Thursday -- April 7, 2005
 PROGRAMMING NOTE
It is not a good idea to go on a 50 hour fast, and then on the morning of
your birthday have a glass of champagne before you go on the air. Talk
about an empty stomach. JACKSONVILLE TONIGHT Belinda and I are looking forwarding to meet our
Jacksonville, Florida listeners at the WOKV talkfest this evening! Oh ..
.Hannity will be there also! That would be why the audience will be full
of screaming young women. More upcoming
appearances. THE
SNUB THAT WASN'T
When the entourage that
is now in Rome was announced to represent the United States, it consisted of 5
people: - President George W. Bush
- First Lady Laura Bush
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- Former President Bill Clinton
- Former President George H.W. Bush
Immediately, the media
jumped all over the omission of Jimmy Carter. The only president to receive
Pope John Paul II at the White House, surely he should have been included.
Obviously, this was a vicious, mean and petty snub on the part of George W.
Bush. He was playing politics with the Pope! The morning news shows yesterday
were abuzz with various theories, and the media wondered why if there were only
five slots, why didn't Condi Rice give up her seat? Surely Jimmy Carter, a
former president, was more important.
Between the statements
from the Carter Center and the White House press office, there was still
confusion. Well, now we finally have our answer. Fox News' Brit Hume reported
yesterday about New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine's outrage at the supposed Carter
snub. To find out what really happened, somebody finally got to Jimmy Carter
and now we know the truth.
Carter was invited to
join the delegation and declined, saying that because of the limited number of
invitations, he would step aside for other people who wanted to go. Why he
didn't make this public two days ago? Probably because he was enjoying watching
the screw job the Bush administration was getting in the media over the last 48
hours. So who's playing politics with the Pope's funeral now? Not the Bush
administration.
By the way, as for
Senator Jon Corzine, he now freely admits he has no evidence of a Carter snub,
and that he basically made the whole thing up. Not that's a real
surprise, don't you think?
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
 Every year the Citizens
Against Government Waste publishes their annual list of federal pork-barrel
spending. It's called the
Congressional Pig Book. To get an idea where your
hard-earned tax dollars are going, it's worth taking a look at what made this
year's list.
In a list of some 14,000
pork projects, supported by politicians of both parties, the total tab for this
year's spending is $27.3 billion. With a national debt in the trillions and an
annual deficit of hundreds of billions, this is all the more outrageous because
it's borrowed money. So not only are politicians buying votes with pork-barrel
spending, but they're financing it. So now future generations will pay interest
on today's pork.
At any rate, here are
some of the projects that made the list: - $3,000,000 for the
Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. That's interesting...I thought foundations were
for private, charitable foundations. And since when is Cal Ripken's dad
hurting for cash?
- $1.7 million for
the International Fertilizer Development Center. With all the crap in
Washington, you'd think they'd have all the free fertilizer they need.
- $100,000 for the
Tiger Woods Foundation. Tiger Woods was the highest-paid athlete in the world
last year, with earnings of $80 million. Why you and I need to kick in a
hundred grand for his foundation is beyond me.
The list goes on and
on. There are some that are outraged at the list of wasteful spending, but just
pause and ask yourself. Do you expect your Congressman or woman to "bring home
the bacon?" Perhaps you're part of the crowd that thinks government spending is
free money, and everyone should get their "fair share."
Oh, and when it comes to
government spending, there no longer is any difference between Democrats and
Republicans. In fact, George Bush and the Congressional Republicans are the
biggest spenders in this nation's history.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Columnist Walter Williams
has nearly stopped flying commercially for one simple reason: the idiotic
security screening procedures of the TSA.
He rightfully calls them stupid,
and provides examples.
Ukrainian President
Viktor Yushchenko thanked the United States
in a meeting of a joint session of Congress for helping free and fair elections
to take place in his country. Between the non-stop Pope-A-Thon and the
Bush-bashing media, you may have missed this one.
The mystery of the Terri
Schiavo memo that caused all the controversy in the Senate has now been solved.
A staffer in Republican Senator Mel Martinez's office produced it.
So much for the idea of a Democratic conspiracy.
If Congress really wants
to reform the United Nations, they need to start with the World Health
Organization.
James Glassman says the incompetence there is much worse than the Oil-For-Food
program.
Sandy Berger's plea
bargain for stuffing classified documents down his pants is just the latest case
of another Clinton crony rolling over for his boss.
Dick Morris says we've seen this very thing happen before.
When it comes to religion, the left is out of touch, writes Ann Coulter.
She cites the Schiavo matter, Ashley Smith's peaceful surrender of Brian Nichols
and other events.
The collapse of communism
in Poland can be directly attributed to the Pope's elevation of the Solidarity
movement there.
Larry Elder also says an alliance with Ronald Reagan hastened the demise of the
Soviet Union.
The deal the
administration cut with Sandy Berger to let him off the hook was a joke.
Gary Aldrich says the case should have proceeded to court,
where we could hear all of the evidence against Berger.
With the Bush
administration's proposal to reform Social Security getting nowhere,
Republican leaders in Congress are trying to figure out what to do next.
After writing a column
supporting drilling for oil in ANWR (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in
Alaska,)
Bruce Ramsey heard from those opposed to drilling there.
He takes a look at their arguments, point by point.
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