Wednesday, November 10, 2004
 NOW THAT MADONNA HAS SPOKEN UP ....
 What a relief. Finally our military commanders Iraq and President
Bush's advisors have some expert guidance on what to do in Iraq. Madonna
has finally broken her gut-wrenching silence and has informed the world as to
the correct course of action. Madonna has now called for the United States
to withdraw its troops from Iraq. And, true to Hollywood custom, Madonna
decided to share her foreign policy expertise with the world from a foreign
platform .. an interview with British radio. Madonna, who has successfully
hidden her wide ranging knowledge on foreign affairs for quite some time now,
says that she "(doesn't) want American troops to be in Iraq, period.
My feelings are, 'can we just all get out?'"
No word from the White House yet. I'm sure the president's advisors
will be meeting this morning to discuss the wide-raging implications of
Madonna's pronouncements. Meanwhile, a grateful world breaths a sigh of
relief. Finally, someone with some sense has stepped forward to save the
day.
RELENTLESS?
By the time you read this it will probably be old news, but the assault on
Fallujah continues. The insurgent's outer line of defense has collapsed
and Iraqi and American soldiers are going house-to-house arranging meetings
between Islamic goons and their personal collections of virgins.
You may remember that several months ago American intelligence officials
intercepted a message believed to be from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. If my
memory is serving me well this morning I believe that al-Zarqawi said something
to the effect that these American troops were "relentless." He
only thought he saw relentless a few months ago. Now his goons are seeing
the real thing.
I'm not a nice person ... so I can tell you that I'm looking forward to
seeing the stacks of body bags containing the remains of the Islamic insurgent
terrorists who have been targeting our troops and Iraqis seeking freedom for
months. 'Bout time.
POST ELECTION SELECTION TRAUMA
That's what some shrinks in West Palm Beach, Florida are calling it.
Post Election Selection Trauma Disorder. The acronym would be PESTD.
Pronounce it anyway you like. The phrase is used to describe Florida
voters who are visiting the offices of psychologists because of the emotional
trauma of Bush's win last week. The shrinks say that these pitiful people
are emotionally shocked and paralyzed by Bush's win.
These people are weak. They're emotional cripples. They can't
cope with life without the help and support of their grand caretaker government.
They can't even cope with an election loss. They sit there with blank
expressions, mouths hanging open like a brook trout, staring off into the
distance. These are not the people that you could depend on when the chips
are down. They're a pathetic indication of things to come, of the
"grief counseling" culture that permeates our society
today. There's a fight at the local government school? Rush in
the grief counselors. Someone accidentally sets off a fire alarm?
Grief counselors. Too many red lights on the way to your canasta
game? Grief Counselors.
This weakness disgusts me. Your candidate didn't win? Deal with
it. Resolve to do a better job of choosing a candidate the next
time. If you want to nominate a U.S. Senator as your presidential
candidate, perhaps you should chose a Senator who actually has something to show
for 20 years in office. If you want to nominate a veteran, perhaps you
would be well advised to find a veteran who didn't call his colleagues in the
armed forces war criminals.
Thank God this country has been populated for the most part by people who
react to adversity with a determination to go forward and persevere. If
America had to rely on these slugs sliming their way into psychologists offices
in West Palm Beach in hard time our country would be doomed.
HERE COMES THE DOUBLE STANDARD
Attorney General John Ashcroft has submitted his resignation to President
Bush. He's ready to move on, most likely for health reasons. The
rumor is that the president will nominate his replacement today. So who
will it be?
The leading candidate is Larry Thompson, who served as deputy attorney general
until last year and is said to be a favorite of the president's. Thompson
has just landed a high-paying job with Pepsico, so it's not certain if he would
accept the nomination If the nomination is offered, and if he accepts,
Thompson would be the first black American to lead the justice department.
So what does that have to do with anything? Plenty.
If he is the choice, expect the Democrats to go even harder on him in the
confirmation hearings, and completely ignore his minority status. You see,
promoting minorities to key positions is only a good thing when they're
liberals. Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice don't count,
and neither will Larry Thompson.
Remember: black liberal Democrats are good; black Republicans are bad and not
really genuine black people. Just watch.
TIME TO START DRILLING
One of the most sacred places to the left is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR) in Alaska. They make it sound like it is a place filled with
flowing green meadows, burgeoning with endangered wildlife. What they
always fail to mention is that the oil-rich part is a frozen, barren
wasteland. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
So now that the Republicans have increased their majorities in the United States
Senate, it looks like President Bush has the votes to send the oil rigs north
and start tapping oil-rich ANWR. Couldn't have come at a better
time. Expect the bedwetting environmentalists and the media to go
absolutely ballistic over this. Too bad. The facts are the facts.
With oil at $50 a barrel and gas at around two bucks a gallon, the United States
relies too heavily on foreign sources of oil. It is estimated that 11
billion (that's right...billion) barrels of oil lie underneath the frozen tundra
of ANWR and it could be tapped without any environmental damage. Drilling
for that oil is a no-brainer, yet for some reason, the left opposes it.
Their reason?
Hypocrisy. They want to deny Americans the ability to become less reliant
on foreign oil and to pay lower prices at the pump. Somebody might make a
profit, you know. We can't have that! In their socialist utopia,
everyone rides their bicycle to work and heats their home with solar
power. Everyone, that is, except them.
Liberals love their SUVs and rock stars like to ride around in their private
jets, consuming mass quantities of fossil fuels, all while complaining about the
price. But don't suggest drilling for more oil in the United States to
increase the supply and bring down the price...you might harm the
environment. They want it both ways.
By the way ... do you know just how much of ANWR would be affected by the
drilling? Here's an illustration. Take a look at a chair sitting on
a nine foot by twelve foot rug. The rug represents the total size of ANWR.
Now, look at the space on that rug occupied by just one leg of that chair.
Just one leg. That's the representative area of ANWR that would be
disturbed by the drilling. Didn't know that, did you?
The time to get the black gold flowing out of Alaska is now.
DEAD OR ALIVE?
 There seems to be a bit of confusion as to whether or not Yasser Arafat has
assumed room temperature and gone to visit his 72 virgins yet. Reportedly,
Palestinians are making burial preparations to bury the lifelong Islamic
terrorist thug. There are reports that he is still alive in a French
hospital, but most reports say he is dead.
I know you're not supposed to say things about dead people unless it's
good. Well, he's dead. Good.
And so it is that now the media swoon will begin. He will be portrayed as
the symbol of Palestinian struggle, and a proponent of Palestinian
statehood. The truth is he was in favor of winning neither. Just
like the NAACP has no interest in eliminating racism, Yasser Arafat had no
interest in a Palestinian state. It would mean he was out of a job, and
being a pimp for the downtrodden paid pretty well. In fact, it paid so
well, they're not sure where all the money he stole from the Palestinian people
went.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat everything including the
moon at Camp David in 2000, and he turned it down. At that point, it was
plain for anyone to see that Arafat did not want peace. His continued
support for terrorism and his direct payments to suicide bombers further
cemented his status as a Palestinian warlord.
Perhaps now that he is pushing up daisies, the Palestinians will get their
state. Maybe.
AND YOU THINK GAYS ARE A THREAT TO THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
Socialite tramp Nikki Hilton got married in August. Now she's not
married. How long did that last? Four months? And you think
two gay Americans who love each other and who want to live together in a legally
recognized relationship present a grave threat to the institution of
marriage? Look to Hollywood and our celebrity culture. There's your
threat.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
The European political establishment is hostile
to Christianity. Big surprise there, right?
What led to Bush's victory more than anything? Was it the Democrats?
Gay marriage? The War on Terror? CNN's Carlos Watson (of all people)
says
don't discount the political genius of George W. Bush.
Does George W. Bush have a mandate for a second term? You bet...just
ask John Podhoretz.
The left always accused the right of appealing to voters' selfishness, but this
year they tried the same thing and it got them nowhere. Mark
Steyn explains.
We need to win a decisive battle in Fallujah, no matter what the cost is in
death or destruction to finish the job once and for all. Ralph
Peters says this is the biggest military operation in Iraq since the fall of
Baghdad.
Is the 2004 election a high water mark for the Republicans, or is it a
springboard to decades of Republican control? Former
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says it can be the latter, but only if
the party takes some steps to ensure its success.
Remarkably, the media is now generating the myth that voter fraud in Ohio and
Florida may have handed the presidency to President Bush. The
Media Research Center reports.
The media and the pundits talk about how America is a divided nation, but has
anyone ever stopped to ask why? Walter
Williams does, and has some reasons.
President Bush has said he will have no litmus test when it comes to selecting
candidates to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. However, that has not
stopped Arlen Specter from having his own litmus test. Thomas
Sowell looks at the issue in part two of this series.
Jonah Goldberg has a follow
up to his column offering advice to the Democrats. He says what's bad
for the party isn't necessarily bad for America.
The media's coverage of election night shows their leftward tilt; one need only
look at their decision not to call Ohio for Bush. Brent
Bozell explains. | 
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