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come." This is a textbook example of Demagogue Marxist idiotic nonsense. Folks, restoring prosperity in America is easy. It can be achieved quickly, virtually overnight. Not automatically. It will require a lot of energy, a lot of focused and intelligent effort by all of us. The solution to America's Malaise is so simple it can be summarized in seven words. Those seven words are:
RESTORING SOUND MONEY
Confidence in the dollar is plummeting, confidence in the euro has been shattered by the European bond crisis, and beleaguered consumers and investors are slowly but surely awakening to the fact that government-issued currencies do not hold their value. A government monopoly on the issuance of money is purely a method of central control over the economy. If you can be forced to accept the government's increasingly devalued dollar, there is no limit to how far the government will go to debauch the currency. Anyone who attempts to create a market based currency-- meaning a currency with real value as determined by markets-- threatens to embarrass the federal government and expose the folly of our fiat monetary system. So the government destroys competition through its usual tools of arrest, confiscation, and incarceration. This is why I have taken steps to restore the constitutional monetary system envisioned and practiced by our Founding Fathers. I recently introduced HR 1098, the Free Competition in Currency Act. This bill eliminates three of the major obstacles to the circulation of sound money:
RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
I am a constitutional conservative. So what does that mean? I've earned a couple of law degrees, but defining "constitutional conservatism" shouldn't require a legal scholar. I believe our founders knew what they were doing when they designed a limited government with specific, enumerated powers. I'm also convinced that many of our problems result from the federal government's insatiable - and unconstitutional - grab for power and money. On issues ranging from light bulbs to bailouts to the Dodd-Frank banking legislation, Washington has been on a destructive spree of bureaucratic empire-building. It's time for that to stop. Moreover, I believe in the unjustly neglected Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/08/11
The HFR Word of the Week is... impeachment. Here are the Constitution's instructions:
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5: "The House of Representatives... shall have the sole power of impeachment." Article I, Section 3, Clause 6: "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present." Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."We'll get to Zero in a moment, but first notice that the process of impeachment applies not only to the president and vice-president, but "all civil officers" of the federal government. This means, e.g., Attorney General Eric Holder and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan can be impeached and removed from office. And the odds are increasing that they will be.
THE 10th ARGUMENT FOR PERRY
Monday's (7/04) unveiling of Ronald Reagan's statue, described in A Reagan Fourth of July, was followed that evening by a black tie Ronald Reagan Centennial Banquet in London's magnificent 14th century Guildhall. Some 800 Reagan admirers attended and I was fortunate to be one of them. I was seated next to a nice lady who was the dean of a prestigious US law school. When she asked who I was supporting for 2012, without hesitation I answered, "Sarah Palin." She blanched. "Palin can't win - so there's no way I could be for her." "So who are you for?" I responded. "Mitt Romney," came her reply. When I made a face, she explained, "For me, it's all about who has the best chance to beat Obama. We simply cannot afford four more years of this guy. I think Romney has the best chance of anyone out there, so I'm for him." "I disagree with your conclusion, but I certainly agree with your premise," was my response. A fellow across the table joined in, an investment banker from Connecticut who now lives in London. "Palin could win, although I'm far from convinced of it. I am convinced, however, that there is someone else in a much better position than Romney to defeat Obama." Our eyes turned to him. "Rick Perry. I think he would slice Obama up like shredded pork and have him for a Texas barbeque."
A REAGAN FOURTH OF JULY
Grosvenor Square, London. 2011 is the centennial year of Ronald Reagan's birth, which is why this Fourth of July brings tears to my eyes like never before. This morning at Grosvenor Square in front of the American Embassy in London, England, I was privileged to be at the unveiling ceremony of the bronze statue of President Ronald Reagan, and heard him praised as one of the most beloved men and finest presidents in US history. Yet it was not simply the praise of past greatness that was so inspiring - it was the optimism for America's future. Condoleezza Rice spoke so clearly of the moral certainty of Ronald Reagan in his goal of ridding the world of Soviet Communism - a goal in which he so triumphantly succeeded. We forget how dark those days were, she said, when at the onset of the Reagan presidency the Soviets were on the verge of victory over us and hope of our winning the Cold War seemed ridiculously Pollyannish. What we need right now, said Condi, is an infusion of Ronald Reagan's unquenchable optimism that America's best days are in her future, not her past, that a moral certainty in America's principles and values will triumph over darkness. Condi is right. This is exactly what we need. We need a Reagan Fourth of July.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/01/11
We have a lot of ground to cover in this HFR, but there's no resisting starting off with a celebration: Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer. The "pelvic abscess" he had removed in Cuba was a malignant tumor that has metastasized. He's only 56, and everyone thought his curse upon his country would last as long as Castro's. This is a great stroke of luck for the world. Chavez is one of those one-man-band dictators whose death presages the end of the dictatorship. If the leader of a tyrannical system is bumped off or dies - say, Ahmadinejad in Iran or Assad in Syria - the system simply replaces him and carries on. The entire system has to be replaced through wholesale and often violent regime change. But knock off a Mugabe or Gaddafi or Chavez and their regime implodes. What happens next will be nightmarish, as the Chavistas get out the guns in desperation to keep their power - but the power is gone, utter chaos will ensue, and in the end the Chavistas will be swept away. Also swept away will be those commie megalomaniacal regimes Chavez's oil billions pays for: Rafael Correa's in Ecuador, Evo Morales' in Bolivia, Danny Ortega's in Nicaragua, and of course, the Castro brothers' in Cuba. Further...
GREECE IN AMERICA
Saranda, Albania. What a spectacular place to enjoy a pint of cold Birra Tirana while contemplating the serene beauty of the Ionian Sea and the turmoil of Greek tragedies. Saranda is at the southern end of a breathtaking coastline known as the Albanian Riviera. Just two miles offshore of Saranda's beaches looms the northern tip of the Greek island of Corfu. Where I am is heavenly. But right over there in Greece, hell is unfolding. It's such a teachable moment regarding the world's most dangerous and addictive drug: OPM. Far more than heroin, cocaine, and meth, once people are mainlining Other People's Money via government subsidies and welfare into their veins, any attempt to get them off the drug drives them criminally insane. It's a lesson we are going to learn the hard way, for what you are seeing in Athens and other Greek cities - which is going to get increasingly worse - is going to become horrifically commonplace in American cities. Truth is, we are seeing it already.
NO RETREAT FROM THE RISE OF FREEDOM
[This is the full text of Tim Pawlenty's address today, 6/28, to the Council on Foreign Relation on American policy towards the Middle East. ] I want to speak plainly this morning about the opportunities and the dangers we face today in the Middle East. The revolutions now roiling that region offer the promise of a more democratic, more open, and a more prosperous Arab world. From Morocco to the Arabian Gulf, the escape from the dead hand of oppression is now a real possibility. Now is not the time to retreat from freedom's rise.... [For example] it is not wrong for Republicans to question the conduct of President Obama's military leadership in Libya. There is much to question. And it is not wrong for Republicans to debate the timing of our military drawdown in Afghanistan- though my belief is that General Petraeus' voice ought to carry the most weight on that question. What is wrong, is for the Republican Party to shrink from the challenges of American leadership in the world. History repeatedly warns us that in the long run, weakness in foreign policy costs us and our children much more than we'll save in a budget line item. America already has one political party devoted to decline, retrenchment, and withdrawal. It does not need a second one.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/24/11
Sofia, Bulgaria. The irony of writing the HFR here this week is overwhelming. I was first here 21 years ago, June of 1990, as the Soviet Union and its colonial empire was disintegrating. I was leading a group of conservatives to be eyewitnesses to momentous history. Among us were Phyllis Schlafly, Dr. Joel Wade, and John Perrott ("albinobushman" on the TTP Forum). There was also a free-lance journalist among us, a young fellow who thought following a Conservative Victory Tour through the collapsing Communist rule of Eastern Europe would make a great story. His name was Richard Stengel, and he is now Editor of Time Magazine. How ironic that this week Time released it's July 4th issue depicting the US Constitution being shredded on the cover, and the cover story - Does It Still Matter? - written by Richard Stengel. The blatant purpose of his screed is to shred conservatives who oppose liberal shredding of the Constitution. Obviously, Stengel has learned nothing about either conservatives nor the Constitution in the last 21 years.
OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY IS ABOUT TO GET MUCH WORSE
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates warned: "To tell you the truth, that's one of the many reasons it's time for me to retire, because frankly I can't imagine being part of a nation, part of a government... that's being forced to dramatically scale back our engagement with the rest of the world." What Gates is saying is that he doesn't trust his commander in chief to allocate the resources to preserve America's superpower status. He is saying that he believes that Obama is willing to surrender the US's status as a superpower. This would be a stunning statement for any defense secretary to make about the policies of a US President. It is especially stunning coming from Gates. Many conservatives hailed Obama's decision to retain Gates as defense secretary as a belated admission that Bush's aggressive counter-terror policies were correct. These claims ignored the fact that in Bush's last two years in office, with the exception of the surge of troops in Iraq, under the guidance of Gates and then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, US foreign policy veered very far to the Left. As bad as it has been so far under Obama with Gates, it is now going to get much worse without him.
A PERSONAL REQUEST TO CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN
This TTP Intel Bulletin comes at the personal request of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Dana is asking as many TTPers as are able to call their Congressman immediately and request they vote NO on HR 1249, the "America Invents Act." The reason for the urgency is that the bill may be voted on tomorrow (6/22). HR 1249's ostensible purpose is to "harmonize" US patent law with patent laws in other places in the world - like China. Yes, that's crazy. Who would want American inventors to be ripped off by Chicoms and their phony laws?
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/17/11
This is the cover of this week's European issue of The Economist magazine: 
If the British newsmagazine had the intellectual courage of long ago, the North American edition would of course had the same cover title, but instead of a smiling photo of Berlusconi, it would have been one of Zero. Far more than his counterpart in Italy, Zero is indeed The Man Who Screwed An Entire Country - our country, America. We will be years repairing the damage he has done. The Economist cover is crying out to be photoshopped with a smiling Zero. Any TTPer care to?
POLITICAL ENERGY
Varna, Bulgaria. This stunning city on the Black Sea is 6,000 years old, starting with a settlement dated at 4100 BC from which archaeologists have unearthed a huge array of gold artifacts. Today it is one of Europe's most popular sea resorts, thus this is being written from a balcony overlooking a shimmering blue expanse of a sea called black. I'm with a wonderful group of TTPers exploring opportunities here. Varna is in northeastern Bulgaria. Late last month (5/28), Chevron announced it has received a license to explore a shale gas deposit in this region that it estimates contains a trillion cubic meters (35 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas. This is good news for Bulgaria, and very bad news for the world's greatest thief, crook, thug, and gangster. This is just one example of how fracking is the most politically revolutionary technology of modern times.
MR. OBAMA’S APPALLING BIZARRE NONSENSE ON MISSILE DEFENSE
As Governor, I fought the Obama Administration's plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled "Giving Away the Farm," concerning President Obama's latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense. President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can't buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?
HAS OBAMA DELIBERATELY HARMED ISRAELI COVERT OPS IN IRAN?
One of the secrets about Western trade with enemy states like Iran is that the Western companies trading with them may also wittingly or unwittingly serve as espionage assets for their home country or for other Western countries. The boycott drive against states like Iran uses a legalistic framework to deal with complex military challenges. And since the nail doesn't exactly fit the hole, it stands to reason that the damage sanctions can do to military or intelligence operations may in certain circumstances outweigh the benefit they bring to diplomatic operations. Late last month (5/24), the State Department announced that it was sanctioning the shipping company of Israel's richest family, the Ofer Brothers, for reportedly violating US law by trading with Iran. Ever since, there has been a deluge of news reports alleging that the Ofer Brother's ships were used by the Mossad and perhaps the IDF to infiltrate and exfiltrate agents into and out of Iran. There are number of troubling aspects to this story.
WHY OBAMA WILL BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There's hardly a better vantage point to see why Zero's re-election chances are zero than here. This is a ridiculous place. Humorless, irredeemably boring, five million regimented people living in a desert wasteland that has no excuse for a city other than its rulers have countless billions of our dollars to spend on building it because here is where their fathers and their camels came from. No one would pay the slightest attention to this place if it weren't for oil - and the hundreds of billions that we pay them, via buying their oil, to spread their Wahhabi religious poison all over the earth. There are few things a US president could do to simultaneously and substantially improve our economy and our national security than to enable us and the world to be less dependent on Saudi oil by allowing maximal domestic oil & gas production right here in America. As we all know, Zero is doing precisely the opposite. He is conducting a War on Oil - just ask most anyone in Louisiana for proof - instead. He's also conducting a War on Jobs - just ask anyone unemployed. And a War on Business - just ask any entrepreneur. And a War on the Dollar - just ask anyone who buys food and gasoline. Yet Zero's War on the American Economy is not his greatest vulnerability - for there is another factor that will play an even larger role in his being a one term president. In fact, it will ensure his failure to get re-elected.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/03/11
No doubt, this has been the punniest week of modern times. We're talking about - of course - Weinergate. Ask just about any Pub on Capitol Hill who he or she thinks is the most straight-out obnoxious loud-mouthed partisan jerk in the whole of Congress, and even though there's a lot of competition they'll invariably say, "Weiner." Or they'll simply say his nickname by which he's known all over the Hill: "Little"...... * * * * * * Time for a HFR Emergency Alert. Calling all Texas TTPers! Immediate action requested! Here is a Court Order issued by Federal District Court Judge Fred Beiry against a Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas (a community west of San Antonio and Lackland Air Force Base. Specifically, Judge Beiry orders that:
THE DEMOCRATS ARE A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, NOT A POLITICAL PARTY
On Tuesday (5/31), Ron Paul announced that "we are on the verge of having way too much dictatorship in Washington, D.C." Verge? Verge?? The time is way past for verging. Our Federal Government has already become a dictatorship run by a criminal conspiracy calling itself a political party - just as the totalitarian conspiracy of Islamism calls itself a religion. We owe no respect whatever to a fascist ideology posing as a religion - and we owe no respect whatever to a criminal gang posing as a political party. The time is way past for ending the charade. If it is not ended now - if the Democrat Gang retains the White House in 2012 - then game over for America. We'll itemize a few of the legion of examples of the Gang's criminality - but at the outset, let's clearly state the purpose here. It is of mortal importance for our future that we deny legitimacy to the Democrats. They are not a legitimate political party advocating legitimate political goals. They are a collection of looters, gangsters, thugs, extortionists, hustlers, shakedown specialists, scam artists, smooth-talking con-men, and mafiosi. All banded together to steal our money and control our lives with guns.
CANADA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Serving as an active Member of Parliament in Canada, and Chairman of both the Parliament's Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs & International Development, and on International Trade, I have had the unique opportunity to participate firsthand in the changes that our Conservative Government has implemented since taking power. These changes have made our country more competitive on the commercial scene and more attractive for investors. But we intend to do more. Since the Conservatives first came to office in 2006, we have cut taxes and removed barriers that have previously served to not only stifle business development, but to actually drive it away. We did this as a minority government, governing with a coalition of parties as we did not have an absolute majority of seats. That changed with last month's elections on May 2, when Conservatives won 167 out of the 308 seats in Parliament. This frees us to cut taxes and remove stifling barriers more than ever.
NO VOTING RIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS – EVER!
No one who broke our laws to enter this country should ever decide who becomes our president, a member of Congress, a governor or mayor, or a member of the local school board. This is the non-negotiable “die line” those who love our country must defend: We cannot permit a huge criminal voting block to determine our future.
And every person who entered this country without our government’s formal permission is a criminal. Period.
Democrat Party operatives embed their public arguments for amnesty for eleven-million illegals in terms of human dignity and decency. The reality? Democrat Party support for amnesty for illegals comes down to one word: “Votes.” For Dems, it's all about a permanent electoral majority - not human dignity.
The Dems would love to do to Hispanics what they've done to African-Americans: Destroy their strong family values, addict them to government programs, discourage them from pursuing good educations and liberating careers -- then herd them to polling stations to vote for Democrats anointed by party commissars.HALF-FULL REPORT 05/27/11
OK, let's all try to remain calm. Do your best not to dance on a tabletop, hurt your back doing cartwheels, or yelling WHAHOO!! so loud you'll frighten the neighbors. But there's no doubt, boys and girls: Sarah's going for it. Game on. The clues are many and unmistakable. Telling Greta she has the fire in her belly. Buying a campaign headquarters home in Arizona. Kicking her campaign off with a two-hour documentary on her life that first opens next month (June) in movies theatres in Iowa, then New Hampshire, then South Carolina, then Nevada - the exact initial caucus/primary schedule - then nationwide. This Sunday (5/29), she rolls into Washington DC to appear at the Rolling Thunder patriotic motorcycle rally. Don't be surprised if she shows up at the Washington Monument riding a Harley. Next week, she continues up the east coast all the way to New Hampshire. Enough clues for ya? You betcha.
THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Zero visited Westminster Abbey on their trip to London this week (5/24), and signed the guestbook. Mrs. Zero just signed her name. Mr. Zero wrote a message - "It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice" - then signed and dated it: 24 May 2008. Yes, 2008. You can see for yourself. There's no way around it. This is a teachable moment that goes far beyond pointing out what massive ridicule would have befallen George Bush or Sarah Palin had they made such a stupid mistake, yet is ignored and brushed aside by the OPM - Obama Propaganda Media - and the worshippers of the Cult of Zero.. There are two lessons to be taught and learned, one about Zero himself, the other about his followers.
HOW DANGEROUS IS MR. OBAMA TO ISRAEL?
As I noted on Judge Jeanine Pirro's show this weekend, I reject President Obama's idea that Israel must cede back its territories to the 1967 line. Will we now be in the habit of telling our allies what their borders should be? Should Prime Minister Netanyahu suggest we return to our 1845 borders before the annexation of the southwest of the United States during the Mexican-American War? Should we give back parts of Texas, New Mexico, and California? But the problem is even deeper. In both his State Department speech last Thursday (5/19) and his speech Sunday (5/22) at AIPAC, President Obama made some seemingly specific comments about the Palestinian state that he wants to see created. He either misspoke or he has even more dangerous plans for our friends in Israel than he is publicly admitting.
REDNECK WOMAN
Last night (5/21) on Fox News, while denouncing the historical and geographical ignorance of America's "temporary leader," Sarah Palin revealed that she wants her cell phone ringtone to be country star Gretchen Wilson's Redneck Woman. Wilson campaigned for Palin and performed at her campaign rallies in 2008 - and will do so again next year. Nothing quite epitomizes Palin's appeal to Americans like this song. The fundamental dividing line of political power, of freedom vs. fascism in America today, is not between Democrats and Republicans. It is between the Court Party and the Country Party. One way to get this is to watch and listen to Gretchen Wilson's Redneck Woman (video and lyrics below)- and ask yourself, what other presidential candidate would have the nerve to embrace this song that spits in the face of the Power Establishment?
A PURBLIND PRESIDENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
In his latest lecture to the Middle East, an ideologically purblind President Obama has again failed to acknowledge the facts on the ground, much to the detriment of American and Israeli strategic interests. First, the President continues to confound "popular uprisings" with America's strategic interests. This fails to account for the inherent danger that such movements can be usurped - if not instigated and abetted by - radical elements bent upon usurping them for anti-American purposes, as is increasingly evident in Egypt. Secondly, the President's ill-conceived and incoherent policy and mission creep in Libya has now resulted in the administration's diminished willingness to promptly call for Syria's Assad to exit power; ergo, we witness the Obama Administration being more resolute in precipitously demanding the removal of an ally in Egypt than of an enemy in Syria - let alone in Iran. Succinctly, the removal of a murderous terrorist regime that stole a popular uprising in 1979, and its indigenous replacement with a true, free, anti-terrorist republic, will serve as an example and deterrent to the present movements being perverted by would be despots. Such strategic celerity, though, is lacking in the Obama Administration. For, as is becoming abundantly clear, its missteps and missed opportunities stem from the President's inconstant commitment to the strategic partnership that founds America's Middle Eastern policies for our national security and regional peace: the American-Israeli alliance.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/20/11
Feeling dizzy? Join the club. This week has been such a whirlwind it can make anyone's head spin. Before we step into the maelstrom, though, big thanks to Jack Kelly for writing such an outstanding HFR last week! So, here we go, and look at all this fun stuff. Three pretend-conservative presidential wannabes took themselves out. On Saturday (5/14), the Huckster said "My heart says no." On Monday (5/16), the Trumpster said "You're fired!" to himself. In between on Sunday (5/15), Newtie neutered his just-announced campaign by condemning Paul Ryan's budget as "right-wing social engineering." Good riddance to all three. And good riddance to terminally obnoxious Ron Paul who last week denounced the killing of Osama bin Laden, and in return has now been named Moron Paul for his anti-American foreign policy idiocy. The only folks supporting him after this will be Blame-America-First Libertarians - the "hippies of the right," as Ayn Rand called them. * * * * * * * That said, Newt does have his uses....
EXPLORING THE LAND WITHOUT FAMINE: JUNE 11-18
Last month, in Food Crisis and Opportunity, we talked about the coming global crisis in food production. Next month as promised, I, along with my wife Rebel, Alex Alexiev, and Joel Wade, are going lead 20 TTPers to Bulgaria to learn how to profit from the crisis. I fell in love with Bulgaria when I was first there as the Soviet empire was collapsing in early 1990. There's thousands of years of history - Bronze Age tribes, the Ancient Greeks, the Romans, medieval Christian kingdoms, hidden monasteries protecting Christianity from centuries of Moslem oppression by the Ottoman Turks, finally gaining independence in 1908 only to lose it to the Soviet Union during World War II, and now free at last. And all through this, Bulgarians forged and kept a Christian culture and heritage. People come from all over the world to visit the extraordinary monasteries such as Rila or Ivanovo (World Heritage Sites, we'll visit both) the Bulgarians built to preserve their culture from Moslem imperialism. Even more visitors - hordes in the height of the summer - come to vacation on the gorgeous beaches of Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. In the winter, skiers flock to ski resorts high in the Balkan mountains. It's a country of such profusion of flowers everywhere there's an entire valley called the Valley of Roses. You couldn't ask for a more hospitable warm-hearted people - or ask for a better way to be shown hospitality, for Bulgarians really know how to make good wine and are more than happy to share a glass with you at every opportunity. And speaking of opportunity... Bulgaria is so fertile it's known as The Land Without Famine, and the agricultural opportunities are truly extraordinary. That's what we'll be focusing on - while taking time for adventure, exploration and fun. Here's the itinerary:
Chapter VI: ISLAMISM IN EUROPE
The Main Enemy: Islamism Chapter VI: Islamism in Europe The rise of Radical Islam in Europe, and especially Western Europe, is closely tied to the explosive growth of the Moslem immigrant populations in the continent. While the efforts to establish Islamist organizations and networks, such as those of the Moslem Brotherhood under Said Ramadan (1926-1995), predated the waves of Moslem immigration in the 1960s and 1970s, it was the massive numbers of new immigrants, more often than not concentrated in compact Moslem ghettoes, that created the ideal conditions for spreading Islamist ideology. An understanding of the radicalization problem therefore necessitates a brief discussion of the Moslem immigration and consequent population explosion phenomenon in Europe.
OBAMACARE WILL CREATE A NATION OF FRAUDS
I've become accustomed to dealing with folks who claim to have done things they haven't done and to be people they aren't. In a near-perfect world, one would just write these people off as nutcases who don't deserve second thoughts. Let me explain. I was a Navy SEAL for 27 years, and one of my hobbies in retirement is exposing those cretins who falsely claim to have been SEALs. You can see how we do this at our website, stolenvalor.com. In fact, just day before yesterday (5/15), newspapers across the country ran an AP story about us, Sleuths Who Expose Pretend SEALs. What really gets my dander up though, is when these sad sacks use fabricated military histories, complete with made-up war stories about how they got PTSD or bad backs or trick knees, to justify receipt of Veterans Administration disability benefits. I could cite example after example of stories these phonies tell their friends and VA counselors (who are sometimes one and the same), but the critical point is how VA fraud is predictive of what will happen when Obamacare wraps its tentacles around the health industry.