Today's Nuze: March 10, 2006 

SOME RANDOM FRIDAY THOUGHTS

It looks like Air America is having financial problems again

The Republicans may have saved their majority in the House.  They told George Bush that there was just no way on this globe that an Islamic government was going to gain control over the operation of facilities in six of our most important points.  Bush finally got the message, conveyed it to Dubai Ports World, and the deal is dead.  House republicans now look stronger for having stood up to a president who, somehow, just couldn't read the public on this issue.

Democrats were so dismayed over the withdrawal of Dubai Ports World that they resorted to making themselves look foolish.  There they were in the US Senate yesterday demanding an up or down vote on a deal that was already dead.  All for show.  They know that the Republicans strengthened their position yesterday by making Bush back down, and they were desperately looking for a way to get the issue back.

Wonderful, exciting times ahead for talk radio.  How can you top this?  You have the situation with Iran.  Democrats have so weakened us in the Middle East that we may be unable to respond to Iran's nuclear threat militarily.  We have the upcoming mid-term elections, next year's presidential primaries, a Hillary candidacy, a presidential election ..... all with the backdrop of a worldwide Islamic jihad.  What more could we ask for?  Golly!  And to think I could still be out there practicing law!

The San Francisco Chronicle says that the collapse of the ports deal was a victory for the "politics of fear."  This is from a left-wing newspaper in a city that bans the ownership of any and all firearms.  Who's afraid?  The Chronicle says that the fear of terrorists in general, and Arab Muslims in particular, has been the driving force of American politics since 9/11.  Duhhhhhhh.

Do you want some good news for today?  The sale of carbonated soft drinks is down for the first time since 1985.  There is no way these drinks are anything but harmful to your health.  You ladies ... do you have any idea what the consumption of carbonated drinks does to your bone strength?  Combine this with yesterday's news that cigarette sales are down --- way down --- the lowest level since 1951 --- and it would appear that Americans are actually beginning to care about their own health.

A group of doctors have signed a petition condemning the United States for force-feeding prisoners at Guantanamo who were on hunger strikes.  The UN calls the force-feeding "torture."  There's no way the US can win on this.  If these detainees are allowed to kill themselves through starvation you can bet that these very same doctors, together with the rancid United Nations, would be lining up to condemn the US for their deaths.

Illinois is having a bit of a problem over a hate crimes commission empanelled by Governor Rod Blagojevich.  One of the members named by the governor to serve is "Sister" Claudette Muhammad, the chief of protocol for Louis Farrakhan's so-called "Nation of Islam."  The commission is turning into a joke.  Hopefully some people in Illinois will come to the realization that this hate crimes commission is all about finding ways to criminalize thought.  That's where we're heading, my friends.  Hate crimes laws are just the beginning to a wholesale effort to criminalize thought processes.  Anyone out there ever read 1984?

DUBAI DEAL DEAD

As predicted in this space, Dubai Ports World decided yesterday to throw in the towel.  Sensing what the Bush administration would not, they realized there was absolutely no chance that their planned takeover of several American ports was going to take place.  So in the end, the American people rose up and killed the deal.  A United Arab Emirates-owned company will not be in charge.  Game over.

So here's the big question: how could the administration have been so stupid?  They completely underestimated our appetite to put the ports in the hands of an Islamic company.  What they were proposing was like putting all the buildings in New York under Arab control after 9/11.  Just incredibly out of touch politically.

So what's next?  The people to watch here are the Democrats.  They were the ones that all of a sudden became hawks on national security.  Now that they have made their political hay, will they go right back to being against the War On Terror?  Probably so. After all, they never really cared one bit about port security.  It was all about smelling an opportunity to get back at the administration.

And oh...this is priceless.  One of the American companies being proposed as a candidate to take over the ports?  Halliburton.  That would be fun!

MEDIA BIAS 101

When it comes to bias in the mainstream media, the leftward tilt knows no bounds.  It goes far beyond just politically slanted reporting.  You have story selection, liberally biased headlines and so on.  And one of the most tried and true ways that the media bashes Republicans is this: through the taking, use and selection of images.

Case in point: yesterday Reuters ran an image on the wire of Vice President Dick Cheney. He was speaking at an event about retirement savings.  Behind him was a sign.  Reuters took it upon themselves to perfectly crop the picture so that the word "retire" appeared above Cheney's head.  The message was clear: Reuters thinks Dick Cheney should retire.

Now Reuters will say...wait a minute, we're just running a photo of the vice president.  But their hands has been caught in the cookie jar on this one.  Why is the word "retire" perfectly cropped while the picture of Cheney low in the frame?  Come on, folks.  Face it.  This was deliberate.  I know, it's not a big issue, but when it comes to the media we're talking about the death of a thousand cuts anyway. 

Having said that ... I do want to express my distaste for the seemingly newfound practice of having custom printed banners behind politicians, Republicans and Democrats, every time they show up where their pictures can be taken.  It's clever, I suppose.  Someone figured out how to get the message of the day out with every picture that is snapped.  Maybe there's some poetic justice in having someone crop the picture to deliver an unintended message.

Anyway ... Reuters has been a voice of anti-Americanism and anti-Administration leftists for quite some time now ... so I trust nobody is surprised.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Who says you need a boat to go kneeboarding on a lake. [mpeg video] More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

Might want to send that one back. I think it's a touch rare.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

This guy is amazing.  He's a sidewalk artist dealing in chalk .. and his images have an incredible 3D appearance.  Check it out. Some of you are reporting porn at this link. We can't duplicate the problem. No porn showing up for us. That said, click with caution.

Did you know the staff over at the United Nations was unionized?  That they are....and the union has voted no confidence in UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. It would seem they don't like his plans to overhaul the place. Could Kofi be on the way out? Maybe.

Terrorist appeaser Congressman John Murtha has received...what else...a JFK Profile In Courage award. Why did he receive this award?  For advocating surrender to Islamic terrorists in Iraq, that's why.  Although that's not how they put it.

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is pushing the idea of the flat tax.  Bad idea.  Why?  Because the flat tax always winds up right back where we started.  Deductions will be added back, one at a time.  The answer is the Fair Tax.

The media loves to talk about how the Bush administration is arrogant.  But Byron York sees things differently.  He says it's the Democrats that are the arrogant ones.  He says the Democrats have no plan either.

With Bush's plunging poll numbers, Republicans are supposedly in disarray.  But as David Limbaugh reports, they Democrats can't get their act together either...and are failing to capitalize.

Some guy from Michigan has fired a lawsuit that has set off a firestorm.  He's says that by being forced to pay child support, his rights under the Equal Protection Clause are being violated.  Mona Charen takes a look at his legal argument.

Oliver North has an update on the sorry state of American education.  Did you know that 11 percent of students in a recent survey were unable to find the continental United States on a map?  That's sad....real sad.

The president's poll numbers are down, scandals are rocking Congress....and Republicans are in trouble.  Democrats should be poised to clean up this November.  David Hill says don't worry...the Democratic party will blow it.

More proof now that there will probably never be peace in the Middle East and a Palestinian state:  polls show 65% of Palestinians support Al-Qaeda attacks  on America and Europe.

A former Israeli chief of staff says they have the means to strike Iran and put a stop to their nuclear program.  Great idea....let's take them up on it.  But we need to act now.

Watch video of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s ride with the Blue Angels.

An eminent domain abuse case out of Arcadia, California.

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