Tuesday -- October 11, 2005
 INDIANAPOLIS TONIGHT
Belinda and I are heading to Indianapolis this afternoon. We'll be signing
copies of The FairTax Book at the Borders Bookstore on River Crossing Avenue,
sometimes referred to as the Borders at Keystone at the Crossing. We'll start
scrawling signatures at 7:00 pm. Tomorrow evening, Lexington, Kentucky!
HOW DO WE SURVIVE THIS?
I've told you about the feature that appears in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
called "The Vent." People call a phone number and leave a short message. If the
Vent editors like the message, they'll print it. In the past year the Vent has
become a forum for expressions of Bush hatred. It has also become a showcase for
stupidity. There are few places you can go to get a better idea of the damage
done to this nation by generations of government education.
Here's a Vent that caught my attention today:
Thanks for your prayers in the Clinton years. It brought us world peace, a
balanced budget and $1-a-gallon gasoline.
Is this person really this profoundly ignorant? Just because Clinton failed to
respond to the first attack on the Twin Towers, the bombings of two U.S.
Embassies overseas and the destruction at the Khobar Towers ... she (yeah -- I'm
guessing a woman) thinks we had world peace? Then she fails to recognized the
impact of the dot-com revolution on our growing economy and tax revenues, and
has no clue about how the increased demand for oil in India and China have
affected the price of gas here at home?
Is there any cure for this level of stupidity?
SHUT UP, KOFI
The crook currently running the United Nations,
Kofi Annan, is doing a bit of
mouthing off about this Saturday's referendum on the proposed Iraqi
constitution. Kofi, it seems, has become somewhat of an expert on creating
constitutions. Let's take whatever Kofi has to say on this subject with a grain
of salt. May I remind you of the item I placed in Nealz Nuze last week about the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? This great United Nations
Document promises all of the people of the world all of the basic rights we as
Americans have come to expect ... like the right to freedom of expression and
opinion, the right to property, the right to worship as we please, and the right
to our very lives. One thing odd about this wonderful human rights declaration
... it clearly states that none of these rights will be recognized if the
exercise of these rights would interfere with the with the goals and purposes of
the United Nations. This means that the United Nations idea of a supreme law is
that people are free to do pretty much what they want so long as they don't
interfere with what the UN is trying to do. And this guy is lecturing us about
the Iraqi Constitution?
WHY IN THE HELL IS THIS NEWS?
 The Associated Press is reporting (gasp!) that Supreme Court nominee
Harriet Miers owned a GUN! Oh my God! She owned a gun! A .45-caliber revolver! Oh, the
humanity! Can you just imagine something like this? A person who may end up as one of the justices of the United States Supreme
Court actually owned a gun! Doesn't this woman know that the Second Amendment
only protects government, not the people! The Second Amendment clearly gives
only the government the right to own guns. That's why the phrase "the people" is
included. Are we going to get a story about how Harriet Miers once expressed an
opinion in a public forum, and then worshiped at a church of her choosing? Stop
the presses!
BLAME AMERICA FIRST
In response to the horrendous earthquake in Pakistan, the United States does
what it always does: we sent help. The initial pledge was $500,000. It was just
increased to $50 million. No matter, the America-haters around the world once
again are
condemning our response as "slow and inadequate."
Huh?
That's right....our nation, whose citizens will probably wind up giving much
more in private donations than the government is, once again being called
stingy. Some (surely not all) in Pakistan are complaining that this was some
sort of lost opportunity...that we should have pledged more money to somehow
convince the Pakistani population to like us. I guess $50 million plus military
helicopters, which are worth far more than money at this point, since many areas
can't be reached by road, isn't enough.
What people should realize about the Blame-America-First crowd is that there is
no point in trying to appease them. They hate the United States no matter what,
and there is no amount of money that is going to change their minds. We could
have pledged $500 billion and it wouldn't have mattered.
And, in case people haven't noticed, we've got our own problems these days. Two
hurricanes, one major American city partly destroyed and an $8 trillion national
debt mean we're not exactly swimming in available cash right now.
Oh...and the earthquake itself? That was our fault too. Just wait.
PROBABLY NOT?
 Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana is pushing a piece of legislation
known as the "Free Flow of Information Act of 2005." What is the purpose of this
law? Well, apparently Senator Lugar knew Judith Miller of the New York Times
personally. When she wound up going to jail, he decided it was time to
act...deciding that there needed to be a new federal shield law to protect
journalists from being made to divulge their sources.
Sounds good, doesn't it? Well, not really. There are a couple of problems here.
First of all, Judith Miller didn't need to go to jail. She went to jail because
she wanted to. By all reports, she had the express permission of her source to
divulge everything he told her months before she wound up in the can. Apparently
Judith Miller went to jail for a little attention, and it has paid off, because
she has now been given a lucrative book deal. So that's that.
But back to the legislation....the first question is being raised: what is a
journalist? Would it just include print, radio and TV reporters? What about the
Internet? What about bloggers? That question was posed to Lugar yesterday
afternoon. His response? Probably not. Said the Senator:
"As to who is a reporter, this will be a subject of debate as this bill goes
farther along. Are bloggers journalists or some of the commercial businesses
that you here would probably not consider real journalists? Probably not, but
how do you determine who will be included in this bill?"
You can't. Which is why the bill is a terrible idea.
OUR CRYING EX-PRESIDENT
The plot is now thickening over the war of words between former FBI Director
Louis Freeh and the Clinton administration. Freeh said on '60 Minutes' over the
weekend that Bill Clinton was indifferent to the Khobar Towers attack in 1996
that killed 19 U.S. servicemen and refused to complain to Crown Prince Abdullah
directly about a lack of cooperation. Instead, said Freeh, the 42nd president of
the United States hit them up for a donation to his presidential library.
It took all of about 2 minutes for the former Clinton cronies to storm out of
the woodwork and start defending their former boss. Sandy 'Pants' Berger said he
was at the meeting, and Freeh is lying. But today we learn from the
Saudis....and it's actually worse than what Freeh said.
This comes to us according to a 2001 New Yorker piece, which quotes two sources
close to former Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan. He says former
President Clinton was almost ready to cry because of his legal problems stemming
from the Monica Lewinsky scandal and that they didn't really talk too much about
the Khobar Towers case. In fact, Clinton didn't really press Abdullah about it
at all. Evidently the ambassador had warned Abdullah to expect some questions
about Khobar, but when none came, the prince was stunned that Clinton showed
such little interest.
The leader of the free world crying in front of the Prince of Saudi Arabia. No
wonder nothing was ever done about terrorism for eight years. 
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
A lawyer for the suspect who was beaten by the New Orleans cops says his client
wasn't drunk. Doesn't matter....all we need to know is he is black and the
cops were white. Get ready for one awfully big check to be written.
The White House is denying there are any back room deals going on to push
the Harriet Miers nomination through. This after it was disclosed Karl Rove has
been making calls in support of Miers. Sure thing.
British journalist David Frost, who for some reason, has decided to go to work
for Al-Jazeera,
still isn't convinced that the network is anti-American. In other news,
David Frost also says the Earth might still be flat.
With the earthquake in Pakistan, many Americans might not be too pleased to know
that they are living in a very earthquake-prone area. It's just been quiet for a
very long time.
George Will has more. (Yes, George Will...apparently branching out.)
What are Harriet Miers' chances of being confirmed?
Newsweek goes behind the scenes of her nomination and takes a look at the
prognosis.
Time magazine takes a look at the two knocks on Miers, and says they might not
matter.
A great column from Joseph Bast...who says that nearly half of all income is
sent to governments to spend. He reminds us that our Founding Fathers
fought a war for independence over taxes that are much lower than what we pay
now.
We now live in an all-consuming celebrity culture.
Joseph Epstein wonders just what it is that these celebrities do to stay so
important and famous. Lengthy, but interesting.
Thomas Sowell calls out the environmentalists who oppose development, saying
they're bigots for trying to deny rights to others that they themselves claim.
Good read, as always.
David Limbaugh isn't so much disappointed over the Miers nomination because of
her, just because the president gave up without a fight. He says it's time
Bush swing to the right and fight the good fight.
Bruce Bartlett takes on the New York Times, who published an editorial about
tax policy saying the rich don't pay enough. Of course, the FairTax plan would
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