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HOW STUPID IS PUTIN?

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 6, 2006

Ever since I beat Vladimir Putin in an arm-wrestling match (yes, it’s a true story, told in Arm Wrestling With Russia), I haven’t had a high opinion of him. He was an officer in the KGB, and bemoaned that the collapse of the Soviet Union was “the greatest catastrophe of the 20^th century” (no, Pootie-Poot, the existence of the USSR was the century’s greatest calamity.)

But not until now has it become fully apparent how stupid he is.

Let’s say you’re the CEO of a company that supplies businesses with a product critically important for their operations. What’s (more…)

DID CASTRO KILL KENNEDY?

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 6, 2006

In a documentary broadcast in Berlin Friday, German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann added a new twist to an old controversy.

In Dallas on Nov. 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself was killed days later by small time mafioso Jack Ruby. The following September, a commission chaired by then Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded Oswald had acted on his own.

This finding was unsatisfying to millions of Americans, who didn’t want to believe that so beloved a president could have his life snuffed out just because, the Warren Commission surmised, a fruitcake loser wanted (more…)

WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE ANYTHING THE CIA HAS TO SAY ABOUT IRAN?

Michael Ledeen January 6, 2006

Like everyone else in Washington, I’ve been reading excerpts from James Risen’s new book, the one that "exposes" the "crimes" of the Bush administration with regard to the war on terrorism.

The most recent excerpt deals with the CIA’s activities vis-à-vis Iran, and Risen says some very shocking things, things which a serious city would find far more troublesome than the legalities about NSA’s intercepts of conversations involving terrorists.

Since I’m just an amateur at these arcane subjects, I thought it best to get some real expertise, and so I dusted off the old Ouija board for the first time (more…)

SURPRISE!

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 6, 2006

On the eve of my 60^th birthday two years ago, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher called me up and suggested we have dinner at his favorite pizza parlor on Capitol Hill. On our way, he said, he had to drop something off for a colleague at a restaurant called Signatures.

There’s a private dining room at Signatures, and when we walked into it, a group of people jumped up and yelled, “Surprise!” I had been pleasantly set up. Many of my dearest friends in Washington were there, such as Congressmen Chris Cox (now SEC Chairman) and Ed Royce, and the owner (more…)

MOONBAT DEMOCRATS

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 5, 2006

Rep. John Murtha probably wasn’t on President Bush’s Christmas card list, but Democratic political analyst Charles Cook thinks he should have been.

Mr. Cook noted in the president’s popularity started to rebound almost immediately after the Pennsylvania Democrat made a speech urging immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

“Prior to Murtha’s well-publicized speech advocating an early withdrawal, the spotlight had been on the Bush administration’s use of intelligence that led to the decision to go to war,” Mr. Cook said.

“Murtha’s speech changed the debate, away from whether we should have invaded Iraq and whether the use of intelligence (more…)

CREATE AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SHARED PC

ttpn January 5, 2006

Need to put a PC in a public place? A free Microsoft tool makes it easy to lock down.
Schools, libraries, and other organizations often want to make computers available in public places. These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intentioned users can wreak havoc by deleting important files or accidentally installing malware.

Perhaps your child has a party and doesn’t want you around. You and your wife retreat into another room, or perhaps to a neighbor’s home. But your and your children’s computers are around. They’ll surf, play games, and who knows what else.

These can become tempting (more…)

CHINESE ISRAELIS

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 4, 2006

In addition to two religious nutcases – senile Pat Robertson and terrorist Ahmadinejad – there are large numbers of ordinary Israelis who are pleased about Ariel Sharon’s incapacitating stroke.

Robertson announced that Sharon’s stroke was “God’s punishment” for withdrawing from Gaza, while Iran’s Ahmadinejad announced he was “praying to Allah” for Sharon’s death. While most all Israeli citizens aren’t this crazy or ghoulish, a lot of them think that Sharon’s passing will be, in the words of one Israeli friend of mine, “better for the future of Israel.”

Let’s call these folks Chinese Israelis. The Chinese have an ancient proverb: (more…)

GETTING SERIOUS ON IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 30, 2005

Just before Congress adjourned for Christmas break, the House voted to pass the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437) by a vote of 239 to 182. Introduced by James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), I am proud to be one of its co-sponsors.

Among its provisions, the bill mandates that:
· All business must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work.
· A security fence and other physical infrastructure must be built along the entire Mexican border.
· The federal government has to stop its interior catch and (more…)