KINKY ON PERRY
Rick Perry has never lost an election; I've never won one. Maybe that's what's wrong with the world. On the other hand, I've long been friends with Bill Clinton and George W., and Rick Perry and I, though at times bitter adversaries, have remained friends as well. It's not always easy to maintain friendships with politicians. To paraphrase Charles Lamb, you have to work at it like some men toil after virtue. Yet, simply put, Rick Perry and I are incapable of resisting each other's charm. He is not only a good sport, he is a good, kindhearted man, and he once sat in on drums with ZZ Top. A guy like that can't be all bad. These days, of course, I would support Charlie Sheen over Obama. Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.
A SIMPLE FIVE STEP PLAN FOR RESTORING AMERICAN FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY
Many in Washington care little or nothing for the well being of Americans, other than themselves and their cronies. The widespread continued lying about the soundness of Social Security and Medicare isn't due to ignorance -- it is due to politicians aggrandizing power regardless of the cost to others. Either their careers will have to be terminated by a better informed electorate - not impossible, as demonstrated by Canada and Sweden - or the US central government and the scores of millions who depend upon it will crash and burn. The US central government is on the road to either radical reform or self destruction. Continued kicking the can down the road would soon send it over the economic cliff where the USA would join the USSR on the ash heap of history. Radical reform could be as simple as refusing to increase the debt ceiling, auctioning the Ponzi scheme operator's assets off for the benefit of the Social inSecurity and MediScam victims, allowing unlimited expensing for all business capital investments, requiring that all regulations be voted on by Congress before becoming laws, and legalizing competing precious metal currencies.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/02/11
These are the Dog Days of the Democrats. From the time of the Ancient Greeks, the end of summer has been known as the "dog days," when the heat and humidity caused "the seas to boil, wine to turn sour, dogs to go mad, and men subject to burning fevers, hysterics, and frenzies." (The origin of the term: The Greeks called the brightest star in the sky Seiros - the searing, the scorcher - Latinized now to Sirius. 2,500 years ago, it rose at sunrise in late summer - which it no longer does due to the earth's axial wobble causing equinox/zodiacal precession. (Sirius is the main star in a constellation the Greeks called Kyon and the Romans Canis, the Dog, named after the magical dog Laelaps that Zeus gave to Europa. Laelaps would always catch its quarry, so Europa had it hunt the magic fox of Teumessa which could never be caught. Zeus then placed Laelaps in Canis Major, big dog, and the Teumessan fox in Canis Minor, little dog, so the chase would continue unresolved for eternity.) The lectionary (calendar of when certain scriptures are to be read) of the 1611 King James Bible states that the Dog Days begin on July 6 and end on September 5. But for the Dems, their Dog Days have just begun and won't be over for a long, long time to come.
RINOS AND LIBS UNITE IN THEIR FEAR OF PERRY
"We plan to declare war on Rick Perry and do all in our power to crush him," the editor of a major newspaper told GOP consultant Mark McKinnon. I doubt he was surprised. This is what the "mainstream" media did to Sarah Palin in 2008, and what likely is in store for anyone Republicans nominate. But liberals will go after the Texas governor with special venom. "It's almost as if Perry's political persona was constructed by bundling together all the fears and phantoms in the left-wing anxiety closet." he said. Some East Coast Republicans share these concerns.
THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD IN THE CONSTITUTION
One word is the single most important word in our government's founding document to understand - for the entire edifice of the modern liberal administrative state is built on the willfully perverse misinterpretation of it. The meaning of this word is the hill on which to make our stand for recovering our American birthright of freedom. The good news is that the cavalry is on its way to rescue us from the forces of fascism - and it's led not by John Wayne but by a 63 year-old black man. Don't you love Providence's sense of humor?
ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR WASHINGTON DUMMIES
Did you know that in Denmark, the poorest 30% pay 14.1% of all taxes and the richest pay 48.7% -- while in the United States, the poorest 30% pay just 6.1 % of all taxes and the richest 30% pay a whopping 65.3%? The surprising thing is not that the richest pay most of the taxes but that the U.S. has nearly the most progressive tax system in the world, while the Scandinavian countries have about the least progressive tax systems, contrary to commonly held belief. The above facts, along with hundreds of other useful tidbits, are found in a compelling new book, Government Versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2011), by one of the world's most highly regarded economists, Vito Tanzi. It, and one other book, should be required reading for Washington dummies.
WHY DO THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE MEDIA STILL CARE ABOUT CAIR?
We've known since 9/11 that some Moslems want to kill us. It would seem prudent to find out who they are, and how many of them there are. These are people who politicize Islam into Islamism, a radical ideology akin to Communism and Nazism. That's why they're called Islamists. It may be even more important to learn which Moslems share our values and oppose the Islamists, and how many of them there are. But the Obama administration and most in the news media are remarkably incurious. In July, the American Islamic Leadership Coalition issued a policy statement which said U.S. counterterror strategy is too soft on Islamists. The administration and the "mainstream" media ignored it. Perhaps liberals ignored that statement because they assume the Islamist Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) speaks for America's Moslems. Turns out CAIR speaks for almost no American Moslems at all.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/26/11
If you don't read the TTP Forum, then you may not have heard the announcement of the Obama Administration's that the US Geological Survey has identified the source of the earthquake that shook Washington DC last Tuesday (8/23). The USGS is saying that it occurred on an obscure fault line that runs directly under the White House known as "Bush's Fault." ************ Speaking of Zero... the HFR Word of the Week is palilalia. It's a speech disorder, the involuntary or obsessive repetition of the same words or phrases - such as "millionaires and billionaires," "corporate jets," "redistribute the wealth," or "Bush's fault." Clearly, we have a palilaliatic president, who is incapable of saying anything creative or new, but endlessly repeats the same moronic liberalisms over and over. What was Einstein's term for doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? ************ The most uplifting news of the week comes from Wisconsin. On Monday (8/22), the Washington Examiner reported: Union Cash Cutoff Has National Implications.
THE DISGRACE OF BLUE-STATE EDUCATION
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been a presidential candidate for barely two weeks, but already polls indicate he's even with President Barack Hussein Obama. So the administration trotted out Education Secretary Arne Duncan to knock him down a peg. Texas schools have "really struggled" under Gov. Perry, Mr. Duncan told Bloomberg's Al Hunt Aug. 18. "Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college... I feel really badly for the children there." It's cheesy for a Cabinet officer to be so political. But that's not why Mr. Obama shouldn't have used the former Chicago superintendent of schools as his attack dog. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 4th and 8th graders in Texas score substantially better in reading and math than do their counterparts in Chicago. The high school graduation rate in Texas (73 percent) is much better than Chicago's (56 percent).
THE OBTUSE ORACLE OF OMAHA
Warren Buffett is a world class investor. He is also entitled to his opinion even when it demonstrates larceny with the truth. His grand and magnanimous genuflection to "fairness" is fraught with dishonesty and does no service to the debate on the nation's economic future. "We have abundance but we don't have as much fairness as we might have in the system," he announced at a fund-raiser he held for Mr. Obama in Omaha last week (8/16). "Fairness" is a code word of the left which has its origins in the class hatred so beloved by Marx . It is meant to arouse the "masses" (another term of haughty illiberal insult to citizens ) to demand their illusory "rightful" share from the rich . It fabricates an enemy out of capitalism and implies some form of theft that must be redressed. This is the essence of Barrack Huessein Obama's indoctrination and Mr. Buffett is simply feeding the beast.