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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/27/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 27 January 2012 |
Here's a quartet of choices for
who should be the HFR Hero of the Week.
When the week started out, the
choice seemed obvious: an extraordinary athlete
with the initials of TT. Not Tim Tebow,
however admirable he is. It's the
greatest hockey goalie on earth, who enabled the Boston Bruins to win the 2011 Stanley
Cup (he was named MVP), Tim Thomas.
Then on Wednesday (1/25), two
Republican governors came into Hero contention.
First is Arizona's with a name all tipplers admire, Jan Drinkwine Brewer
(yes, Drinkwine is her maiden name and she married a fellow named Brewer: how can you beat that?). You've all seen the picture of her telling
off Zero on the Phoenix tarmac regarding his attack on Arizona's attempts to
protect its border from illegal invasion.
The night before his tarmac scolding (1/24),
Zero delivered his pathetic SOTU speech to a bored Congress. The GOP response was delivered by Indiana
Governor Mitch
Daniels. This is worth reading
entire.
So who could give TT and these
two governors competition this week? We
don't know their names and never will, just that they are Navy SEALs.
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HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 |
Is there a road so long that, no matter how many times you
kick a can down it, you will never reach the end?
The answer is yes, there is - because the operative word in
the question is not "road" or "long," but "you." The game is to keep kicking your can down the
road until you're able to force others to make it their can, like taxpayers or
your children when you die. Another
proven successful alternative is to blame the existence of the can on a
scapegoat, like "the 1%" or "capitalism."
Most successful of all is to deny there is a can at all, and
demonize anyone who says there really is one.
All of these strategies work - until they don't. Reality exists, no matter how much people engage
in reality-denial. Thus the time always
comes when reality bites. So the
question we all need to face is, how much time do we have until it does?
For reality is getting ready to bite us all in our backsides
big time. When almost everyone engages
in reality-denial, the kicked can really does reach the end of the road, and
that's just about where we are right now.
Here are two screamingly unpalatable facts. The first is, the odds are growing now that
Zero will be reelected. The second is,
it may not make much difference if Zero is defeated.
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CALIFORNIA IS OBAMA’S DREAM |
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Written by Roger Hedgecock
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
I live in California. If you were wondering what
living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder
no longer. We in California are living there now.
California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent
Democrat Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county,
and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The
unemployment rate is 12%.
California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, and seven income
tax brackets. In California, we hate the
evil, greedy rich (except the rich in Hollywood, in sports, and in drug
dealing).
But we love people who have broken into California to eat the bounty
created by the productive rich. California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist
dream of deindustrialization. All of
this is Obama's dream.
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ARE WE OBAMA’S RATS? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 |
Obama's State of the Union Address last night (1/25)
was an Orwellian laundry list of plans to control every facet of every
American's life, couched deceptively in the language of liberty.
Cynically using Lincoln's quote, "That Government should do for people only what
they cannot do better by themselves, and no more," he made the case that
government should do just about everything - which tells you a lot about what
he thinks the average American can do for him or herself.
Obama's speech was full of contradictions and
oratorical sleight of hand. But manipulation is central to the liberal/progressive
agenda; it has to be, because those
who would provide us with their utopia have
to consider themselves above the rest of us in order to believe that they
have the vision to control us.
Such arrogance comes from the belief that human
beings can be studied as an objective phenomenon like lab rats, with statistics and
categorization substituted for the unique experience of each individual human
soul.
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A CROCK OF OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
President
Barack Hussein Obama has blocked construction of the Keystone XL pipeline,
which would have brought oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas and
Louisiana.
TransCanada
estimated it would have hired 13,000 Americans to build the 1,661 mile
pipeline. An additional 7,000 U.S. jobs would have been created in
industries which supplied parts. Keystone XL would have created up to
550,000 jobs by 2035, estimated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The
pipeline might endanger the Ogallala aquifier, and the fragile Sandhills area
of western Nebraska, the president said.
This,
said the Wall Street Journal, ‘is a crock.' Blocking
the pipeline is ‘an act of national insanity,' said Washington Post economics
columnist Robert Samuelson, because from the standpoints of economics, national
security and environmental protection, it makes no sense. It only makes sense if Mr. Obama is being paid off to do so.
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I WANT THE GUY WHO’LL BRING A BAZOOKA TO A GUNFIGHT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
Former
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has dirt on former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich that will keep him from ever becoming president. "There is something I know," she claims.
I
doubt it. Every bad thing that could possibly be said about Newt already
has been said. Which is probably why he
told her in response to "Put up or shut up."
Democrats
usually spring an "October surprise." If
the GOP candidate doesn't have a skeleton in his or her closet, Democrats make
stuff up, as they did with Sarah Palin. But what lie could they tell
about Newt that would be both credible, and worse than what's already out
there?
Baggage and all, Mr. Gingrich may be a better bet than any other
candidate running -- certainly including Mr. Zero. Here's why.
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US FINANCIAL REGULATION NEEDS TO BE MORE LIKE THE CAYMAN ISLANDS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
Last week, ABC
News ran a story that led with the statement, ‘Mitt Romney has millions of
dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman
Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven.'
What the
reporters failed to mention was that ABC, a unit of the Disney Corp., also has
millions of dollars in Cayman-registered funds. Probably most employees at ABC,
including the reporters who wrote the story, have some of their money in
Cayman-registered funds, as probably do many of you reading this column, even
though you don't know it.
This is how the
real world works. There is a very good reason why fund managers place a portion of their portfolios in the Caymans. It's that the Cayman financial regulatory system is far superior to America's.
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NEWS BULLETIN: GOOGLE MERGES WITH DHS |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 27 January 2012 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/20/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 20 January 2012 |
Absolutely no doubt who the HFR Hero of the Week is: Rick Perry, who took a bullet for the
team. He was all set to give an adaptation
of a suggested closing statement I wrote for him (appended below) at the South
Carolina debate last night (1/19), when he decided that if he continued, the
Not Romney vote would remain so split Romney would win.
Now he won't.
Gingrich will win the SC primary tomorrow (1/21) - despite the
Obamamedia trying to take him out with his coyote ugly shrew ex-wife from Hell -
thanks to Perry.
That said, there is also absolutely no doubt who the HFR Jerk
of the Week is - the schmuck, the phony "social conservative," the corrupt
horse's derriere of the year - who singlehandedly caused Perry to lose the
nomination because Perry told him to shove it for soliciting a bribe while
Santorum said, "Let's talk."
We're talking about...
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DOES AMERICA STILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE FREE? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
"It does little
good to summon those very citizens who have been made so dependent on the
central power to choose from time to time the representatives of that power. However important, this brief and occasional
exercise of their free choice will not prevent them from gradually losing the
faculties of thinking, feeling, and acting for themselves, and thus slowly
falling below the level of humanity." -- Alexis de
Tocqueville, Democracy In America, 1835
De Tocqueville wrote at a time when large numbers of
Americans not only were alive during the Revolution but had fought in it. Yet his astounding prescience accurately
depicts exactly the unique form of tyranny enveloping and strangling us right
now. He had no name for it, as "the type
of oppression which threatens democracies is different from anything there has
ever been in the world before."
It is an oppression that its subjects willingly submit
to. It is a voluntary surrender of freedom.
It achieves an "immense protective power" through keeping people in "perpetual
childhood."
Under such an "administrative despotism," he concluded that "It
really is difficult to imagine how people who have entirely given up managing
their own affairs could make a wise choice of those who are to do that for
them."
Today, that "administrative despotism" in America has in
fact finally been achieved. We're
there. De Tocqueville's future is
now. So - what do we do about it?
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THE MEETING THAT WON’T CHANGE THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 |
At least it was cordial.
But the 150 or so "movement conservatives" gathered at Paul Pressler's
this weekend (1/13-14) were a fractured lot.
Maybe 10% were for Perry. Almost
all of them were against Romney. Well,
sort of. Caveat below.
When the case was made that Perry was the only candidate who
actually understood the Constitution and the power of the 10th
Amendment, the only one who was not a big government guy, the most successful governor
in the country who has a rock solid record of job creation and conservative
judicial appointments - they just didn't care.
I want that to sink in.
These conservative leaders really do not care about jobs,
people hurting like the Great Depression, America's economy falling into an
abyss. All they care about is "the
family as the fabric of society," and other Rick Santorum social conservative
platitudes. So a majority of them voted
for Santorum.
They could care less that
Santorum would not do anything to reduce metastasizing government, much less
castrate it (like Perry would), or has not the slightest trace of executive
experience of any kind, government or private.
When asked one-on-one why they were going for Santorum when
they knew he had no money, no organization, and stood not a ghost of a chance
to win the nomination, the truth came out:
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MOSLEM NAZIS AND OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 January 2012 |
The Moslem
Brotherhood (Ikhwan) was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian
schoolteacher. He sought a world wide caliphate governed by Islamic law
(Sharia). "Allah is our objective," says the Ikhwan's motto. "The
Prophet is our leader. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah
is our greatest hope."
Al
Banna admired Hitler. He had Mein Kampf translated into Arabic. The
Nazis subsidized the Moslem Brotherhood. The ranks of the SS Handjar
Division were filled mostly by the Ikhwan.
Mein
Kampf is still, after the Koran, the Ikhwan's favorite book. "This stuff
we now see in the Islamic world looks like Nazism because it comes from the
Nazis," said journalist Claire
Berlinski.
In a
2009 sermon, Yusuf
al Qaradawi, the Moslem Brotherhood's leading jurist, said: "Thoughout
history, Allah has imposed upon (the Jews) people who would punish them for
their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Adolf Hitler...
Oh Allah, count their numbers and kill them, down to the very last one."
The Moslem
Brotherhood is today the world's largest and best financed Islamist
organization. It's in 70 countries, including ours. And Mr. Obama wants to be its friend.
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PERRY AND TURKEY'S "OPEN PRISON" |
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Written by Alex Alexiev
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 |
In the Republican candidate debate
in South Carolina last Monday night (1/16, link is to debate transcript),
moderator Bret Bair of Fox News asked Governor Rick Perry:
"Governor Perry, since the Islamist-oriented party
took over in Turkey, the murder rate of women has increased 1,400 percent
there. Press freedom has declined to the level of Russia. The prime minister of
Turkey has embraced Hamas and Turkey has threatened military force against both
Israel and Cypress. Given Turkey's turn, do you believe Turkey still belongs in
NATO?"
And Gov. Perry replied:
"Well, obviously when you have a country that is
being ruled by, what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists, when you
start seeing that type of activity against their own citizens, then yes. Not
only is it time for us to have a conversation about whether or not they belong
to be in NATO, but it's time for the United States, when we look at their
foreign aid, to go to zero with it."
This prompted outrage by Ankara, condemnation by the liberal
media, and a strong defense
by Perry of his claim. So is Perry right?
Let's take a look at what is actually going on in Turkey today.
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ROMNEY AND CAPITALISM |
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Written by Star Parker
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
The two most
anti-capitalist groups in America today are university professors and big
businessmen.
--- Milton Friedman,
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Our nation is at a genuine crossroads. Even if we could scale back the
trillions in new spending that Obama has larded into our federal budget, we
would still be in trouble. Government
has taken over major parts of American life and to regain our vitality,
significant reforms must be made.
Reforms of major areas of American life where Americans have grown accustomed to
the heavy hand of government will be impossible if a large percentage of our
population is mistrustful of free markets and business. To get this kind of change, leadership that inspires trust in free enterprise
is essential.
There's good reason for skepticism when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
showcases his business background as the reason he will inspire this kind of
trust.
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WHY ONE COUNTRY IS RICH AND ONE COUNTRY IS POOR |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
Ambergris Caye, Belize. The Cayman Islands are rich, and Belize is
poor. Why?
Both are small
Caribbean countries with the same climate and roughly the same mixed racial
heritage, and both were English-speaking British colonies. Belize (the former
British Honduras) received its independence in 1981, while Cayman is still not
fully independent but is self-governing at the local level, with its own
currency, laws and regulations.
Belize should be
richer: It has a larger population than Cayman (345,000 as contrasted with
Cayman's 54,000). Belize has a much larger and more varied land area with many
more natural resources, including gas and oil, and some rich agricultural land
that Cayman lacks. Both have nice beaches, but Belize has the second-largest
barrier reef in the world after Australia and also has Mayan ruins. Yet Cayman,
with fewer points of interests, has done more to attract tourists.
Back in the early
1970s, Cayman was as poor on a per capita basis as is Belize today. Both
countries had ambitions to be tourist and financial centers. Cayman succeeded
and has about six times the real per capita income of Belize. What did Cayman
do right and Belize do wrong?
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