Thursday -- March 9, 2006
 IRAN THREATENS U.S.
If you believe the Bush administration, we're supposed to think that the
nuclear crisis with Iran can be handled peacefully. There is evidently some
diplomatic solution always just around the corner. Fine. Which corner?
Sure haven't seen it yet!
The White House likes to say Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear
program...and that there will be consequences for their continued pursuit of
weapons of mass destruction. But what are we really going to do about it?
Evidently the next step is to go to the U.N. security council. NOW I'm
impressed. The UN has such a wonderful track record of preventing and
solving international conflicts. I'm going to sleep so well tonight knowing
that the UN is on the job! Come on, folks; what do you think the UN is
going to do? Russia has already said that it is going to oppose the
imposition of sanctions. Can the Security Council act with a Russian veto?
Don't think so! So today brings a warning from the mullahs in Tehran.
They
threatened the United States yesterday with "harm and pain" if we try
to use the U.N. to impose sanctions. This just as we hear the news that the
Iranians have enough nuclear material for 10 atomic bombs. The harm and
pain Iran spoke of inflicting on us seems to mean using oil as a weapon.
It may well turn out here that our only option is a military one.
Hopefully there are not many Americans out there who think that we should
allow this hate-filled Islamic government to get its hands on nuclear
weapons. The question is, do we have the national will to do what may be
necessary here? Have the Democrats so damaged our will to fight that
Americans would rather sit back and allow Iran to become a nuclear power?
What the hell --- let's just let Israel handle this for us.
GOOD FOR ARIZONA! IT'S ABOUT TIME
 Arizona's Governor Janet Napolitano has ordered
additional National Guard
troops to the Arizona / Mexico border. The goal is to help stop illegal
immigrants from crossing the border. There were already 170 Guardsmen on
the border, no word on how many more will head down there. Napolitano gets
that part right ... sending more troops. She gets this part wrong. She says
that we are not at war with Mexico. Sorry, but in a very real sense we are
at war with Mexico. We're being invaded. The Mexican government is sending
waves of its citizens into the United States for the specific purpose of
draining money from the US economy and having it sent back to Mexico. The
Mexican government has some real problems with funding needed social
services. Every dollar that an illegal worker in the US sends back to his
family in Mexico is a dollar that the Mexican government doesn't have to
spend to provide needed services to that family. And just how many dollars
are we talking about? Try $15 billion. This flow of money is important
enough to the Mexican economy that the Mexican government actually promotes
the wave of illegal immigration by printing
comic books with instructions to
Mexicans as to how to cross the border into the US, stay alive and get a
job, all without being caught. It's an economic invasion, and American
workers are footing the bill. At least we have one governor who isn't
afraid to take some action.
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF WIDESPREAD IGNORANCE
There's a bill in the New York legislature that would
require any company
with more than 100 employees to provide health insurance to their
employees. Under this bill these companies would have to spend at least $3
per hour for every employee to pay for health benefits. Oddly,
manufacturing and agriculture is exempt.
First ... can someone please explain to me just how it came to pass that
we all assume that employers are responsible for the health care of
employees? May I suggest that, among other things, this is all part of the
left-wing war on individuality that's been ongoing in this country for
decades? The object here is to attack the concept of the individual by
attacking the idea of individual responsibility! No politician, then, wants
to suggest that it might be best for the individual to assume the
responsibility for their own health care. Any politician who recognizes the
concept of individual responsibility then has to recognize the concept of
individual rights. When you start talking about the idea of individual
rights you then have to address the ways that government infringes on those
rights. Politicians don't like to do that ... so the best preventative is
to destroy the idea of individualism altogether. Remember, no less than Ted
Kennedy himself has admitted the existence of the war against individuality in
this country.
Government power is at the center of this issue. Politicians have long
known that in order to control the individual they need to control that
individual's access to some of the basic necessities of life. Social
Security, for instance, exists for two reasons. One, to provide a huge
amount of cash that politicians can use to buy votes. Secondly, to control
to whatever extent possible the retirement life of older Americans. It is
more difficult for a politician to frighten a senior citizen who is living a
comfortable retired life on funds invested in private retirement accounts.
But if those funds are controlled by the political class, the wizened
citizens are more than willing to protect their retirement lifestyle with
their votes. Politicians know that this power will only be increased if
they can also control a person's access to health care. When an individual
owns their own private health insurance policy their dependency on
government is lessened. Politicians don't like this, so they make it as
difficult as possible for individuals to be able to afford their own private
health insurance policies. Politicians do this through expensive mandated
coverages and the denial of tax breaks for individuals striking out on their
own.
Back to New York. The politicians in New York who are proposing this
health insurance mandate for employers with over 100 employees know that the
people won't understand that the cost will eventually be born by the
consumers. It is a virtual tax increase on every citizen of the state of
New York. This $3 per hour cost for every employee is going to end up
embedded in the cost of whatever consumer good or service these companies
produce. This is a tax, and all taxes are paid by individuals. Thanks to
our hideous system of government education most people don't understand
this. Once again, politicians will be made more powerful, the concept of
individual responsibility will take a beating, and our ignorance will cost
us money at the cash register.
HEY FLORIDA! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION?
 By a 16-5 vote the Senate Energy Committee has agreed to
open up areas
of the Gulf of Mexico to offshore drilling. A vote from the full Senate is
in the offing. Both of Florida's senators, Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez are
threatening a filibuster. There would be no drilling rig closer to 100
miles to Florida shores. You wouldn't see them. Florida politicians say
they're trying to protect Florida's beaches and it's multi-billion dollar
tourist industry. The threat of any leaks from these wells reaching
Florida's shoreline is, at best, miniscule. Today's technology all but
eliminates that threat.
Look ... I love Florida. I have a second home there .. right on the gulf
coast. I'll spend this weekend there. I graduated from high school in
Pensacola, my wife is from Jacksonville. We're part of this state, and we
think that it's time that Florida get off it's high horse and get with the
program ... join the rest of this country in trying to produce our way out
of dependence on Mideast oil. In other words, Florida: Grow up.
HILLARY'S TWO FACES
As part of Hillary Clinton's makeover in recent years, she has taken
rightward stances on various issues. From religion to national security to
illegal immigration....there was The Hildabeast doing her best impression of
a Republican. But as we're learning now, it was all just an act. As the
saying goes, a Hildabeast doesn't change its spots (or would that be
stripes?).
Senator Clinton is now
accusing the Republican party of wanting to create a
police state over the issue of illegal immigration. A bill was recently
passed that would make being in the United States illegally a felony.
Believe it or not, right now it's only a civil offense. And just how did
Saint Hillary respond to this attempt to make illegal immigration illegal?
Speaking at a rally of Irish immigrants (because, as we know, America's
problem with illegal aliens begins with Ireland,) Hillary said the plan was
"an unworkable scheme to try to deport 11 million people, which you have to
have a police state to try to do." Eleven million is the rough estimate of
how many illegals there are in this country. Some think that the number is
quite a bit higher.
So suddenly...here we have Hillary Clinton...who not that long ago was
talking about doing something about illegal immigration...reversing course
on the issue. Perhaps one of her dog washers sat her down and showed here
the numbers on Hispanic voters. Remember, it's all about getting elected.
The rules are simple for Hillary: You say what you have to say, ignore what
you have to ignore, change positions when necessary, and do what you have to
do to get the votes. Honesty is not a part of the equation.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK
Today we've got a little video Phil sent in --
Redneck Women.
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Ann Coulter watched the Oscars last Sunday and has a review. She points
out that during the telecast, there wasn't a single mention of the 150,000
men and women serving in Iraq. She has a message for Hollywood.
Good news in the war on smoking: cigarette sales have hit a 55-year low.
But don't think for a second that government is the least bit happy about
it. Think of all the revenue they're going to start losing if the trend
continues.
Here's how bad things are along the border with Mexico. If the
24-county region along the border were considered the 51st state, it would
be first in federal crime, second in tuberculosis and near the bottom in
education and income. But hey..they'll do jobs Americans won't, right?
Things don't look good for Republicans going into the mid-term elections
this fall.
Except for one thing, according to Michael Barone: the Democrats aren't
doing any better.
The recent Supreme Court decision on military recruiters exposes the double
standard at some universities.
Debra Saunders says that on the one hand, academia wants to spend our tax
dollars.....but doesn't want to let the military in.
Larry Kudlow is in favor of the Dubai Ports World deal. But since the
deal is splitting conservatives right down the middle, he decides to take a
look at both sides of the argument.
With the ongoing terrorist activities in the Muslim world, it's easy to
think that there's not a single country doing the right thing.
Max Boot says there is still hope in a few Islamic countries, two of
which he recently visited.
Remember the 'Contract With America?' This was the document that
Republicans used in 1994 to take control of the House away from the
Democrats.
Tim Chapman says the contract has been renewed....but are the American
people in the mood to sign up?
We're starting to hear from more and more former military people in Iraq.
They seem to be telling us that Saddam had lots of weapons of mass
destruction. He also apparently smuggled them out of the country before the
war began. Imagine that!
Larry Elder has more.
The left likes to talk about how the rich are getting richer and the poor
are getting poorer. To remedy this, they engage in income redistribution.
But as Alan Reynolds tells us, most income is either earned or stolen.
I've mentioned to you that virtually every day I receive notices that
someone, somewhere is opining in some editorial, column or broadcast opinion
piece in favor of the FairTax.
Here's another example from The Roanoke Times.
Read all about it. Prosecutors put Atlanta's corrupt former mayor on
trial!
It's now in the hands of the jury!
But, remember this: He's black.
This means that this just has to be nothing more than a plot by white
America to attack yet another completely and totally honest black elected
official.
Full trial coverage.
Teen gets 10 years for consensual oral sex with another teen. He'll now
have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Conyers, GA
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