Stark: Bush Amused By Troops Dying

Left-wing Democrat Congressman Pete Stark claims that President Bush is amused by troops dying in Iraq.  Isn’t he in the party that is so invested in the killing of the troops that they are willing to hijack the mission with this silly Armenian Genocide resolution?

 

Here’s a study that says that claims that shorter people are less healthy because they have a “chip on their shoulder.”

 

Government security screeners at America’s airports are pathetically incompetent when it comes to stopping a bomb.  Maybe if they would look at the guy in the turban instead of the grandmothers they would be more successful.

 

Speaking of government incompetence, how about this story of a Mexican infected with tuberculosis who managed to cross the southern border 76 times?

 

Speaking of Mexicans, President Bush’s Press Secretary, Dana Perino, said that illegal Mexican aliens don’t want to live in America, they just want jobs here.  Just wait until there are enough Mexicans living here who want to retake their country.

 

A student at Hamline University was suspended for simply stating that the Virginia Tech massacre could have been prevented had students been allowed to carry concealed weapons.  Fortunately, Mercer is not that ridiculous, since I said the same thing in the spring.

 

Here’s Hillary Clinton’s latest welfare program proposal.  This time, it’s for the kids.  Proposals like this are why some are speculating that even Republican women might vote for Hillary.

 

President Bush may have historically low approval ratings, but Congress’ ratings are even lower—only 11%.  Why, then, do Americans still trust these people to give them healthcare?

 

Thank goodness Airhead America radio host Randi Rhodes wasn’t attacked.  That didn’t stop the left-wing conspiracy theorists from blaming conservatives.

 

Tales from socialized medicine:  a father in Britain had to deliver his child after his wife was turned away from government hospitals twice.

 

Here are some really twisted stories:  A government middle school in Maine is going to start offering contraception to its students after an outbreak of pregnancy, and a specialist on early childhood education in Norway thinks pre-schoolers should be allowed to explore their sexuality.  Why can’t we just let them be kids?

 

Smells associated with breast feeding can actually turn other women on.  Yet more reason to allow it in public.

 

Good news, guys:  having sex every day is good for a man’s fertility.

 

Cursing at work is actually good for employee morale.

No Show Today

Due to a rapidly approaching due date on a major paper, I will be unable to do the show today.  I apologize, but I will return on Friday.

Democrats Hate NASCAR!

Last week a House Homeland Security Committee memo was leaked saying that staffers should get vaccines that are never otherwise required for domestic travel.  This weekend at Charlotte, fans took the opportunity to let their feelings about it be known.  Democrats in North Carolina could only cringe.  Sure, Democrats have a bias against the South (even Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman), but if they were consistent they would be calling for NASCAR to be banned.  I’ll explain why today.

 

Corporate execs apparently think that they are overpaid.  The ones who think so can surely take a cut in pay, but why should this be reason for the government to get involved?  The answer:  Democrats’ class envy.

 

A legitimate scientist, hurricane expert Dr. William Gray, said that algore’s movie is “brainwashing” and “ridiculous.”  So is the statement from the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, that global warming threatens their goals of ending poverty.  I guess now if they don’t achieve their goals they can just say “global warming is to blame!” and the debate will be over.

 

How can the Bush administration keep advocating an Islamic terrorist state?  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in the West Bank yesterday, and said that it is time for a Palestinian state.  Do they not understand that they are supporting Islamic terrorism?

 

Don’t expect them to crack down on this either:  the internet is becoming a battleground for the jihadists, and Americans are giving them aid and comfort.  If I was in charge, these people would be hung for treason.

 

Democrats’ lust for redistributing income applies to colleges too.  Now they want to force colleges with large endowments to use that money to cut tuition rates.

 

The Navy was forced to spend $4.5 million to get a boat that they didn’t want and couldn’t use.  Why would they waste our money like that?  Because the Congressional representatives of Washington state wanted the pork project for their campaign contributors.

 

Tree-huggers yesterday announced that John Edwards is their guy for President.  Isn’t he too pretty for them?

Big Show on a Friday!

The Peanut for Brains President, Jimmy Carter, calls Vice President Cheney a “disaster” for the United States.  Jimmy Carter’s Presidency was actually a disaster for the United States.

 

This should cause some problems among the left:  Greenpeace says that Australians should start eating kangaroos to fight “global warming.”

 

The Empire State Building will be lit up green in honor of the end of Ramadan.

 

Algore won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Big deal, so did Islamic terrorist Yasser Arafat.

 

Congressional staffers were instructed to get immunized before going to NASCAR races.

 

A government school in Denver, Colorado has started sending out obesity notices to let parents know that their kids are fat.

 

Hillary is considering eliminating the Social Security tax cap, just like the other Democrat front-runners.

 

Speaking of the Democrats, they gave their plans for education yesterday.  Of course, there was no mention of eliminating the government’s role in educating children—can’t upset the teacher’s unions!

 

Here’s the latest column by John Stossel on health care.

 

Muslims are telling Christians that if they do not make peace then the survival of the world is at stake.  I wonder which side is supposed to capitulate here?

 

The former President of Iran said that Hitler’s treatment of Jews was because "they were a pain in the neck.”  Expect to hear this again—Israel is “a pain in the neck” to Iran now.

 

Also, SGA President Akeem Anderson will join the show at 1:00 to discuss the SEA Bear Grant that was the topic of this week’s column in the Cluster-blank.

Cluster-Blank Column

SGA Wasting Student Activity Funds on Environmentalist Agenda

 

By Jeff Scott

 

Listeners to my radio show will know that, from time to time, I report on examples of government wasting money on frivolous pork projects, usually slipped into a bill by a single member of Congress or in committee without ever having to be mentioned on the floor.  Our young legislators on Mercer University’s own Student Government Association voted last week to give the largest Bear Grant in history to an environmentalist group with a poor history of fiscal discipline to advance their agenda.

 

The Bear Grant that SGA approved, by far the largest of this year’s Bear Grant process, gave Students for Environmental Action over $7,500 in student activity fees for use in this fiscal year.  SGA’s budget shows that they have a total of $40,000 for Bear Grants for all student organizations, so their $7,500 makes up almost 20% of the total Bear Grant allocations.  According to a high-level SGA source, the same organization has been given Bear Grants of a combined $5,000 the last two years and has returned the money to SGA because they did not spend the money.  To make sure that their lack of fiscal discipline did not prevent them from getting the money this year, SEA brought not just their President, as is customary for Bear Grant hearings, but a large group of students wearing green ribbons and even a faculty member, who also happens to be the father of the organization’s President.  They used intimidation by numbers to get their Bear Grant passed for an obscenely large amount.

 

So what is your student activity fee paying for?  They are using $2,000 to bring a speaker to campus.  This is not a horrible proposal; however, they are not using any outside money for any of their proposals.  If a lecture is worth that much money, why not ask for some money from the Environmental Science department, the President’s office, or other sources of money within and outside the University?  Many student organizations host speakers, and use other sources of funding to do so.  Why does SEA think that they are too good to get outside funding?  Is it just that they have a strong sense of entitlement?

 

SEA also feels it necessary to use $850 of student funds for promotional purposes.  Between t-shirts, reusable grocery bags, decorations, and Nalgene bottles, every student should know who SEA is by the end of this semester (assuming they spend the money this year).  They also requested $1,500 for recycling bins, which according to SGA’s minutes are already on campus.  Even that information, which was presented publicly in the Senate by Vice President and Dean of Students Dr. Douglas Pearson, was not enough to encourage SGA to cut their allocation.  Perhaps they were simply intimidated by a bunch of hippies with green ribbons.

 

Probably the most egregious of the allocations are for things that should be the University’s business, not a student organization’s.  You see, SEA wants to do an “energy audit” of Mercer’s campus.  To do so, they need to rent an infrared camera and purchase AC sensors and energy panel clocks.  These items come to a price tag of $1,800.  Add the recycling bins and the $200 for plants and seeds, and SGA gave a student organization $3,500 to do something that the University should be doing.  After all, as a private institution Mercer should be paying attention to the amount of energy used on its own; the University has to pay a power bill.  Why should student activity funds be going towards the business of the University?

 

I would also like to draw attention to a smaller appropriation:  $50 for fluorescent light bulbs.  First of all, it is again the University’s business to purchase light bulbs, not a student organization’s.  Second, while these fluorescent light bulbs have been praised by environmentalists for how “eco-friendly,” they can also be very dangerous to humans and the environment if they are broken, because they contain mercury.  Estimated clean-up costs for a broken fluorescent light bulb are about $5,000.  So members of SEA, make sure you don’t break one, or you’ll have a real lesson in environmental clean-up, from the very device that you want to use to save the earth.

 

SGA passed this Bear Grant, after much deliberation, by an estimated 3-1 margin.  Of course, you or I will never know who voted on each side because SGA does not record their votes.  They are able to shield themselves from criticism by voting anonymously.  This is a prime opportunity for students to pressure their representatives to make SGA open by forcing them to record and publicly publish the results of every vote taken by the Senate.  This would give students an opportunity to hold their representatives accountable for their votes.  Right now they can hide because we do not know how they vote.  It is time for an amendment to the SGA constitution or bylaws that will require every vote to be recorded and publicized.

 

There is one group of students (other than SEA) who can celebrate this Bear Grant.  AniMercer, you have now been relieved of the position of students’ whipping-boy for wasting student activity fees.

Hillary's new redistributionist scheme

Hillary introduced her retirement plan.  Guess what?  More socialism!  “From those according to their means, to those according to their need.”

 

Speaking of Hillary (we sure do seem to have a lot of news on her, don’t we?  Well get used to it—she will be the next President of the United States), she was endorsed by the chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic terrorist group.

 

We’re not done with the future Madam President.  Sandy Berger is now an “unofficial, unpaid advisor” to her campaign.  Do we remember why Sandy Berger was indicted?

 

North Dakota state Senator Tim Mathern claims that SCHIP is not welfare.  Either he’s stupid, or he’s lying.

 

Left-wing sob story alert:  Here’s a woman who is considered homeless, but is trained as a medical receptionist.  She had four children with different fathers, starting at age 18.  But of course our compassionate society is willing to put her up in a homeless shelter.

 

New York City government libraries include books that are used by Islamic terrorist groups to recruit terrorists.  You’d think in New York City they would keep an eye out for that kind of thing.

 

At George Washington University, a series of anti-Muslim posters featuring the headline “HATE MUSLIMS?  SO DO WE!!!” starting appearing.  What is being ignored by the mainstream media is that the posters were put up by a Muslim student as “satire.”

 

Macon Mayor Hakim Mansour Ellis sponsored a Ramadan forum and feast using city facilities.  Where is the ACLU when we need them?

 

Future Vice President Barack Obama spoke to a black church in South Carolina and claimed that the Republicans do not own faith and values.  Beyond what Obama said, why is that church not losing its tax-exempt status?

 

Kudos to Michelle Malkin for finding this one.  Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced an amendment to an appropriations bill asking the ICE to limit enforcement of immigration law so that illegals can participate in the 2010 Census.

 

Muslim medical students in Britain are refusing to learn about alcohol-related illnesses and venereal diseases because they are forbidden by their religion.  It seems like there is an easy solution:  if you don’t want to learn what you need to, then you can’t be a doctor.

 

A group of National Guard soldiers came home from Iraq after a 22-month tour only to find that the Pentagon had signed their orders for only one day less than what would have made them eligible for benefits under the GI bill.  An unrelated, but coincidental, fact is that these were the same troops who made the “Halp us Jon Carry—We R stuck hear n Irak” sign.

 

Only a third of Americans are bothered by hearing people who mainly speak Spanish.  I still say it should be impossible to live in America without a working knowledge of the English language.

 

Monday was Columbus Day, a day that is no longer celebrated in government schools because it is politically incorrect to celebrate Western Civilization.  One protester called it “a celebration of genocide.”  Even if this was true, what kinds of cultures were wiped out?  I linked to this last week, but I guarantee I will mention it today.

 

Amid talks that may return Don Imus to the airwaves, the National Association of Black Journalists is trying their best to keep him from returning.  Can’t they just leave him alone and let him come back?

 

Lots on Hillary Today

I promised to explain this on Wednesday, but didn’t get around to it.  To make it up to you, I will lead with it today:  Hillary’s “Baby Bond” idea is not popular with Americans.  A Rasmussen poll shows that by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose the idea.  Minorities and young people are more likely to support it.

 

Here’s a guy who should be expecting a pink slip soon:  CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said that “There are definitely some inaccuracies” in algore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth.”  Questioning algore and the global warming cultists just won’t be tolerated at that left-wing network, even when a scientific study proves that the sun is still the main force behind climate change.  Don’t expect to hear about this study anywhere else.

 

Speaking of algore, the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think-tank based in Chicago, has spent $700,000 on newspaper ads challenging the high priest of environmentalism to a debate.  So far, no answer.

 

Here is a guy who has spent too much time around lawyers:  a 51-year-old undergrad student at UMass-Amherst didn’t like his grade in a class, so he sued.

 

John Stossel wrote a column last week on the problems with the health insurance system.  This week, he looks at a possible solution, which would save a lot of people a lot of money, make them healthier, and make individuals more responsible for their own health care.

 

Experts say that Mitt Romney’s health care plan that he introduced in Massachusetts is almost the same as HillaryCare 2.0.

 

Hillary wants to legalize federal funding for stem cell research, saying that would bring integrity to science.

 

Here is even more reason to hate the New York Yankees.  They have been wasting taxpayer dollars, calling it “planning costs” for their new $795 million dollar stadium that is also taxpayer subsidized.

 

The government teachers’ union endorsed Hillary.  No surprise here.

 

New York University is installing footbaths for Muslims.  They don’t pass up an opportunity to insult Southerners either, because of course we are backwards for not being so tolerant to the Islamist agenda.

 

Michael Chertoff gave environmentalists reason to support securing the border, saying that illegals “degrade the environment.”  I’m not holding my breath on that one.  Illegals also cost Los Angeles County alone $35 million in a single month.  This is why it amazes me that a judge could block a program to report illegals.

 

Speaking of illegal immigration, Hillary wants to create an amnesty that also includes families.  She also wants to cut the Hispanic dropout rate from government schools in half.

 

Here’s some local news:  Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis is considering running for Congress.  If anybody could make “Crazy Aunt” Cynthia look sane, it’s Ellis.

More Ignorance on the FairTax

Bruce Bartlett is busy attacking the FairTax again.  We will, of course, take a significant portion of today’s show clearing up the ignorance that Bartlett shows on the issue.  It’s a shame that he doesn’t understand the FairTax; he really is a brilliant man.

 

Here’s another ignorant column on the FairTax.  Read the book before you try to comment, people!

 

How pathetic is this?  This woman wants a Canadian husband so that she can have the Canadian government pay for her health care.  What she will find out is that the cancer will kill her long before she actually gets treatment in Canada, due to their waiting lists.

 

Ann Coulter says that if women were denied the right to vote again, there would never be another Democrat President.  I have much better ideas on who to deny voting access to.

 

Hillary won the fundraising battle in the last quarter, raising the most money for both the primary and general election funds and gaining a 33-point lead in the polls that includes a majority of likely Democrat voters.  This, as Democrat candidates out-raise Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin.  More proof that Hillary will be the next President.

 

Unfortunately for Hillary, her “Baby Bond” idea is not popular with Americans.  A Rasmussen poll shows that by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose the idea.  Minorities and young people are more likely to support it.  I’ll explain why on the show today.

 

Barack Obama wants the world to eliminate nuclear weapons.  After all, you can’t hug with nuclear arms…or in government schools in his state.

 

Also in government schools in Illinois and across the country, Christmas is being removed because of Muslims.  The Muslims are allowed to pray during Ramadan, however.  Some government school districts are even giving students the day off for the last day of Ramadan.

 

The House yesterday voted yesterday on a resolution to commend Muslims during Ramadan.  It passed unanimously.  Apparently nobody was willing to stand up to CAIR.

                                                                

More proof that global warming is being made up:  weather stations are put in places where they are guaranteed to record higher temperatures, such as on the face of a rock cliff.

 

Democrats are proposing a new tax to pay for the war in Iraq, saying that it is “unfair” to make future generations pay for it.  I think it’s unfair to make future generations pay for Social Security, so why don’t we just eliminate that?

 

Your tax dollars at work:  Federal employees wasted $146 million of our tax dollars in a single year by flying first class tickets when they were supposed to be flying coach.

 

Scientists have documented some of the atrocities of the barbaric cultures ended by western civilization (known by the left as “cultural imperialism”).  The Incas fattened up children for a year before sacrificing them by drugging them and letting them die from exposure.  But these were the “noble” cultures that westerners invaded through their evil imperialist intrusions.

 

Two groups of secessionists are meeting in Chattanooga this week to discuss the idea of states splitting from the Union.  There is a liberal group that wants Vermont to secede, and a conservative group that wants southern states to be able to secede.  The problem, of course, is the fact that the federal government has become too overbearing.

 

Whoopi Goldberg suggested that she should have a threesome with Nancy Pelosi and her husband.  Can you think of anything more disturbing than that?

Newt Out of 2008 Race

I know some people are upset about Newt Gingrich announcing that he will not enter the race for President, but I can’t blame him.  Would you want to go through all that scrutiny?

 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made the statement in an interview that he believes that liberals are at least as racist as segregationists once were.  I’ll explain on the show today why this makes sense.

 

The Christian Taliban met this weekend, and issued a resolution saying that they will support a third-party run if Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination.  This just proves where these crazy evangelicals sit:  they are willing to give up every bit of freedom this country has just so they can hold a gun to the head of a pregnant woman and force her to have a baby, or to keep gay people from getting married.  This is why I have been saying that Hillary Clinton will be the next President.

 

John McCain said that he would prefer a Christian president, but also admitted that he might vote for a Muslim if he was the right candidate.  That doesn’t sound like somebody who is willing to identify our enemies as Islamic terrorists.

 

In Australia they threw an HIV-positive man in jail for having unprotected sex.  I say he deserves the same thing he gave to the people he had sex with:  the death sentence.

 

Hillary Clinton has another grand giveaway program.  This time she wants to give $5,000 to every baby born in the United States.  Does that include the anchor babies?

 

Your tax dollars are paying for “rich” people to get public housing assistance.  The program is meant for the poor, but some actually become successful (a surprise to me) and never leave.

 

In an effort to fight “global warming,” environmentally friendly items are tax-free this week.

 

Last week I told you about the guy who bought an amputated leg in a smoker.  Now he’s decided that he wants to keep it, but the leg’s previous owner wants it back.

People Don't Trust Feds

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks that a border fence would be a “terrible idea.”  Of course, enforcing the southern border would decrease the number of potential new Democrat votes, so you have to understand why she opposes it.

 

Hispanic immigrants are suing the city of Danbury, Connecticut for “violating their civil rights” in trying to enforce immigration law.  You can be sure that I’ll mention this on the show today.

 

Republicans are being told to be more careful in attacking Hillary Clinton because she is a woman.  You want equal rights for women?  Allow women to be attacked the same way as men.

 

John Edwards decided to take federal matching funds for his presidential campaign.  That means that your tax dollars are going to help Edwards become President, if you checked the little box.

 

Yesterday the Senate voted to include in defense authorization bill a provision extending hate crimes laws to gays.  If this passes, it will criminalize thought and create a special class of victims, which should be declared unconstitutional.

 

Trust in the federal government is at an all-time low.  Yet people still want socialized medicine?

 

The state of Tennessee has started their “cigarette surveillance program.”  The idea is that they want to prevent Tennessee citizens from going to a bordering state to buy cigarettes and bring them back into the state.  Why would Tennesseans want to do that?  Because they recently raised their state tobacco tax.

 

Also in Tennessee, if your engagement breaks up then she has to give the ring back.  I think this is a hell of an idea.

 

Barack Obama rallies have really turned into happening parties where people hook up.  After all, “Leftie girls are easy.”

 

Bush has officially become a “useful idiot” for the global warming crowd.

 

Hopefully he hasn’t become enough of a useful idiot for this plan.  Democrats want to use taxes to fight “global warming.”

 

A group of entrepreneurs decided to take advantage of that 10-cent refund for cans in Michigan.  Now they face up to 25 years in jail.

 

Cluster-Blank Column

Hillary Healthcare is Still Socialism

 

By Jeff Scott

 

Last week Hillary Rodham Clinton, the next President of the United States, announced her “new” health care plan so we can all see the future ruin of the American health care system.  Hillary claims that her new plan is not a government run bureaucracy, but if you look at the specifics, all you see is more big government.  It is socialism, pure and simple.

 

The big word that Hillary is using is “individual mandate.”  That means that every American will be “responsible” for providing their own health insurance, and that every American must have health insurance.  In fact, she has even proposed requiring people to show proof of insurance when applying for a job (more on this later).  Everyone is supposed to have health insurance through a combination of requiring large businesses to provide insurance for their employees, giving tax breaks to small businesses to encourage them to provide coverage, and a government plan similar to Medicare or the current federal employees’ insurance plan.

 

How does Hillary plan to pay for all of this?  By eliminating the tax cuts for the “rich.”  Let’s see...”from those according to their means to those according to their needs.”  Hillary is channeling the ghost of Karl Marx!  Take from the rich, give to the poor, just like Comrade Marx!

 

Let us not forget about the regulations on insurance companies that Hillary is proposing.  Insurance companies would be required to:  a) provide insurance for anybody who applies; and b) give everybody the same premiums, regardless of health status.  That means that people who are healthy will be forced to pay for, through higher insurance premiums, the medical bills of the slovenly masses that have never heard of exercise and therefore have heart attacks every six months.  These people have to have the same premiums as healthy Americans under Hillary’s plan.  So what happens?  People who are constantly in and out of the hospital cost more for the insurance company, but they cannot be charged more for using more resources, so the premiums for everybody rise.  This makes it more difficult to afford health care, whether it is a business or an individual who pays for it, so they go for the “cheaper” option:  the government provided plan.  See how this works?  See how everybody still ends up a part of a government bureaucracy?  That’s because it is all about power for Hillary and the Democrats.  The more people they can have dependent on government, the more they can expand their voting base since the American people will be more than willing to give up their freedom for the promise of having the “benevolent” federal government take care of them.

 

Now, there is a second way that people will be pushed towards the government health care scheme.  Remember how Hillary mentioned that people would be required to show proof of health insurance to get a job?  Most people get health insurance from their employer, so anybody who is unemployed for any amount of time will be forced to sign up with the government plan in order to get another job, which of course will not include health insurance because that new employee already has coverage.  In the end, we all end up on the government plan, depending on the government to take care of our health care.  Keep in mind, too, that this is coming from the same woman who said that “privatization…is not the answer to anything.”

 

So I hope that you are all looking forward to waiting lists for urgent care, doctors leaving the business, shortages of health care, and people dying waiting for a simple diagnostic test such as a CT scan or an MRI that currently can be done in a matter of minutes.  After all, if you have to wait eight months to get an MRI on your brain tumor, it is going to kill you first.  Ask the citizens of any other country to have a scheme like the one Hillary is proposing.  Welcome to health care hell.

France is Making Sense?

While “Crazy” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was preparing to speak at the UN yesterday, Congress voted to tighten sanctions against Iran and declare their army to be a terrorist group (Vote).  If any of you were wondering why I no longer support Ron Paul, his opposition to this measure should answer the question.

 

I should also mention what Ahmadinejad said Monday at Columbia University after the debate that Cheyenne and I had on the air.  He did exactly what I said he would do:  he dodged the questions posed to him.  Fortunately, he also made himself out to be a joke.

 

In response to Columbia’s invitation to “Crazy” Mahmoud, Cal Thomas chronicles the acceptance of conservatives speaking on college campuses in the United States.

 

Should I be ashamed for starting to like the new French President?  Yesterday, Nicolas Sarkozy said that a nuclear Iran would lead to war.  He’s actually making more sense than almost anybody in the United States right now…and that’s scary.

 

Norway has been funding “Koran schools” that have created Islamic terrorists that went to Afghanistan and Kashmir.

 

President Bush is threatening to veto Congress’ budget if they don’t cut spending.  I promise I will have plenty to say about this today.

 

Speaking of a Bush veto threat, he’s also threatening to veto the State Children’s Health Insurance Program bill.  It passed the House yesterday, because it’s for the kids.  Michelle Malkin also reports that the bill allows illegal aliens to get benefits under the program.

 

The United Nations is asking the West to quadruple the amount of money they spend on fighting AIDS.  I still want to know why so much money is being spent on a disease that is 100% preventable.

 

John Stossel explains the problem with the health insurance system we have today.  Big surprise, it’s all government’s fault.

 

The UAW began a strike against GM on Monday over “job security” issues.  What the union wants is something that will ultimately put GM out of business.  Does anybody still wonder why the unions are solid Democrat votes?  What the unions want for businesses is the same thing that Democrats want for government.

 

Nearly 10,000 people from countries designated as state sponsors of Islamic terrorism have entered the United States through the Diversity Visa Program.  The federal Government Accountability Office said that the program poses a threat to national security, but naturally, nobody listened.

 

The loony left city of San Francisco will not allow the United States Marines to film a commercial in their city.

 

John Hawkins writes a column that could very well be called “Leftism 101.”

 

A study reveals that men are happier than women.  I have a theory or two on why, although I’m sure I’m wrong.

 

A family in Oregon has been forced to give up the vanity license plates with their last name, Udink, on them.  Apparently “dink” is offensive to some people.  I had to look this one up (actual offensive language…you have been warned).

 

A man bought a smoker at an abandoned property auction, only to find there was a human leg inside.

Columbia University Pandering to Terrorists

President Bush says that Hillary Clinton will win the Democrat nomination, but lose the White House.  The White House also called Barack Obama “lazy.”

 

Obama is proposing eliminating the Social Security tax cap.  Just another Democrat’s socialist redistribution scheme, but who cares?  It will only affect 5% of Americans.  They don’t matter anyway since they are rich.

 

Democrats are using health care for children as political fodder for 2008.  It’s one of those “feel good” issues—if you oppose their big-government program, then you hate children.  Just another step towards socialized medicine.

 

Speaking of socialized medicine, who are the much-publicized 45 million uninsured Americans who need the government to take care of their health care?

 

There is a proposal here in Georgia to eliminate property taxes by raising the state sales tax.

 

“Crazy” Mahmoud is in the United States now, getting ready for his grand appearance at the United Nations and at Columbia University.  This is just a few days after they cancelled an appearance by the founder of the Minuteman Project.  Fortunately, somebody in the New York State Legislature is willing to stand up in opposition to Columbia’s support of Islamic terrorists.  Just wait until you learn why Columbia won’t let ROTC on campus.

 

Unfortunately, the NY legislature isn’t willing to stand up for the rule of law.  Illegal immigrants can now get driver’s licenses since they dropped the citizenship requirement to get one.

 

As of October 1, the United States government will reach the debt ceiling.  What does that mean?  It means that the government has spent $8.965 trillion more than it has taken in.  Will Congress cut spending?  No, of course not.  They’ll just raise the debt ceiling.

 

The Pope is at it again.  This time he’s trying to make global warming a “moral obligation” for the Catholic Church.  I’m not Catholic, but if I was, I’d quit listening to this guy.  After all, in the last six months he’s released the “Ten Commandments for Drivers” and condemned legal tax evasion.  Does he not have anything better to do?

 

Speaking of “global warming,” somebody did some digging and found out that NASA alarmist James Hansen was previously an alarmist on global cooling.  He got it wrong then, why should we believe he’s getting it right this time?

 

In South Florida they managed to come up with another protected class:  the transgendered.  What do they want, the option for “sex” on applications to be male/female/it?

 

Fred Thompson came out in clear support for McCain-Feingold.  Finally a reason not to like the guy—I was starting to think I might vote for a Republican.

 

This is an excellent column on the relationship between the size of government and the amount of freedom enjoyed by individuals.  Obviously, less government means more freedom, and vice versa.

 

The dreams of a generation ended up coming true.  Marcia and Jan Brady had a lesbian love affair.  Hey, it was the 1970s.