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The Osama-Saddam Surprise

Al Jazeera released another audio tape this week, recorded by someone speaking in Arabic and claiming to be Osama Bin Laden.  As with such tapes in the past, the CIA reports that it is kinda, almost, and pretty sure that it is OBL’s real voice so he must still be alive in a cave somewhere.

Well, once again, I’m not buying it.  As I’ve been saying for almost two years now, I think his remains are pulverized under a mountain of rubble in eastern Afghanistan. 

Last month, Al Jazeera released a video tape showing OBL and his El Segundo, Ayman (more…)

THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION

Ordinarily, I suggest that you forward my articles to any friends whom you think would appreciate them — but this is an exception. I’m going to ask you, as a TTP member, to keep this to yourself.

There is talk in certain, shall we say, “corridors of power” here in Washington about an “Ultimate Solution” to the whole Arab-Israel Gordian Knot that is so breathtaking and mind-blowing that I’d just like to keep it between ourselves for now.

Here’s the background and the outline.

We start with how the countries of the Middle East were created out of the shards (more…)

And Now For the Good News

As the libs gloat and revel over the travails of Rush Limbaugh, their books bashing Bush take over the bestseller lists, their media hails Democratic presidential wannabes as saintly saviors of America and subjects us to a daily deluge of disaster in Iraq, it’s time for the good news.

For the fact is, that there’s so much good news it’s hard to know where to start.  So let’s begin with what seemed like an outrageous prediction I made last June 2:  that by the end of October, the Dow would be at 10,000.  It’s been a nervous bumpy ride since (more…)

Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq

Please note that the following is an Associated Press story.  Did any news outlet you know of (other than ToThePoint!) carry it?

Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq
Associated Press
Kuwait City, October 2

Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday.

The pro-Government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested “in due time.” It did not say when (more…)

Demolition Man

Ten years ago, in 1993, Sylvester Stallone made a movie entitled Demolition Man .  He played a Los Angeles super-cop in the late 90s who is framed and sentenced to being frozen in suspended animation.

In 2032, he is revived to solve an unprecedented crime wave.  He knows nothing of what has happened in the intervening 35 years.  Stallone’s partner is a lady cop played by Sandra Bullock.  As they are driving down a LA street, Stallone asks where they are going.

“We are going two more blocks to turn left at the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library, then continue…”

Stallone interrupts (more…)

Liberal Bias in Black and White

The now-legendary late-hit of the Los Angeles Times on Arnold five days before the election has had the salutary effect of making the major media’s liberal bias unavoidably clear to all.

I remember being a guest at a dinner party in LA back in 1986.  Among the others was a vice-president of the Times-Mirror Corp. (the then-owner of the LA Times) and a senior analyst for the Rand Corp. who specialized in the Soviet Union.  When the executive asked the analyst for his opinion of the Times’ coverage of world events, the reply was:  “I read Pravda in the original (more…)

AFGHAN POPPIES:  What The Bush White House Should Really be Afraid Of

One of the most amusing things about the Washington Circus is how media feeding frenzies are almost always about phony irrelevant scandals, while truly serious scandals are ignored.

The press freaked out, for example, when Slick Willie got fellated by some dingbat girl, but not about his selling classified military technology to the Red Chinese in exchange for campaign donations to the Democratic Party.

The Democrats are desperate to hang something on President Bush, so they demand investigations and impeachment hearings over the flimsiest of allegations — the 16 words in the State of the Union speech about Saddam buying (more…)

Platonic Conservatives

There is an organization of conservatives which has met in private thrice annually since 1981.  As a member for over 20 years, I am obliged not to mention its name or membership.  Suffice it to say that virtually every major conservative figure in America belongs.

Its meetings are the only place where all the leaders of the entire conservative movement can get together to socialize and strategize.  During the Reagan Presidency, the organization played a principle role in creating popular support for the “Reagan Doctrine” which successfully eliminated the Soviet Union.

My wife and I have formed many close friendships (more…)

GW Dances With Hillary

Let’s start with two things we know for sure about Hillary.  First, she wants to be President.  Second, she will do anything to be so.  There is no lie she won’t tell, no friend she won’t destroy, no pledge she won’t break, no slander she won’t spread, no political dirty trick she won’t employ in order to reside in the White House again, this time as the POTUS.

Now let’s look at one thing you should know about George W. Bush.  He’s smarter than Hillary.

Just like Ronald Reagan, it is part of GW’s political strategy to be underestimated.  This (more…)

TERRORISM AND TINY ZIBBS

This extraordinary photo is of the two Finance Coordinators of the 2003 meeting of the governing boards for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held this week in Dubai.

Geetha Ezhuvath is on the left. She is not a Moslem. Sara Al Kaabi on the right, most obviously is.

Ms. Ezhuvath is also not from the West. She is from India. Women’s rights may be far from ideal in India, which is replete with such commonplace horrors as “dowry murders” (brides killed by their husbands when the bride’s family finally refuses to continually pay dowry extortion).

Nonetheless, India (more…)

The Toleration of Evil

[The following article is an abbreviation of a report I wrote for the Freedom Research Foundation, issued on March 25, 2002.  Its relevance today is underscored by the Israeli Government voting to expel Yasser Arafat from Israel and Israeli Vice-Premier Ehud Olmert calling for Arafat’s outright assassination.]

It is impossible for the ordinary human mind to fully grasp the evil of Joseph Stalin.  He purposefully engineered the starving to death of over ten million people in Ukraine.  In terms of mass murder, Stalin’s Ukrainian Holocaust was an even greater crime than Hitler’s Jewish Holocaust. 

Millions more were hauled off to be enslaved and die in the Gulag, or tortured and shot for the slightest suspicion of anything Stalin was suspicious of.  Many of his closest deputies were ordered to put their parents, wives, or children to death to prove their loyalty. 

Yet this tyranny, this monstrous evil, (more…)

George and Alberto

I recently received a very kind letter from ToThePointer Hagan Hetz, of the famous Fairview Evergreen Nurseries in Pennsylvania (www.fairviewevergreen.com). He wanted to know what I thought of President Bush’s September 7 address to the nation on Iraq.

OK, Hagan, here it goes. While listening to GW, I was thinking about Alberto Fujimori.

In 1990, the country of Peru was in ruins, decimated by the presidency of a charismatic socialist, Alan Garcia, and the hideous Communist terrorism of Sendero Luminiso, the Shining Path. Peruvians were desperate to end hyperinflation, food rationing, pandemic corruption, and Shining Path slaughters — and thus (more…)

The Religion of Environmentalism

This extraordinary speech, delivered by author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain) highlights the Ecology Movement’s Holocaust: the death of tens of millions of people from malaria caused by the banning of DDT. This is the prime example from a long list of horrors and human tragedies brought about by the religious fanaticism of environmentalists. –JW

Michael Crichton

Commonwealth Club, San Francisco
September 15, 2003

I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from (more…)

THE RELIGION OF PEACE

Earlier this week I had lunch with one of the most extraordinary human beings gracing our planet — His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Our gracious hosts were Lalit Mansingh, Indian Ambassador to the US, and his wife Indira at their Residence in Washington. I congratulated Ambassador Mansingh on his country being a sanctuary where Tibetan culture and religion still freely flourishes, such as in the regions of Ladakh and Zanskar.

I told His Holiness about the time I was traveling overland across the Chang Thang Plateau of northern Tibet and encountered a group of Khampa nomads. They are Tibet’s Wild (more…)

Our Heroes and Theirs

Jerusalem, September 10, 2003

[Editor’s Note: Last Tuesday night, September 9, a Palestinian suicide-terrorrist set off a bomb at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem.  The following was written by Jan Medved, an Israeli businessman whose son was one of the first upon the scene.]

Last night’s terror struck close to home.

The boom of the blast at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim Street shook the windows of our house and left no doubt that we were hit again — this time in our own neighborhood.

Our son Yossi was on the phone with his brother Momo, asking when he would be back so they could watch another episode on DVD of 24, the addictive US series about terrorism.

Talking with Yossi on his cell phone, Momo was crossing Emek Refaim, which is two blocks from our house, and they both (more…)