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"Well there are protestors in several major American cities using their iPads at Starbucks to make Facebook and Twitter updates about the evils of corporations and you don't know whether to laugh or cry, honestly. What we're seeing here, I think, are the self-esteem movement's chickens coming home to roost. These kids are upset because the $100,000 of debt they took on in order to get their degree in Bitterness Studies isn't paying off with a six figure job and a car and full benefits at an organic farm collective." "These people don't know what they're protesting but I do....

I know who my money’s on: Bill Whittle delivers yet another awesome Afterburner, taking to task the Wall Street Whiners... [video]

Bill Whittle spoke the other day at the Beverly Hills Tea Party and I must say it was excellent. When he began he said that his job was to scare us to death and then explain why he has so much hope for us overcoming the big problems we face. I’m not sure he succeeded on the former, but definitely the latter. He broke the speech up into seven categories that he believes most Tea Party members would agree on and then elaborated on them, some at great length. The seven categories are limited government and free enterprise, distrust of...

In the decade since the September 11th attacks, our running analyses of what we should have done in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would make Captain Hindsight proud. But in a great new Afterburner from PJTV, Bill Whittle makes the simple yet brilliant case that with the information we had, Americans behaved not only intelligently but honorably, and that freedom isn't free. Afterburner with Bill Whittle: What We Did Right Ed Morrissey has a more thorough rundown at HotAir, but I'd like to highlight several crucial points raised by Mr. Whittle that I think are overlooked all too often:...

Rich Man, Poor Man Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer. In fact, America's poor are so rich, we should be celebrating it. Bill Whittle has the facts to back it up.

PJTV: Top Gun, Whittle Style. Bill fries some chickens, kills a few bandits and punches the afterburners while living the dream of flying an F-18 training simulator. How can you live your dream? Bill Whittle give you some hints during this gripping tale. And comeback every two weeks for a brand new Afterburner on PJTV.

VIDEO - THE ENIGMA, PART 1: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, Firewall, by Bill Whittle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVgRRbDuZvY

Bill Whittle looks at funding the government by taking away all corporate profits, money from those who make above $250k, etc. Eat the Rich

Is America really broke? Michael Moore (and others) tells us that there are oceans of cash being hoarded by the wealthy. But Iowahawk (iowahawk.typepad.com) did a little addition, and armed with these statistics Bill and the 'Hawk blow a hole in the "hoarding" lie big enough to fit a documentary filmmaker through.

Wouldn't it be nice if the best idea always won the day? Unfortunately, it often doesn't. The best idea, poorly presented, is easily passed over. Conservatives aren't known for our presentation. We're still talking about Ronald Reagan, and looking for the next Great Communicator. But even if we find him or her, that means we're averaging one every thirty or forty years. That's not a winning track record. We must each become great communicators in our own right. The way to do so is to set aside our great ideas for a moment, and start focusing on telling better stories....

Bill Whittle returns for a final Firewall episode, this time on the meaning of Christmas in American history — or really, the meaning and resonance of Christianity. Bill quotes John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the requirement for a free people to be of high moral character, something they considered implicit in the Americans who fought for the freedom of self-governance. That didn’t require a theocratic institution for government, but instead a government that interfered little with their choices and room for the natural character of the people to assert itself. They did not view Americans as children who could...

In Part 6 of "What We Believe", Bill looks at the critical distinction between legal and Illegal immigration, and how apologists for illegal immigration end up hurting the legal immigrants that have always been the backbone of America.

What makes some laws worth obeying, while others demand to be overturned? In Part 4, Bill examines the difference between Natural Law and Political Law.

When Bill Whittle heard about Jon Stewart calling Harry Truman a "war criminal" for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima (during an argument on waterboarding...), Whittle did his homework and made a video rebuttal that is second to none.

Bill Whittle has stood out among the fine folks at PJTV as a guy who not only "gets it," but has an uncanny capacity for relating "it" to others. Self-described as a former liberal, Whittle's libertarian conservatism is a product of intellect and spiritual reflection. Some set of circumstances apparently led him to reevaluate his priorities and adopt a paradigm which was not indoctrinated from youth. This conversion process appears to have endowed him with the ability to strike at the heart of what matters, a skill one develops when restructuring their fundamental values.A culminate example of Whittle's insight came...

You think Tony Stark is a bad-a$$ capitalist? Milton Friedman would kick his butt. Bill Whittle tells you why. VIDEO

Video interview by Bill Whittle at PJTV. Long (11 minutes) but interesting. Video contains statistics on number of times Islam, enemy, Muslim, enemy, Al Qaeda, etc. are used. "Shifting of the way America thinks...'there are no facts. There are no truths.'...case (for) the advisors at the senior level have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.'"

...if I don’t get chosen for a trial today, I’ll be an individual soldier at Boston’s Tax Day Tea Party tomorrow. In fact, with any luck, I’ll be bringing back photos and videos of the crowds, the speakers, the signs, the ideas. And maybe even a shot of Sarah Palin. Will I see you there? Hope so!

Just a few blocks away from the Capitol building is an unassuming, dingy flophouse – once owned by one William Peterson – which is directly across the street from Ford’s Theater, and it was to this tiny aprtment that President Lincoln was carried on that awful night back in 1865. I had read about this small, shabby little place for decades, and seen many deathbed illustrations of the place, but nothing can prepare you for how small, how appallingly, claustrophobically tiny, and dingy and cheap this little room actually is. There on this very spot, the sixteenth president underwent what a...

[Great video by Bill Whittle] Someone please tell me: Why isn’t this man running for public office?

This is Whittle's own repost of one of his best essays. Long, but worth every second (IMHO of course) A note from Bill Whittle: I'm slowly trying to move the best of the old archives over here to the new. Mostly that consists of the SILENT AMERICA essays, but there were a number of pieces that I really liked, and this is one of them -- courtesy of a request by an old friend who was looking for it.In a month or two I'm going to be putting out two compilations of previously unpublished materials: SEEING THE UNSEEN: ADVENTURES IN...

If the tea party movement is the soul of small government and personal responsibility, the Republican Party is the institutional body conservatives need to regain control over government run amok. You can't have one without the other, says Bill Whittle. The transcript of this video essay is below. IMHO: video is better - Bill Whittle's presentation is characteristically passionate; and his passion is contagious. Well, the Tea party movement is not even a year old, and already it is holding its first national convention. I was honored to be asked to speak at the West Los Angeles event on September...

The following is a transcript of Bill's video essay Super Bowl Democracy: One of Us Is Better Than Most of Them If you can spare 10 minutes, better watch it - his presentation is passionate, sharp and down to earth.[bold and italics in the text by Bill]If you asked the average American on the street what kind of government we have, they’d likely as not say we live in a democracy. A democracy is – by definition – where the people rule.But we don’t live in a democracy. You don’t get to determine when or if our country goes...

[...] That’s a Republic. And despite the mind-numbing terror of it, it’s actually not a bad way to go. But why would so many free citizens be willing to put their lives and their fortunes into the hands of so few people? Well, we would do it if we believed that the person in question was one of us. We do it because we believe that the person we send to Washington represents not every little detail but at least the core of our values and desires, our needs and our hopes. We do it because the person – in...

From Stalin to Obama, the mainstream media's history of bias leaves us asking: Who can handle the truth? Andrew Breitbart's newest venture, Big Journalism, arrives just in time -- as Bill Whittle explains in the latest Afterburner. Watch and comment here: http://pjtv.com/v/2955 Journalism: The Most Trusted Scam In America Jan 18 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   10 min Consequences of unending bias DuranteCronkiteand so many more Left-wing bias costs people their lives

Bill Whittle goes to Washington, DC to investigate radical Islam's influence over our government and access to our national security secrets. Two whistleblowers have the chilling details. 14 min video (might require FREE registration at PJTV ). The info is shocking, but not surprising to the most of freepers. Bill says: "Shocking news from DC. I first saw this brief in private. It was five hours long. But these 14 minutes ought to give you a taste of how appalling things are." The West in general, and our government in particular, indulges in pretending that we live in a...

[I've had a lot of requests for the SILENT AMERICA essays, which did not survive the move from the old site very well. The one I get the most requests to re-post -- by far -- is TRIBES. TRIBES was written immediately after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, and tales of appalling circumstances in New Orleans -- specifically in the Superdome -- were flying loose everywhere. A lot of those events turned out not to have happened, but the essentials remain the same: I was furious -- just plain seeing-red livid -- at some of the charges that...

In his latest video Bill Whittle compares the destruction of ACORN with one of the most brilliant military victories of all times: Hannibal's decimation of Romans in the Battle of Cannae. Whittle says that the main war is not with ACORN but with the media. The Media is no longer "news media", because, as it was highlighted, again, in the ACORN affair, is not just biased and selective, but now engaged in suppressing the news. It's not free media anymore.As Hannibal learned that fighting all powerful Rome is dangerous, Breitbart should also be worry - he'd drawn blood of...

The following is a transcript of Bill Whittle's video essay first aired on the PJTV on August 31, 2009. Link to the VIDEO. It was posted here. Whittle's presentation is passionate, takes 15 min, and IMHO better to be watched than read. Anyway, the transcript is below. Back to Bill: [It's taken me a while to catch up on the Afterburners. There are some major projects in the works -- and they have been in the works for eighteen months now -- and I promise they will not disappoint.Here I am on my favorite ground. Some of this may...

Bill Whittle did not participate in the rally on DC, but he did in a rally in California. This is his speech and his few comments. Delivered in his usual simple, straightforward and passionate manner. Afterburner with Bill Whittle Why We Should All Be Worried ... And Why You Should Run For Office Sep 21 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   12min A Tale of Two Revolutions: The War of Ideas & the Tragedy of the Unconstrained Vision Sep 10 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   10min Bill Maher, Barack Obama and the Truth About American Exceptionalism Aug 31...

Afterburner with Bill Whittle  A Tale of Two Revolutions: The War of Ideas & the Tragedy of the Unconstrained Vision Sep 9 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   10min Bill Maher, Barack Obama and the Truth About American Exceptionalism Aug 31 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   15min MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness Aug 24 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   13min The Power & Danger of Iconography: The Resistance Steals Obama's Weapons Aug 14 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   8min Beyond the Angry Mobs: Only You Can Bring Congress...

If you have the time, it's worth it.

This is a MUST WATCH 13min video by a brilliant Bill Whittle No transcript yet.

The following is a transcript of Bill Whittle's video. It works as a standalone article, but it's really better if you watch the video in all it's Afterburnery video glory here.(8 minutes)  THE CULT OF ICONOGRAPHYI’d like to take just a few moments to talk about the power of Iconography.  If you happen to be a high-level Republican strategist, you’re probably saying, “the power of Ica-what-now?” If you’re a high-level Democratic strategist, you might be thinking, “Aw, crap! He’s onto us!” See this lovely steak dinner? Appetizing, isn’t it? Of course, if you put this in a blender and hit Puree,...

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If you haven't seen Bill Whittle's latest editorial, it is excellent

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A brilliant must see video - 9min - by Bill Whittle    More:Afterburner with Bill Whittle Beyond the Angry Mobs: Only You Can Bring Congress Back From the Abyss of Corruption Aug 10 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   9min BizarroBurner: Where Black is White and Racists Don't Get a Pass Aug 3 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   8min The Media, The Left and GOP Elitists vs. Sarah Palin: A Lesson on How to Destroy a Leader Jul 27 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   13min LunarPalooza Part 1: The Future of Space Exploration Is In Your Hands...

[If you would rather hear and see this (and it's better with some vocal steam and supporting pictures), you can view the Afterburner version for free, here.] TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO: THE DESTRUCTION OF SARAH PALIN Well, Sarah Palin has stepped down as Governor of Alaska. Fighting a seemingly endless string of harassment lawsuits has taken pretty much all of her time and $500,000 of her money. That’s real money to the Palins. That’s real money to me, and probably to you too.At least fifteen ethics complaints had been leveled against Governor Palin, and all of them have been dismissed...

Bill Whittle gives a good discussion on why they hate Sarah Palin.

If you are fan of Star Trek - you will enjoy this. Link

Bill covers the WW2 nuke bombing of Japan. Video at the link...

I thought it was interesting....

(This first appeared on BIG HOLLYWOOD back in January. Andrew Breitbart asked if I would hold it for a week before posting it on Eject! Eject! Eject! — so I held it for three months out of love for the man.  Just something for the weekend; next week, my new favorite word: Thymos. See you then.)  I. The Heartbeat Step back with me for a minute. Back out of Hollywood, out of America, out of the Western Tradition. Sit in the middle of a darkened crater at the south pole of the Moon. Sit back, look down and back into time, and...

But Hollywood’s Chattering Classes are thoroughly, completely and spectacularly wrong. And therein lies the source of a looming tragedy so great it would take a thousand movies to simply sketch it out… were it not for the fact that if Hollywood as it now exists continues to do what it is doing unopposed, there will be no more movies because there will be no more electricity.

The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity. Mr. Berg – who runs a charitable foundation that feeds the poor — explains things for us thusly:   “…It is wrong to give them [the very rich] unilateral power to decide whether their taxpayer-subsidized donations should go to, say, well-heeled operas or lavish care of pets rather than to organizations that meet more pressing communal needs.” Mr. Berg lists two...

A MESSAGE TO THE RICH The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity.  Mr. Berg – who runs a charitable foundation that feeds the poor — explains things for us thusly:    “…It is wrong to give them [the very rich] unilateral power to decide whether their taxpayer-subsidized donations should go to, say, well-heeled operas or lavish care of pets rather than to organizations that meet more pressing communal...

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October 31, 2008, 3:30 p.m. Asteroid!Inescapable cataclysm! Total destruction! Nowhere to hide! Make peace with your God! By Bill Whittle Prepare yourselves, sayeth the news. This thing is coming and you can’t stop it. You’ve seen the numbers. Banks of supercomputers refining to the eighth significant figure the precise moment of impact; the location down to a half mile. The giant Obamaroid bearing down on us: unstoppable by mere puny earthlings; a rock the size of Ireland, immutable, inevitable, crushing and final. Run all you want; you’ll just die tired. This is it. The end of all we hold...

Shame, Cubed Three separate reasons to be appalled, each more disgusting than the last. By Bill Whittle The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. And this time, Barack Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. Speaking on a call-in radio show in 2001, you can hear Senator Obama say things that should profoundly shock any American — or at least those who have not taken the time to dig deeply enough into this man’s beliefs and affiliations. Abandon all hope, ye...