December (that's right DECEMBER!) 1, 2006
 PELOSI -- IS SHE REALLY THIS OBTUSE?
 Don't you just love that word ... obtuse? The dictionary gives us this: "not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull. see Pelosi, Nancy "
Yesterday I told you that Pelosi had condemned the president for saying that Al Qaeda was involved in the insurgency in Iraq. She said that "the 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again." Now Pelosi made that statement on November 28th. November 28th would be 18 days after November 10th. That's two and one-half weeks. Eighteen days is enough time for even the obtuse Nancy Pelosi (sorry for the redundancy) to absorb the fact that on that date Al Qaeda released a video tape claiming that they had 12,000 fighters working in Iraq. Al Qaeda brags of the number of fighters it has mobilized to battle American troops in Iraq, and Pelosi says she is sad that the president is saying that Al Qaeda has fighters in Iraq. We should all feel sad that this stupid woman is going to be the new Speaker of the House. POLITICS AS USUAL Discovered this interesting tidbit in the weekly newsletter from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. You remember John Edwards, don't you? The Poodle's running mate? Mr. Hot-Shot trial lawyer who is suddenly eager to be our president? Well, Edwards is part of the Union/Democrat war against Wal-Mart. He says that Wal-Mart just doesn't pay its workers enough. So here we have John Edwards doing a book signing in Manchester, New Hampshire. He's signing books at the Barnes & Noble book store. As luck would have it there's a Wal-Mart right there! The local newspaper, the Union Leader, decided to see what sort of wages these two stores are paying. The Wal-Mart, it seems, starts all workers at $7.50 an hour. The Barnes & Noble? There the starting salary is $7.00 an hour. Gotta love it. LEARNING YOUR TERROR SCORE
The federal government is disclosing that it assigns a computer-generated score to millions of Americans. What is the score? It's your terror score! It is supposed to measure the risk you pose of being a terrorist or criminal. And you're not going to believe how they do it. The scores are assigned to travelers, both foreign and domestic, based on a variety of factors.
The criteria for determining how dangerous or terrorist-prone you are includes: an analysis of your travel records, where you are from, how you paid for your tickets (cash? Terrorist!,) Add in your motor vehicle records, any one-way travel you've done in the past, seating preferences and what kind of meal you ordered. Apparently stewed goat with figs isn't going to help you here. It's called ATS...the Department of Homeland Security's "Automated Targeting System." [pdf] This system, which no doubt cost quite a bit of taxpayer money to deploy, is a complete waste of time. I've got a better idea.
How about a much simpler test...one that could be administered by airport security. It is guaranteed to catch all of the world's terrorists and potential airplane hijackers. It would have prevented the 9/11 hijackings. Want to hear it? Here goes. A few simple questions to determine if you are a terrorist: 1.) Are you a Muslim? 2.) Are you from an Arab country? 3.) Why are you here? There you have it...a foolproof way to root out all of the terrorists that are flying into or out of this country.
And what does meal preference have to do with it?
THE PARTY OF BIG GOVERNMENT
 Outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who presided over the mid-term election debacle, says the GOP is not the party of big government. Say what? And how does Mehlman figure that the Republicans aren't the party of big government? I seem to remember that on the their watch, government has expanded faster and bigger than ever. Consider the facts.
First..a big one. In the 12 years since Republicans took over the House of Representatives, the size of the federal government has doubled. That's right...it's now twice the size of what it was in January of 1995. And it's not hard to see why. Look at all of the new agencies that have been created and/or expanded. The Department of Homeland Security? That was a Republican idea. No Child Left Behind? So much for getting rid of the Education Department...the Republicans expanded it.
Prescription drug coverage for Medicare...that's another one. The list goes on and on. Then there were the endless pork projects the GOP was pushing...the bridge to nowhere among them. There is no question that the Republican Party became the party of big government. The only difference between them and the Democrats is they like to borrow money instead of raise it through taxation.
Looks like the GOP will need to look past Ken Mehlman to figure all of that out.
MORE INFORMATION ON THE IMAMS
 The plot thickens even further with these six Imams that were taken off an airplane in Minneapolis last month for suspicious behavior. Turns out one of them has ties to terrorism. Just what were these people up to? From the looks of it, they were up to no good. Maybe the passengers on that airplane were right...they saw something about to go down and had it busted up.
Omar Shahin, one of the imams, once worked for a group with ties to terrorist financing. In his defense, Shahin says that once he learned the group was being investigated for terrorism, he disassociated himself with it. Fair enough. But to say that authorities had no reason to suspect them of being up to something on that flight is just ridiculous.
What would you do if six Imams got onto your flight and seated themselves about the plane, near the exits and the front and behaved in a suspicious matter? Would you just give them the benefit of the doubt? After all, did the people flying on 9/11 give the hijackers the benefit of the doubt? And what was the deal with the seat belt extensions?
Nope...you'd bring it to somebody's attention and head for the exits. Now it turns out the passengers on this flight may have been right. SANTA IS NOW A RELIGIOUS FIGURE Moving on now to Warwick, New York. The local government elementary school wanted to raise a little money, so they set up an event called "Breakfast with Santa." Well, sure enough, some parent complained. Some woman (you could have guessed that, right?) wrote the school board to complain that Santa was a religious figure and that the school was promoting a religion by having the breakfast. It took no time at all for the school officials to cave, and what we now have is a "Winter Wonderland Breakfast" and Frosty the Snowman is going to join the event. HELP COMBAT GOVERNMENT EDUCATION I've talked often of the Cato Institute. It's a highly-respected libertarian think tank in Washington. The Cato Institute is also in the forefront of the fight for school choice in America. Right now Cato is doing a private school survey. The information gathered in this survey will be used to draw some general conclusions about private schools around the country. If you are involved with a private school you might want to urge one of the school officials to consider taking this survey. The more information the better. Here's your link. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Don thought you'd all enjoy this: if Santa was a redneck. More in the Redneck Scrap Book. Ron sends us this picture of Neal getting his Patriot Guard pin November 11, 2006
 READING ASSIGNMENTS
Our former intern, Christina Gonzales, a student at NYU, will be on with Neil Cavuto today on the Fox News Channel. The topic will be liberalism on college campuses. The show airs at 4pm ET. According to Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, Iraqis plan to take over their own security in June of 2007. That's just next year...seems a little pie-in-the-sky, doesn't it? Maybe we should take them up on it.
Democrats allegedly want to pass a tax cut of their own once they take control of Congress next year. And just what type of tax cut do they want to "give" us? They want to make college tuition tax deductible on a permanent basis. Big whoop.
Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, plans to take his oath of office by putting his hand on the Koran, not the Bible. As you can imagine, this is causing quite a stir. Turns out most incoming members don't use any sort of book at all.
In a bit of good news, the United States government is considering ending its outreach program to Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Good. How about instead of trying to reach out to these Islamic terrorists, we just blow them up and kill them.
The bedwetters continue to whine about electronic voting machines. First it was voting with paper ballots caused minorities to be disenfranchised, now its that their replacements are not secure and hard to use. Perhaps it's just that the critics of the machines don't like the outcome of the election, so they attack the process?
Charles Krauthammer takes on those that are now pretending to have realistic solutions in Iraq. Where have they been for the past several years? And just what have we been doing the last 4 years? Has what we're doing not been realistic?
Now people are comparing the war in Iraq to World War II.....and Jonah Goldberg is having none of it. He says that aside from the length of the conflict, there is absolutely no comparison between the war in Iraq and the biggest war in our history.
Charlie Rangel is up to his old tricks again....pushing the idea of a draft and insinuating that our men and women in uniform wouldn't be there if they had better opportunities elsewhere. Rebecca Hagelin says the facts prove Rangel wrong.
Could there possibly be such a thing as a government program that actually works? None other than the Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner takes a look at one such example...a program in the old Soviet Bloc that promotes the free market.
Oliver North is headed back to Iraq....and he runs down the list of stuff he takes with him. North says the situation in Iraq isn't a surprise to him and should come as no surprise to anyone. The critics of the war have been pushing their doom and gloom scenarios from day one. Here is what every man wants for Christmas. Just in time for the holidays, a Japanese-style Paris Hilton doll complete with proper accessories. If the sled we all grew up with isn't good enough for your kid, how about these fancy euro sleds? If a Killer Whale can kill a shark, it surely would have killed that handler if it had wanted to. | 
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