The 21st Century Einstein

When Albert Einstein wrote and offered his initial papers on the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, he was an unknown clerk in the Swiss Patent Office with no academic credentials.

Needless to say, for established professional physicists, the overthrow of the principles upon which their lives’ work was based by a 26 year-old kid nobody every heard of did not go over too well.

So almost 100 years later, here comes another kid, a high school dropout no less, who may impact 21st Century science the way Einstein did the 20th.

Peter Lynds, a 27 year-old broadcasting school tutor (more…)

Freedom Fighters and the New Republic

Last month, in the August 18/25 issue, The New Republic (TNR) magazine ran a cover story which focused on my role in creating the Reagan Doctrine, which contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union. 

While not critical of me directly, the article criticizes the leaders of the anti-Soviet freedom fighter movements the Reagan Doctrine supported.  This is supposed to serve as a warning to the Bush White House regarding putative support for anti-radical movements within the Moslem world.  Here is my response.  We’ll see what TNR does with it.

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Frank Foer’s alliterative article — “Founding (more…)

Israel Needs Rowdy Yates

You know I’m not Jewish.  And I’m not a supporter of Israel for Millennial Christian reasons (e.g., Jews have to get the Holy Land back before there can be a Second Coming).  I support Israel because I support Western Civilization, of which Israel is a part and because of which she is under attack.  And also because I think proto-hominids who slaughter women and babies on purpose have no right to exist.

Let’s put it this way — they have no human rights because they are not human in the first place.

The only silver (well, maybe pewter) lining to (more…)

Is Arnold a Pipedream?

It’s party time for California Republicans.  They see Arnold as their salvation.  They could be right. 

Arnold has given private assurances to Congressmen and Republican Party leaders that he will come out against partial-birth abortion, pederasts in the Boy Scouts, and welfare for illegal aliens. 

Couple that with a knowledgeable defense of free market economics gained through study of Milton Friedman and years of attending Reason Foundation seminars, and Arnold takes the wind out of his Republican opponents Bill Simon and Tom McClintock.  He could be in like Flynn.  But I don’t see how.

California is the absolute lynchpin for (more…)

Has the Major Media Become Republican?

No, it hasn’t.  Yet when both TIME and Newsweek feature George Bush’s dream opponent — Howie “Dizzy” Dean — on their covers in the same week, when Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings gush over him and the editors of The New York Times do all they can to promote his candidacy, you’ve got to wonder.

Are all of them engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the Democratic Party?  There is hardly a single staffer in the White House or the Republican National Committee that hasn’t got their fingers crossed over Dean.  They are holding their breaths, unable (more…)

CHILDISHNESS IN IRAQ

The good news in Iraq is that things are much, much better than the gloomy picture painted daily by the propaganda organ of the Democrat Party, the LME (The Liberal Media Establishment, consisting primarily of Time-Newsweek-New York Times in print, Rather-Brokaw-Jennings-CNN in television, and NPR in radio).

Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are directing the military in continuing a superb performance, oil production will soon hit one million barrels a day, and over 90% of Iraq’s population is living under peace and increasing prosperity.

The bad news is that State Department and CIA bureaucrats resolutely continue to be in the way of (more…)

BEYOND TREASON

Reading Ann Coulter’s new book, Treason is a lot of fun. She has to be the ballsiest chick in America. Part of what makes her so cool is that you know she would love that description of her.

Aside from the sheer enjoyment of watching her rhetorically eviscerate liberals, she performs a great public service in rehabilitating Joe McCarthy and exposing the Myth of McCarthyism. “McCarthyism is one of the markers on the left’s Via Dolorossa,” she observes. “It is their slavery, their gulag, their potato famine. Otherwise liberals would just be geeks from Manhattan and Hollywood.”

So let’s go (more…)

TRAITORS TO THEMSELVES: The Civil War Inside Mexico’s Soul

I am currently engaged in writing a screen treatment for a motion picture to be made by a Hollywood producer friend of mine. The movie’s working title is La Malinche (lah-mah-lin’-chay), and is the true story about one of history’s most remarkable and heroic women.

Her name was Malinali. She was born a Princess. When her father, the King, died, her mother remarried and had a son. Now a threat to her step-brother’s inheriting the throne, her mother sold her into slavery.

Beautiful and smart, Malinali became the favorite slave girl of a local chieftain. When powerful strangers came from (more…)

Getting In On African Oil

A great many conservatives are seriously steamed about George Bush even thinking about sending American soldiers to fight and possibly die in some Liberian Rumble in the Jungle. 

Liberal Democrats only advocate putting American soldiers in harm’s way when they perceive no US national security interest.  Whenever there is such an interest, they are dependably opposed.  Thus they were against the War in Iraq but are now all for Americans getting shot in Liberia by rival gangs of heavily armed thugs stoned on marijuana.

The last place in the world American soldiers should be sent to is some anarchic hell-hole (more…)

HOW TO MAKE NORTH KOREA SENILE

The military threat of North Korea is not its nukes. They are a geostrategic threat, as they will be sold to rogue states and terrorist groups. The military threat is the 11,000 artillery tubes dug in the mountains along the North Korean side of the DMZ, 500 of which are long-range. [Our suggestion regarding how to take out North Korea’s nuclear facilities was discussed in PLAYING POKER WITH KOREA]

The capital of South Korea is little more than 20 miles from the DMZ. Thus its 17 million inhabitants are within range of the North Korean long-range artillery, plus several hundred 240mm rocket launchers. Until recently, so were the 37,000 American soldiers in South Korea, positioned on purpose as (more…)

A Carpe Diem Oil Opportunity

My friend Edward Goodliffe called me yesterday from the offices of Pan Southern Petroleum Corp. in Puckett, Mississippi.  He’s on Pan Southern’s board and wanted to tell me about a fascinating oil play he thought ToThePointers should know about.

There’s a small reserve in a remote area of the state called Bentonia Field.  It was drilled in the late 1980s by Coho Resources and has thus far yielded 1,700,000 barrels of oil from multiple pay zones.  Coho, however, has suffered massive mismanagement and has gone in and out of bankruptcy several times.  Bentonia became neglected, with its equipment falling into (more…)