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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/14/25

happy-valentines-day-2025Welcome to the 2025 Valentine’s Day HFR!

This is the day that gives us the opportunity to express our appreciation and gratitude to those people in our lives whom we love and value, and by whom we are so fortunate to be loved and value in return.

If we are lucky enough to be blessed with someone who has chosen to share their one life with us, today we devote in particular a special thankfulness to them.

Yet this year’s Valentine’s Day has another blessing, for it enables us love and be grateful for our country once more, in a (more…)

PANTELLERIA’S MIRROR OF VENUS

pantelleriasBetween Sicily and Tunisia in the Mediterranean lies a secret hideaway of Europe’s rich and famous – the small Italian island of Pantelleria. Peaceful and quiet, the opposite of glitzy places like Ibiza, wealthy elite retreat here in luxurious yet very understated villas to get away from it all. It helps that the shoreline is all volcanic rock cliffs, which dissuades hordes of African “migrants” attempted to claim “asylum” in the EU welfare state by landing here.

The most beautiful spot on Pantelleria is this volcano crater lake known as “The Mirror of Venus” – of such magic color that, (more…)

RESISTANCE TO TRUMP IS DEAD IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS

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The resistance is dead — in less than three weeks.

President Trump signs an executive order to prosecute and deport pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic foreign students to almost no pushback.

Mexico’s president agrees to send 10,000 troops to the Southern border.

Disney announces the abolishment of ‘trigger warnings’ put in place post-George Floyd, apologizing for the content of films made over 80 years ago.

Goldman Sachs announces the end of their ‘board diversity policy.’ Zuckerberg’s Meta fires 4,000 employees on Monday, citing his decision to ‘raise the bar on performance management’ — code for killing DEI.

PBS fired two of their own (more…)

MYTHOLOGIES ABOUT MUSK

Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE.


“Musk has no right to cut USAID.”

Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.

They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt.

The agency will expire on July 4, 2026.

Ultimately, Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump holds the authority to approve or reject them. He (more…)

THE LESSON OF RABAUL

tavurvur-volcanoThe small black mountain in front of you is a volcano called Tavurvur on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. In 1994, Tavurvur erupted, covering New Britain’s beautiful capital Rabaul in ash. The entire area is volcanic, including the hot springs where I’m standing to take this picture. Tavurvur is very much alive and smoking today – starkly beautiful and dangerous.

History can be like this – beautiful and peaceful, then without warning it explodes in violent destruction. The lesson then is how to overcome, rebuild, and avert its repetition.

It’s an obvious lesson to learn right (more…)

NO, TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE TO ABIDE BY A MYTHICAL ‘JUDICIAL SUPREMACY’

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It’s an old story: When people are allowed to get their way for too long, when they’re never told “No!”, they may get too big for their britches.

They may develop a sense of entitlement and even become narcissistic.

And proving that judges are no exception to this reality are a number of recent court “opinions” designed to scuttle President Trump’s agenda.

 

One disallows DOGE from scrutinizing Treasury Department data.

Another states that the Trump administration must unfreeze funding on grants and loans.

A different opinion puts a freeze on Trump’s buyout offer for federal employees.

And yet another (more…)

TAKE THEIR DEUCE TO COURT

deuces-courtsLet the January 6th Lawsuits Begin!

In my career I have done a lot of law enforcement jobs, some of which involved jail time – not for me, of course, at least not in the way that is usually understood.

I started working at “intake,” where a newly-arrested person came in, and later I helped to run a jail in Texas.  That experience gave me an overview not only of what goes on in a jail, but also the liabilities for the ones running it.

In Texas, every jail must comply with the standards of the Texas Commission on (more…)

THE BLUE CITY OF CHEFCHAOUEN

blue-city-of-chefchaouenMy wife Rebel and I love this uniquely picturesque ancient Berber village in Morocco where everything is painted in shades of blue. Suffused in soothing blue, there’s no more relaxed place than just about anywhere. Everyone is welcome from the wealthy staying in sumptuous boutique hotels to backpackers in hostels. There are no “tourist spots,” for every café and bar is where the locals go themselves. (It’s pronounced shef-shah-win, by the way.)

Berbers – “Amazigh” (Unconquered) in their language, are the original people of Morocco having lived there for over 12,000 years. They are directly related to (more…)

HOW TO COMMIT DEMOCRAT PARTY SUICIDE

The Democrat Party is polling about 31 percent approval, a near-historic low.

Despite enjoying a huge lead in fundraising, legacy media favoritism, and incumbency, in the 2024 election, Democrats lost the White House to Donald Trump. Ever since, they have offered nothing new, no novel agenda, no innovative policies—nothing other than screaming that they are loudly against everything and anything that the president is for.

In the past, what did they accomplish by following their prior two impeachments with attempts to de-ballot Trump? Who thought sending an FBI swat team to raid Trump’s home or waging five lawfare civil and (more…)

HOW PAIN IS COMING FOR THE DEMOCRATS

Early in Donald Trump’s second term, reforming the bureaucratic state has become job number one. That’s not surprising given the weaponization of government that personally targeted the president for years on end, doing everything it could to prevent him from ever returning to the White House.

As the administration’s gutting of USAID has shown, though, it’s not just the Department of Justice and FBI that need cleaning up.

Billions of dollars in grants were shoveled to left-wing causes over the last several decades, from transgender activism to DEI programs. There was even a gravy train of federal money flowing to (more…)

THE FLATTEST PLACE ON EARTH

salar-de-uyuni-768x578_edtThe Salar de Uyuni, 12,000 feet high in the Altiplano of Bolivia, is a 4,000 square mile expanse of salt so flat it is used to calibrate the altimeters of NASA observation satellites of the earth. After a rain, it becomes the world’s largest mirror, 80 miles across. The incredible reflective surface extends to the horizon in every direction – it is both hallucinatingly disorienting and makes for amazing mirror-to-horizon photos (especially at sunrise/sunset).

The brine underneath the salt crust contains 70% of the world’s lithium – critical to our battery-fueled global economy – produced in evaporation pools that (more…)

NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: ENVY AND BLACK MAGIC

Tiji Chasing of the Demons Ceremony, Tibetan Kingdom of Lo ©Jack Wheeler
Tiji Chasing of the Demons Ceremony, Tibetan Kingdom of Lo ©Jack Wheeler

[This is the next chapter of Part I: Envy of my forthcoming book NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: Key to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity.  Previous sections and chapters can be accessed here. I will really appreciate any feedback you have.]

It took me a year to get the book – the American edition finally came out in 1970.[1]  I immediately recognized it was a work of prodigious scholarship encyclopedic in scope.  Schoeck’s research of anthropological field studies of traditional cultures across the globe was exhaustive.

I learned that the Jivaro belief that death is always murder was in no way unique – a lack of the concept of natural death, that death was always malevolently perpetrated by demons, sorcery, or physically for real, was prevalent among (more…)

WHY?

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: AFGHAN MUJAHADDIN?

jw-the-mujahaddinWhen my son Brandon was a cadet at Virginia Military Academy, his professor teaching Modern Military History gave a lecture on the 1980s War in Afghanistan fought by Afghan Mujahaddin against the Soviet Red Army occupation of their country. One of the pictures he showed was the one above of “three typical Mujahaddin fighters.”

Brandon raised his hand. “Yes, Cadet Wheeler,” the professor called on him. “Actually, Professor,” Brandon said, “only the man in the center with the white beard is one. The man on the right is United States Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, while the man on the left is (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 02/07/25

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On Wednesday (2/05), the President signed his Executive Order Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports.  It’s such a perfect example of the pathological lunacy of the woketard Left that this would be necessary.  Of course, their pathology is no accident, all part of their plan to demasculinize American men.

Among all those who celebrated their failure was Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, so demonized for being courageously rational.