Dr. Jack Wheeler
HOW CONGRESS CAN QUICKLY OVERTURN ROE V. WADE
"I am committed to protecting this constitutional right," announced President Zero in his commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the most constitutionally ludicrous - and murderous - Supreme Court decision in US history, Roe v. Wade on Saturday (1/22). Thanks to the Revolution of Nov. 2nd, Roe is being targeted as never before, and exactly where it should be: in the states. 29 states now have pro-life governors, and in 15 of them, pro-life legislators control both legislative chambers. In dozens of states this year, pro-life laws are going to be passed, such as banning abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and mandating ultrasound screenings. Meanwhile, back on Capitol Hill, the House is going to fully defund Planned Parenthood and any use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions in any way. At last the pro-life forces are on the offense while pro-abortion forces are playing defense. However... the ACLU, NOW, and every other liberal legal outfit will try to stymie these efforts in court. They will find some pro-abortion federal judge somewhere to block them or tie them up for years on appeals. What if there were a way to short-circuit the whole appeal process? What if there were a Constitutional short-cut to overturning Roe v. Wade? There is.
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/21/11
We begin with an important announcement: The dates of the Vegas Rendezvous are Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8. Miko is nailing down the best hotel - although he says he'd like to know if you prefer one Downtown (less expensive) or on/near The Strip. Let him know at [email protected]. We'll have details soon. But we wanted you to know the dates so you could begin planning. See you in Vegas! * * * * * There's little doubt about who is the HFR Hero of the Week, right? Who else but Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, along with all 174 members of the Republican Study Committee, "the caucus of conservatives" in the House, proposing budget cuts of $2.5 trillion. They are going to teach Americans a civics lesson that will be the most memorable in modern history. This is the lesson of the great legislative asymmetricality enshrined in the Constitution only rarely taught. Finally, this supreme example of the genius of the Founders will be learned, to the enormous benefit of America and to the utter anguish of the Left.
THE COMING ASSASSINATION OF SARAH PALIN
This is what truly terrifies me. Every American should pray to God that it won't happen. Yet the fear of it keeps me up at nights. The death of Sarah Palin by an assassin's bullet could very well prove to be the death of America - and the Left wants both. The Left hates Sarah Palin for the same reasons it hates America - for Sarah Palin embodies the very best of America and its values, as she is the literal embodiment of the American Dream. The "climate of hate" the Left constantly accuses the Right of creating is a creation of theirs. The examples of vicious vitriol towards President Bush, including a film depicting his assassination (it won awards and praise from film critics), were so innumerable they gave rise to a distinct form of mental disorder: BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome. PDS, Palin Derangement Syndrome, is BDS on steroids laced with LSD. It's a brain infection that's been on full display by the Enemedia and the Loughner Left since the Tucson Massacre. To their frustration, this latest attempt to destroy her has failed. After her address to the nation accusing them of blood libel, polls found that her popularity had increased rather than plummeted. Thus the Loughner Left is more enraged at her than ever. Which is why there are news reports of an "incredible" spike in death threats against her.
DEFUNDING OBAMACARE
Tomorrow (1/19), as one of the first acts of this 112th Congress, the House is due to pass language I introduced to repeal Obamacare: "as if such Act had not been enacted." America's voters sent Republicans a mandate for repeal in November, and I have long argued that we have an obligation to keep faith with them by taking swift action to fulfill our campaign promises. Holding a repeal vote at the outset of the new Congress eliminates doubts as to our commitment. It also reflects my frequently expressed belief that repealing Obamacare should be Congress's top priority. Now, I look forward to working with my colleagues on the next part of my Obamacare repeal strategy: attaching language to block funding for its implementation and enforcement onto every appropriations bill or continuing resolution from this point forward.
HALF-FULL REPORT 1/14/11
Whoa. Let's hope the rest of 2011's weeks aren't as intense as this one. Here's one key focus. Remember two weeks ago (12/31/10), the HFR predicted that 2011 would see Black Swans of the Right? That "black swan" game-changing events out of the blue precipitating a crisis, which the left specializes in using to expand government power, would now turn in our favor instead? That's what happened when the Loughner Left jumped the shark with the Arizona Massacre. The very term "Loughner Left" has gone viral on the Web. The label I gave the Enemedia on Tuesday (01/11) has stuck and quickly. What didn't stick is the Enemedia's grotesque attempt to blame the Arizona Massacre on Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties, and all conservatives in general. The great majority of Americans laughed at the accusation - and so did John Boehner and the Republicans in Congress. Thus Boehner & Cantor are proceeding with the straight up-and-down vote on HR 2, to take place next Tuesday (1/18). They even shrugged at the Dems' demand they change the bill's name due to it's "violent" rhetoric. It remains entitled: Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. Note the word: repealing. As we saw in Making Boehner's Bones, Boehner intends to repeal ObamaCare outright, not just defund it piecemeal.
THE ENDLESS LIBERAL RACIST MASSACRE
Since Saturday (1/08), our media have reveled in the aftermath of the avoidable slaughter in Tucson, where a young madman - ignored by "tolerant" social, educational and law-enforcement systems - gunned down, among others, a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl, while gravely wounding a Congresswoman reaching out to her constituents. Caught out in his incompetence, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Arizona's Pima County, railed against conservatives, whom the "lawman" blamed for the massacre on his turf. Other leftists rushed to blame the Tea Party (conveniently overlooking the murderer's internet claim that The Communist Manifesto was one of his favorite books-oops!). The fact is that the shooter wasn't a political creature, but a psychopath. And a hyper-liberal social climate allowed him to go unchecked, despite no end of warning signs and documented complaints from his fellow citizens. Meanwhile, another massacre occurred on the doorstep of our nation's capital, but the media and left-wing activists ignored it. That's because it was part of the Endless Liberal Racist Massacre.
MAKING BOEHNER’S BONES
As the Loughner Lefties at the New York Times realized they jumped the shark in blaming the Arizona Massacre on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Right, they smoothly shifted their strategy yesterday (1/12). In a transparent ploy to monkey wrench the 112th Congress' program to dismantle ObamaCare and other Dem disasters, the NYT is now claiming that Boehner & Co must "play a less partisan role," and not "allow the House to slide back into confrontational politics." Translation: Republicans need to surrender to the Democrats. And Boehner's response? As Eliza Doolittle said to Professor Henry Higgins, "Not bloody likely!" Zero and the Dems (and the Enemedia) are going to get the shock of their lives when they learn what Boehner has planned for them. Get ready for this, folks, for it's going to knock the polka dots off your undies. This is going to make Boehner's bones.
WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED FROM CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY
There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman. Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event. President Reagan said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
THE LOUGHNER LEFT
Do you know what the editors of the New York Times look like? Would you recognize them if you saw them? We all know what leftie talking heads on television look like, such as Chrissie Mathews, Keith Olberman, Katie Couric, et al. But how about Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website, the bloggers of the Democratic Underground, or the writers of the New York Daily News? Now we know what they all look like. Even the talking heads, now we know what they really look like. From this moment on, this is the face they all have, the face that will appear in our mind's eye picture of them whenever we read what they write or hear what they say. This face:
HALF-FULL REPORT 1/07/11
Hasn't this been quite a first week of 2011? It started bizarrely for me with a flood of emails and calls Monday morning (1/03) asking if I was still alive or dead in a dumpster. The Drudge Report was carrying this headline in red letters: Reagan Aide Jack Wheeler Murdered, Body Found in Landfill I had to reassure everyone that:
It's not me. I'm not in a dumpster in a landfill -- I'm home in my easy chair writing this. John Wheeler was always getting confused with me in Washington as he liked to be called by his nickname Jack (like John/Jack Kennedy). I ran into him several times at different DC functions and found him to be a very nice fellow. But I'm no John, just Jack. This is a terrible tragedy and a mysterious one. But for all those who've emailed their concern, it's not me, I'm fine.* * * * * Tuesday morning (1/04) began with an all-together different phone call. My wife answered, and tears quickly began streaming down her face. They were tears of relief and joy - for our son was back home from war. Brandon's unit, 2/6 Marines, saw more combat than perhaps any other in Afghanistan during the last six months, for they were deep in Apache country: Helmand Province. 17 of his men are not coming back. He is so thankful for all the prayers TTPers sent his way that helped sustain him. His mother and I are so thankful for his service with honor, and his safe return. It is with so much pride that we salute our son, Capt. Brandon Wheeler, USMC, and all those who served with him. * * * * * Wednesday morning (1/05) America got to say goodbye to Speaker-no-more Pelosi. It was a sickeningly long goodbye. Electric day-glo blue suit, perfectly coiffed and streak-blonde dyed hair, perfectly frozen smile, perfect oleaginous delivery, Pelosi Galore thought the moment was all about her with her endless and endlessly obnoxious self-serving speech - 12 minutes! Would she ever shut up? - before finally turning the gavel and speakership over to John Boehner. Thank God she's gone. No one has to pay any attention to her ever again. She's history.
GERMANS MUST NOT BECOME STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
Uncontrolled immigration may at any time threaten the state structures and undermine the stability of a society. The Chinese empire therefore had its Great Wall, the Romans had their Limes. At no time were the securing of the territory and the regulation of immigration something trivial. The complications arising from these issues threatened states and societies to their core and penetrated them deeply. And each time they were accompanied by orgies of bloodletting and violence. In the German media this is frequently concealed. Immigration issues are often treated with a raised admonitory finger, and an attitude that probably can be the best characterized with the slogan: "Peep, peep, peep! We all just love each other." This approach is as unhistorical as it is silly. The growing influx in many European countries are consequences of the predominantly unhistorical, naïve and opportunistic migration policy of European governments. In all countries concerned - whether Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark or Norway - one makes similar observations about the group of Moslem migrants, namely:
THE ANTIPODAL SUCCESS OF CLOWARD-PIVEN
If you Google "Cloward-Piven" plus "Obama" you'll get over 53,000 hits. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" has been fingered by dozens of conservative academics and pundits as the roadmap Zero is using to drive America to ruin. In 1966, Richard Cloward and his wife Francis Fox Piven, as hard-core Marxist professors of sociology at Columbia, wrote an article in the premier journal of the left, The Nation, that launched their strategy: The Weight of the Poor. That strategy is defined as forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. Its goal is to precipitate the replacement of capitalism with Marxist socialism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Sure sounds like exactly what Zero is doing, right? And sure enough, as we enter 2011, we find the Cloward-Piven Strategy succeeding in spades - antipodally. Webster's defines "antipode" as 1) of or relating to diametrically opposite points on the earth's surface (e.g., the antipode of the North Pole is the South Pole), and 2) exactly or diametrically opposite. That is, Zero, Pelosi & Reid put C-P into effect masterfully, and the result is just what the theory predicted - collapse - except that the revolution this effected was a bourgeois middle-class taxpayer one that is replacing the Democrats' socialism with a renewal of economic liberty and capitalism. Cloward & Piven's impoverished masses - "the workers" - rising up to smash The System turned out to be patriotic God Bless America Tea Partyers! You just don't get irony better than this. Call it antipodal irony.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/31/10
Finally, finally, finally... 2010 is over. At last we can get on with 2011, the year America's Rescue begins. I can hardly wait. So can the TTP Forum's "Mae" - Lynda Mae Calhoun, who thanks in no small part to your prayers had a successful surgery and is well on the road to recovery. Congratulations, Mae! Paul Ryan can't wait for 2011 either. You learned about what he's up to in Barry’s Dream yesterday (12/30). Now there's an Update. House Dems got the vapors last night when they learned that Ryan, as Chairman of the Budget Committee, will have the power to set spending ceilings without a vote of the full House. This is a big deal. Any budget that comes out of Congress now cannot exceed Ryan's limits, which will force really serious spending cuts. Add this to Boehner's replacing the Dems' "pay-go" fraud (they exempted all their giant spending bills from it), with the Pubs' "cut-go" rule. This requires that any increase in one government program (including entitlements!!) mandates a concomitant decrease in another. Cut-go forbids any entitlement spending increase be made up with tax increases. All next year, it's going to be like witnesses to Dante's Inferno to sit in the House Gallery and gaze down upon Dems writhing in agony on the House Floor like it's the bottom rung of Hell. When they realize the torture is likely to be eternal - i.e., for the rest of their political lives - expect a lot of them to call it quits.
BARRY’S DREAM
Ah... you may think this is about Barry Soetoro's dream to ruin America. Nope, this is about another Barry, who once upon a time was also a US Senator who ran for president. His dream was to rescue America. Americans were disastrously bamboozled into electing one Barry and just as disastrously not the other. Fifty years ago, the other Barry wrote down his dream. Just think of how much greater, how much safer, how much richer, and how much freer we would all be today if Americans had the brains and courage back then to put him in the White House instead of his precise opposite. But what's happened happened, and we are where we are, not where we might have been. For where we are right now, poised to enter 2011, is possessing the best chance to make Barry's Dream come true than at any time in the ensuing half-century. It may be our last chance, but perhaps for that very reason it is our best chance.
COMMITTING TO VICTORY
Since Operation Cast Lead two years ago, Iran has helped Hamas massively increase its missile and other military capabilities. Today the terror group that rules Gaza has missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv. It has advanced antitank missiles. As Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said Saturday (12/25), “We are now stronger than before and during the war, and our silence over the past two years was only for evaluating the situation.”
That evaluation has not tempered Hamas’s aim of annihilating the Jews of Israel. As Obeida’s colleague Ahmed Jaabari said Saturday, Israel’s Jews have two choices, “death or departing Palestinian lands.”
Last week the PA announced it will ask the UN Security Council to pass an anti-Semitic resolution defining Jewish building in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as illegal. This move dovetails nicely with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s statement over the weekend that “Palestine” will be Jew-free.
As Abbas put it, “If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it. When a Palestinian state is established, it would have no Israeli presence.”
To date neither of these racist bids to deny Jews basic rights to their homes and land just because they are Jews has been opposed by any government or human rights group. This includes, of course, the Obama Administration.
There is only one way for Israel to counter the Palestinians’ war plans for 2011: commit to victory over them.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/24/10
Merry Christmas Eve! It's a good time to turn our eyes towards Heaven, for the Congress from Hell has finally ended. The Enemedia is celebrating the 111th Congress and its Lame Schmuck Session as "the most productive in history," modern or even ever. That's certainly true if you, as does the Enemedia, have a Hate-America agenda. For anyone Pro-America, the 111th has been the most destructive in US history, modern or even ever. So - the multi-trillion dollar, fate-of-America question is: will the 112th ride to America's rescue and undo the damage? The scientifically precise answer is... Maybe. The Zero Presidency and Reid-Pelosi Congress have made many folks aware of this terrifying truth: that Democrats are more dangerous to America than terrorists. The damage any conceivable attack on America perpetrated by Moslem crazies is miniscule compared to the damage Democrats have already wrought upon our country in the last two years - and they intend via their Man in the White House to perpetrate vastly more. This just-ended Lame Schmuck Congress adds an instructive codicil to this: that RINO Republicans are just as dangerous as America-destroying Democrats.
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
I want to wish you the Merriest of Christmases this Saturday, but according to the song, the First Day of Christmas is the day after Christmas, December 26. Ancient Christians celebrated "The Holidays," as our militant secularists insist on referring to them now, starting with the day after the birth of Jesus and ending on January 6th with the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2:11 known as the Epiphany. Start with 12/26 and end with 1/6 and you get: the Twelve Days of Christmas. You may be really tired of hearing Christmas songs by now, including this one, yet you may still be wondering what the heck partridges in a pear tree and eight maids a-milking have to do with the birth of the founder of Christianity. So I thought we might take a break from Serious Thoughts About World Events, and take a look at the song's origin, meaning, and current urban myth. For it turns out that all of the song's twelve gifts are Christian symbols.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/17/10
There comes a time upon reaching a certain age when the two most wonderful words you can hear are, "It's benign." That happened to me after a surgical procedure yesterday (I had a tumor wrapped round my vocal cord like a snake), and it prompts me to start this week's HFR with a request. The TTP Forum has long benefited from the wit and wisdom of "Mae" - Lynda Mae Calhoun. Like so many other TTPers, I always look forward to her Forum comments and insights on various articles. Mae lives in Vancouver, Washington (just across the Columbia River from Portland). Next week - just three days before Christmas on the 22nd at the Southwest Washington Medical Center - Mae faces major surgery the cause of which may be a malignancy. She's going to face this alone, save for a handful of nieces and nephews - and I'd like to ask you to let Mae know via the Forum that she is not alone, that her TTP Family is praying for her. Prayer is such a powerful healing force, especially at Christmas time. Let's be sure she knows: our prayers are with you, Mae! * * * * * The HFR was in no doubt about who should be dubbed the Hero of the Week - until last night, when another contender emerged.
PROOF THAT FEMINISM IS DEAD
Making the rounds on YouTube these days is a film of a group of manly looking women preparing for and conducting a "flash dance" in a Philadelphia food store. [Warning - the video is 5 minutes and 44 seconds of boring, obnoxious, and unattractive women - JW] The crew of ladies, dressed in tight black clothes and sequined accessories, arrives at The Fresh Grocer supermarket, breaks into a preplanned chant ordering shoppers not to buy Sabra and Tribe hummus, to oppose Israeli "apartheid" and support "Palestine." From their attire and attitude, it is fairly clear that the participants in the video would congratulate themselves on their commitment to the downtrodden, the wretched of the earth suffering under the jackboot of the powerful. They would likely all also describe themselves as feminists. But if being a human rights activist means attacking the only country in the Middle East that defends human rights, then that means that at the very basic level, the term "human rights activist" is at best an empty term. And if being a feminist means attacking the only country in the Middle East where women enjoy freedom and equal rights, then feminism too, has become at best, a meaningless term. Indeed, if these anti-Israel female protesters are feminists, then feminism is dead.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/10/10
Hard to believe Christmas Eve is two short weeks away. For those folks not yet checked off on your Christmas gift list, the HFR suggests a copy of The Jade Steps. Or a Gift Subscription to To The Point. You can gift a friend with a one-month, a three-month - or for a special friend an entire year - of the insights on the world that only TTP provides. The HFR can't think of better gifts than these, that will be more valued and appreciated by your friends. (I should add here that Dr. Joel Wade's Pocket Guide to Mastering Happiness makes a great low-cost stocking stuffer...) * * * * * Before we look at the dog's breakfast in Washington this week, let's have some fun at the Chicoms' expense. Ever heard of the Confucius Peace Prize? Neither did its recipient, who didn't bother to show up at the awards ceremony. The result was the Chicoms ended up this week being laughed at and compared to the Nazis at the same time. The world needs more of this.
THE CHINESE PIG
Bacon, ham, prosciutto, Cumberland sausage, baby back ribs, pork chops, suckling pig... it's amazing how many wonderful things to eat come from one animal. But we're not talking here about pigs that farmers raise and we love to consume. We could talk about another kind of pig - namely, the PIGS of Europe that are being devoured by their debt and profligacy: Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Or is it PIIGS now with Ireland? We could talk about the American Pig, even more bloated with public union moochers and subsidized corporate parasites than Europe, with state after state facing bankruptcy. Instead, though, we're going to talk about the Chinese Pig. Tout le monde seems fixated on the impending collapse of the Euro and the Dollar, but what about the impending collapse of the Yuan? Most fears are focused on Ireland or Spain or California going bankrupt. What if China goes belly up? The global impact would make Spain's seem penny-ante.
BAILOUTS AND PUBLIC PENSIONS
Do insolvent states actually believe other states should bail them out? I predicted they would back in June 2009. Sure enough, folks in Washington and in over-spending state capitols are now whispering the dreaded "b-word": bailouts - for individual states! American taxpayers should not be expected to bail out wasteful state governments. Fiscally liberal states spent years running away from the hard decisions that could have put their finances on a more solid footing. Now they expect taxpayers from other states to bail them out, which will allow them to postpone the tough decisions they should have made ages ago and continue spending like there's no tomorrow. Most Americans would say these states have made their bed and now they've got to lie in it. They accepted federal dollars and did not voice opposition to the unfunded federal mandates, and they even re-elected politicians who foisted debt-ridden programs on them that could never be sustained. Instead of coming to D.C. cap in hand asking for more "free" money, they should follow the example of their more prudent sister states and take the necessary steps to sort out their own finances. They must start by reforming their insolvent pension systems.
THE COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EXIST
Want to come with me to the country that doesn't exist? Plan to pack your bags this coming February. Imagine a Moslem country that is a real democracy, pro-America, pro-free market, despises Islamist ideology and terrorism, and lies athwart one of the world's most critical chokepoints in global shipping and trade. The US State Department would leap at the chance to support such a country, right? You are probably cynically shaking your head no - but it's much worse than that. Our government refuses to recognize the country's existence. In fact, no government or international organization in the world does - yet is has been sovereign and independent since 1991. With no help or recognition from anyone, this country has managed to survive - and survive as a capitalist Moslem terrorist-free democracy - for nearly 20 years. This is a heroic achievement - and unknown to most everyone on the planet. We are talking about Somaliland - the Country That Doesn't Exist.
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/03/10
We open this week's HFR with a Special News Bulletin from the Associated Press: In response to the "Cablegate" scandal - the release of a quarter-million classified State Department documents by WikiLeaks - the US Government announced today that henceforth all Top Secret government documents will be placed in an "ultimate" secure location. "This location is so secure that even people with the highest of clearances cannot gain access," said R.J. Finklestein, Director of the Federal Document Classification Agency (FDCA) in a press release today. All classified documents, Mr. Finklestein announced, will now be stored at the same location storing Barack Hussein Obama's Birth Certificate, College Transcripts, SSN applications, and off-shore campaign contributors list. "Using our Ultimate Secure Location, we are quite sure that WikiLeaks will never be able to access any more classified documents," noted the FDCA director, "nor will anyone else."
THANKS, JULIAN!
I can't believe how much fun this WikiLeaks hysteria is. All kinds of normally sane people absolutely going berserk-o, publicly demanding the perp involved, an Aussie named Julian Assange, be assassinated or tried for treason and executed. How to respond to such totally over the top lunacy except to say Whiskey Tango Foxtrotting Foxtrot? Maybe there will be items to emerge out of the quarter-million "secret" US diplomatic cables that will justify the anger - but so far, the stuff that's been released is great. We'll soon discuss why in detail, but first let's talk about the huge debt of gratitude Sarah Palin owes Julian Assange. All you Palinistas out there - and I'm one - should shout Hallelujah for the enormous act of public service Assange has performed. He has single-handedly obliterated - as in nuked - Hillary Clinton's chances for the White House. Everyone in Washington knows Zero is a one-termer. Sarah would clean his clock in 2012 - just as would any conservative GOP candidate. But the reality is that Sarah would lose to Hillary. HRC is a far more formidable Dem candidate than Zero. Should Zero pull a LBJ and not run, or should she challenge him in the primaries, she would win the nomination - and the presidency. Not any more, for that analysis is so yesterday. "The greatest foreign policy disaster in US history" has happened on Hillary's watch. Any chief executive would have to fire her, and Zero needs a scapegoat in any regard. Her political career is over - finita la musica, the Clinton's music is finished. Thanks, Julian.
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/26/10
I was hoping for a short and sweet HFR this week, as it's truncated by Thanksgiving. No such luck. We have a lot of ground to cover, so let's get started. To my mind, the only reason to talk about a problem is as a prelude to searching for a serious solution to it. That's why I'm so tired of terrified complaints over North Korea. Here's a suggestion of how to get rid of the Norks... ...That's acting seriously regarding North Korea - and we're capable of it if we look at what's happened to the Al Qaeda-Taliban-Karzai government-Pakistan ISI cash cow of the Afghan poppy crop. What's happened is indicated by this perversely hilarious headline in Sunday's (11/21) London Guardian, the bastion of British media Marxism: Heroin Shortage in UK is Putting Lives at Risk.... ...And you might surprised to learn that the HFR Hero of the Week is a 77 year-old rancher in Mexico.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL 57 STATES
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate - from the FBI's 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. And let's face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don't know what the term is in Austrian for that...
THANKSGIVING’S BLESSING OF CAPITALIST FREEDOM
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how "God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is.
WHAT DO TSA GROPING AND DON’T-ASK-DON’T-TELL REPEAL HAVE IN COMMON?
It is a sad and potentially fatal fact that most Americans know virtually nothing about the U.S. military. That astounding reality is all the more incredible given that our survival ultimately depends on the men and women in uniform who defend this country. Such ignorance is, ironically, a testament to the success of what is known as the all-volunteer force. It is also a national defect, one that soon may be the undoing of a system based on the willingness of a few to protect the rest of us at great risk to themselves. President Obama is hoping to capitalize on our ignorance of these folks and the reality of their lives in uniform - notably, the phenomenon known as "forced intimacy" that is inherent in communal bunk rooms, showers, latrines, shipboard sleeping compartments and foxholes. It is this ignorance that allows him to insist that the U.S. Senate accede during the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session to his demand for the repeal of a 1993 law - widely referred to as DADT or Don't Ask Don't Tell - prohibiting homosexuals from openly serving in the armed forces. Every American who finds himself or herself bridling at the invasion of privacy by TSA should think long and hard about forcing our all-too-often unsung and unrecognized heroes to submit to far worse.
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/19/10
Well, hasn't this been a surprising week? Who knew, for example, that Chicago was run by Republicans and actually is in Alaska? The GOP establishment there, run by the Murkowski clan and its cronies, is as fully corrupt as any Big City Dem Machine in the Lower 48. The same GOP elite Sarah Palin made her bones fighting - and is thus the source of so many of the smears against her. Of course, Alaska's Libs and Dems despise Palin or any candidate she supports, such as Joe Miller. But many of them have more integrity than Alaska's elite Pubs. One of them is Shannyn Moore who writes about her state in the HuffPo. She points out that Alaskan ballot security is handled by a crooked outfit named Goldbelt Securities that openly supported Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign against Joe Miller. The amount of voter fraud regarding Lisa Murkowski's write-in ballots is so massive that a LibDem like Shannyn Moore is demanding "a full scale election audit and reconciliation of every vote cast and every ballot not cast" - which would result in Tea Party conservative Miller being a US Senator, not K Street RINO Murky Murkowski. While Murky declared victory Wednesday (11/17), Miller yesterday (11/18) requested a federal injunction to prevent the state's Department of Elections (run by Murkowski cronies) from certifying her. Let's wish Joe luck. Check out the latest at http://joemiller.us/.
ESCAPE FROM AMERICA
Folks - get ready for your brain to go on a roller coaster ride. Buckle up... The best rum punch in the Caribbean is made by Captain George Clarke, who owns the Sweetfield Manor B&B in the Barbados. Late last month (October), I was enjoying his libation while watching a truly glorious ocean sunset when we were joined by a couple who had just arrived from New York. They looked like they needed a drink. George poured them each a glass from his ever-full pitcher, sprinkled a little grated nutmeg on top, and said, "Welcome to the Barbados. What would you folks like to do on the island?" They cast a glance at each other. After a long sip and a long sigh, the lady answered, "Escape from America." In response to my, shall we say quizzical glance, she held up her glass and said, "After two or three of these, maybe I can explain." We enjoyed the sunset quietly. I took a picture of it that was so good George offered to exchange his secret rum punch recipe for it. There was a rustling in the trees above. "That's a troop of green monkeys," George explained. "They usually come through about now. Green monkeys escaped from Africa on a boat some three hundred years ago..." George let this comment hang in the twilight air, so I followed it up with, "For centuries, people have been escaping to America. You folks want to escape from it?" George poured them another rum punch. The lady wiped a tear from her eye. "Yes, from," she answered, "... we can't stand it anymore, we have to get out. What happened to me at the Newark airport coming here was the final straw."
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/12/10
Has it really been that long - twelve weeks since I last wrote the HFR (August 20)? I spent those weeks on my 17th trip around the world - to Central Asia, Chinese Turkestan, North Korea, Southeast Asia, Micronesia, the Caribbean, ending with celebrating 11/02 with TTPers at the Rendezvous. It's good to be back home. And it's good to be writing the HFR again. I can't wait to get started - but first I've got to thank Jack Kelly for so staunchly holding down the HFR fort in my absence. Thanks, Jack! And thanks to all of you who sent me a Happy Birthday message. I really appreciate it. I do have a great birthday - November 9th - as it's also Ronald Reagan World Freedom Day, the day the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, named in honor of the man who won the Cold War. Plus it's followed by the birthday of the United States Marines - the greatest fighting force on earth - established November 10, 1775. Semper Fi! Then the very next day, November 11th, is when all American patriots give thanks to our veterans for serving their country, shedding their blood and so many their lives, to protect our American birthright of freedom. These three days, coming at the end of going around the world seeing so many other countries and cultures, formed for me such an emphatic exclamation point to the preciousness of America, to its unmatched value to peace and prosperity in the world, and to the literally critical importance as never before of defending it from enemies within our own midst who wish to destroy it. Those enemies got knocked to the canvas last week on Nov. 2nd - but it wasn't a knockout. A luta continua, as the Renamo freedom fighters of Mozambique said. The struggle continues. It always will. So here we go with this week's HFR.
LIVE FREE OR DIE
That's the state motto of New Hampshire - right on NH license plates. Most consider it a rephrase of Virginian Patrick Henry's immortal "Give me liberty or give me death." That's the personal message. Yet it's also a message to America: if America ceases to be free, ceases to extol and value the individual liberty of its citizens, America as a nation will die. The voters of New Hampshire absorbed this message with a vengeance last week. Before then, the NH bicameral legislature - called the General Court - had a Dem majority of 225 out of 400 in the state House and 14 out of 24 in the state Senate. Get ready for the new numbers: on Nov 2nd, the Republicans went from 175 to 297 in the House and from 10 to 19 in the Senate. Both are veto-proof super-majorities, which will come in handy when they repeal the homosexual "marriage" law Dems passed last year. Dem Gov John Lynch's veto will mean nothing. A lot of America followed NH's lead last week. The GOP gained 675 state legislature seats nationwide, the most since 1928. It will now control Congressional redistricting for the 2012 election in 13 states with 165 districts - while the Dems will have four states with 40 districts. This on top of: Governors - before 11/02, 26 Dem 24 GOP; now 19 Dem 29 GOP (via cheating by Quinn in IL; MN undecided) Senate - before 11/02, 59 Dem, 41 GOP; now 53 Dem, 47 GOP (via cheating by Murray in WA, Bennett in CO, and Reid in NV) House - before 11/02, 238 Dem , 178 GOP; now 189 Dem, 240 GOP (via Dem cheating in all close races; 6 still undecided) Let's not focus on Dem cheating. That's what Dems do, thanks to their ends-justify-the-means Marxist morality. Let's focus on the extraordinary conservative triumph over the cheating. A great majority of Americans chose last week to live free and not die. We really had something to celebrate at the TTP Victory Rendezvous this past weekend.
UNLEASHING AMERICA
I'm sure you're pretty happy today. Not quite as happy as you would be if Little Harry Reid had lost - but realize that he'll be Senate Majority Leader for only two more years. Every two years roughly one-third of the Senate's 100 seats are up, but the party balance shifts. This year it was even, 18 Rep and Dem seats up each. In 2012, it will be 10 Rep and 25 Dem seats up for grabs. The odds for a GOP Senate majority will be high. (Note that those 25 Dems include Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders who call themselves "independent," and just-elected Joe Manchin and Kirsten Gillibrand. Since the latter two are filling out Robert Byrd's and Hillary Clinton's terms, they have to run again two years' hence.) So - taking the Senate was a bridge too far this year. Let's instead be overjoyed at the awesome massiveness of the GOP/Tea Party victory yesterday and the concomitant obliteration of the Zero-Pelosi Agenda for the Ruination of America. And you're asking: Yes, Jack, I'm happy and drank way too much Famous Grouse in celebration, but - what happens now? Good question. Here we go.
DEMOCRAT KOOL-AID
Georgetown, Guyana. You may think you've never heard of this place but you have. The former British Guiana (one of the three Guianas - the other two being former Dutch Guiana, now Surinam, and French Guiana, all on the northeast shoulder of South America) - is these days visited by folks into eco-tourism. This place has one of the most untouched rainforests on earth with an astonishing variety of bird and wildlife. But Guyana doesn't ring a bell with you because of harpy eagles and howler monkeys. How about Jim Jones and Jonestown? Yes, that Guyana, where, on November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans committed mass suicide on orders of their cult leader. It remains one of the most bizarre events of modern times - from which the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" originates, meaning blind unthinking acceptance of a suicidally idiotic set of beliefs. Yet almost no one knows just what, exactly, were the beliefs of the "Peoples Temple" cult created by Jim Jones. Some sort of weird religion, right? Nope. Jim Jones calling his Peoples Temple a "church" was a tax-avoidance scam as it was purely secular. He admitted in a taped interview, "I'm an atheist." He was not a religious leader. He was a Stalin-admiring far left San Francisco Democrat.
WILL AMERICA BE A SERIOUS COUNTRY AGAIN?
Soufriere, St. Lucia. Thirsty? How about a cool one? Will this place do? 
I'm here on business (along with Chile, the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia has the freest economy and lowest taxes in the Western Hemisphere), but who could resist taking a break at this place? Looking out onto a view like this would certainly, I thought, give my brain a break from anxiety over November 2nd. No such luck. Not even this place will shut my brain up, nor quell the disquiet. I've been going around the world for two months now - and it's caused me to think more than ever about America and her place among the nations of the world. The one question that keeps reverberating in my head is: Will America be a serious country again?
UPDATE ON THE TTP VICTORY RENDEZVOUS FROM JACK WHEELER
Our Victory Rendezvous in Washington Nov. 05-07 is shaping up to be an extravaganza. Here’s the latest. In addition to the TTP regulars – Jack Kelly, Dr. Joel Wade, Richard Rahn, Marco the Wizard, famed intel analyst Alex Alexiev, and yours truly – we have:
- Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington (you’ve seen him on Fox News)
- Ariel Cohen, the Heritage Foundation’s expert on Russia and global energy policy (Ariel will tell us what’s it like to have a personal conversation with Vladimir Putin on a balcony of a dascha on the Black Sea)
- Robert Agostinelli, the billionaire investor of a major global private equity fund (there is no one who knows more about where the global economy is headed than Robert)
- A special guest whose name we cannot announce, but whom we guarantee you’ll be excited to meet. No one knows more about corruption in Washington than him.
PARADISE LOST
Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean. What is your vision of a coral atoll paradise? A lagoon of crystal clear turquoise water, a beach of pure white sand edged by coconut palms, their fronds rustling in the gentle trade winds? Friendly, welcoming islanders skillfully sailing their outrigger canoes beyond the reef to capture a bounty of fish which they happily share with you? An underwater aquarium that's a snorkler's or scubadiver's dream? A thatch hut, a hammock, a perfectly made mai tai or piña colada with which to enjoy a perfect sunset in the glistening ocean? There are such places on this planet. If you are searching for one of them, don't come here to Majuro. This place was a paradise once just as described above. Now it is a dump. Literally. This is one of Majuro's more pristine beaches: 
This atoll - this country, the sovereign independent United Nations member nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands of which Majuro is the capital - is Paradise Lost. It is the vision, the goal, the template that Democrats have for America. The future they strive for and dream they have for our country is the Paradise Lost of Majuro Atoll.
RUNWAY ABLE
Tinian Island, Pacific Ocean. It's a small island, less than 40 square miles, a flat green dot in the vastness of Pacific blue. Fly over it and you notice a slash across its north end of uninhabited bush, a long thin line that looks like an overgrown dirt runway. If you didn't know what it was, you wouldn't give it a second glance out your airplane window. 
On the ground, you see the runway isn't dirt but tarmac and crushed limestone, abandoned with weeds sticking out of it. Yet this is arguably the most historical airstrip on earth. This is where World War II was won. This is Runway Able. There may be no better place on the planet to reflect on what is at stake on November 2nd than here.
STANDING UP TO CHINA
Singapore. Let's first talk about money, the Chicoms and ours. We have heroes of humanity pictured, like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin. On every denomination of theirs, they picture the greatest mass murderer (as listed in Guinness) in human history. 
Mao was a monster like Stalin and Hitler who laughed his way through the deaths of tens of millions from his man-made famines, being tortured to death in his Laogai - the Chinese Gulag in which millions languish to this day - or shot like this peasant woman for being "counter-revolutionary": 
Stare hard at this picture. This happened to countless Chinese. This is the image that should come to all of our minds whenever we hear any story or news item about Red China. For it's still Red, and always will be until it removes the most evil human being who ever lived off its money - and apologizes to the world for his existence. Which is why China's truculent demand that Japan apologize for seizing a Chinese fishing boat and arresting its captain for poaching in Japanese waters, after the boat rammed a Japanese Navy patrol vessel is so ludicrous - yet no laughing matter to all of China's neighbors.