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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Thursday, July 17, 2003

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ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION TO KOREA?

You probably heard that there was an exchange of gunfire between North and South Korean border guards yesterday. Nobody injured. But, have you heard that former Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Perry has said that he believes that the United States will be at war with Korea by as early as the end of this year. Perry says that North Korea appears to be processing nuclear fuel, and that means war.

Now ... listen to this. Perry says that "The nuclear program now underway in North Korea poses an imminent danger of nuclear weapons being detonated in American cities." He feels sure that the strange little gargoyle who runs North Korea will make these weapons available to terrorists.

The threat here is much greater than the threat from Saddam Hussein or from Iran. So ... are we ready or willing to do what might have to be done?

In the meantime this rogue nation has warned Australia that it faces a nuclear attack from North Korea if it gets involved in any international effort to stop ships carrying weapons from North Korean ports.

We also have to consider the long-term effect of the current Democrat party assault on George Bush over his actions in Iraq. On the one hand the threat to our liberty and the threat of a devastating terrorist attack may be increasing, and on the other hand we have Democrats working hard to destroy the American will to resist terrorism ... all in the name of politics.

REMOVE THE PLANK FROM THINE OWN EYE

Democratic Senator Carl Levin is having a grand old time slamming the Bush Administration over the magic 16 words in the State of the Union speech. Levin is calling for an investigation of Bush's claim that "The British government has learned that Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

So, Levin wants an investigation, does he?

On October 9, 1998 (when there was a Democrat in office) Carl Levin made a speech on the floor of the Senate in which he stated that there are reports that "Iraq (has) attempted to acquire materials for a nuclear program contrary to its treaty obligations."

We are now waiting for Carl Levin to call for an investigation into his own remarks.

Waiting, but not exactly holding our breath.

IS YOUR CHILD IN DAY CARE?

A recent comprehensive study has determined that children who spend their early years in day care will turn out to be discipline problems later on. To be more specific, the study says they'll be more prone to violence and other anti-social behaviors.

Just why are there so many children in day care? How come their mothers aren't home caring for those kids at home? In a word, government. To be more specific, blame it on the cost of government.

Fifty years ago the average American family would see between five and seven percent of their household income taken by government. Now that figure is often over 40%. Get out your calculator ... take a look at your earnings and your spouse's earnings. Work out a figure representing the total cost of sending the lower-earning spouse to work. This figure should include everything: wardrobe, transportation, day care - every cost that can be associated with sending the lower-income spouse to work every day. Now ... look at your federal income tax bill. You will most likely discover that the lower-earning spouse in your household is working for no other purpose than to satisfy your tax burden to the government.

Odd, isn't it ... the far-reaching consequences of our ever-growing imperial federal government. The more government we get the more it will cost ... and the more violent children we will raise ... and the more crimes they will commit ... and the more government will cost ... and so it goes.

BOB GRAHAM - EMBARRASSMENT TO FLORIDA

Here's a recent quote from Senator Bob Graham, Florida's embarrassment.

"If the standard of impeachment that the Republicans set for Bill Clinton, that a personal, consensual relationship was the basis for impeachment, would not a president who knowingly deceived the American people about something as important as whether to go to war meet the standard of impeachment?"

Now the reason that Bob Graham can get away with this nonsense is because he knows that he's trying to appeal to Democratic voters. Democratic voters are, generally speaking, less intelligent than those who vote Republican or Libertarian. Democratic voters will buy this idiocy that Clinton was impeached because of a sexual relationship.

Once again ... and maybe it will sink in this time ... Clinton was impeached because he committed perjury. He lied under oath. That's a crime. People can go to jail for that. He lied to deny a woman her day in court under a law that he, Clinton, signed into law.

Bob Graham understands this ... but he also understands that he can ignore the truth and change the facts in order to enrage the passions of the know-nothings who might actually vote for him.

START TESTING THESE OLDER DRIVERS

I'm a pilot. Every two years I have to undergo a physical examination and a flight competency test to see if I can keep my flying privileges. If something were to happen to me physically while flying an airplane the likelihood is that the only victims will be the people that might have the misfortune of being in my airplane --- and me, of course.

Not so for drivers.

Yesterday an 86-year-old driver plowed into a crowd of people at a street market in Santa Monica, California. At least 11 people are confirmed dead. One of the dead is a two-year-old girl. Dozens are wounded. More may well die. The driver, a male, was described as "dazed and confused." He said that he "may have" hit the accelerator instead of the brake. "May have?"

This is happening all too often. Old drivers plowing cars through the windows of restaurants and convenience store, and now running down nearly 60 people in a blocks-long stretch of Santa Monica.

How many tens of thousands of people die in this country because of incompetent and "confused" drivers? The standards that must be met to get a driver's license in the U.S. are, at best, laughable. In Georgia all you have to do is answer a few mindless questions and then show that you can drive a car through some orange cones in a parking lot. You then get your license. You're free to go, and it may well be the first time in your life you have ever driven a car in actual traffic!

Across the country legislators are scared to do anything to keep teenagers off the roads. Memorial services at high schools for 16-year-olds who kills themselves and others are a regular occurrence.

We need to make it tougher to get a license. Follow Europe's example. Make the practical test a tough one. And none of this government funded driver training nonsense either. If a person can't afford to pay for mandatory driver's training, then they can't afford to maintain and insure a car in the first place.

And as for the old folks. Some arbitrary age is going to have to be set. Make it 70 or 75. From that point on require testing every two years until age 80. Then you get tested every single year. Someone who can't tell the gas pedal from the brake has no business in a 4000 pound cruise missile.

GO FOR A LOSER PAYS SYSTEM INSTEAD

A bill will be introduced in the U.S. Senate today designed to protect the fast food industry from lard asses. The bill will seek to outlaw lawsuits against the fast food industry by predatory trial lawyers representing the nations blubber-butts who have used junk food as their sold source of nutrition for the past twenty years.

Chances for passage? Not all that good. Trial lawyers will call in their chips and the Democrats in the Senate will stand in the way.

Why not just go for a "loser pays" system instead? The fast food industry isn't alone when it comes to being in the cross hairs. This lawsuit lottery being conducted by trial lawyers is costing every American money. Now this shouldn't be done on a federal level. This is something that needs to be addressed by state governments. Just pass a law which requires the looser in a product liability lawsuit to pay the legal costs of the winner. Start with just product liability lawsuits, see how it works, then expand to medical malpractice and personal injury suits.

It's a good idea. Trust me. I'm a lawyer.

YESTERDAY'S PICTURE QUIZ

The house featured on Nealz Nuze yesterdayis located at No. 74 Rose Valley Road, Media, Pennsylvania. It was built around 1870 to house mill workers for a nearby mill. One Nuze reader actually identified the house and send me a picture of the house soon after it was completed! Fantastic! Small world, isn't it?

SO MUCH FOR COURAGE

The NAACP says frog, and the Democrats jump. The hold-out presidential candidates are falling all over themselves to get down there to Miami to make their command performance in front of the radical, leftist NAACP. Gephardt, Kucinich and Lieberman not too thrilled with being called "persona non grata" by Kweisi Mfume.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Wednesday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003753

For a little bit of common sense in this "Saddam sought to buy uranium in Africa" nonsense, we go to the Wall Street Journal, the opinion page that liberals just love to hate.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003756

How many of you have ever bought this suicide angle in the death of Vince Foster? World Net Daily reports that a former U.S. Attorney is now saying that the Starr/Fiske investigation was "laughable," and that the FBI was warned to "back down" on the investigation.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33613

So, Bill Clinton was the first "black" president? Who, though, is doing more for Africa? Clinton ... or Bush?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20030716.shtml

Swapping music on the Internet? If this bill passes your "harmless" little pastime could land you in the brig.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/030717/11/kvue.html

This may be worth your attention: What the British knew, and what so many people are ignoring about Iraq before the war.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/May20030717.shtml

Jabba the Democrat won't work as a nickname for this congressman in a few more months.
http://www.wnbc.com/politics/2336284/detail.html

A professor at Florida Atlantic University is fired for failing students who didn't earn a passing grade in his class.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pfau16jul16,0,7835831.story

Ann Coulter's latest ... after the attack on Pearl Harbor we threw 100,000 Japanese in internment camps. Liberals supported this move. So, what are we now doing with Islamic terrorists in this country?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20030717.shtml

Grey Davis's better half is calling the California recall effort a "hostile takeover." Well, I guess the voters in California do feel a bit hostile right now ... since the state is slowly sliding into the sewer.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/17/RECALL.TMP
 
 

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