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9/12/03

HERE COMES HURRICANE WES

Well, it was just last week that former NATO commander Wesley Clark decided to tell the American people that he is a Democrat.  Those who knew that Clark has been a registered Democrat in Arkansas for years weren't particularly surprised.

Speculation seems to be increasing this week that Clark is getting ready to jump into the Democratic presidential race.  Howard Dean tried to shortstop such a move a day or so ago by inviting Clark to join his team as the vice-presidential candidate.  Clark is saying no thanks.  If he runs it will be for the top job.

I'll remind you of this until either Clark goes away or the election is over.  This is a man who doesn't know the difference between Marx' "Communist Manifesto" and the U.S. Constitution.  He says that  "America was founded on the principal of progressive taxation." He's wrong.  Communism, not America, was founded on the principle of progressive taxation.  It's right there in the Communist Manifesto.  A progressive income tax was not permitted under the U.S. Constitution.  It didn't happen until politicians managed to talk American myrmidons into approving an amendment allowing it. 

Wesley Clark needs a crash course in the history and formation of the country he wants to lead.

FREE CAT

WILL HITLARY BE FAR BEHIND?

Careful.  The Hildabeast is watching.  Wesley Clark is popular because folks don't know a lot about him.  It's possible, I guess, that people know even less about Clark than he knows about the U.S. Constitution.  As soon as her flying monkeys tell her that Bush may well lose to a Democrat in 2004 she's going to slither forth to jump into the fray.  None of us will be safe.  Our little dogs too.

YOU FOLKS HAD BETTER BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS

I'm going to revisit the eminent domain issue again for a few minutes here so that I can share with you an incredible display of arrogance from an elected official.

As you know, I've been talking about a situation in Alabaster, Alabama where the city council of this community of 24,000 is trying to seize the property of about ten homeowners so that a shopping center featuring a Wal-Mart can be built there.  The politicians say that it is perfectly OK to condemn and seize this property for a privately owned shopping center because, after all, the shopping center will generate more tax money than these private homes do.

We are seeing the evolution of a new standard for government seizure of private property.  Its very simple. If some politician decides that your property would generate more tax revenue for government if it was owned by someone else, the politician can seize that property from you and turn it over to the government-preferred owner.

For our example of obscene government arrogance we turn our attention to Duncanville, Texas.  Duncanville calls itself "A warm community of friends," and  "A wonderful place to raise a family."  Well, Duncanville may be a wonderful place to raise your family, just so long as some politician doesn't decide that the city could get more tax revenue if your home were to become a Costco.

Deborah Hodge has been living in her Duncanville home for 13 years.  The Hodge property has a four bedroom house, a bar, pasture and swimming pool.   It has been a family gathering place for over a decade.  Just like the city motto says, "A wonderful place to raise your family."

A few months ago the city told Deborah to sell her property.  They didn't ask her if she wanted to sell.  They told her that she would sell.  She would either sell, or they would just take it.  The city, you see, wants a Costco store to be built on her land.  The Costco would, after all, generate a lot more tax revenue than her little house and barn.  So ... Duncanville is using its right of eminent domain to seize the property.

Now ... listen to this.  These are the words of Duncanville city manager Kent Cagle.  This is what Kent Cagle thinks about private property rights in America.  Cagle told the Dallas Morning News "They don't have the option to say no to us.  We have made it clear we want that property.  The only thing that will be settled in court is how much we have to pay for it."

There is no freedom without property rights.  What is it going to take to get Americans upset about this latest craze in local government revenue raising.  You just identify the properties that could produce more taxes, seize those properties, and turn them over to developers.

 THE BUSH RESUME

Perhaps you've heard of this item.  Maybe you've seen it on the Internet.  It's George W. Bush's resume.  Well, not really.  It's actually a "resume" prepared by someone whom we would describe as not exactly friendly toward Bush or toward conservatism.  The "resume" contains such entries as:

• Ran for congress and lost.

• Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

• Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

• Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.

• With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.

You can download the "George W. Bush Resume" in PDF format for printing by clicking here. You can also read the "resume" at at the leftist win">BuzzFlash.comwebsite.

So ... why bring this up?  Well, because I'm a fair kinda guy, that's why.  Also because someone out there named Curt King has taken the trouble to research every point brought up in the "GW Resume" resulting in a 28-page refutation.  Point by point King exposes the BS in the GW resume.  You can download and read (or print) Curt King's "The Truth About "The Resume" by clicking here.

Sooner or later as we get deeper into the election puddin' someone is going to throw some of the items contained in the GW Resume in your face.  Imagine the fun you will have kicking facts and reason back into their snide "holier-than-thou" leftist face.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has resigned.  Israel wants to expel Egyptian Yasser (That's my terrorist leader)  Arafat from Israeli territory.  Here's Charles Krauthammer's analysis.

A Wall Street Journal featured article:  Republicans are assisting with a "Stop Rush" campaign.  Why would they want to muzzle Rush Limbaugh?

Here's that book that was discussed by one of my replacement hosts last week.  "Why America Slept:  The Failure to Prevent 9/11 by Gerald Posner.

Another big jury award for spilled coffee.  This time it seems that the color of the victims gonads changed.  No, seriously.  Would I lie to you?

Again?  Now we have a Zogby poll out there showing Al Gore in a statistical dead heat with George Bush.  Could it be that there's a draft Gore movement afoot?  Golly.  I wonder if Gore would be able to carry his home state in a 2004 presidential election.  That's all he would have had to do in 2000 ... just win his own freakin' home state, and he would have been the next president.

Your child has now departed the next for that much-anticipated college education.  My, aren't you proud.  You do know, don't you, that your child is now going to very likely be subjected to four solid years of liberal propaganda.  Do you think he's strong and smart enough to resist?

Ready for a shocker?  Only two percent of American Muslims say that they would vote for George Bush.  Only 10 percent of these Muslims support Bush's policy in Iraq.  Just who DO they favor?  Why the anti-war candidate Howard Dean, of course, followed by that crazed mongoose Dennis Kucinich.

For you technology fiends out there, have you ever heard of HoloTouch?  How about this:  You're watching TV and at your command a holographic image of a remote control appears in front of your face.  You reach out into space and push those buttons that aren't really there and ... poof! ... Dan Rather disappears from your life.

The YMCA has something called the "Indian Princess" program.  This program brings fathers and their daughters together for discussions and programs featuring American Indian lore and a love of the outdoors.  The YMCA Indian Princess program has now been killed.  The murderer has been identified as someone named P. C. Idiocy. 

The American Bar Association said he was "well qualified."  His judicial record was impeccable.  So, why did the Demcorats "Bork" the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.  Simple ... he was a minority, a Hispanic, who failed to failed to do what minorities are supposed to do ... toe the Democratic Party line. 

Yesterday I told you that ABC News had succeeded in its second attempt to smuggle depleted uranium from a nation supportive of Islamic terrorism into a major American city.  The first time ABC moved that uranium into the middle of Manhattan without detection.  This time it was Los Angeles.  Now the federal bureaucracy is attacking ABC News for this expose.  If we really want to defend US borders, maybe we have to attack the U.S. bureaucracy.

This is one story that needs to be hammered.  The District of Columbia arguably has the nation's sorriest government schools.  The House of Representatives has decided to give the students of Washington DC a chance for a better education through a voucher program.  Now it's the Senate's turn.  Teddy Kennedy is preparing to step up to the plate, batting for ... the teacher's unions.  Here's Mona Charen's take.

NEALZ LINKS FOR NUZE

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
World Net Daily
NewsMax
Wall Street Journal opinions
Washington Times
Washington Post
Real Clear Politics
Media Research Center
The Drudge Report
The Associated Press
SF Gate