CYNTHIA MCKINNEY JUST BEING CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

I guess everyone's heard the story by now.  When I get to the studios I'm sure that Web Guy will tell me we've had hundreds of emails on the subject.  It seems that Georgia's embarrassment, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, has slugged, or slapped, or punched, or hit ... whatever ... a Capitol Hill police officer.  Here is the way it was reported to have happened.  Cynthia is entering one of the House office buildings.  It wasn't the building in which her office is located.  She was not wearing the lapel pin that identifies her as a member of congress.  She exercises her privilege of walking around the metal detectors.  The police officer doesn't recognize her and goes after her.  That's his job.  When he (chose one) (a) place his hand on her shoulder; or (b) grabbed her arm, she turned around and (a) hit, (b) punched (c) slapped him in his (a) face (b) chest with (a) her open hand (b) her fist (c) her cell phone.

How's that for thoroughness?

The Capitol Cop says he's going to press charges.  There are reports that McKinney will be arrested when the congress adjourns. My guess?  He won't press charges, and there will be no arrest.

OK ... Let's go through this step by step.

Should members of congress be allowed to bypass security measures?  Of course not!  But, remember, they are members of congress and they just love to set up special perks and privileges for themselves.  Take comfort in the fact that these politicians still have to go through airport security like the rest of us unwashed Americans.

Should McKinney have been wearing the lapel pin that identifies her as a Member of Congress?  No.  There is no requirement that they wear those pins, and if it were me I wouldn't wear them either.  I know other congressmen who make a practice of never wearing that pin.  Sometimes it just doesn't pay to advertise who you are.

Should the Capital Cop have recognized Cynthia?  Well, there are 435 members of the House and another 100 Senators.  Many of them, of course, are high profile.  Many others don't occupy the limelight and are hard to recognize.  Plus, you have the added problem of McKinney having just changed her hairstyle.  Her signature hairstyle.  Having said this, though, I think that the Capitol Cop should have recognized McKinney, if for no other reason than the fact that she is a problem. There have been incidents before this one that should cause every single person working in law enforcement anywhere near Washington to know this woman on sight. McKinney is a hot head, and if you want your life to go smoothly you don't screw with her.

Should McKinney have hit the cop?  No.  No way.  She should have just turned around and said "Excuse me, I'm Cynthia McKinney from Georgia, a member of the House of Representatives."  Upon hearing the name the cop would have turned deathly pale and would have immediately summoned a sedan chair to take the Queen anywhere she wanted to go.  There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for her losing her temper and striking that officer.  She knew exactly what she was doing, and she knew it was wrong when she did it.  She lost her temper, she should apologize for it, and from that point on it should be between McKinney and the pathetic people who put her in office.

We have one other issue here. Race.  As soon as I saw the headline on the Drudge Report last night I knew, without any shadow of a doubt, that Cynthia McKinney was going to make a racial issue out of this.  Sure enough, it didn't take long. Some Internet reports last night said that McKinney was claiming that she had been "harassed" by white capitol hill police officers.  She is quoted as saying  "Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle? How do we account for the fact that when I wore my braids every day for 11 years, I still faced this problem, primarily from certain white police officers."  There is no reference to white police officers on her official website.  Perhaps cooler heads prevailed by the time her "official" statement was issued.  We do have history to rely on here.  Race is pretty much all that Cynthia McKinney has had going for her for years.  Race is why she is in the House of Representatives.  Race is always at the center of McKinney's life. Several years ago there was a similar case at the White House.  McKinney had to identify herself to the Secret Police.  Then, as now, McKinney made a racial issue out of it, saying that she is sick and tired of having to constantly have her identity validated by white people. 

McKinney needs to thank the Capitol Hill Police for doing their job and apologize for being an arrogant hot head.  And that should be the end of it.

ANOTHER HIGH FOR NASDAQ?

Yup.  Looks like our economy is still ripping along.  NASDAQ hit a five-year high yesterday.  Tech stocks led a rally.  In addition, the Japanese NIKKEI index toped 17,000 for the first time in over five years.  Our economy is sound and growing ... but you would never know it listening to the whining Democrats.  The very fact that I have brought you this news here is proof enough that I am nothing but a hate-monger.

TED TURNER STILL BASHING BUSH

CNN founder Ted Turner is making the rounds on the political speech circuit.  Now no longer a part of the network he founded after being fired from Time-Warner, Ted's trying to make a name for himself by complaining about the cable news business and the Bush administration.  You see, since Ted's no longer running the show, everything is terrible.  Poor Ted.

CNN used to be the top dog in the cable news business.  Nobody even came close.  They had no competition. Then along came MSNBC...still no real competition.  But then Fox News jumped in...and CNN hasn't been the same since.  CNN covered the stories they thought were important...international news and such.  Fox News took over the ratings a few years ago and has been beating CNN like a drum.  Even America's favorite love-terrapin, Larry King, frequently lags behind Fox in the ratings.

But then Ted turned to the subject of his real passion: his ongoing hatred of the Bush administration.  Said the former Mr. Fonda: "We can't afford the war in Iraq.  This is a big waste of time.  I wish we would say, 'We won and we are going home.' We shouldn't be there. Bombing isn't a way of changing people's minds. You do that with education.  We had a president of the United States who had been out of the country but once before he was elected.  And this guy has his finger on the nuclear trigger, too - reformed alcoholic, nothing wrong with that."  Nice cheap shot there.

And to think Ted Turner was once a conservative.  Now he professes to be a socialist.  I guess all of those hideous Captain Planet cartoons had an affect on him.

BIG NEWS ON NSA WIRETAPPING

The Bush White House has gotten a lot of heat since the New York Times disclosed that it was authorizing wiretaps on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists in this country.  Democrats have called for his censure or impeachment over the issue.  There is a procedure in place to get a warrant for such surveillance...it's called the FISA court.  That stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, so named after a 1978 piece of legislation setting up the process.  But the FISA process takes time, something that frequently runs short when you're pursuing an Islamic terrorist who is using different telephones to plot attacks.

So, citing his Constitutional authority to protect the nation, George W. Bush authorizes the wiretaps by executive order.  This doesn't make a lot of people comfortable who feel like he should have to go to a judge and get a warrant.  Well, there's some interesting news regarding that question.  One of the judges that co-authored the 1978 law appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and said the following: "If a court refuses a FISA application and there is not sufficient time for the president to go to the court of review, the president can under executive order act unilaterally, which he is doing now."  Score one for the administration. 

Here's another win for Bush.  Just this week five former FISA judges said that Bush's actions were entirely appropriate and legal.  Let's see if that ends up on the front pages and the nightly news.

By the way...the AP and the New York Times covered the same hearing, but failed to mention the judge's words that were favorable to the Bush White House.  More bias from a mainstream media that has no shame.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

This BBQ is no joke. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

American journalist Jill Carroll's kidnappers dropped her off at the headquarters of a political party in Baghdad this morning, unharmed.  Was this a sudden burst of generosity, or did a little money change hands?  We will never know. Either way, she's safe.

Tax cuts increase revenues.  Don't believe that?  Herman Cain shows us the facts...and they are that during the first 5 months of fiscal year 2006, revenues have increased 10 percent since a year ago.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has begun doing the political backstroke as fast as he can...backpedaling on any sort of plan for the amnesty of illegals. Now they're focused on increased border security.

George Will hits the nail on the head about the border with Mexico.  He says we're the only developed nation that shares a 2,000 mile border with a third-world country.  He also says we could easily seal that border..with a wall, barbed wire, gun turrets and so on.

Robert Novak says the zipping of Andy Card shows that the person who's really running things in the White House continues to be Karl Rove.  Especially since Card was replaced by what Novak calls a professional bureaucrat.

American has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the war on drugs...and gotten nowhere.  John Stossel says it's time to rethink that war because putting people in jail for getting high doesn't seem to be working.

The New York Times is warning Republicans to either turn against the war, or be thrown out of office in November.  But Ann Coulter points out that 4 world leaders have stood for re-election in the last 3 years and only the people of Spain turned out their government.  And that was because of an Al-Qaeda attack.

Former Bush adviser Claude Allen was arrested for shoplifting from a Target store...and the media can't pile on fast enough.  Larry Elder says times are tough if you're a black conservative.

Joshua Bolten was promoted as chief of staff and it didn't take Harry Reid very long to immediately issue a statement calling him a failure.  But is he?  Emmett Tyrrell says under Bolten at the OMB, the economy is booming.

What's the right answer to the problem of illegal immigration?  Matt Towery looks at the Bush proposal, which he doesn't agree with, and says there are parts that are worth taking a look at.

The economy is booming ... so why Can't Chris Matthews admit it? 

Run a red light.  Kill two little girls.  Get 30 days in jail.  What a deal!  Justice in Orlando, Florida. 

Hooters Airlines, "Where the passengers love turbulence," has called it quits.  Sad.  These girls are far too pretty to be hired by any other airline.

Here are the details on the search warrant issued after that Duke Lacrosse rape incident.  Note that there are the first names of three Duke lacrosse players named in the warrant.  Do you want to check them out?  Sorry, the roster for the Duke Lacrosse team has mysteriously disappeared from the Duke website.

A video of stupid people tricks, keeping emergency rooms in business.

Here's an ebay auction for 13 issues of a magazine devoted to cockfighting. Yee haw!

Virgin Galactic says they're considering no fake boobies in space citing concerns they might explode.

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