Monday -- October 3, 2005
 QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY
The Nuze will be a bit sparse today .... let's just say that the Talkmaster
slept in a bit. There is something I wanted you to read though. Daniel Webster
wrote this on June 1, 1834. It is oh so true today:
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction,
should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the
people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and
negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may
place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to
scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of
designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them
intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the
wrong, and they will apply the remedy."
Well ... here we are. Not only have Americans placed "too implicit a confidence
in their public servants" and have "fail(ed) properly to scrutinize their
conduct", it's worse than that. Most of us don't even know who these public
servants are! Rare is the citizen who can name both U.S. Senators from their
state, and you would have to spend a long time searching for someone who could
name both Senators, their Congressman and the Vice-President. More people can
name the football coach of their state university than can name the person who
represents them in congress. I could go on a while here, but you get the
picture. Pathetic isn't good enough to describe the lack of attention we have
paid to those who govern us.
You do know, don't you, that your state university football coach can't use
force to take property away from you to give to someone else. You also know, I
hope, that neither Brad Pitt nor Jennifer Anniston can raise your taxes or
guarantee your social security benefits. (Hint, they're not guaranteed now.)
Every time I see "Entertainment Tonight" come on the tube or see a copy of
People Magazine on a news rack I cringe. This is where most Americans are
getting what they consider to be "news."
Over the weekend I joined Clark Howard, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto and James
Carville on stage in both Atlanta and Orlando to discuss a wide range of issues
before some pretty good crowds. One of the topics up for grabs was whether or
not the Republicans can retain control of the House and Senate. Hannity thinks
there's no way they can lose. Carville certainly hopes they do. I believe that not only can they lose, they
richly deserve to. Aside from their support for the war on terror and tax cuts,
these Republicans have done nothing to earn or deserve reelection. They have
accomplished in terms of reckless spending what it took the Democrats decades to
accomplish when they were running the show.
I'm fed up. Fed up with the ignorance of the American voter and the
free-spending ways of our congress. The only bad thing about kicking these
Republican free-spenders out of the congress would be that they would be
replaced by Democrats. Democrats, believe it or not, would be worse. For
beginners, you could kiss off any tax reform ideas like the FairTax. The death
tax would be cast in gold. And, my friends, you could get ready to learn the
meaning of "imputed income." Wait until that little Democratic "soak-the-rich"
scheme gets into the news cycle. Sadly, though, most of you will still be
wondering how it is that Tori Spelling ever found her way to the front of a
camera lens. 
Atlanta's Meeting of the Mouths October 1st (Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Ron Carlson, Hollis Gillespie, Clark Howard, James Carville and Neil Cavuto)
ISLAMIC BOMBERS KILL INNOCENTS
On Saturday, three simultaneous suicide bombers on the resort island of Bali in
Indonesia walked into three restaurants with their backpacks and
blew the places
up, killing 26 people and injuring 101, including six Americans. A video taken
by a tourist (watch at above link) shows one of the bombers walking through the crowd with his
backpack. He walks out of view, pulls the cord, and all hell breaks loose. The
three severed heads of the bombers were recovered.
So who did it? Yup, you guessed it...a Muslim group linked to Al Qaeda. It's
the same group that killed 202 people in 2002 with another bombing....an outfit
called Jemaah Islamiyah, whatever that is. Their goal: to establish an Islamic
state in Southeast Asia.
Islam remains a violent religion, as these bombings show. At its core is a
fragmented, fanatical leadership that believes that if you are a
non-believer...if you aren't a Muslim, then you must die. There is nothing that
can't be justified, including killing people, to promote the spread of Islam.
International news can make people yawn and roll their eyes...but take note. It
won't be long before Islamic suicide bombers are patrolling the restaurants and
shopping malls of the United States.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT WORK
According to the LA Times, almost 100,000 California high school seniors...about
20% of that state's entire senior class...can't pass the graduation exam. If
they don't pass by June, they won't graduate. What is it that they are finding
so hard to master? Math and English. Must be pretty hard stuff, right? Well,
not really. The test is geared toward an eighth grade level in Math and ninth or
tenth grade levels in English. They're not even being challenged with material
from their own grade level, and 1 in 5 are choking.
So who is to blame? Let's start with where you will never hear blame assigned:
the government school system which has pushed along people to the point that
they arrive in the 12th grade and can't pass an 8th grade math test. Why have
they arrived at this point? Because the public school system in California (or
government schools, as they should be more correctly called) has been more
concerned about their self esteem than whether or not they're learning anything.
What's worse? There is actually a plan afoot to hand out alternate diplomas and
graduation certificates to people who can't pass. And people wonder why some
students are illiterate.
REBUILDING BAD NEIGHBORHOODS
One neighborhood in New Orleans remains closed: the Ninth Ward. The houses have
been deemed unsafe to live in, thanks to extensive flooding caused by Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita. Oh, and if you listen to Calypso Louie, the government agents
that blew the levees with explosives. But that's another issue entirely.
Anyway, already the fighting has begun over
whether to rebuild the 9th Ward.
Those who possess the powers of observation are correctly pointing out that the
neighborhood should not be rebuilt. The reason: it was an absolute dump to
begin with; one of the worst areas in New Orleans. The thing to do would be to
completely bulldoze it and forget it was ever there.
But already the complaints have begun. Because you see, the 9th Ward was a
black neighborhood. You know what that means: send in the race pimps. Logic
dictates that the neighborhood be torn down and allowed to return to what it
once was: swamp land.
But that won't happen...it will be rebuilt. At great cost and with our tax
dollars, of course. Isn't government great?
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
Riviera Beach in Florida
is about to throw out 6,000 residents...thanks to eminent domain. The
reason? A billion dollar waterfront yachting and housing complex. 2,000 homes
could be confiscated. The mayor's excuse? Because they can. Read on.
A report finds that troops were slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina because of
the war in Iraq. Expect that to be the headline and the rallying cry of
Democrats for the next several weeks. Also expect the other part of the report
to be ignored: that corruption and mismanagement in New Orleans caused problems.
The U.S. energy secretary says
high gas prices might last 6 months and there may even be energy shortages.
The only thing missing is for George Bush to put on a sweater and address the
nation.
Guess what happens when Hollywood makes a TV show about the office of the
president? The media starts asking them public policy questions.
First up is Donald Sutherland, who repeats all sorts of delusional fantasies he
got from Michael Moore or somewhere.
Judith Miller's big secret is out: she sat in jail for months for no reason.
There was absolutely no reason for her to protect her source, other than to
paint herself as some sort of victimized journalist.
The Citizen and Immigration Service, which took over for the INS,
is facing charges that its agents gave out green cards in exchange for sex, and
terrorists may have been let into the country. Makes you feel safer,
doesn't it?
Is Hillary Clinton really adopting the stance that the US government should
crack down on illegal aliens? Nope....she's
more concerned these days about whether or not they get their fair share of
hurricane relief.
The media reported that, in the aftermath of Katrina, there were rapes, riots,
fires and bodies in the street. The only tiny detail they forgot to mention was
that none of it was true.
Dan Gainor reports. Mark Steyn says
the media deserves blame for the New Orleans debacle.
Professor Mike Adams has some advice for those who are easily offended: get
out of the country. How insensitive....which makes his column today a good one.
Robert Novak says the DeLay indictment shows that Democrats have succeeded
in using the criminal process for political gain. By reinstating the rule that
requires indicted politicians to step down from leadership posts, they put a gun
in the hand of Ronnie Earle.
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