BIG NEWS DAY --- BUT YOU WON'T HEAR ALL THE NEWS

First, of course, will the the much-awaited indictment(s).  Rove?  Not likely.  Scooter Libby?  Perhaps so.  And just what will he be indicted for?  My guess is that he will be indicted for failure to remember.  That's a new crime, folks.  It's a crime that didn't exist during the Clinton years, but suddenly having a bad memory can land you in jail.  I lost count of how many times Bill and Hillary cited failed memories during the various investigations of the Corrupt Clinton Years .. .it's in the hundreds.  Clinton couldn't remember whether or not he had ever been alone with Monica Lewinsky.  Hillary couldn't remember where those pesky little Rose Law Firm billing records were.  (Hint:  They were in her private office upstairs loaded down with her handwritten notes and fingerprints.) 

By the way ... when will the New York Times step forward and write the true story of just why Joseph Wilson was sent to Niger to investigate this rumor about Saddam seeking yellowcake uranium?  See the special reading assignment below.

OK .. .the second story.  I would not be surprised to see Bush name his replacement nominee for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court this morning.   Bush has to light a fire under the core Republican constituency, and they're ready to respond to a strong Supreme Court pick. I have no guess, but I'm hoping that it's DC District Appeals Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown. Brown does support limits on abortion rights, but I remain firm in my belief that abortion will never become illegal throughout the United States, so no real problem there.  Brown has a libertarian streak in her and is a strong supporter of the concept of private property rights.  I know I've said it far too many times, but here we go again.  No civilization founded on principles of freedom and economic liberty has survived without recognizing and protecting private property rights.  With the Supreme Courts absurd eminent domain decision earlier this year we all now recognize that property rights are under a full-scale attack in the U.S.  Janice Rogers Brown would be the answer. 

Why rush the nomination this morning?  Because a strong nomination would, to a degree, smother any indictment news that might come later.  Playing the media.

SPECIAL READING ASSIGNMENTS

Please -- I'm begging you -- here are three reading assignments you just have to pay attention to.  Failure to read all three gives you a zero in your class work today in the Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training.

First:  Perhaps you don't really understand what this whole Valerie Plame thing is about.  Was she a covert CIA agent.  No.  Why was Joseph Wilson sent to Africa to search out the truth about Saddam's search for uranium?  You might be surprised.  Why did Judith Miller sit in the clink for 85 days?  What story didn't she write?  Cliff Kincaid writes on "The Untold Story:  Joseph Wilson, Judith Miller and the CIA."

Second:  I'm amazed every time I read a column by Victor Davis Hanson. This column, "2,000 Dead, In Context" is excellent.  Hanson compares the statistics with many of America's other wars, and points out that presidents always take the blame, even when the conflict is unavoidable.  I especially urge those of you who are steadfastly opposed to the action in Iraq to read this, as well as those of you who are just flat-out tired of the conflict. 

Finally:  This may be one of Peggy Noonan's best columns yet, and that's saying something since they are generally excellent.  The subtitle for this one is "America is in trouble -- and our elites are merely resigned."  When you read this column you will find that Peggy has put in writing some of the very feelings that have been flooding your thoughts for some time now.   Face it, America has outlived its life expectancy.  Alexander Tyler warned us that no country can survive once its citizens learn that they can use the ballot box to take the property of others. 

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POLITICIANS AND GAS PRICES

Yesterday Exxon/Mobil posted a record quarterly profit of $9.9 billion, thanks to soaring oil and gasoline prices.  Shell reported a $9 billion profit yesterday.  The oil business is booming...and why?  Good 'ole supply and demand.  But don't tell that to politicians.

Politicians like Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist see this as an opportunity to score politically with voters.  Because many in the general public have been brainwashed by government schools, they do not understand the free market.  Time to make a little political hay over the situation.  So what exactly is going on?

As I said, supply and demand.  Companies like Exxon/Mobil, Shell, BP and others explore and extract a barrel of oil out of the ground...we'll say they spend $15 doing this.  But oil is now going for $70 a barrel on the open world market.  So what are the big oil companies to do?  Sell it to people at a discount, just because politicians say so?  Nope...they are beholden to their shareholders to make as much profit as possible...so they sell it on the world market, where demand from countries like India and China are driving up the prices.  Too many dollars chasing too few barrels of oil.

So what should be done?  The answer is to drive up the supply, which will lower the price. Time to send the rigs to Alaska, off the shores of the United States and anywhere else we can drill for crude.  There is plenty of oil in the ground....the problem is the leftist environmentalist moonbats won't let people drill for it.

The next step is to start pulling permits for oil refineries...the places where oil is turned into gasoline.  There hasn't been a new one built in 30 years, thanks to the environmentalists.  New refineries could also refine some of the cheaper, rougher crude...which would also bring down prices.  But nobody wants a refinery in their back yard, right?  Too bad.

We'll hear a lot about conservation, electric cars, and other alternative fuel sources.  That's all well and good....and advances in technology do need to be pursued to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but the bottom line is this.  For the foreseeable future, cars need gasoline, trucks need diesel fuel, homes need heating oil and airplanes need jet fuel.

In the meantime, if we do nothing, the price of oil will continue to stay high, the oil companies will get richer and politicians will start talking about things like price controls, which never work and result in shortages.

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Speaking of Halloween, if you choke down Crusty Burgers regularly, you can probably make your own Halloween pumpkin just like this. Warning, not safe for work.

Albertson's pulls October Seventeen Magazine for "racy" Vagina 101 article.

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