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WORSE AND WORSER
Democrats should unite against “prattling demagogue” Donald Trump, who is “a lightning rod for the politically disenfranchised and marginalized who trust in nothing but their misplaced biases,” Rob Biller wrote in a letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Ga ...
THE REAL ATLANTIS
Knossos, Crete. Welcome to Atlantis. This is what it looked like. And this: More nonsense has been invented about Plato’s myth of Atlantis – mentioned briefly in his Timaeus and Critias and nowhere else by anyone else in antiquity – than any o ...
WILL AMERICA FOLLOW EUROPE INTO THE ABYSS?
Because of what Europe has become, it now has few viable choices in dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. Its dilemma is a warning to Americans that we should turn away from a similar path of national suicide. No European country can take the security ...
THE WORST POLITICAL BLUNDER OF ALL TIME
The worst political blunder of all time, according to scientist Freeman Dyson, was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human ...
ACHIEVING AN AMERICAN RESTORATION
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has been fundamentally transformed. From the land of the free and the home of the brave, seven years into the Obama presidency, America acts like the land of the overregulated and the home of the risk averse. ...
BARACK OBAMA HAS DELIBERATELY WEAKENED AMERICA
[This is the text of Marco Rubio’s foreign policy speech in Hooksett, New Hampshire yesterday January 4th] Though the media isn’t covering it, today is actually the anniversary of a historic moment in global affairs. Eight years ago today – January ...
WHAT IF THE NEXT PRESIDENT BEHAVES LIKE OBAMA?
How will the country wake up from its coma in 2016 to reality in 2017? In the next 12 months, the lame-duck, legacy-starved Obama administration will double down on its executive orders, bureaucratic fiats, and circumvention of the law. Obama will seek to ...
DID OPEC JUST DIE?
The OPEC cartel is to continue flooding the world with crude oil despite a chronic glut and the desperate plight of its own members Brent prices have tumbled $3 a barrel to below $41, US crude over $4 to below $38, as traders tried to make sense of the fr ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/27/15
Here’s the scene. The villain total jerk bad guy steps up unprovoked and without warning slaps Clint Eastwood right in the face, challenging him to do something about it. What do you think happens next? In the movie, we’d know. But this has happened f ...
THE OBAMA DELUGE
Many observers of American politics still do not quite grasp that Obama will end his presidency by seeking to get his opponents’ goat — and that his resentment will lead to some strange things said and done. Insidiously and inadvertently, Barack Obama ...
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF RADICAL ISLAM
As the cleaning crews were mopping up the dried blood from the stage and the seats of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a depressing act appeared on stage in distant Iowa. Saturday night (11/14) the three contenders for the Democrat Party’s presidenti ...
THE PRESIDENT’S ALL TIME FAVORITE DICTATORSHIPS
... a free pass to smuggle weapons past the NATO blockade of Libya even though the administration knew the weapons were going to ...
“BAMLET” DITHERS WHILE CHINA TAKES THE SEA
If your neighbor’s house catches fire, is it wiser to call the fire department or to trust the good will of the flames to put themselves out? Faced with strategic conflagrations scorching much of the globe, President Obama’s approach is to delay as lo ...
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 ...
WHY OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL ENSURES WAR
There are several scenarios the Obama administration may be entertaining as it pursues its diplomacy in the Middle East. It may believe that the new agreement with Iran will lead to “engagement” with reform-minded theocrats. Or perhaps an Obama-inspir ...
ED ROYCE FOR SPEAKER?
[Arnie Steinberg, Ed Royce, and I have been friends since we were in Youth For Reagan in RR’s original campaign for California governor in 1966 – perilously close to half a century. Arnie has one of the sharpest minds in conservative politics. His case ...
EUROPE’S CAMP OF THE SAINTS CRISIS: A 3-WAY STRATEGIC FULCRUM
This article has been given a major update. It includes an overview of recent events to give readers a sense of the ground truth, and looks more deeply into the strategic fulcrum around Islam. Note esp. the time conjunction with al-Qaeda's 20 Year Plan. ...
Europe’s Camp of the Saints Crisis: 9/11/15 Update
Per Brant's recommendation, we are making this update its own article. TTPers who want to understand the 3 strategic fulcrums linked to this crisis should read the original anchor article. x As of September 11, 2015, "Refugees" continue to pour into E ...
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 ...
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FAILED STATES NOW?
The greatest threat to global security is the rapidly increasing number of failed states. Even though there is no agreed-upon definition of a failed state, it is generally understood that when a government can no longer provide basic security to its peopl ...
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 ...
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 ...
HOW CAN ANYONE THINK THAT THIS WOMAN SHOULD BE PRESIDENT?
The Clinton Foundation "received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments" in 2014, the Washington Post reported last week (5/21). That's in addition to "millions" in foreign donations for the years 2010-2013, but n ...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW IS IRAQ IS OBAMA’S FAULT, NOT BUSH’S
The fall of Ramadi, Iraq's 4th largest city, 64 miles from Baghdad, to the vicious terrorists of ISIS has renewed interest in an old controversy. "Knowing what we know now," invading Iraq was a mistake, say most GOP presidential candidates --in ...
HOW ISIS MUST BE DEFEATED
Obama can't defeat ISIS with soft power, though ISIS could beat him with soft power assuming its Caliph ever decided to agree to sit down at a table with John Kerry without beheading him. Iran has picked up billions in sanctions relief and the right to ...
WHY DO THE GREEN TALIBAN WANT AFRICA TO STAY POOR?
In what is probably the silliest comment on climate since Harry Reid blamed global warming on the Koch brothers, a green journalist opined of the refugees currently dying in the Mediterranean: "This is what climate crisis looks like . . . We know the ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/24/15
It's a jump from Niue to Vegas. My brain hasn't the faintest idea of what time zone it's in, so my own "puzzle of paradise" is how I'm going to compose a coherent HFR right now, especially when the Rendezvous begins in a few hours. Jack K ...
PUZZLES OF PARADISE
Niue Island, Polynesia. Have you ever seen the ocean turn day-glo pink? It does here naturally during a sunset. Niue (new-way) is the Polynesian paradise you've never heard of (yes, there will be more pictures below). W ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/17/15
Russia will lift its ban on the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, Vladimir Putin announced Monday (4/13). That will hugely complicate an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported out unanimousl ...
THE LAND OF ADVENTURE
Hobart, Tasmania. Before we delve into Tassie, as Tasmaniacs affectionately call their island, I need to make an announcement. With the Platinum Vegas Rendezvous a little more than two weeks away, I better explain why it may the Last Rendezvous. As yo ...
WILL YEMEN BE THE SAUDI VIETNAM?
The long-simmering struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran for Mid-East supremacy has escalated to a dangerous new level as the two sides fight for control of Yemen, reminding markets that the epicenter of global oil supply remains a powder keg. Brent oi ...
HILLARY LEAVES NIXON IN THE DUST
... who was convicted in 1983 of illegally selling weapons to Libya, said Jeff Gerth, who wrote with Sam Biddle an investigative report on ...
HOW TO GET REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN
... leitmotif of the world today, having reshaped Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, threatened Syria and Venezuela, aimed at Jordan, and raged ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/20/15
Foremost in the news this week were more atrocities by Islamic terrorists, more frantic efforts by President Barack Obama and his minions to deny Islam has anything to do with Islamist terror. ISIS is very much Islamic, writes Graeme Wood in a long, must ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/13/15
The brutal execution by ISIS of a Jordanian pilot has lit a fire under Jordan's King Abdullah, who has stepped up air strikes, moved "thousands" of troops to his border with Iraq. A graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, paratroope ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/30/15
Are you ready for Vegas? Yes - the TTP Vegas Rendezvous is official! It's at the Platinum Boutique Hotel & Spa, just off the Strip and its most famous intersection of Caesar's, Bellagio, Paris, and the Flamingo. The dates are Friday April ...
POLYGAMY AND VIOLENCE
[Note: this essay may be most fruitfully read in conjunction with Terrorism and Tiny Zibbs from September 2003-JW] When the Kurdish peshmerga forces broke the siege of Mount Sinjar last week, there was no trace of the 5,000 Yazidi women and childr ...
IT’S GAME OVER FOR THE SAUDIS VS AMERICA ON OIL
Saudi Arabia and the core OPEC states are taking an immense political gamble by letting crude oil prices crash to $66 a barrel, if their aim is to shake out the weakest shale producers in the US. "The resilience of US shale may prove greater than t ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/21/14
I just got back from what you know by now was The Mystery Adventure I couldn't name last September - for I am on the Mullah Regime's blacklist. I was able to secretly scribe Hope for Iran then post it in Istanbul yesterday, and now have to play ca ...
ARAB CIVILIZATION HAS COLLAPSED
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than to enter a quagmire. He is doing more than play with the fates of two half-broken countries-Iraq and Syria-whose societies were gutted l ...