Today's Nuze: November 16, 2005

By Neal Boortz

Wednesday -- November 16, 2005

INSURGENTS DEFEATED IN SENATE YESTERDAY

Senate Democrats were doing the work of the Islamic jihadists yesterday ... right there on the floor of the United States Senate. Led by Michigan's Carl Levin, these loyal Democrats tried to force President Bush to engage in a staged surrender to Islamic terrorist "insurgents" in Iraq. The idea was to force George Bush to set a virtual timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. Note: Throughout the entire history of the United States, our military forces have never prevailed in any conflict where there was a time limit placed on their efforts. A time limit only helps the enemy. The insurgents would be able to pull back their forces, and just wait the coalition troops out. As the withdrawal date approached the insurgents would prepare for their assault on the institutions and people of Iraq. In short order Iraq would be under the control of Islamic jihadists and would become virtual headquarters for Islamic terrorism around the world. Believe me, Democrats realize this. They know exactly what a withdrawal timetable would do. They know -- but their hatred of George Bush and their continuing rage over two close elections drives them to take these actions ... even knowing, as Joseph Lieberman said, that the action "would discourage our troops, encourage the terrorists and confuse the Iraqis."

So ... yesterday's battle in the war on terror was fought right here in Washington. Thankfully, the terrorists lost.

ON BEING AGAINST THE WAR

Here's an excerpt from a letter a distressed mother wrote to the president:

"I wonder how well you have been sleeping these last nights? Mothers and fathers all over our beloved land are spending sleepless nights worrying again over their boys being sent to fight wars on foreign soil-wars that are no concern of ours."

There's more to this. Here's your link to Michelle Malkin.com

END OF THE FREE RIDE?

FEMA has announced that it is going to cut off funds to keep Katrina "evacuees" in hotels as of December 1st. There will certainly be some outrage from the left. I can guarantee that "activists" will start screaming that FEMA wants to make little children homeless for Christmas. Who do these FEMA people think they are? Doesn't everybody know that the Constitution guarantees the right to a hotel room if a hurricane destroys your home and you failed to have yourself properly insured to allow for that possibility? After all, it's not the responsibility of these people lounging in these hotels to find another place to live, it's the responsibility of the American taxpayer to guarantee them a place to live. A few weeks ago our local newspaper ran a lengthy article about a female evacuee living in a free hotel room in Atlanta with her baby and her boyfriend (who, by the way, was not the babydaddy). All this woman did from day to day to day was to look for another free place to live when her free ride at this particular hotel ran out. There was not one word in the article about her spending one second looking for a job. Undoubtedly there are people like this throughout the southeast. It's time for the free ride to end.

KEEPING CONTROL OF THE INTERNET
(see pertinent links below in the Reading Assignments)

I've told you in the past about the United Nations' efforts to wrestle control over the Internet away from the United States. The idea that the UN would be put in charge of the Internet is more than a disaster...it's downright frightening. But there may be good news.

Yesterday, at something called the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, delegates at the U.N. meeting agreed to establish a new forum to discuss Internet issues, but it would have no policy-making powers --- for now. Translation: the U.N. is not taking over the Internet, at least not yet. Imagine how disastrous it would be for the UN to control the Internet. For example, would they censor content? Would you be allowed to criticize Muslims on the new U.N.-controlled Internet? Remember, the United Nations' own Human Rights Declaration only permits free speech and freedom of the press so long as what is being said or written does not "interfere with the goals and purposes of the United Nations."

For an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Democratic institution like the U.N. to be put in charge of really what is the last bastion of pure free speech on Earth would ruin the Internet. Some in Congress remain skeptical of the U.N.'s latest move, saying this forum is one step closer to them taking over the Internet. We'll have to keep an eye on that.

Hopefully people are now aware of the issue and won't forget. It also goes without saying that the reason the Internet is prospering is probably because we're in charge of it.

Also ... if you're one of those who believe that this could never happen, that the UN could never get control of the Internet ... just remember the Panama Canal.

LIBBY SAVED BY WOODWARD?

Quite a few reporters testified in the Valerie Plame leak probe before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted the most powerful man in the universe, the Vice President's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. The foundation of the indictment was that while Libby claimed to have heard about Plame from reporters, all of the reporters testified that wasn't the case.

But there's new information. Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified Monday that a "senior administration official" told him about Plame a full month before her name was disclosed in the famous Robert Novak column. This all came out after the indictment....when the "senior administration official" alerted Fitzgerald to it on November 3. So what does this change?

Well, this pokes a huge hole in Fitzgerald's claim that Libby was the first official to disclose Plame's identity....that no longer appears to be the case. It looks like this other senior administration official told Bob Woodward about it. By the way, Rove's spokesman says he didn't talk to Woodward and isn't the source. Who is? Cheney? Somebody else?

Libby's lawyer jumped all over this...asking two questions: "If what Woodward says is so, will Mr. Fitzgerald now say he was wrong to say on TV that Scooter Libby was the first official to give this information to a reporter? The second question I would have is: Why did Mr. Fitzgerald indict Mr. Libby before fully investigating what other reporters knew about Wilson's wife?"

It will be awfully difficult for Fitzgerald to convict Libby for lying about something he can't convince the jury was true.

Soccer: clearly a sport for girlie men

THE EVIL WAL-MART

Wal-Mart has been in the news quite a bit lately....there's a movie that's out, one produced by the same guy that made the Fox News-bashing movie "Outfoxed." In it, the same claims we've heard for a couple of years are recycled: Wal-Mart pays low wages, squeezes suppliers and puts Mom and Pop stores out of business. Unfortunately, the real reason Wal-Mart should be criticized rarely, if ever, gets brought up: the stealing of land from private property owners under the auspices of eminent domain. Too bad.

But that's not what has the Wal-Mart haters' panties in a bunch. Democrats like Ted Kennedy are really upset for one reason: Wal-Mart isn't unionized. That means their buddies in the labor unions can't get their hands on those union dues out of those Wal-Mart paychecks. They also hate Wal-Mart because it's successful and because they're #1. You know what that means in the United States...expect to be attacked.

The left, aided by the media, seem to want to push the idea that all of the employees who work at Wal-Mart are doing so because they're slaves. They act like the people who work at Wal-Mart don't choose to do it of their own free will. They also push the nonsense that as soon as a Wal-Mart opens, all of the other businesses in a town close.

It's too bad people aren't focusing on the real crime of Wal-Mart....the taking of private property through eminent domain. But don't ever expect the left to get too worked up about private property rights.

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REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I guess sometimes you've just got to be blunt. Thanks to Chris Hurt for this one. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Michelle Malkin says people shouldn't pay attention to the Department of Homeland Security's tough talk on immigration....it's all just lip service.

The Crawford crackpot is headed back into action for Thanksgiving. Cindy Sheehan is going back to Bush's ranch, but it looks like she'll be arrested. They've since passed laws to keep her out, so you know what that means...more publicity! Will Al Sharpton push away from the table to join her?

Esquire magazine has named Bill Clinton as the world's most influential man. So influential, in fact, that he couldn't get Al Gore elected and his party lost the House for the first time in 40 years. More media BS.

A lawmaker in Florida wants to require first-time DUI offenders to have a pink license plate on their cars that starts with the letters DUI. Naturally, the ACLU is opposed.

To show you how unpopular George W. Bush is, four Texas towns are fighting over where to locate his presidential library. Looks like SMU might have the inside track, since the First Lady went there.

Former GE honcho Jack Welch has some political advice for the president: start bragging about the economy. We are in the middle of a boom, you know.

Trent Lott attends a birthday party for Strom Thurmond and gets thrown out of the leadership....yet Hillary Clinton attends one for KKK grand wizard Robert Byrd and nobody says a word. Except her Senate opponent in New York, that is.

FEMA is warning Katrina evacuees that are staying in hotels on the the taxpayers' dime that they have to find other housing by December 1st. Get ready for the media sob stories.

Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman took to the floor of the Senate and said he voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq and would do so again. It's about time somebody was honest about their vote.

John Stossel takes on the Wal-Mart haters...and asks the question: is Wal-Mart a problem? You'll be surprised to learn some of the facts of the situation.

George W. Bush should pay particular attention to what went on with the school board members who, according to George Will, were fired in Dover, Pennsylvania for pushing creationism.

There's a lot of concern these days about inflation, but do people really know what they're talking about? Dr. Walter E. Williams explains what inflation is and what is not.

The heads of the oil companies were hauled before Congress over price-gouging. Thomas Sowell attempts to figure out just what "price gouging" really is.

Read this article to see how the Atlanta Civil Service Board can't be trusted to remove a rogue police officer from the force -- even when that police officers costs the taxpayers of Atlanta $350,000 by body-slamming a woman to the ground at the Atlanta Airport.

You do realize that there's a meeting going on right now ... a meeting of world leaders dedicated to the proposition of seizing control of the Internet from the United States. Too many people are asleep at the switch on this one.

More on the attempt by the U.N. to seize control of the Internet. Apparently the effort is being met with cheers from the dictators of the world.

Yesterday I told you about the sparrow that was shot to death for screwing up a domino-tumbling record attempt. Now Dutch authorities are talking about prosecuting. The sparrow was an endangered species. Now the domino-tumblers have had to hire security to keep outraged bird-lovers from finishing the job the sparrow started.

You've heard me complain (perhaps, you believe, too much) about the economic ignorance of the American people. Most Americans can't write an intelligent paragraph on the difference between a profit and a profit margin, or the role of pricing in controlling the distribution of scarce resources. Here's a review of a new book, "The Undercover Economist" that can fill in that gap. If only we could get people to tune-out "Entertainment Tonight" and actually read once in a while.

Environmentalist deceit on ANWR. Hopefully, you're not surprised.

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