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headline ever posted on Drudge: <img class=" size-full wp-image-5809" style="margin: 5px" src="http://wp.accesspaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/o_hitler-stalin_drudge.png" alt="o_hitler-stalin_drudge.png" title="o_hitler-stalin_drudge.png" width="463" height="202" align="bottom" /> It was linked to a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-obama-might-use-executive-order-deal-guns_694984.html">Weekly Standard</a> story on Zero's considering an Executive Order to effect gun control without legislation from Congress. It gave CommieMedia libtards the vapors, as chronicled by the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/journalists-react-in-shock-to-drudge-report-header-featuring-hitler-and-stalin/article/2518041#.UO_aQncXLjC">Washington Examiner</a>. They can't stand it whenever someone reveals they worship an Evil Messiah. Yet, in truth, there is in fact an enormous difference between Zero and Hitler-Stalin. Hitler and Stalin were both rabidly crazed nationalists, determined at whatever cost to conquer other peoples and subject them to Germany or Russia. Zero, on the other hand, is a rabidly crazed <em>anti</em>-nationalist, determined at whatever cost to destroy his own country. He is filled with hatred and contempt for America, as neither Hitler nor Stalin were towards their own countries. Zero is at the extreme end of American liberalism, which has always been characterized, at a minimum, by embarrassment. Liberals are embarrassed to be Americans, embarrassed over the very existence of America and in a state of constant apology for it - look what we did to the Indians, our Founders owned slaves, we're racist imperialist capitalist war-mongers, blah-blah-blah. This is why Zero - who feels free to take his phony-nice mask off in a second term and expose who he really is - has nominated three revolting embarrassed-to-be-American libtards to be in charge of our defense, foreign policy, and intelligence security. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-011113/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5807" class="art-post art-article post-5807 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c104-free-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-law-that-can-save-america-and-put-obama-in-jail/" rel="bookmark" title="THE LAW THAT CAN SAVE AMERICA AND PUT OBAMA IN JAIL">THE LAW THAT CAN SAVE AMERICA AND PUT OBAMA IN JAIL</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="7:46 am">January 10, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> <i>[Note: this is a Free Access article to enable it to go viral. Every Republican on Capitol Hill, every talk show host like Limbaugh and Levin, every conservative organization needs to be aware of it. There is a federal law that can remove the President from office and put him in prison without impeachment. Here it is.] </i> Neither the Senate, nor the President, nor the Supreme Court, nor any federal agency secretary or bureaucrat, has the constitutional authority to spend one single dime by themselves, without a majority of the House giving it to them. This is the "power of the purse." There is, however, a problem - a legal problem, not just a psychological one, such as Congressistas being spendaholics or too cowardly to refuse the begging of various constituencies for handouts. This problem is epitomized by the Senate Republicans' inability to force Harry Reid to pass an annual budget, even though there is a law requiring the Senate to do so. Thanks to Reid's blocking all attempts, the Senate hasn't passed a budget since April, 2009, which clearly violates federal law - the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. So how come Reid can't be prosecuted? Why can't the Senate Pubs take legal action against him? As <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-why-cant-republicans-enforce-law-against-harry-reid/article/2517963#.UO6EeHcXLjA">Byron York</a> explains, "the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 doesn't have an enforcement mechanism. Lawmakers are required by law to pass a budget each year by April 15, but there's no provision to punish them, or even slightly inconvenience them, if they don't." So we arrive at what may well be the single most important question to ask in America today. Given that the current President of the United States seems determined to bypass the House's appropriation authority and spend gigantic sums on whatever programs he wants or enforcing whatever Executive Orders he issues, is there an enforcement mechanism for his violating the power of the purse clauses in the Constitution? The answer is yes. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-law-that-can-save-america-and-put-obama-in-jail/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5806" class="art-post art-article post-5806 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/phony-self-esteem-hurts-children-earned-self-esteem-helps-them/" rel="bookmark" title="PHONY SELF-ESTEEM HURTS CHILDREN, EARNED SELF-ESTEEM HELPS THEM">PHONY SELF-ESTEEM HURTS CHILDREN, EARNED SELF-ESTEEM HELPS THEM</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="3:16 pm">January 9, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/joelwade/" title="View all posts by Dr. Joel Wade">Dr. Joel Wade</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> There is a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257715/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special--read-write-barely-study.htmlhttp:/www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=539420">study</a> by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University that is getting a lot of news this week, in which she found that college kids today are more likely to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, while their test scores and hours spent studying are decreasing. Their tendency toward narcissism has also increased <a href="http://spp.sagepub.com/content/1/1/99"> over the last 30 years</a>. Some reports get a bit more <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/08/are-raising-generation-deluded-narcissists/">frenzied</a> than I prefer ("We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists!" <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> just gets us scared, I prefer to be effective); but <a href="http://jeantwenge.com/index.html">Twenge</a> has been studying this trend for several years, has accumulated some impressive <a href="http://www.igenconsulting.com/articles.html">research</a>, and has written several <a href="http://jeantwenge.com/html/Books.html">books</a>.</span> Today I want to look at what I consider one of the sources of this trend: the <em>phony self-esteem movement</em>, and how it feeds the fixed trait mindset - and thus the need to see oneself as just fantastic. This also shows what can be done to remedy the situation, by contrasting phony self-esteem with the genuine article --<em> earned </em>self-esteem. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/phony-self-esteem-hurts-children-earned-self-esteem-helps-them/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5805" class="art-post art-article post-5805 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-da%e2%80%b0jae-vu-catastrophe/" rel="bookmark" title="THE DÃ‰JÃ€ VU CATASTROPHE">THE DÃ‰JÃ€ VU CATASTROPHE</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:14 pm">January 9, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> The men whom President Barack Hussein Obama has chosen to head his national security team send more shivers down the spines <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57562677/hagel-nomination-cheers-iran-worries-israel/">of our allies</a> than those of our enemies. So if <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/04/why_2013_looks_a_lot_like_1913">Charles Emmerson</a> is right in thinking the world in 2013 "eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War," that's not good. The United States, like Britain 100 years ago, is in relative economic and military decline, Mr. Emmerson, a researcher for <a href="http://www.chathamhouse.org/">Chatham House,</a> a British think tank, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine Jan. 4. Hostile powers are rising and "jostling for position in the four corners of the world."<span> </span> The president wants <span style="font-size: 12pt">someone whom many consider an outright traitor</span> to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State; a str<span style="font-size: 12pt">aight out Anti-Semite</span> to take over for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and <span style="font-size: 12pt">a sympathizer of Jihad Islam</span> as CIA Director. You couldn't ask for a greater recipe for catastrophe than that. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-da%e2%80%b0jae-vu-catastrophe/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5804" class="art-post art-article post-5804 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c90-members-only-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/china-and-the-race-for-thorium-power/" rel="bookmark" title="CHINA AND THE RACE FOR THORIUM POWER">CHINA AND THE RACE FOR THORIUM POWER</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:29 pm">January 8, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard">Ambrose Evans-Pritchard</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Princeling Jiang Mianheng, son of former leader Jiang Zemin, is spearheading a project for China's National Academy of Sciences with a start-up budget of $350m. He has already recruited 140 PhD scientists, working full-time on thorium power at the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear and Applied Physics. He will have 750 staff by 2015. The aim is to break free of the archaic pressurized-water reactors fueled by uranium -- originally designed for US submarines in the 1950s -- opting instead for new generation of thorium reactors that produce far less toxic waste and cannot blow their top like Fukushima. "China is the country to watch," said Baroness Bryony Worthington, head of the All-Parliamentary Group on Thorium Energy, who visited the Shanghai operations recently with a team from Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory. "They are really going for it, and have talented researchers. This could lead to a massive break-through." The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor">thorium story</a> is by now well-known. It could do for nuclear power what shale fracking has done for natural gas -- but on a bigger scale. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/china-and-the-race-for-thorium-power/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5803" class="art-post art-article post-5803 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/uncle-sam-is-addicted-to-overspending/" rel="bookmark" title="UNCLE SAM IS ADDICTED TO OVERSPENDING">UNCLE SAM IS ADDICTED TO OVERSPENDING</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="11:41 am">January 8, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/rrahn/" title="View all posts by Richard Rahn">Richard Rahn</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Tax revenue in 2013 will be lower (despite the just passed tax increase), and government spending will be higher than forecast. It's an easy prediction -- and this is why. The capital gains tax rate and the tax on dividends is being raised from 15 percent to 23.5 percent for higher-income people. There are many studies, including those made by the U.S. Treasury, showing that the revenue-maximizing rate on capital gains is less than 15 percent. Taking a capital gain is often a discretionary event, and it is well documented that capital gains realizations fall as the rate is increased. Thus, this rate increase will be a net revenue loser for the government. Expenditures will also be far higher than forecast. The simple fact is the Obama administration and Congress, particularly the Democrats, are unable to resist the urge to spend more. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/uncle-sam-is-addicted-to-overspending/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5802" class="art-post art-article post-5802 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c90-members-only-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/will-europe-go-the-way-of-the-ming-empire/" rel="bookmark" title="WILL EUROPE GO THE WAY OF THE MING EMPIRE?">WILL EUROPE GO THE WAY OF THE MING EMPIRE?</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="3:31 pm">January 7, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Matt Ridley">Matt Ridley</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> A "rational optimist" like me thinks the world will go on getting better for most people at a record rate, not because I have a temperamental or ideological bent to good cheer but because of the data. Poverty, hunger, population growth rates, inequality, and mortality from violence, disease and weather -- all continue to plummet on a global scale. But a global optimist can still be a regional pessimist. When asked what I am pessimistic about, I usually reply: <em>bureaucracy and superstition.</em> Using those two tools, we Europeans seem intent on making our future as bad as we can. Like mandarins at the court of the Ming emperors or viziers at the court of Abbasid caliphs, our masters seem determined to turn relative into absolute decline. It is entirely possible that ten years from now the world as a whole will be 50 per cent richer, but Europeans will be 50 per cent poorer. As the Ming empire found out, the more government you buy, the less economic activity you get. A Fujian travelling salesman in 1400 was enmeshed in such a tangled bureaucracy that he could neither travel nor sell without bribes and permits, and he had to submit a monthly inventory of his stocks to the emperor. Sound familiar? </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/will-europe-go-the-way-of-the-ming-empire/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5801" class="art-post art-article post-5801 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c90-members-only-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-security-diamond-of-japan-india-australia-and-america/" rel="bookmark" title="THE SECURITY DIAMOND OF JAPAN, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AND AMERICA">THE SECURITY DIAMOND OF JAPAN, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AND AMERICA</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="11:16 am">January 7, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Shinzo Abe">Shinzo Abe</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Pacific Ocean are inseparable from peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean. Developments affecting each are more closely connected than ever. Japan, as one of the oldest sea-faring democracies in Asia, should play a greater role in preserving the common good in both regions. Yet, increasingly, the South China Sea seems set to become a "Beijing Lake," which analysts say will be to China what the Sea of Okhotsk was to Soviet Russia: a sea deep enough for the People's Liberation Army's navy to base their nuclear-powered attack submarines, capable of launching missiles with nuclear warheads. Soon, the PLA Navy's newly built aircraft carrier will be a common sight - more than sufficient to scare China's neighbors. That is why Japan must not yield to the Chinese government's daily exercises in coercion around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The ongoing disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea mean that Japan's top foreign-policy priority must be to expand the country's strategic horizons. Japan is a mature maritime democracy, and its choice of close partners should reflect that fact. I envisage a strategy whereby Australia, India, Japan, and the US form a diamond to safeguard the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region to the western Pacific. I am prepared to invest, to the greatest possible extent, Japan's capabilities in this security diamond. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-security-diamond-of-japan-india-australia-and-america/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5798" class="art-post art-article post-5798 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-010413/" rel="bookmark" title="HALF-FULL REPORT 01/04/13">HALF-FULL REPORT 01/04/13</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:31 pm">January 4, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Should we start with Headline of the Year? "Hillary ‘I dodged sniper fire' Clinton Near Death after Supersecret Crash Landing in Iran," brought to you by the überwackos at Lyndon Larouche's <a href="http://www.eutimes.net/2012/12/clinton-injured-us-navy-seal-killed-in-secret-us-mission-to-iran/">EU Times</a> nutball website. It's astonishing that Drudge would carry this drivel as if it were a real news story. The EU Times is an Internet hoax site that dreams up the most goofball conspiracy theories out of thin air for the fun of it or to gain attention to their pathetically fragile egos.<span> </span>They are maxed-out looney tunes. So welcome to 2013. The craziness this year has in store for us has only just begun.<span> </span>Yet the real craziness - lethally dangerous craziness - comes not from Internet weirdos but from Washington DC. So lethal that the HFR is now a staunch advocate of gun-control. Do you have any idea how many federal departments and agencies have agents that carry guns? Even the Post Office has these armed fascist thugs called OIG (Office of the Inspector General) Special Agents breaking and entering people's homes tracking down "mail fraud" - which could be any email you've ever sent. <em>Gun control for federal agents is what's needed, not gun control for law-abiding citizens</em>. The literally crazy problem is, there's no such thing as a law-abiding citizen anymore. The purpose of 98% of the Federal Register is for there to be some law or rule the Federalies can criminalize you with if they want.<span> </span>We're all criminals now, which is by Washington's design. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-010413/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5797" class="art-post art-article post-5797 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/making-history-come-alive/" rel="bookmark" title="MAKING HISTORY COME ALIVE">MAKING HISTORY COME ALIVE</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="8:28 am">January 4, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Jack Wheeler has <a href="content/view/5274/2/">recommended</a> some books he thinks we ought to read. One, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Jade-Steps-Jack-Wheeler/dp/1450709818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357315990&sr=8-1&keywords=%22jack+wheeler%22">The Jade Steps</a></em>, is by one of my favorite writers -- Jack Wheeler. Jack has shilled for his book about as much as is seemly, so I thought I'd pick up the slack. <em>The Jade Steps</em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> is a fictionalized account of a fascinating, and profoundly important historical event which has been grossly misrepresented. </span> I love good historical fiction, because it brings to life events which would seem dry and dusty in a history book.<span> </span>The best historical fiction entertains as much as it informs. It is faithful to history, both by reporting events as they actually happened, and by putting them in context.<span> </span>But it is history made more urgent, more gripping, more exciting through the interaction of fictional characters with the historical figures, or by imagined conversations and interactions between actual historical figures. To my mind, no one was better at this than Kenneth Roberts.<span> </span>I learned more about the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 from his novels than from any other source, and it was from Roberts that I developed my lifelong fascination with Benedict Arnold. I was reminded of Roberts as I read the <em>The Jade Steps</em>. I started to read it because it was Jack's book, and I figured I ought to.<span> </span>But after a few pages, I was hooked. Like Roberts, Jack injects important historical fact and insight smoothly into his story.<span> </span>It's a fast-paced, crackling good read, so entertaining you don't realize how much you're learning. 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