MCKINNEY - JOHNSON RUNOFF

There is one thing that we will know for an absolute fact by this time tomorrow morning.  After the next Congress is sworn in next January  Georgia's 4th Congressional District will be represented by a black Democrat.

Now that we've established that basic truth ... let's look at the variables.  After the next Congress is sworn in next January, Georgia's 4th Congressional District will be represented by a black Democrat who:

1. May well turn out to be an effective voice for the furtherance and implementation of the Democrat big-government, high-tax, income redistributionist, anti-individualistic, weaken America agenda.
    
2. Will almost certainly spend the next two years as a congressional pariah with no effective voice whatsoever in congressional affairs; a person who can be counted on to flare up and completely embarrass her party; a person who can be exhibited for the next two years as the face of the Democrat Party.

Your choice.  Be a little pragmatic here.  Put the emotions aside.  The right needs a barking moonbat like Cynthia McKinney in office, rather than someone who might actually garner some respect inside the Beltway.  Besides ... she's just wonderful material for talk radio. 

REUTERS IN DENIAL

Reuters has booted the freelance Lebanese photographer that doctored several images and beamed them around the world.  They've pulled all 920 photos taken by this individual and bought by Reuters.  Fine.  The wire service issued the following statement:  "Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy."  Really?

That sure makes Reuters seem like a stand-up kind of organization.  Would that it be so.   You don't have to doctor some pictures in a computer program to be considered a propagandist.  There are other ways.  First of all, you have to consider that it is Reuters policy not to call Islamic terrorists "terrorists."  You see, that's a judgmental word.  We can't call them terrorists.  Instead, we get words like "insurgents, gunmen, militia, fighters" and other such nonsense.  Just where are you in this war against Islamic terrorism if you can't call a terrorist a terrorist? 

But back to the photos for a minute.  They've already been busted staging photos and you can bet there is more of that to come.  But there is one other kind of photo bias you haven't heard much about.  And that is the photo selection that takes place when photos are sent to the wires.  For example, Condoleezza Rice holds a press conference.  Photographers take thousands of pictures of her during this conference.  Once the news conference ends, the photographers head back to their computer to download their pictures and see what they have.  It is at this point that they decide what to send to Reuters, AP or whatever.

Now. they will have flattering pictures of Rice and unflattering ones.  Here she is smiling -- there she is scowling.  Here is where the bias creeps in.  If the photographer is a leftist, he will submit the photos of Condoleezza Rice that don't look the best.  Then, presto!  You go to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or whomever's website and there it is...a picture of Condoleezza Rice scowling on the front page.  You'd think the woman never smiled.

Go ahead...try it some time.  The next time you're surfing the news sites, look for the pictures posted of Republicans.  They're almost always unflattering in some way.  Yet, with Democrats, it's not the case.  Media bias? Of course.

DEMOCRATIC IGNORANCE CONTINUES TO FLOW

British Petroleum, the giant oil company known as BP, has a problem.  The pipes running through their massive Alaska Prudhoe Bay oil field are corroded.  Since corroded pipes are weak and could burst, the oil field has been shut down while they replace 16 miles of pipeline.  As you might expect, this poses a bit of a problem. 

We are in the middle of the peak driving season...and any hit on supply is going to cause prices to spike.  This is 400,000 less barrels of oil a day on the market.  BP is going to lose money because they won't be able to bring their crude to market like they thought.  But, for safety's sake...the oil field is being shut down while the necessary repairs are made.  Glad they caught it.

Energy Secretary Sam Bodman says the U.S. is prepared to release crude from the government's oil reserve to pick up the slack.  Perhaps that's the right move.  But as with every thing involving oil companies, Democrats are calling on Congress to investigate.  In particular, Congressmen John Dingell and Ed Markey are demanding government action.  They want hearings.  Oh boy...more stimulating programming, coming to C-SPAN this fall!

So what exactly are they saying?  Read between the lines.  The suggestion is that BP let their pipes corrode on purpose, just so they could shut down the oil field and drive up the price of crude and gasoline on purpose.  Nice conspiracy, but the only problem is BP is probably standing to lose more money than they could ever hope to recover by whatever short-term spike in prices there might be.

The free market works.  If BP was negligent in inspecting their pipes and ensuring their proper operation, then they will be punished by the marketplace in the form of a shutdown.  They will learn that it is in their best interest to properly maintain their delivery system.  But don't tell that to the Democrats....only the government can right the wrongs in the oil business.

Besides .. this is all a plot to put money in the Bush's pockets.  Right?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Can you think of a better use of a retired school bus than this? I mean, besides this. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

Perhaps you only have time for one reading assignment today.  Read one story ... then you're gone.  Off to work.  Off to lunch.  Off to whatever.  Well .. .if that's the case, make the article you read today this one.  Victor Davis Hanson says that we're on the Brink of Madness.

Oh!  So you're going to read another one?  Barbara Lerner says that we're losing World War IV.

There may be hope for this world yet:  a German scientist is testing an anti-stupidity pill on mice and fruit flies.  Evidently he's having some success.  Perhaps if the pill ever hits the market, we could give it to politicians who oppose the Fair Tax?

Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney faces the voters today in a runoff election.  In a radio ad, she declares that she's not perfect and has always worked hard.  Could be a bit late on the not perfect part. 

Senator John McCain says the drinking contest with Hillary Clinton...reported in the New York Times and carried around the world...never happened.  In fact, he says "Don't believe everything you read."  Imagine that.

Assume for a minute that the 2008 presidential race was between former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Senator Hillary Clinton.  Thankfully, a recent poll shows Rudy leading by 6 points.

Today is the showdown in Connecticut between Senator Joe Lieberman and challenger Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary.  Polls show Lieberman closing the gap, with the most recent numbers having him 6 points behind.

New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch has a column today that is not to be missed.  He calls out MTV for their promotion of the gang lifestyle.   Also, a new study finds that young people who listen to raunchy lyrics have sex sooner.

One thing that doesn't get a lot of press is the fact that North Korea is one of the biggest counterfeiters of $100 bills in the world.  Now in addition to their nuclear reactors, we could bomb their U.S. currency printing presses.

Donald Rumsfeld's statement at hearings last week in which he defended the war in Iraq by saying we're fighting a global war against terror are right, says Cal Thomas .  He says people who believe otherwise would do well to read Rumsfeld's entire testimony.

The fact that some Democrats came out against the $10 minimum wage in Chicago shows that there is at least a glimmer of hope that  people are beginning to understand what laws like this do.  Thomas Sowell has more in today's column.

Democrats are already celebrating victory this fall amid the imploding Republican party.  But David Limbaugh says their celebrations are a bit premature and that they should look in the mirror before gloating any further.

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