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THE DE-HOMOSEXUALIZATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 26, 2005

A Vatican source has disclosed to To The Point a psychological trauma of John Paul II. Whenever Vatican investigators brought the results of their vetting process regarding an individual’s candidacy for bishop, cardinal, or other office, and they revealed he was a homosexual, John Paul II would refuse to believe it.

He did so because accusing someone of homosexuality was a standard practice of the Communist government in his native Poland regarding anyone it regarded as an enemy of the state. From his ordination as a Catholic priest in 1946 to elevation to Archbishop of Krakow in 1963 and Cardinal (more…)

TSANTSAS IN ECUADOR

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 22, 2005

The first tribe I ever lived with made these. It’s a human shrunken head, made by the Shuara Jivaros in the Amazon jungles of Ecuador. They call it a tsantsa, and this particular one was given to me by Chief Tangamashi when he adopted me into his clan in the summer of 1960. I was all by myself and 16 years old. Here we are:

There are no courts in the jungle, so the way to avenge a serious crime such as murder by sorcery is to raid your enemy’s encampment, spear him to death, cut his head off (more…)

SELL THE LAND!

Guest Author April 21, 2005

[I am so glad to see Richard, one of the most well-known economists in the world, embrace my proposal to pay for Social Security transition costs by selling the one-third of American real estate owned by the Federal Government, as put forth in Solving Social Security and Energy Independence At The Same Time , TTP, December 7, 2004. —JW]

If you spent more each month than you made and got deeper and deeper into debt, but had an asset equal to your debts, like a big expensive boat you never used, what would you do? If you were rational, you would sell the boat.

The U.S. government has spent more than it receives in tax revenue for most of the last 75 years, and, as a result, the national debt and the associated interest payments have gotten bigger and bigger. But what is not well known is that the U.S. government also has many trillions of dollars of assets, (more…)

TIPPING POINT FOR THE CHINA-IRAN-NORTH KOREA AXIS OF EVIL

Michael Ledeen April 21, 2005

Three of the world’s greatest tyrannies may be at a tipping point.

Let’s start with a thoughtful article in the April 19 Asia Times written by an Australian named Andrei Lankov. “For decades,” he rightly points out, “the commonly accepted truth…was that the North Koreans do not rebel.” And yet, on March 30, in the Kim il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang, tens of thousands of North Korean soccer fans erupted in rage against the (Syrian) referee who had expelled a Korean defender in a World Cup qualifying match against Iran. The demonstrations pitted the spectators against the usual security forces of (more…)

MIRACLE MAX IN EUROPE

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 21, 2005

There was a very funny movie made back in 1987 called The Princess Bride. Imagine an Errol Flynn swashbuckler with a Monty Python script. One of my favorite scenes is when the hero, Westley (played by Cary Elwes) is wounded and his friends drag his limp body to a Yiddish Wizard named Miracle Max (played by Billy Crystal) in hopes of saving him. But it’s too late. He’s dead, they tell Max.

“Look who knows so much,” Max replies after examining Westley. “It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There is a VERY BIG DIFFERENCE (more…)

CELL MODEMS

ttpn April 21, 2005

A friend bought a new PDA and offered me his old one at a price I couldn’t refuse. I still feel the wisest strategy, as I mentioned in a previous column, is to wait several months until combination ultra-light portables with digital cameras, radios and MP3 players come attached. Still, for 100 shekels ($22) how could anyone refuse?

I looked for a method of connecting a PDA or laptop to the Internet without having to use Wifi or regular Ethernet connection. Why not a cellphone? My phone is all set up for Internet; at the press of a button I (more…)

VICTORY AND CERTAINTY

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 15, 2005

There are no more glorious days in Washington DC than the one we had last Sunday, April 10. Not a cloud in the sky nor hint of haze, the gentlest of breezes, seventy balmy degrees – and the cherry trees encircling the Tidal Basin of the Potomac in peak bloom.

It’s a long-standing family tradition of ours to make an annual pilgrimage to the cherry blossoms and the Jefferson Memorial (but now with a digital camera…). The statue of Jefferson is placed so that it looks across the Tidal Basin and the Ellipse directly into the White House. The eyes (more…)

THE SAHARA SNOWSTORM

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 15, 2005

It is obvious to anyone with open eyes that the Grey Lady of the New York Times is a liberal propaganda sheet rather than a real newspaper. The examples are legion of its pushing stories twisted to the left. But equally important are stories it refuses to report, that it doesn’t want its readers to know.

On January 26-27, 2005 there was a tremendous snowstorm in the Sahara Desert. Much of the Sahara in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia were blanketed by an enormous snowfall, the worst in over half a century. Here are the NASA satellite photos.

You would (more…)

LINDER’S 16TH PROBLEM

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 15, 2005

One of the very first “Liberation Links” we put up at the inception of To The Point was to John Linder’s FairTax. John is a Republican Congressman from Georgia who has authored a bill, HR 25 for the 109th Congress, that would in his words, “repeal all corporate and individual income taxes, payroll taxes, self-employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes and gift taxes – and replace it with a revenue-neutral personal consumption tax.”

If the FairTax were to become law, the IRS would cease to exist, and we would pay our taxes like we buy a gallon of (more…)

THE CHINESE GLASS HOUSE

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 14, 2005

This past weekend, the Chinese Communist government organized a protest demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. Under the watchful eyes of Chinese security agents and police, the young protestors were encouraged to throw stones at the embassy in protest over the latest Japanese history textbook continuing to omit mention of Japanese atrocities in China during World War II.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, on a charm offensive in India at the time of the protest, told reporters in New Delhi that “Only a country that respects and takes responsibility for history can win over peoples’ trust, in Asia (more…)

BACKUP AND SECURITY

ttpn April 14, 2005

Microsoft has just released several important security updates, including a new version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool. In case you still don’t have your system set to automatic updates, go to the Windows Update Site.

Before you do, make a backup of your system state. A while ago I explained how to do it. I’ll go over the steps here again. They’ve changed slightly after installing Service Pack 2. I also urge you to make a backup of your system state every time you install new software, except for small applications by reliable companies, like the Google Toolbar.

You (more…)

HILLARY’S WAR ON DELAY

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 13, 2005

The most powerful Congressmen have, in addition to their regular offices in one of the House Office Buildings (Cannon, Longworth, or Rayburn) on the south side of Capitol Hill, a private office in the Capitol itself. It was in such an office earlier this week that I asked a member of the House leadership about the MSM (mainstream media)/Democrat vendetta against his colleague, Tom DeLay.

“Hillary’s fingerprints are all over it,” came his response. “She has no intention of having to deal with an opposition party controlling the House as her husband did for six years and Ronald Reagan did (more…)

INTELLIGENCE ROT

Michael Ledeen April 8, 2005

Two cheers for the Silberman-Robb Commission Report, which for the first time raises some of the basic issues about the rot that has long festered within the intelligence community.

Yes, it’s too long, (much too long), and unfortunately the authors are forever telling us “we think, we recommend, we believe,” rather than just writing simple declarative English. But okay, that’s the way commissions work, and there is a lot here that makes it worth the heavy plowing to get through the 600 pages.

Unfortunately, the entire argument — one of the great merits of the enterprise is that there is (more…)

THE POPE IN CHINA

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 7, 2005

If you take a look at a map of China:

You’ll notice an amazing geographical feature near the border with Burma – three of the worlds’ great rivers, the Salween, the Mekong, and the Yangtze, all spilling off the Tibetan Plateau and flowing south in three parallel grooves. The Salween and the Mekong continue south, while the Yangtze finally makes a turn east all the way to Shanghai. The place where they flow south in parallel together is known as The Great River Trenches of Asia. Here’s a closer look:

This is the northwestern tip of Yunnan Province. If you (more…)

NOW THERE IS ONE

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 7, 2005

We only recognize giants when they are gone, heroic ages when they are past. The day will come when America’s children will learn that the 1980s was such an age, bestrode by three giants who together rid the world of one of the great evils of history, the Soviet Union. They were Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher. Now, only one is left.

We mourned the passing of Ronald Reagan last year, Pope John Paul’s this, so before we mourn Lady Thatcher’s, who turns 80 this October, let us acknowledge the incalculable debt those who live in (more…)

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