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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/10/10
... 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 ... insights on the world that only TTP provides. The HFR can't think of better gifts than these, that will be more valued and ...
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 ...
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 ... at Risk.... ...And you might surprised to learn that the HFR Hero of the Week is a 77 year-old rancher in Mexico. Read ...
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 ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/12/10
... been that long - twelve weeks since I last wrote the HFR (August 20)? I spent those weeks on my 17th trip around the world - ... 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 ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/05/10
This is my 11th HFR since I started filling in for Jack. It’s the first in which ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/29/10
We are less than 100 hours from the most important midterm election in our history. The outlook for the House ranges from rosy to Biblical. An Irish bookie already is paying off those who bet the Republicans will take the House. What is perhaps a si ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/22/10
The headline on this story on the front page of the New York Times Thursday read: “Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Region.” It’s evident New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof didn’t read the story in his own p ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/15/10
If you kill them, they will die. Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times reports the troop surge in Afghanistan is starting to work. There is a simpler way than Stuxnet to stick it to the Iranians, says Spengler. Joe Miller is losing altitud ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/01/10
... Report of late, so we’ll begin this week’s HFR with bad. * President Barack Obama drew a monster crowd – ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/24/10
We'll begin this week's HFR with a missive from the master, now safely out of Norkland and in the green ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/17/10
Let’s begin this week’s HFR with three cheers for Ovide Lamontagne. He came from far behind to ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/27/10
... hope you’ll find it entertaining. Last week’s HFR would more accurately have been called the “Cup Runneth Over ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/20/10
We begin this week with a letter of profound gratitude. Dear TTP Family, My Marines and I cannot thank you enough for the dozens of care packages you have sent us here in Afghanistan. At least 50 have come in so far and more arrive almost eve ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/06/10
Relax. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, then another, think of a beautiful sunset and the smell of an ocean breeze. If it's not too early - the sun is over the yard-arm somewhere - pour yourself three fingers of your favorite adult libatio ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/30/10
Growing up as a teenage California surfer in the late 50s/early 60s, my favorite music was Surf Rock. The record we all loved the most then is the one that keeps reverberating in my head now with little more than 90 days to go until November 2nd. I ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/23/10
Psalms 23:5. That's what comes to mind this week. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. There will be weeks when our cup is bone dry. This week is not one ...
RATIONAL OPTIMISM
As "The Oasis for Rational Conservatives," To The Point espouses a world-view that could be called rational optimism. It is encapsulated every week in (and in the very title of) The Half-Full Report. Smart-aleck cynics claim the term &qu ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/16/10
Last week (7/08) in This Is No Accident, Comrades, we discussed this possibility: "Our country is faced with an impending economic catastrophe, a Second Great Depression. It is being brought about on purpose by a political party that cares ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/02/10
Sark, Channel Islands. This is a uniquely interesting place from which to celebrate this Fourth of July weekend. As one of the Channel Islands (as in the English Channel although they are much closer to France than England), it is a "Crow ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/25/10
Good grief, what a weird week. Which headline is more bizarre - the one in Cincinnati, "Naked Man Arrested With Stolen Cheese At Library," or the one in Portland, "Al Gore Accused Of Being A Crazed Sex Poodle"? We all know, of ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/18/10
Do you hear that music? Sure sounds beautiful. As the Left becomes more disenchanted with Zero, folks inside the Zero White House are leaking what's going on to leftie blogs. Here is a compilation of those leaks that is appearing all ov ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/11/10
Well, hasn't this been a fun week. An icon of the liberal media - the execrable Helen Thomas - is exposed as a disgusting anti-Semitic racist and her life career ends in ruins. Zero exposes himself as a no-class punk president who belongs in ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/28/10
Fantasies aside, like Zero having a total mental breakdown and resigning, it's not clear how this week could have been realistically better. The Gulf Oil Spill is rapidly becoming Zero's Katrina. Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu and Democrat guru Jam ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/21/10
... and connections in this area make it difficult to get the HFR and TTP Weekly Report out on schedule - so I hope you'll cut me some slack ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/14/10
Need another example of what's at stake in November? How about your 401(k) retirement savings? Via something called the Employee Benefits Security Administration, a group of fascisti within the Labor Department, the Dems are planning to se ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/30/10
We've a lot of ground to cover for this week's HFR, but first let's ask - who knew Connie Mack (R-FL) has gone senile at 42 ... to him. Whatever. Let's now go back to the HFR of January 23, 2009, which said: What could be more appropriate, on the ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/09/10
Let's start the HFR this week by my asking you to stop reading it. What I suggest you do ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/19/10
... Capiche? OK, here we go. There's no doubt who the HFR Hero of the Week is: Read ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/05/10
Naples, Florida. I had to skedaddle back from the Persian Gulf to speak to a conservative organization meeting here today. I'll be on the podium soon, so let's get started. Richard Rahn this week discusses the economics of raising cigarette t ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/26/10
... here, as there's so much to talk about this week the HFR could be the length of a small novel. Before we begin - an ... but mark your calendar now. *** So - let's start with the HFR International Hero of the Week, Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Then I'll ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/12/10
Happy Valentine's Day! I am far away from my Valentine of almost three decades, as this Sunday the 14th I'll be in Bahrain, but we'll celebrate the love we've shared for all these years as soon as I get back home. For those of you lucky to be home ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/05/10
... in San Antone, I saved the best line of the event for the HFR. After all the dystopian discussion of how the Dems are driving us into ... over the 10,000-point precipice. Greece, as the HFR has been predicting, is dragging the Euro into a deep hole. Next to ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/29/10
Amidst all the catcalls and raspberries directed at Zero's SOTU speech this week - Fred Barnes called it the "least fresh" and most cliché-ridden such speech in over 30 years - I must admit I thought it was great. Perfect, in fact.& ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/15/10
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the moonbats to figure out how to blame Bush for the Haiti earthquake. Note their arguments in the Puffington Host. It's all Bush's fault because he supposedly engineered the 2004 rebellion that overthrew ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/08/10
OK, folks, time to get serious - The Remember the Alamo Rendezvous in San Antonio is three weeks away. You really really do not want to be square and not be there. This is your opportunity to help launch the Defund & Disobey Revolution o ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/01/10
Happy New Year! Doesn't it feel great to be rid of 2009? To be rid of the entire furshlugginer decade of the Aughts? And what is to be our battle cry as we enter 2010? Fired up and ready to go! The battle cry is ours now. It no l ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/11/09
Certainly the best news of the week is that Copenhagen is imploding. The "Climate Change Conference" is where the world's Fascist Left intended to cement its control of a global bureaucracy. But then China and India balked, demanding ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/04/09
Here's the question of the week: What if King Canute had been a liberal? You know the ancient tale. Canute (985-1035), son of Sven Forkbeard, Viking ruler of both Scandinavia and England, tired of the endless flattery of courtiers trying to c ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/27/09
... note before we begin this Thanksgiving Edition of the HFR: I am celebrating in particular the at-long-last completion of The ...