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IS OBAMA ON IRAN’S SIDE OR AMERICA’S?
Mullah Obama? Off the coast of Yemen and at the UN Security Council we are seeing the strategic endgame of Barack Obama’s administration. And it isn’t pretty. In the last ten days, Iran’s Houthi proxies in Yemen have attacked US naval craft three ...
WHAT ARE EMOTIONS ANYWAY?
Back in the days of Sigmund Freud, the world was powered by steam. Everything was pressure, force, heat, release of pressure, explosive pressure. Pressure, pressure, pressure… Because we tend to understand ourselves in relation to the world we live in, ...
LOVE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
San Bushman – photo by Jack Wheeler In 1988 with Jack Wheeler, I made first contact with a band of hunter-gatherers known as the San people in Africa’s Kalahari Desert. These people had spent their whole lives completely isolated from the whirling, c ...
THE ADVENTURE OF EMPATHY VS. THE FAILURE OF CURIOSITY
Within each of us exists a deeply personal, subjective inner experience. We each have our own DNA, our own history and our own very personal experiences. We have the stories we’ve created that hold the meaning of our experiences and the feelings that fl ...
HOW CAN ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND VOTE FOR HILLARY?
We used to expect more of our presidents than that they not have been indicted for major felonies. There were no new “bombshells” in the Report of the Benghazi Committee. But there were exhaustive, chilling new details about a foreign policy gone aw ...
JAMES COMEY AND THE ROAD TO TYRANNY
FBI Director James Comey has decided not to recommend that Hillary Clinton be indicted for violating security laws concerning the handling of classified information, among other offenses. By doing so he has compromised a fundamental principle of consensua ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/01/16
Three ISIS suicide bombers killed 43 and injured 239 at Turkey’s Ataturk International airport Tuesday (6/28). The three-part attack “was carried out in a way that suggests the kind of advance intelligence, careful study of a target, and cool execution ...
THE POWER OF EMBODYING EMOTIONS
Last week in Using Your Sixth Sense to Change Your Life, I wrote how building more awareness of our physical sensations can help us make essential positive changes. And I described the different sensory systems that allow for this. Today, we’re going to ...
LOVE AND VISIBILITY
When we love someone, and they enter a room, that room gets a little brighter for us, like the lights have been turned up a notch. What brings that glow, that brightness from another fellow human being? Love is too rich and complex to boil down to some si ...
THE MALTHUSIAN MISANTHROPY OF THE LEFT
For more than 200 years, a disturbingly vicious thread has run through Western history, based on biology and justifying cruelty on an almost unimaginable scale. It centers on the question of how to control human population growth and it answers that quest ...
WHAT TO READ 2015
... this tradition with a list of the books I read and recommended in 2012, the first What to Read. That was followed a year later ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH TED CRUZ ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
US Senator Ted Cruz, the conservative Republican firebrand from Texas, is running for president. Up until a few weeks ago, his candidacy was met with indifference as the media and political operatives all dismissed its viability. But that is beginning to c ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/04/15: What Profiteth a Man?
If you're a fan of outrage porn or kabuki theater, I ain't your guy. Which makes me unqualified to report on 90% of what passes for "news" these days. The treasonous sellout to Iran hit a new milestone; Europe's Camp of the Saints crisis continues to evolv ...
ONLY HELICOPTER MONEY CAN SAVE CHINA’S CRUMBLING ECONOMY
China has bungled its attempt to slow the economy gently and is sliding into “imminent recession”, threatening to take the world with it over coming months, Citigroup has warned. Willem Buiter, the bank’s chief economist, said the country need ...
WHAT TO READ 2014
... this tradition with a list of the books I read and recommended in 2012, the first What to Read. That was followed a year ...
ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY
Burma is a hidden country. Sandwiched between India and Thailand, it is essentially the drainage basin of the Irawaddy River, rising in the glaciers at the southeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau and flowing south for 1,350 miles to the Bay of Ben ...
THE BREAKUP OF BRITAIN?
Powerful investors across the world have woken up to the possibility that Scotland may vote to break up the United Kingdom next week (9/18), with some already preparing defensive action that risks a potentially dangerous flight from sterling and Britain's ...
FLAT-FOOTED IN IRAQ
Iraq will go down in history as one of President Barack Obama's greatest achievements, said Vice President Joe Biden in 2010, cementing his reputation as the biggest dunce ever to serve in that office. An Islamist army headed by a man who was in U.S. cus ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/28/14
For the time being, the good guys have won in Ukraine, no thanks to the pusillanimous wimps in Washington and the European Union. "The seismic shift in Ukraine was achieved by its people, not outside forces, and not its politicians," said Andre ...
EVERYBODY HAS SOMETHING
One of the most consistent pieces of truth that I've come to understand in the course of over three decades of working with people as a therapist and Life Coach is this: Everybody has something that they struggle with, have struggled with, or will struggl ...
IF LIBERALS REALLY WANTED TO HELP PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS
On Monday (9/16), Aaron Alexis, 34, who worked there for a private contractor, shot and killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. There seems to be an epidemic of mass shootings -- in Tucson, Arizona in 2011, last year in a movie theater in Aurora, C ...
THE DEMISE OF AND ANSWER TO SKYPE
Skype began as a very cool service. I used it and recommended it - a lot. Skype (originally Sky peer-to-peer) was a peer to ...
FRANCE IS DANCING ON A VOLCANO AND EUROPE MAY GO UP IN FLAMES
During the Bastille Day celebrations this month, French President François Hollande declared - to the incredulity of pretty much everyone in France - that "the recovery is here". There are no particular economic indicators that would sugg ...
SURVIVING A RIOT
Korean shopkeepers during the 1992 Rodney King race riots in Los Angeles As much as no sane person would want urban and suburban rioting, there are thugs making noise in social media that they would use the acquittal of Florida neighborhood watch ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/19/13
Salon. columnist David Sirota hoped the guy who planted two IEDs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday was a "white American" like Timothy McVeigh. But the culprits are radicalized Muslims from Chechnya. Liberal journalists hav ...
MAKING HISTORY COME ALIVE
Jack Wheeler has recommended some books he thinks we ought to read. One, The Jade Steps, ...
WHY CAN’T LIBERALS UNDERSTAND FIFTH-GRADE MATH?
... budget deficit. Mr. Van Roekel told Mr. Cavuto that he had recommended taxing the top 2 percent more to deal with the problem. Mr. ...
OBAMA’S TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
"It's unbelievable," said an unemployed waitress. "How can Obama be leading in the polls and likely to win enough electoral votes for a second term despite the worst economic performance by any President in the past 100 years?" " ...
ROMNEY’S SOLUTION ON A BUMPER STICKER
... taxes on the top 2 percent of taxpayers, I would have recommended to Mitt Romney that he reply by saying: "President Obama has ...
WILL JEWS TURN ON OBAMA OVER ISRAEL?
US election season is clearly upon us as President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish voters and donors upset by Obama's hostility to Israel back in the Democrat Party's fold. Trying to ...
A WORTHWHILE AND AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY
The U.S. budget deficit for February was $221 billion, 14 percent larger than the deficit in February a year ago. The primary reason for the deficit was a 17 percent increase in government spending. This was the largest monthly deficit in history ...
ERIC HOLDER BETTER QUIT WHILE HE CAN
Right about now Attorney General Eric Holder should be planning his return to private practice, or someone in the White House should be planning it for him. Last week (11/17), a jury in Manhattan acquitted Ahmed Ghailani of all but one of 285 counts he w ...
THE CRISIS
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), one of America's great founding patriots, wrote this on December 23, 1776, when America was less than six months old. Substitute Democrats for Britain, RINOs for Tories, Obama for King George III, Pelosi for Howe, Reid for ...
WORLD ESCAPE HATCHES
[This is my talk at the Financial Plan B Workshop in St. Louis yesterday, December 9th.] With our country under assault from the Fascist Left and a president who hates America, many of you are considering locating an "escape hatch" somew ...
SARAH PALIN’S DEATH PANELS ALREADY EXIST
Sarah Palin was wrong when she said the provision for end of life counseling in the health care reform bills pending in Congress is a first step toward government "death panels" which will decide who gets expensive medical care and who doesn't. ...
TREASON AND TED KENNEDY
In honor of the Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Brain Tumor completing its task, here is Herb Rommerstein's exposé of Ted Kennedy's traitorous collaboration with the Soviet KGB, originally published in Human Events in December 2003. Following Mr. Romers ...
LOWERING YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE AGE OF ZERO
Living in the "Age of Zero," where every action of Congress and the White House seems designed to ruin our economy and expand government control, can definitely raise your blood pressure. It turns out that there may be a very simple and very in ...
FINALLY – JEWS QUESTION THEIR FAITH IN OBAMA
Few did more to reassure Jews it was "safe" to vote for Barack Hussein Obama - which they did by 78% - than Martin Peretz, financier and editor in chief of the New Republic magazine since 1974. "Can Friends of Israel -- and Jews -- Trust O ...
LEON AT LANGLEY??
There are, I suspect, quite a few jobs in government for which having no experience is not a liability. But few would list CIA director among them. Which is why Barack Obama's pick of Leon Panetta is causing so much consternation. A former c ...
DOES THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BELONG IN JAIL?
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain (1897) Twain's humorous quip, unfortunately, is all too close to the current reality. "Willful misconduct,& ...