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Black Sea-American Lake
The Greeks called it the Euxine Sea. Jason and the Argonauts sailed across it to steal the Golden Fleece from the King of Colchis. The great city of Byzantium was built at its entrance, which became Constantinople, which became Istanbul.The 20th Century di ...
Our Challenge In Georgia
Georgians enthusiastically elected Mikheil Saakashvili president of Georgia on Sunday, Jan. 4. He is a the youthful, center-right leader of the Georgian opposition who overthrew President Eduard Shevardnadze in the "Rose Revolution" last November. Mr. Saak ...
When Taxes Are Not Seen For What They Are
In mainstream discussions taxation amounts to little more than the unpleasant burden that comes from government spending, no different from having to earn money so as to buy stuff in any normal household. Politicians make spending decisions, which become p ...
Democrats, Poverty, and Rich-Bashing
Witnessing the scramble among Democratic presidential hopefuls to appeal to voters in the various states about to have primaries is not a pleasant experience. What has come to be the main theme of these candidates is the refrain that whoever isn’t ri ...
Of Gringos and Old Grudges: This Land Is Their Land
In the American South, William Faulkner once wrote, the past isn't dead. It isn't even past. This may become truer the farther south one goes. Read more... ...
TTP Intelligence Bulletin
• Has Al Qaeda Surrendered?• President Pander. Read more... ...
Replies from Dr. Jack
John King writes:I loved Michael Crichton's article, as I do all your articles, on the environment. Would it be possible to obtain some references for some of his statements, e.g. DDT is not carcinogenic, etc?Thanks. Keep up the good work.John --The defini ...
THE ALLAH THAT FAILED
Let’s say there’s this fellow named Joe. He makes a living as a highway bandit robbing travelers. Any victim who gives him any trouble he kills. Joe has a special hatred for Jews. “Kill Jews wherever you find them,” he tells the mem ...
Whatever Happened to Never Again?
It wasn’t that long ago that a good many European Jews swore an oath: Never Again. Never Again will Nazi-like anti-Semitism be tolerated. Never Again will Jews be meekly herded down a path that leads to Zyklon-B showers. So in response to the explosi ...
TO YOUR HEALTH
The older you get, the more staying in shape is like being the Red Queen of Wonderland: You have keep running faster and faster to stay in the same place.I want to wish you all a healthy and strong 2004. I can’t tell you how to achieve this, howeve ...
THE INTELLECTUAL’S CURSE
None of all the momentous events that occurred in 2003 -- the recovery of the US economy, the invasion of Iraq and military overthrow of Saddam’s regime, the capture of Saddam, the capitulation of Libya’s Kaddafi, you name it -- was the most im ...
The First Day of Christmas
Merry Christmas! Wait — that was yesterday, wasn’t it? Nevertheless, today, December 26, is the First Day of Christmas. Ancient Christians celebrated “The Holidays,” as our militant secularists insist on referring to them now, start ...
OF INTELLECTUAL BONDAGE: How The Left Dominates Israeli Universities
If you thought American Universities were repositories of masochistic appeasement of enviers of Western Civilization, compare them to those of Israel’s. If you need to sober up after all those Christmas parties, this article will do it quickly. ̵ ...
THE ENGLISH GODFATHER OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISM
The founder of the Palestinian terrorist movement was Amin al-Husseini. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, he organized Arab rampages killing Jewish settlers in Palestine throughout the 1920s, formed an alliance with the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s, met w ...
ONE BILLION ALLIES
If I ask you to think of India, the image that most likely appears in your minds eye would be the Taj Mahal. Arguably the most famous building in the world and considered by many to be the most beautiful structure mankind has ever created, it was complete ...
Bitterness and Bad Karma
Bill Safire is normally the only thing worth reading in the New York Times, and he proved it with his latest column (datelined 12/8/03), which is devoted to completely messing up the mind of every Bush-hating Democrat in America. Read more... ...
Eco-Imperialism’s Deadly Consequences
The United Nations' global warming bureaucracy is meeting (vacationing?) in Milan this week pondering how to revive the beleaguered international global warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol. This week's news that Russia might say "nyet" to the treaty ...
THE MOSLEM MYTH OF JERUSALEM
It is a commonplace in a story or article about the Arab-Israeli conflict that mentions Jerusalem to repeat the Moslem mantra that “Jerusalem is the third holiest city in all Islam, next to Mecca and Medina.” You’ve heard this innumerable times -- ...
Why Bush is Scared in 2004
This is a black day, a day for anyone associated with the Republican Party to be ashamed and embarrassed. Piling a new trillion-dollar Medi-Pander entitlement to appease geezer-beggars on top of all the others that the Republicans should be busy eliminatin ...
THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN CRUSADES
Let’s play fill-in-the-blanks. In general, Americans and Europeans are Christians. Arabs are Moslems. Indians are Hindus. Chinese are _________? If you have trouble filling in the last blank, it’s because the answer is blank. From time imme ...
Why Bush Will Win in 2004
A year from now you and I will be celebrating George W. Bush’s re-election. It’s in the bag, and the reason why is deeper than the economy or Iraq. It’s because GW figured out Bill Clinton’s secret while the Dems forgot it. Read mo ...
Good Vibrations – How Dick Cheney Can Find Saddam’s Hidden Weapons
I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator’s name: SAH-dum, not sah-DAM. Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means “One Who Confronts,” the former means “Barefoot Beggar.” Be assured that when ...
The Anti-American Right
Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? It's the Left -- liberals, left-wingers, socialists, commies, pinkos, the Noam Chomskys and Alec Baldwins and Barbra Streisands -- that hates America. But the Right -- good old flag-waving patriotic God Bless Americ ...
Comprehensive Reading List
TTPer Tom Howard asks:"Can you post a comprehensive, recommended reading list from Dr. Wheeler? Particularly on logic and philosophy?" Read more... ...
Adolf in Malaysia
It is only with the most extreme caution and reluctance that someone making repulsive and racist statements should be labeled a Nazi. Hitler's crimes were so monstrous that most comparisons to them cheapen and insult their horror. Yet there are times w ...
Feeble Reeds
The vote on the aid package for Iraq and Afghanistan was one of the most significant foreign aid votes in history, ranking up there with the 1941 vote on Lend-Lease for Britain, and the 1948 vote on the Marshall Plan. Had Congress not approved President R ...
General Boykin’s Fighting Spirit
The latest proposed victim in our struggle against terrorism is Army Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, recently named Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. His mission is to reinvigorate the search for Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and other ...
ARM WRESTLING WITH RUSSIA
It was a gorgeous spring day in Washington D.C. when I got a call from Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). The year was 1995. "Hey, Jack, can you come to my office late this afternoon? The Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and his entourage will be here and I'd like ...
The Osama-Saddam Surprise
Al Jazeera released another audio tape this week, recorded by someone speaking in Arabic and claiming to be Osama Bin Laden. As with such tapes in the past, the CIA reports that it is kinda, almost, and pretty sure that it is OBL's real voice so he must ...
THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION
Ordinarily, I suggest that you forward my articles to any friends whom you think would appreciate them — but this is an exception. I’m going to ask you, as a TTP member, to keep this to yourself. There is talk in certain, shall we say, “ ...
And Now For the Good News
As the libs gloat and revel over the travails of Rush Limbaugh, their books bashing Bush take over the bestseller lists, their media hails Democratic presidential wannabes as saintly saviors of America and subjects us to a daily deluge of disaster in Iraq, ...
Liberal Bias in Black and White
The now-legendary late-hit of the Los Angeles Times on Arnold five days before the election has had the salutary effect of making the major media's liberal bias unavoidably clear to all. Read more... ...
Demolition Man
Ten years ago, in 1993, Sylvester Stallone made a movie entitled Demolition Man . He played a Los Angeles super-cop in the late 90s who is framed and sentenced to being frozen in suspended animation.In 2032, he is revived to solve an unprecedented crime ...
Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq
Please note that the following is an Associated Press story. Did any news outlet you know of (other than ToThePoint!) carry it? Read more... ...
Platonic Conservatives
There is an organization of conservatives which has met in private thrice annually since 1981. As a member for over 20 years, I am obliged not to mention its name or membership. Suffice it to say that virtually every major conservative figure in Americ ...
AFGHAN POPPIES: What The Bush White House Should Really be Afraid Of
One of the most amusing things about the Washington Circus is how media feeding frenzies are almost always about phony irrelevant scandals, while truly serious scandals are ignored. Read more... ...
GW Dances With Hillary
Let's start with two things we know for sure about Hillary. First, she wants to be President. Second, she will do anything to be so. There is no lie she won't tell, no friend she won't destroy, no pledge she won't break, no slander she won't spread, ...
TERRORISM AND TINY ZIBBS
This extraordinary photo is of the two Finance Coordinators of the 2003 meeting of the governing boards for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held this week in Dubai. Geetha Ezhuvath is on the left. She is not a Moslem. Sara Al Kaabi on t ...
George and Alberto
I recently received a very kind letter from ToThePointer Hagan Hetz, of the famous Fairview Evergreen Nurseries in Pennsylvania (www.fairviewevergreen.com). He wanted to know what I thought of President Bush's September 7 address to the nation on Iraq. OK ...
The Toleration of Evil
It is impossible for the ordinary human mind to fully grasp the evil of Joseph Stalin. He purposefully engineered the starving to death of over ten million people in Ukraine. In terms of mass murder, Stalin's Ukrainian Holocaust was an even greater cri ...