Dr. Jack Wheeler
COUNTERING RUSSIA’S WIN-LOSE WITH WIN-WIN
[This is the text of a speech I am giving today, 11/05, at a NATO conference on Global Security in Paris, sponsored by the US Defense Dept. and French Ministry of Defense. In attendance are ministers of defense and ambassadors from several European countries, as well as those from Russia and China.]
I’d like to ask you to perform a thought experiment. The key is to make it as real as you can in your mind, as if it’s actually happening.
Suppose there’s an ornate marble mausoleum in the center Berlin, Germany right now. Inside, enclosed in a glass case, is the preserved embalmed body of Adolph Hitler lying in state, with long lines of Germans waiting to reverentially pass by and pay their solemn respects to the Nazi leader.
Hard to imagine but hardly unimaginable. We all know that Hitler was trying to build nuclear weapons. Let’s suppose his scientists led by Kurt Diebner and Erich Schumann were successful, so that WWII ended with Truman nuking Hiroshima and Hitler nuking Leningrad – the war thus concluding not with the defeat of Nazi Germany but in a Mexican Standoff.
In the ensuing Cold War between the West and the Third Reich, Hitler would rapidly colonize Eastern Europe from the Baltics to the Balkans, and the entire Soviet Union. In response, the West formed NATO to protect itself from Nazi imperialism.
When Hitler died in March 1953 from warfarin poisoning slipped into his wine by the chief of the Gestapo, his body was placed in the Berlin mausoleum as a shrine of worship, and statues of him erected throughout the Nazi Empire.
Hitler and his successors of course suppressed all knowledge of the Jewish Holocaust, which was researched only by little known scholars such as Robert Conquest of Stanford. The horrific atrocity everyone knew about instead was the Holomodor, Stalin’s genocide of 12 to 15 million Ukrainians.
At last when the Nazi Empire broke down and collapsed in 1991, Nazi colonies like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltics, Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia wasted no time in declaring their liberation, tearing down statues of Hitler, and asking to join NATO.
It was thought that Germany would now become part of the West at last, with a genuine peace that would include even its membership in NATO, but it was not to be. The successor government to the Nazis would remain antagonistic, its leader declaring that the collapse of the Nazi Empire was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." Hitler would remain enshrined in his Berlin mausoleum, Germany’s leader said, as “removing him would imply that generations had observed false values” during 58 years of Nazi rule.”
Of course you all see the analogy and some may incensed at it. And that’s the crux of the problem, the refusal to recognize the deep equivalence between Nazism and Communism, also known as Marxism-Leninism.
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Join the forum discussion on this postHALF-FULL REPORT 10/30/15
Cruz’s detonation of the ludicrously biased 3 main CNBC moderators was the most enjoyable highlight of the debate Wednesday night (10/28). And it will serve a most useful purpose – tearing people’s attention away from the Kim Kardashian of presidential candidates and towards those who actually have something to say.
It may take a while for this to sink in. The Drudge Poll yesterday (10/29) said Trump was the clear winner with 48%, with Cruz at 25% and Rubio under 13%. Let’s be just as clear: anyone who thought Trump won is retarded. Read the debate transcript and see for yourself.
It’s likely then that before long we’ll be left with the Final Four: Cruz, Carson, Rubio, and Fiorina. You may be surprised by Fiorina, but she had a great debate – if you rate substance over style and personality games. Here’s examples…
Let’s get this over with fast. What words can adequately express the disgust we all feel at Paul Ryan’s pathological sellout regarding Boehner’s sellout regarding this insane funding of Zero’s deficit spending for the next two years? And the McConnell Senate then passed it in the dead of night. Obama Hails Passage of Two-Year Budget Deal is the headline that sums up the total moral corruption of the Republicans in Congress.
There’s lots more – and we end with an awesome video. Have your headphones on max.
THE ISLAMIST FOX IN EUROPE’S HENHOUSE
This is the question The Economist asked over two years ago in its cover story on June 8, 2013. It’s become clear since that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intention is to be another Ottoman Sultan. Turkey’s elections this Sunday, Nov. 1st, may see if his goal is realized.
That goal extends far beyond the borders of Turkey. This map is a frightening display of it:
This map – published in the London Daily Mail yesterday (10/28) – shows the origins and extent of the Moslem invasion of Europe this year – 680,000 so far with tens of thousands more on the way. It’s easy to see the conduit of the hordes from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria is Turkey.
This is no accident, Comrades. Erdogan (air-doh-wan) wants to achieve the great goal the Ottoman Sultans never could – the Islamization of Europe.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/23/15
We have to begin with a HFR Cold Open. Here’s the SNL Cold Open last Saturday (10/17) with Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s impossibly funny bang-on impersonation of Bernie Sanders, Kate McKinnon as a psycho Hillary, Alec Baldwin as Jim Webb, and Jon Rudnitsky as an effeminate Anderson Cooper:
Only a masochist would put themselves through 11 hours of lying by the PIAPS to the Benghazi Committee yesterday. The most despicable moment was when she actually claimed that murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens was joking when he requested more security in Benghazi. The truly depressing problem about Hillary, however, is not Hillary. Here’s the real problem…
There’s lots more, including the dumbest Pub Gov in America, a Zero appointee as Hero of the Week, and the Question of the Week: What are your plans for this coming New Years Eve?
THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE WORLD TODAY
Yesterday – October 21, 2015 – was “Back to the Future Day,” with an uncountable number of news stories comparing the 1989 movie’s predictions for that day to the reality now. BTTF II was the sequel to the original 1985 sci-fi classic, wherein teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is sent back in time to 1955.
Odds are good you’ve seen them both. So let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose you could hop in to Doc Brown’s DeLorean today and go back to 1955 – to a high school like Hill Valley High in the film and talk to the kids. Suppose you somehow convince them you’re really from 2015.
The first thing they’d be startled to learn is the nostalgia 2015 America has for 1950s America as the modern Golden Age. They’d be overjoyed to know America won the Cold War with the Soviet Union ceasing to exist – although stunned by the president who won it.
Then it would get grim. They’d probably cope with a black US president – but not with a president who hated his own country and whose every policy was purposefully designed to destroy America’s economy, security, and standing in the world.
And when you described America’s cultural degradation – the black race riots and rampant racial hatred for whites, the tsunami of vulgarity washing over every form of entertainment, the Supreme Court forcing every state to recognize the legality of homosexuals “marrying” each other – there’s no doubt what their reaction would be.
They would throw up. They would get physically sick to their stomach and barf. They’d say, “That’s 60 years from now. I hope I die before then.” “That means the children I have will create this world – and that means I should never have children.”
At this point, suppose you say, “Wait a moment, I’ll be right back,” hop in your DeLorean and transport yourself to the America of 2020.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/16/15
Warsaw, Poland. I’m here for briefings and consultations with my Polish friends very concerned about the state of affairs in the only country that stands between them and the omnivorous Russian bear.
“It’s very hard for us to comprehend how fast America is deteriorating under Obama,” one of them commented. “We all saw that report this week (10/12) that leaders of an EU government believe Obama is ‘quite mentally unwell.’ We don’t know what government the report is quoting because we know of several EU governments who feel this way.”
“They probably saw that 60 Minutes interview of him the night before,” another chimed in, “where he said, ‘My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change’.” Everyone laughed – until someone said, “Actually, that isn’t funny, that is crazy.”
And Zero’s craziness never lets up. On Monday (10/12), he issued an (anti-) Columbus Day Proclamation, in keeping with this libtard effort to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.
Personally, I think conservatives should embrace the idea – as you couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to have more fun exposing liberal hypocrisy. Here’s how…
That Zero’s rabidly left craziness has infected the entire Democrat party was on ample display Tuesday night (10/13) during the debate of its prez candidates. The PIAPS was ecstatically declared the winner by the Enemedia because she was better than the pathetic losers she was up against…
There’s more, it’s another fun HFR, and we’re sure you’ll like the Hero of the Week.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/09/15
Lurch Lost. You can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the 7th Floor of Foggy Bottom all the way across the Potomac.
John F’n Kerry was glued to the big flat screen in his palatial office at 5:01am this morning – 11:01am Oslo time – expecting to watch Kaci Kullman Five, Chairlady of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announce him along with his BTF (Best Terrorist Friend), Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, winner of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
For a man possessed of such towering egomaniacal arrogance that it equals or even succeeds Zero’s, it was a crushing humiliation to learn the winner instead was a group of Tunisians no one had ever heard of….
The latest international mystery is how ISIS has acquired all those shiny new Toyota SUVs. ABC (10/06) can’t figure it out. The New York Daily News says (10/07) both the US government and Toyota in Japan are “stumped.”
This is Lying Swine journalism at its coverup best. Of course Langley and Toyota Global knows exactly where they’re coming from and how ISIS got them….
Arnie Steinberg sure called it in TTP on Monday (10/05), when he said Kevin McCarthy should withdraw from the race for Speaker. McCarthy did so yesterday (10/08). His gaffe on Benghazi, as Arnie explained, was irreparable. Now what?
Here’s a heads up! Next Tuesday (10/13) will be the first Dem presidential candidate debate. You’ll be surprised to see who’ll steal the show….
“Why aren’t we seeing Hillary’s lovers? There’s a (media) coverup on this… She is old and she’s sick. She is not a contender. They’re making her a contender with these propped up Saturday Night Live things; it’s like a head on a stick.” That’s Matt Drudge on Alex Jones. Here’s the full video….
There’s so much more. It’s a fun HFR this week.
OBAMA’S SHUTDOWN
Obama Squeezes Republican Throats on Defense Spending. That’s the headline regarding Zero’s latest veto threat if he doesn’t get his way.
So Zero is willing to defund America’s military if he can’t close Gitmo and release its terrorists back into the world.
It’s only the latest example of Zero’s Imperial Emperorship’s contempt for Republicans and their leadership. One of the great ironies of America today is that virtually all conservatives in the country feel the same as Zero.
Ted Cruz last week (9/28) brilliantly explained on the floor of the Senate the cause of conservative contempt.
No money may be spent by the federal government unless it is authorized by the House with the Senate concurring. Yet on any budget funding the government, if Congress’ budget defunds (refuses to fund) anything Zero wants – Obamacare, amnesty for illegals, Planned Parenthood, the Iran Sellout – Zero has a hissy fit and declares “I, Barack Obama, will veto funding for the entire federal government and shut it down,” and Republican leadership folds like a cheap suit.
There is an easy cure for this, for Pubs in Congress to stop being Obama-bootlicking surrender monkeys.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/02/15
What happens when a sociopathic narcissist gets completely humiliated in front of the entire world by a man he hates?
We’re about to find out. Odds are it won’t be anything smart. As Charles Krauthammer points out in Obama’s Syria Debacle yesterday (10/01), Zero has no one to blame but himself for Putin making him an object of humiliated ridicule.
WWRRD? Of course, Putin would never have even dreamed of going in to Syria if he were up against a Ronald Reagan instead of a metrosexual p**sy. But let’s suppose that by some magic wand miracle, Zero had a personality transplant and decided to max out Putin’s vulnerabilities….
The real problem with Zero, however, is not that he’s a p**sy. He’s completely ruthless when dealing with domestic opposition, be they Pubs or the occasional wayward Dem like Bob Menendez, whom he’s trying to put in jail for opposing him on Iran.
The real problem is that he’s a black racist who hates America as much as the racist scum of #BlackLivesMatter, who wants God to damn America just like Jeremiah Wright. Michael Ramirez sums it up….
Couldn’t be a more apposite time to honor the HFR Hero of the Week, as he’s such a total contrast to Zero.
Yesterday (10/01), Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu delivered one of the most courageous and historic speeches in the existence of the United Nations. Here the video of the most dramatic moment….
There’s lots more in this HFR. We’ll close with an uplifting story emerging out of the murderous anti-Christian horror at Umpqua Community College in Oregon yesterday (10/01).
HEALTH FREEDOM VS. OBAMACARE FASCISM
It is critical to understand that Obamacare is fascist. Exactly why is explained below. Further, The House Pubs have voted to repeal Obamacare 60 times and are now going for 61 – all without a bill of their own to radically improve healthcare for all Americans.
Simply repealing Obamacare is playing defense. The Pubs need to go on the offense with pro-free market anti-fascist healthcare legislation of their own. Real free market medicine – not phony-crony corporatist medicine where Big Government colludes with Big Medicine, Big Insurance, and Big Pharma to restrict competition.
Such Health Freedom legislation would not only fully repeal Obamacare but include:
*Open enrollment in medical schools.*Greatly reduce hospital administrative costs.*Eliminate state mandates and regulatory barriers on health insurance.*Give health care providers a tax credit for charity work.*Restore the 100% deductibility of health care expenses.*Reduce and provide an alternative to malpractice insurance costs.*Repeal the Kefauver Amendment (the efficacy requirement for FDA drug approval)*Allow truthful health claims for nutritional supplements.*Remove government restrictions on the importation of foreign drugs.*Allow the purchase of non-controlled medications without prescription.
TTPers are encouraged to send this to their congressman, senators, and local media.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/25/15
“Is the Pope Catholic?”
All our lives it’s been the standard rhetorical response to any question that obviously should be answered yes. Who ever dreamed it would one day be a real question? That day came yesterday (9/24) with Francis’ ghastly speech to Congress (the link is to the full transcript).
Isn’t he supposed to be the Vicar of Christ? Isn’t the whole point of his church to be about salvation via Jesus? Yet he delivered a boring trite clichéd libtard political diatribe that didn’t mention either “Jesus” or “Christ” once – do a word search in the link and you’ll see.
He’s a “liberation theology” Marxist Poseur Pope with the narcissistic effrontery to lecture us on freedom and opportunity. He didn’t even have the courage to denounce abortion to the Dem proponents of evil incarnate Planned Parenthood sitting right in front of him…
Of course, the big news – reallllllly big! as Ed Sullivan would say – today is Boehner’s resignation. Let’s not pop any champagne corks just yet, but at the very least this calls for a finger or two of Famous Grouse. Here’s what a Congressista I talked to had to say…
Anyone see dots connecting these stories?
Army Times, Saturday 9/19: President Nominates First Openly Gay Army Secretary.New York Times, Sunday 9/20: US Soldiers Told to Ignore Abuse of Boys in Afghanistan.London Daily Mail, Wednesday, 9/23: Army Rejects Appeal of Green Beret Kicked Out for Stopping Afghan for Raping 12 Year-Old Boy….
In the Not All Chinese Are Smart Department this week, and in honor of Chief Chicom Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House today, we bring you the story of Chinese Vice Admiral Yuan Yubai, commander of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) North Sea Fleet…
And what presidential candidate told this joke at the Value Voters Summit in DC this afternoon? “President Xi of China is at the White House today. The world press’ attention is focused on this historic meeting between the world’s most powerful Communist… and the leader of China.”
Here’s the video of his speech – it’s fabulous.
CRUZ AND THE CHICOM
Tonight (9/24), China’s Chief Chicom – Xi Jinping (shee-jhun-ping), General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People’s Republic of China – will have a private “working dinner” at the White House with President Zero.
Tomorrow (9/24) comes all the pomp – 21-gun salute on the South Lawn, Rose Garden joint Zero-Xi press conference, lunch at State with Lurch and SloJo, reception at Capitol Hill, formal State Dinner at the White House with Zero and Xi toasting each other in eternal friendship. That’s all public ceremony. The important meeting is dinner tonight.
It will be child’s play for Xi to play Zero like a Stradivarius and smoke him like a Gurkha Black Dragon. Xi is a vastly more intelligent, knowledgeable, ruthless, and competent leader than our pathetic know-nothing narcissist. But what if he were up against an American president his equal in both brainpower and willpower? A president as determined to defend his country as Xi is his?
Not a President Trump, whom Xi would simply stroke his ego until Trump was purring on his lap. No, someone truly smart and savvy.
What would the conversation be tonight if Xi were having that working dinner with a President Ted Cruz? It would go something like this.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/18/15
After discussing Carly’s triumph and all the Hillary-inspired hit pieces on her, plus a variety of takeaways from Wednesday’s debate, we come to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
As the moderate leader of the Labor Party (the Brits’ Democrats) from 1994-2007, he’s aghast that his party would elect as its leader a 100% Marxist Moonbat on the side of every Moslem terrorist group there is, Jeremy Corbyn. This happened last Saturday (9/12).
Yet Blair sees something far larger than just Brit party politics. He sees what’s in common with political manias over Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Alexis Tsipras in Greece, Marine Le Pen in France and elsewhere. He calls it the Politics of Parallel Reality, “in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.”
We discuss illegal immigration, worse in Europe than even in the US – and how TTP’s long-expressed fears of the real reason behind our flood of illegals became clear yesterday.
There’s hopeful news: Breitbart is reporting (9/14) that the odds are growing for Boehner’s removal as Speaker. Puzzling news about Scott Walker – and great news about The PIAPS: her support among Democrat women has collapsed – down 29% in the last 8 weeks, 71% in July to 42% now.
There’s lots here in the HFR this week, including unusually inspiring Heroes of the Week. Let’s get started.
SUMMER DAYS SUMMER NIGHTS ARE GONE
Summer Days Summer Nights Are Gone is a funky Bob Dylan rocker from his Love and Theft album of 2001. He’s performed it all over the world – the link is a video of his doing so in Tel Aviv in June 2011.
A very appropriate location – which we’ll discuss after we talk about this verse of the song and the Pub debate last night (9/16):
Well the fog's so thick you can't spy the land Well the fog's so thick that you can't even spy the land What good are you anyway if you can't stand up to some old businessman
Weddin' bells are ringin' and the choir is beginning to sing Yes, the weddin' bells are ringin' and the choir's beginning to sing What looks good in the day, at night is another thing
Yes, what we saw last night was summer days coming to an end for The Donald. Here’s how it happened. Then we’ll see how summer days are gone for Israel as well. As they should be.
THE LAST SHANGRI-LA
Lo Manthang, Kingdom of Lo, Mustang, Nepal. “Shangri-La” is, of course imaginary, the fictional invention of an “earthly paradise” by author James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon.
Shangri-La in the minds of millions epitomizes the spiritual serenity and wisdom of the exotic Orient. That’s why the Tibetan Kingdom of Lo with its 600 year-old medieval walled capital city of Lo Manthang in an almost inaccessibly remote region of Nepal called Mustang, on the border with Chinese-occupied Tibet, is so often described as the real, or the last, Shangri-La.
But is it such an earthly paradise that you would want to live here? No. Besides living so utterly isolated from the rest of the world with very few “mod-cons” (modern conveniences of daily life), you’d also be living in that four-letter word that Zero is so full of.
The Lo-pa live with their animals. You might be able to handle sheep pellets, albeit they are in uncountable numbers. The cattle cowpies splattered along every alley in Lo Manthang is another matter. Any walk you take in the ancient walled city is a hopscotch.
Thus the Kingdom of Lo is not Shangri-La. Is there another? One place left on our planet, the Last Shangri-La?
THE LONG STRANGE TRIP
Kathmandu, Nepal. Years ago, Joel Wade and I were here after completing a month-long expedition across the entire Tibetan Plateau and through the Himalayas. We spotted a t-shirt in the bazaar with an embroidered map of the world with the words stitched around it: What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been.
That’s the famous refrain of the Grateful Dead’s Truckin’ from 1970, and it was so appropriate for what we had just experienced that of course we each got one.
Being here now sparked that memory, causing me to reflect on how appropriate a description it is for the totally bizarre spasm of masochism America has suffered over the last seven years under Zero. The experience of being here now is, on the other hand, a surprising lesson on how to repair the incredible damage Zero has wrought upon our country.
We’ve had spasms of craziness before – the Hippie 60s come to mind – but nothing like this, where Americans en masse are acquiescing to the murder of their country, willfully placing the perp in the White House not once but twice. Here’s the lesson to learn.
THE LAND OF NOAH
Nakhchivan. All of us know the story of Noah and the Ark told in Genesis (chapters 6-9). But do you know where Noah’s grave is?
Genesis 9:28-9 says “Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.” But it doesn’t tell us where.
Yet there is a tradition thousands of years old that he died and is buried here in the Land of Noah – Nakhchivan. “Noah” is the Anglicized spelling of the Hebrew Noach, pronounced “knock” here, spelled “nakh.” “Van” means “land,” “chi” means “of.” (And yes, the map above has the place spelled wrong but it was the best I could find.)
Nakhchivan is an isolated enclave of Azerbaijan, cut off from the rest of the country by a strip of Armenia reaching Iran. You never heard of it because it’s unknown with a strange name – but the name literally means the Land of Noah. His tomb has been built, destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again repeatedly over the millennia. It’s now been built yet again on the original site. Here it is:
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/21/15
The news is so good about The PIAPS we have to start with it. On Tuesday (8/18), Rasmussen reported Hillary Meter Drops Dramatically.
Meanwhile, her Servergate scandal is getting so bad Trump’s claim that it’s “Watergate on steroids… she could get 20 years in prison” made headlines – because he’s right. The FBI has in fact launched a criminal investigation of her.
We’d love to see her behind bars where she belongs but we know that’s not going to happen. As all TTPers understand, Zero is behind siccing the FBI on her to force her to drop out and make way for Biden….
We’re now going to talk about what’s going on in Britain. Why should we do that with all the insanity going on here?
Because all that insanity – from Planned Parenthood videos to mass illegal immigration to race riots to cultural degradation to ruination of our military to giving Iran nukes to a no-job economy with 90 million unemployed and on Food Stamps – all of this is due to the Democrat Party’s lurch to the radical left, cheered on by its amen chorus in the media and academia.
What’s happening in Britain at the moment may be instructive as to where this is heading.
ANCHORS AWAY
No, this is not about the stirring anthem of the US Navy, Anchors Aweigh. It’s about the latest example of libtard lunacy designed to purposefully destroy – or in Zerospeak, “fundamentally transform” – our country.
It’s about how to solve and put an end to the Fascicrat Fraud of “birthright citizenship.” There’s a deafening roar of cacophony over it now on every TV news channel or radio talk show, and throughout conservative or libtard punditry. But only here at To The Point will you get a solution you won’t find anywhere else.
As you likely know by now, I’m no Trumpista. Loudmouth bullies turn me off, especially ones who pretend they’re conservatives. As Carly Fiorina so incisively puts it: “Since he has changed his mind on amnesty, on health care and on abortion, I would just ask, what are the principles by which he will govern?”
Yet however much I think Trump is a thin-skinned jerk posing as presidential timber for the publicity, I applaud him for making illegal immigration a cause célèbre, and using it to channel contempt upon the gutless cowards of the Republican Establishment Elite.
Another loudmouth bullying faux conservative is Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. So it was fun to see Trump and O’Reilly go at each other Tuesday night (8/18) – and I’m happy to admit I was rooting for Trump.
But not even Trump has thought of what you’re about to read.
THE ADVENTURE DUET
Two of the world’s most extraordinary natural wonders lie just below America’s doorstep. The first is unknown – you won’t believe the pictures. The second you likely have always dreamed of seeing.
This is an opportunity to experience all of this in just ten days. And the time to do so is now. This is an Immediate Adventure Opportunity – this November, before Thanksgiving. Here’s why. We begin with the unknown.
This is Caño Cristales, the Liquid Rainbow, the most beautiful river in the world. From late July to early December, its unique ecosystem allows plants to grow in its gin-clear water that turns every color of the rainbow. There’s no place like it on earth.
It is in a remote region of Colombia at the junction of the Llanos grasslands, the Andes mountains, and the Amazon rainforest. We’ll spend two days here taking pictures your friends won’t believe, swimming in perfect temperature pure water pools and frolicking under the myriad waterfalls. Caño Cristales is not only jaw-dropping beautiful, it’s fabulous fun. Here are more amazing pictures.
Then it’s off to a place on everyone’s bucket list: The Galapagos Islands.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/14/15
There are those who think anger and angst is tearing the Republican Party apart – exemplified by a summer madness over a crony capitalist whining crybaby pro-abortion centimillionaire pretending he’s a billionaire John Wayne.
You can see the real news of the week, however, if you peek over the other side of the fence. It’s the Dems who are tearing themselves apart much worse than we are. Let’s take a break from our own summer squabble and enjoy the show.
This week, Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Michigan (8/11). 2,800 people showed up. The day before (8/10), Bernie Sanders held a campaign rally in Los Angeles. Close to 28,000 people showed up.
The rage of the Left against the Dems is an order of magnitude (meaning 1,000%) greater than the rage of the Right against the Pubs. They’re winning on every front – forcing their total cultural degradation and fascism down our country’s throat, their ultimate dream-come-true with a Hate America MoslemCommieFascist in the White House.
What more do they want? Yet they are ten times madder than us?? Seems to me we should be focused on how to make the moonbats as mad as we can, leverage their looney anger to the max against them. This is going to be a fun HFR.
FIXING AMERICA
There is no silver bullet for fixing America, for there is no one single thing to fix. Yet among the plethora of potentially lethal problems facing our country today, this one stands out: that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. hates America and is using every power of the presidency he can get away with to destroy it.
Conservatives have contempt for RINO politicians, Republican In Name Only, and for good reason. But the current President of the United States is something vastly worse. Zero is an AINO – American In Name Only.
The basis for conservative contempt of RINOs is their cowardice – the spineless refusal of the GOP Establishment Elite to stand up for their professed principles, and stand up to Zero. They were voted into control of both the House and Senate to do precisely these two things, and they don’t have the courage to do either.
Yet the cowardice of the Democrat Establishment Elite – its politicians and its amen chorus in the libtard media, academia, organizations and blogosphere – is far worse than the Pubs’, for it makes them be AINOs as well.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/07/15
We could spend all day talking about the Pub candidates’ debate last night (8/06), which is why we won’t. Instead, there’s a link to the full transcripts at the end of this HFR, plus a selection of the best quotes.
Right now, we’ll cut to the chase and answer the two easy questions. First, who won? Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz. We’ll get back to them in a moment. Second, who lost? Answer: rhymes with Chump.
He said nothing of substance whatever – try to find a counterexample in the transcript. A close personal friend of mine has a net worth much higher than Trump’s, has known him for many years, and has intimate familiarity with his business dealings. Here is what he tells me…
We have the fun read of the week, the laugh of the week, and the shock of the week – that’s who the HFR Hero of the Week is, you won’t believe it.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/31/15
Imagine the hysteria if I had shot this man-eating tiger today instead of 54 years ago.
In TTP yesterday (7/30), Ben Shapiro skewered the pathology of those who hate hunters more than monsters like the dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, responsible for the deaths of countless human beings in his country, or the proto-hominids of Planned Parenthood.
Also yesterday, the Center for Medical Progress released its latest video. The Daily Caller has a description of it that could make you throw up.
It is more than ironic that the lion whose death has caused paroxysms of outrage was named Cecil, while the president of Planned Parenthood is named Cecile. Cecil vs. Cecile…
Last Saturday (7/25), something very appropriate happened to Zero. The president of another country told him to get lost to his face in front of the entire world…
There are at least three candidates for HFR Hero of the Week…
We’ll close with a dyad of good news.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/24/15
It saddens me that I need to begin this HFR with bad news. Jack Kelly, beloved by TTPers for his column and my dear friend of over 30 years, has been diagnosed with incurable bone marrow cancer.
I’m making this public because I am asking you to pray for him. There is power in prayer and he needs to know he’ll have that with us.
As for me, I’m an incurable optimist. The median survival time after diagnosis of bone marrow cancer is five years. To me, this means that given the rate at which medical research is learning how to cure or slow down various cancers, his form of cancer won’t be so “incurable” four or five years from now.
But right now, Jack and his wife Pam need our prayers. Let’s let him know that he has them.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/17/15
Torshavn, Faroe Islands. I had to take a break from the relentless criminal insanity engulfing America. We call TTP “The Oasis for Rational Conservatives,” so I went in search of an Oasis of Sanity. I found it here. Let me tell you what it’s like before we have to sink into the week’s miasma.
It’s the people, the Faroese, that makes this place so special. They have created the Wisest Country in the World. With a literal handful of exceptions, all are Christian – with some 85% Evangelical Lutheran, and the remaining 15% other Christian denominations. Needless to say, there are no mosques in the Faroes.
There is no safer country on earth. No one locks their home, their car, or anything else. Children play anywhere anytime – 20 hours of daylight in the summer – with no problem whatever. Drugs are limited to a minimal use of weed. Traditional marriage is the norm, divorce rare, abortion even rarer, the Faroese have the highest fertility rate in Europe (2.38). Homosexual “marriage” is looked upon as a tasteless form of social lunacy – it doesn’t exist here.
The schools are excellent. People are educated and smart. Most everyone lives in modern middle class homes with well-tended gardens – no McMansions and no poverty. No beggars, no homeless, no refugees from alien shores. The roads and infrastructure are very good, everything works, everything is clean and spotless, there’s no pollution whatever, there’s no purer water or clearer air anywhere.
What impresses me most about the Faroese is how they think with the minds, not with their emotions. What’s fascinating is how they do everything with a relaxed efficiency. They’re friendly and love to laugh and sing, but on serious issues they’ll calmly discuss the issue from both sides, no matter what side they are on.
That’s inspiring – especially contrasted with America (much less, say, Greece), where everyone seems to be in a perpetual state of anger or angst. How extraordinarily refreshing it would be if America had the wisdom of the Faroes. But then, the Democrats and the Left would have to stop being Fascists, and there’s zero chance of that.
OK, time to step into the mire. Then we’ll step back out again.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/10/15
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive insane. It was a proverb in Ancient Greece, so old no one knew who first said it. In Antigone, Sophocles (496-406 BC) has his Chorus put it this way: Evil seems good to a man whose mind a god leads to destruction.
Sure seems like they were talking about America today. The same with historian Will Durant. In his Epilogue to Caesar and Christ (Volume III of his monumental The Story of Civilization) entitled “Why Rome Fell,” he points with shuddering accuracy to what’s happening to our country:
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.
You can be quite confident that both Sophocles and Will Durant would wearily respond with “What did I tell you?” if they were told of this headline yesterday (7/09):
Oregon Allowing 15 Year-Olds To Get State-Subsidized Sex-Change Operations
This is not only insanity, it is criminal insanity. Note than on top of criminal child abuse being paid for by taxpayers, it can be performed without parental notification.
All members of the Oregon state government who permit this – specifically those on the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) who voted for it – and all doctors who perform such criminal surgery, need to be in prison.
How is it possible that America got itself in such a morass of lunacy? Another observation of Will Durant applies: “It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
America elected an evil madman to lead it in order to appease guilt-mongering anti-white racists. He proceeded to drive the entire country insane enough to reelect him, and is now determined to drive it so fully insane it will destroy itself from within.
Further, he has discovered the key of how to do so. Perversely, he learned it from Will Durant. For it was Durant who explained, “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” Destroy the family and you destroy a civilization, in this case America’s. The Madman in the White House has learned this lesson well.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/03/15
Sandpoint, Idaho. It is excruciatingly ironic to be writing this Fourth of July HFR in a place that epitomizes Norman Rockwell America while our country is being engulfed in anti-American fascist insanity.Voted by Rand McNally as the Most Beautiful Small Town in America, Sandpoint is a perfect place to celebrate the Fourth. For beyond its beauty and charm, it is peaceful, friendly, and patriotic. People here are deeply proud to be Americans, and they'll express it with joyful enthusiasm tomorrow.Notice, however, I said Sandpoint is a perfect place to celebrate America's creation, not the. For there are an uncountable number of similar places in our vast country - peaceful, friendly, patriotic, proud to be American. Norman Rockwell's America still exists, no matter how much the Fascist Left wishes to exterminate it.Their extermination efforts went into overdrive this week, with John Roberts being blackmailed yet again to uphold Obamacare, followed by what is is unquestionably the most perverted - morally and legally - decision in SCOTUS history at least since Roe v. Wade, if not ever.Here are specific solutions on how to take the offensive, to refuse to obey in every way we can, and most importantly framing our refusal as opposition to fascism, as an issue of freedom vs. fascism.Here's our mantra for the fight: Just say No to the Gaystapo!
THE GREEK BOTTOM LINE
What's going on regarding Greece? Here's one bottom line: The people who run the EU and the Eurozone have suffered a reputational catastrophe. The EU/Eurozone has shown itself unable to manage its basic moral responsibilities Oxi Day (pronounced oh-hee, the Day of No) has totemic significance in Greece. It commemorates the defiant Greek "No!" to Mussolini's ultimatum in October 1940, and the heroic acceptance of war against a vastly bigger military machine. Churchill's praise was: "Greeks don't fight like heroes - heroes fight like Greeks." It is the same word - Oxi, No! - that will top the ballot sheet when Greeks vote in a snap referendum this Sunday (7/05) on creditor demands, and prime minister Alexis Tsipras is not shy in evoking the same spirit of wartime resistance. Ambulances in parts of northern Greece have run out of fuel. The Greek Chamber of Commerce warns of "serious shortages" of basic goods and pharmaceutical supplies within days. The radical-Left Syriza government is skating on very thin ice. If Europe's creditor powers have succeeded in bringing Greece to its knees, they have paid a fearful price themselves. As Pyrrhus of Epirus said after the battle of Asculum in 279 BC: "Another such victory, and we will be utterly ruined."
THE LEFT EXISTS TO DESTROY YOU
Republicans are still trying to figure out a truce on gay marriage. They retreated to civil unions, then accepted a full defeat on gay marriage and then acted baffled when Christian bakery owners were dragged into court for refusing to participate in gay weddings. The left does not care about gay rights. If you doubt that, consider how many of the left's favorite Muslim countries have gay rights. The left has recently divided its campaign passions between gay marriage and defending Iran. Iran denies the existence of gays and hangs them where it finds them. To understand the left, you need to remember that it does not care about 99 percent of the things it claims to care about. Name a leftist cause and then find a Communist country that actually practiced it. Labor unions? Outlawed. Environmentalism? Chernobyl. The left fights all sorts of social and political battles not because it believes in them, but to radicalize, disrupt and take power. The left does not care about social justice. It cares about power. That is why no truce is possible with the left. Not on social issues. Not on any issues. The bottom line is that the left exists to destroy you.
WHAT IS THE POPE AFRAID OF?
Why are people so afraid of technological progress? Pope Francis complains in his new encyclical about "a blind confidence in technical solutions", of "irrational confidence in progress" and the drawbacks of the "technocratic paradigm." He is reflecting a popular view, held across the political spectrum, from the Unabomber to Russell Brand, that technology, consumerism and progress have been bad for people, by making them more selfish and unhappy. But however thoroughly you search the papal encyclical, you will find no data to support the claim that as people have got richer they have got nastier and more miserable. That is because the data points the other way. The past five decades have seen people becoming on average wealthier, healthier, happier, better fed, cleverer, kinder, more peaceful and more equal. Global inequality has been plummeting for years as people in poor countries get rich faster than people in rich countries. The vast preponderance of these improvements has come about as a result of innovation in technology and society. So what precisely is the problem with technology that the Pope is complaining about? What is he afraid of?
OPM, FAILURE, AND LEGITIMACY
All Your (Data)Base Are Belong to Us: OPM, Failure & Legitimacy You can think of this as part 3 of the Half-Full Report. Part 1: Wild Cards and Part 2: The McRaven Mindset were already too stacked for the amount of coverage this issue requires. Frankly, this is also just too damn important. I wasn't kidding when I said:
"It will take American intelligence decades to recover, and the level of idiocracy/ incompetence involved here is beyond anything you've ever seen from the Obama administration. I repeat: anything."The implications reach far beyond foreign policy. Among other things, they explain why the conservatives/libertarians who piss you off on security-related issues are people you need. Desperately.
DICTATORSHIPS AND OBAMA STANDARDS
If the president must lead from behind, could he at least get behind someone who wants to win the war against Islamic extremism? It continues, dreadfully. Islamic State's advancing war on civilization-despite the Obama administration's protestations that it has been stanched-brazenly pushes the modern world toward despair. Now Islamic State, or ISIS, announces it has taken 86 more Christians hostage, their likely fate a grisly martyrdom. On the same day, June 8, at the G-7 summit, President Obama admitted that he lacks a "complete strategy" to defeat the Islamic extremists now bedeviling Iraq and Syria, much of the rest of the Middle East, and beyond. We may begin to wonder: Is this irresolution or resolution? I do not like to ascribe darker motives but necessarily wonder what explains the commander in chief's uncertain trumpet. If the civilized world now searches desperately for steadfast leadership at this time of crisis, it can no longer look to the American administration. Better to look to the embattled region itself-to Jordan's King Abdullah II, to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to the leaders of formative Kurdistan, to the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. If you would lead from behind, Mr. President, then please get behind these men.
REAGAN AND ISIS
WWRRD? It's the question all Pub prez contenders need to ask and answer: What Would Ronald Reagan Do? It's particularly apposite regarding ISIS, to contrast RR with his successor, President No Strategy. It's easy enough to criticize and ridicule Zero for being such a limp-wrist in confronting America's enemies. It's quite another to clearly state just how you'd go about neutralizing their threats. The candidates to trust on this would be those who will say, "I'd do what Reagan would do, and here's what that is." So let's perform a thought-experiment. We're in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing at the White House for a meeting of the National Security Council, chaired by President Ronald Reagan. Secretary of State John Bolton begins: "Mr. President, you've been fully briefed on the ISIS terrorist movement. What should our strategy be towards them?" Reagan responds:
THE QUESTIONS HILLARY WON’T ANSWER
"We need to stop the flow of secret, unaccountable money," Hillary Clinton said Saturday (6/13) during her vaunted campaign "do over." That she said this without a trace of irony is no real surprise. Ever since the release of "Clinton Cash" - which documented the Clintons' love of secret and unaccountable money - the couple's reaction has been to pretend the scandal has nothing to do with them. Indeed, save for a generic response to a generic question on the topic, Hillary Clinton has yet to answer a single question about "Clinton Cash." What's fascinating is the surge of new revelations of Clinton sleaziness since my book's publication. There have been enough post-book revelations to fill a second volume, or a third. Here are just a few samples:
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/15
We'll start the week by going from the ridiculous to the sublimely ridiculous. The first: Malaysia has turned itself into a laughingstock joke of a country in front of the entire world. All to placate "mountain spirits," in reality the god Malaysians really worship, the god of anti-white racist envy. For the sublimely ridiculous, we go to Sargodha, Pakistan - but be warned: do not be eating or drinking anything when you read or watch this. Question: Can we do this with Somali ISIS wannabes in Detroit? Headline, Monday (6/08): In Terror Fight, Australia Debates Revoking Citizenship. You may think we're losing the Culture War, but on two of its most important fronts there's very good news. Also very good news in the Danger Is Opportunity Department. And of course, the best news of the week: that early this afternoon (6/12), Obamatrade went down in flames in the House, 302-126. This is a massive defeat for Zero, and for the entire Pub Rino Establishment. The whole thing is a garbage bag of weirdness. We'll close with a look at who's becoming the most intriguing prez candidate of all.
WHERE CHICOMS MUST STOP BEING CHILDREN
The past several days have seen much commemoration of the most heroic episode of liberation in modern history: that of D-Day, June 6, 1944. By contrast, we've seen very little media comment about another pivot point of history that also took place in early June years ago. The complete moral opposite of D-Day, it was the Chicom slaughter of thousands in cold blood on Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989. The Chicoms then proceeded to consolidate their power, allowing crony capitalists aligned with them to become immensely rich while ruthlessly suppressing any objection to their rule. The explicit goal of the Chicom PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) has today become to replace the US as the world's premier military power. The strategy to do so they call The China Dream. There is a specific place in the world where the PLA is focusing their China Dream efforts. Stop them there and their dream is gone. So - here is what needs to be done. And here is the man to do it.
LIBERAL PROFESSORS ARE FINALLY GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE
Recently, several liberal - or "progressive" as they want to be called now - professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the PC orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of other progressive shibboleths. Northwestern "feminist" professor Laura Kipnis found herself in a Title IX star chamber for an article she wrote decrying the immaturity of her legally adult students. Over at Vox, another progressive confessed (anonymously as "Edward Schlosser," reminding us that academics are an invertebrate species): I'm A Liberal Professor and My Liberal Students Terrify Me. It's shocking that these progressives should now be shocked at such intolerance and persecution after decades of speech codes, disruptions of conservative speakers, campus inquisitions which ignore Constitutional rights, cancellations of commencement speakers, and ideological litmus tests imposed on new hires and curricula. Their shock bespeaks not principle, but rather indignation that now they are on the receiving end of the bullying and harassment they have long inflicted on conservatives and people of faith. Call it Karma: the campus intolerance that progressives are now whining about is the child of the progressive ideology many of the complainers still embrace. Let's revel in the details.
AMERICAN DARK AGES
History is not static and it does not progress linearly. There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5th-century BC Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during 1946-1989. An American could speak his mind more freely in 1970 than now. Many in the United States had naively believed that the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and over two centuries of American customs and traditions had guaranteed that Americans could always take for granted free speech and unfettered inquiry. That is an ahistorical assumption. The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression - especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas. Welcome to Dark Age America - a Pre-Enlightenment Age when groupthink acceptance of a lie replaces truth on grounds of social utility. When current popular culture is not empirically grounded, but operates on the premise that truth is socially constructed by race, class, and gender concerns. When, in our current Dark Age, logic is ignored in lieu of ideology.
HOW HILLARY PLANS TO CHEAT HER WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE
Hillary Clinton has laid out her game plan for winning back the White House for herself and her husband next year. Let's hope Republicans are paying attention. Seeing as Clinton won't have the youthful exuberance that propelled Obama to his unlikely double victory, she plans to build a whole new electorate out of people who didn't vote for Obama. That was the gist of her speech in Houston last week (6/04), which her friends at MSNBC called a "far-reaching vision for expanding access to the ballot box." Who are the new voters to whom Clinton wants to give "access to the ballot box"? They include felons and noncitizens, along with anyone who can't prove identity, citizenship or residence within the voting precinct. Though Clinton gave lip service to the notion that "every citizen" should vote, her Democrat allies are in court trying to stop every reasonable means of verifying a voter's citizenship. That's no surprise because, according to a recent Rasmussen survey (5/29), "Most Democrats Think Illegal Immigrants Should Vote." Of course they do, for that's Hillary's plan to cheat her way into the White House.