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FREEDOM’S BIRTHDAY 2025

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 4, 2025

July 4th is Freedom’s Birthday. My suggestion is, amidst the fireworks and barbeques and flag-waving fun – all of which are great – that you take the time to feel good about America.

Take the time to read the Declaration of Independence aloud with your family.

We Americans are privileged to live in one of history’s supreme moments. We Americans are participants in one of history’s greatest civilizations in its prime.

Someday in some future epoch, history will have moved on, and there will be distant centuries between that time and the American Era. People will then look upon America as we do upon ancient Egypt or Greece, and will do so with the same wonder and awe.

I suggest you look upon America with that wonder and awe now.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: BRANDON AT THE TAJ

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 4, 2025

August 1993, Taj Mahal, Agra, India. I took my son Brandon here for his 10^th birthday. Here is one supremely happy boy. One of the greatest gifts you can give your children or grandchildren is to take them on a great adventure, to explore the world with them. And it is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It is a bonding experience that will last all of your life and theirs. Never pass up the opportunity, search for the opportunity instead. This is life-enrichment at its best. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #272 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

HOW 9 POLITICIANS ARE CELEBRATING THIS 4TH OF JULY

Guest Author July 4, 2025

It's birthday time once again for the greatest nation on earth: America. Everybody likes to celebrate 'Murica a little differently - here are how nine famous politicians are planning to mark the 4th of July this year:

Chuck Schumer: Murdering 26 people with undercooked beef. Tradition is tradition.
AOC: Weeping outside of Alligator Alcatraz: Heroic.
Ron DeSantis: Turning loose highly trained alligators armed with lasers to hunt down anyone who comes near Alligator Alcatraz: Uh-oh.
JD Vance: Killing off a rival world leader: U-S-A! U-S-A!
Joe Biden: Hanging Christmas decorations: Aw, Joe.
Thomas Massie: Going to some super-secret meeting Trump invited him to in a CIA detention cell: Have fun, Tom.
JB Pritzker: Hot dog eating contest: Followed by a burger eating contest, lamb shank eating contest, entire baby pig eating contest, pie eating contest, and tub of Crisco eating contest.
Zohran Mamdani: Dumping Jews into the harbor: A true patriot.
President Trump: Carving his own face into Mount Rushmore while riding a bald eagle: Glorious!

Our great and wise leaders are doing it right this Independence Day.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

HALF-FULL REPORT 07/04/25

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 4, 2025

Welcome to the Fourth of July HFR! And WOW! What an abundantly Happy 4^th it is for all normal patriotic Americans.

As the NY Post expresses it this morning (7/04):

Before we go further, however, I want to suggest that you take a moment to read Freedom’s Birthday up on TTP today. That will start our celebration properly.

OK – let the HFR fireworks begin!

POPEYE’S VILLAGE

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 3, 2025

Ever see the 1980 movie Popeye starring Robin Williams? It takes place in the seaside town of Sweethaven – and you’re looking at it. The film set was built in a cove on the northern end of the island of Malta in the Mediterranean just for the movie.

It’s now been transformed into a Disney-type fun park for kids and families. Not what you expect to find in an island famous for ancient temples older than the pyramids, massive medieval fortresses that were scenes of battles that saved Western Civilization, magnificently ornate Renaissance cathedrals, gorgeous beaches and breathtaking scenery. But here it is, with shows, rides, and play houses filled with children laughing and exploring. One more reason to love Malta. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #147 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

FOR ALL THE MARBLES

Guest Author July 3, 2025

[This edition of Deuces Wild is worthy of your careful reading and reflection. Remember that TTPer Deuce is an on -duty on-the-street cop who brings street-smart reality to the Left’s goals for our country. Where else can you get this except on TTP? –JW]

So much has been happening since we last Deuced that it was hard for me to decide just how to write about the events.

As we go to press, the situation in California makes it very clear that Trump was absolutely right to engage in plans to deport illegal aliens en masse.

The human rats are coming out of the woodwork quickly, and showing us what they really stand for—and that is the destruction of our rule of law.

Time will tell if the national ship can finally be righted without us going into what I will call “kinetic territory.”

That could be its own large discussion topic—but for the events dominating the Middle East.

Israel finally attacked Iran and their nuclear program; decimating great swaths of their nuclear facilities and leadership, as well as the Iranian Waffen SS—the Republican Guard.

The icing on the cake was the U.S. buying in and helping Israel burn Iran’s nuclear project to the ground with some B-2s and some special bombs that were built particularly for that scenario.

We can rest assured that if the twerking, giggling mental case Kamala had been elected, Israel would have been on its own and nuclear weapons might have indeed had to have been used before the radioactive dust settled.

TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL AND ITS PERMANENT TAX CUT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD

Guest Author July 3, 2025

[I’ve known Grover for over 40 years. In all those years, the dream of his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, is what this bill makes possible. We’ll be talking about this more in tomorrow’s HFR. Read Grover now for a head start. – JW]

President Donald Trump’s permanent tax cut will change the world.

The "big, beautiful bill" is the capstone of years of work to create a pro-growth tax policy that will make the American economy so strong we will leave Europe in the dust and convince China they cannot compete with us militarily or economically.

The big bill provides lower tax rates for all. Permanent, immediate expensing of business investment. Tax simplification. America competing in the world economy with lower taxes, not lower wages.

And the largest spending cut of any budget resolution in history.

The importance of permanent 100% business expensing cannot be overstated. This is an achievement pursued by the taxpayer movement for the past five decades.

THE TEMPLE OF ULU WATU

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 2, 2025

Built 1,000 years ago on the edge of a cliff hundreds of feet above the sea on the island of Bali, the sacred temple of Ulu Watu is one of the holiest places of worship for the Balinese people. They have retained their unique form of Balinese Hinduism for millennia that incorporates their original animism, ancestor worship, and reverence for Buddhist saints or Bodhisattva. This has resulted in a spiritual warmth and gentle friendliness matched by few other places on earth. It is little wonder so many who come here consider Bali to be a worldly paradise. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #108 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE FREEDOM TO MAKE INFORMED HEALTH CHOICES

Guest Author July 2, 2025

It’s hard to believe that the constitutional right to make your own informed decisions about nutrients was wrested from the FDA regulators only twenty-five years ago!

And our own Skye, Durk Pearson, made that happen with a lawsuit that had to go to appellate court before it was finally decided in 1999.

“The safe harbor from "drug" status for dietary supplements bearing FDA-approved health claims did not always exist. Prior to 1984, the FDA took the position that a statement that consumption of a food could prevent a particular disease was "tantamount to a claim that the food was a drug . . . and therefore that its sale was prohibited until a new drug application had been approved." Appeal No. 98-5043

Durk and Sandy were pioneers in anti-aging science—but they were also warriors for truth and free speech. In 1993 they wrote Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA vs. Nutritional Supplements, a powerful book that shook the foundations of how the FDA regulates supplements.

They exposed how the FDA was blocking truthful information about nutritional supplements from reaching the public and they argued that Americans have a constitutional right to hear the truth about nutrients—even if the FDA didn’t approve of the message.

THE SOURCE OF BIAS

Guest Author July 2, 2025

There are biases in our thinking that can lead to big mistakes in our decision making, including expensive mistakes with our money and investments, poor choices at work, and huge misunderstandings between people.

In the past I’ve written about Daniel Kahneman’s description of fast and slow thinking as a way of understanding and minimizing the effects of these biases. Today I want to talk about why we have these biases in the first place.

Is it because we’re flawed? Is there something wrong with us? Are we just a bunch of numbskulls that don’t know how to use our brains?

No, that’s not it. There’s nothing wrong with us. Our biases are part of an effective and healthy brain, and normal human functioning.

It’s more accurate to say that our lives involve challenges that can sometimes overwhelm what we’re capable of. And yet we still function exceptionally well, most of the time.

THE PILLARS OF HERCULES

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 1, 2025

On either side of the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar there are two small mountains known since great antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. The pillar on the northern, European side is the famous Rock of Gibraltar. That on the southern, African side is Mount Abyla, Phoenician for “lofty mountain.”

The legend for the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans was that Hercules pushed the two pillars apart to join the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. We think today of Hercules as a comic-book bodybuilder, while the truth is opposite. The entire ancient Mediterranean world very seriously worshipped him. For the Phoenicians, he was Melqart, King of the Earth. For the Greeks, he was Heracles, Divine Protector of Mankind. He was the same for the Romans, who pronounced his name as Hercules.

The Phoenician trading port of Abyla has a history of 3,000 years, from Phoenician to Carthaginian to Roman to Byzantine to Christian Visigoths to Islamic Berbers to Portuguese – and since 1668 to Spain, which continues to govern it today as the Spanish Autonomous City of Ceuta on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco.

Ceuta is a charming European city with beautiful beaches, open air cafés with great sangria, very relaxed and pleasant. It is here you find the statue of Hercules separating his Pillars commemorating the legend pictured above. Easy to get to with high-speed ferries from Algeciras near Gibraltar, Ceuta is definitely worth your while to experience. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #137 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

MICHELLE OBAMA CALLS GIVING BIRTH THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT THING A WOMAN CAN DO

Guest Author July 1, 2025

Move over Hillary Clinton.

Another Democrat former first lady is taking her contempt for children way beyond her distaste for baking cookies.

It might explain why the Obama children never looked very happy, and why young Malia Obama no longer wants to use her mom and dad's last name in the career she is trying to build in film.

But more broadly, it highlights the moral disorder seen among Democrat opinionmakers. To downgrade motherhood, the one thing only women can do to perpetrate the human race, is an outrageous take on the vital role of women and the role they play most naturally.

It's like a war against human civilization, obvious enough in that thoughtless yet deeply felt opinion of Michelle Obama, a remark bound to be met by approval by Democrats who will clap like seals at its mention.

RUSSIA IS JUST NOT VERY GOOD AT FIGHTING WARS

Guest Author July 1, 2025

One of the 10,000 Russian tanks destroyed in Ukraine — One of the 10,000 Russian tanks destroyed in Ukraine

Last month (6/25), Russian casualties climbed through the one million mark after three and a half years of Putin’s “special military operation”, originally expected to last three days.

For an army of such size in manpower and equipment this seems a remarkable price to pay for less than a fifth of Ukrainian territory, fighting against an army which was minuscule in comparison on the day of the illegal invasion – 24^th Feb 22.

What are the reasons for this ineptitude, and is this purely a problem of the modern Russian army – or a reflection of systemic failures across the centuries? A soldier (Hamish) and a historian (James) will try to answer these questions today.

When it comes down to it, the Russian military has always relied on mass and brutality. It has aspired historically to ambitious intellectual underpinnings for its military power but this has tended to falter on first contact with reality.

Which leads to Ukraine.

THE VOODOO MARKET OF TOGO

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 30, 2025

The Akodessawa Fetish Market in Lomé, Togo has to be seen to be believed. Here on display is a vast array of animal parts -- heads, skulls, bones, horns, skins et al – for sale to the adherents of Togo’s official religion of Voodoo. They are used to communicate with and pray to the huge variety of spirits and deities they believe in.

What you see here is a very small fraction of the market – there are thousands of animal parts here from entire elephant skulls to small mummified rodents. Behind the displays are stalls where voodoo priests cater to devotees for healing potions or being an interlocutor to the spirits. This is not sticking pins in dolls of enemies. The people of Togo and neighboring Benin believe deeply in their religion. Togo in West Africa is the size of New Jersey and has over 130 fetish markets in the country, with the largest here. This is an experience you never forget.

(Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #273 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE AFRICANIZATION OF AMERICA

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 30, 2025

[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on March 21, 2012. Then we were suffering under the rule of an America-hating autocrat from Kenya. Today, New Yorkers may soon be under the rule of an America-hating autocrat from Uganda. It was written while in Ghana, West Africa, and recounts how a Marxist named Kwame “Africanized” Ghana’s economy into ruin. Zohan Kwame Mamdani threatens to do exactly that to New York, as it is who his Marxist father named him after to be his model, The description below of Ghana’s Kwame fits New York’s Kwame to a T.]

TTP, March 21, 2012

Accra, Ghana. By independence in 1952, Ghana was the richest tropical country in the world, with huge foreign currency reserves from massive sales of cocoa, coffee, gold, timber, and bauxite. The Brits had provided the new nation with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary, a fair electoral system with competent elected politicians, and a prosperous middle class.

Its rule Nkrumah was wildly popular, promising hope and change that would solve everyone’s grievances. The world press fawned on him just as obsequiously, starting with a Time Magazine cover story in 1953.

Nkrumah’s true identity was plain for anyone to see – a charismatic charlatan, an intellectual lightweight, a self-proclaimed Marxist who hated capitalism, a self-worshipping narcissist of the highest order, and a black racist who hated whites and the West. So radical left the Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

To the surprise of no one with unblinkered vision, but to the shocked surprise and denial of every fawning liberal on the planet, he proceeded to run Ghana straight into the ground. As he built a personality cult around him -- Ghana’s soldiers, e.g., marched to the cadence “Nkrumah can do no wrong, Nkrumah can do no wrong” – Ghana’s fabulous economy collapsed and sunk into a morass of corruption.

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