WHERE'S NANCY?  HIDING, THAT'S WHERE

Some people -- the Drudge Report, for instance -- have begun to notice that Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Majority Leader in the House, seems to be missing in action.  Her party is about to take back control of the House from the Republicans after 12 years....and she is curiously absent.  So where in the world is Nancy Pelosi?

Keeping a low profile, that's where.  And why would she do that?  For one simple reason....she's not that popular and doesn't want to become a lightning rod for controversy.  Democrats must have seen their internal polling...and realized that whenever the Republicans talk about Nancy Pelosi becoming the Speaker of the House, people don't get too excited about it.  So Nancy's in hiding.

And just why is she so unpopular nationally?  Because Nancy Pelosi, who has been in Congress for 20 years, is an extreme Leftist.  She represents San Francisco in the California delegation and has never met a tax increase she didn't love.  So Democrats are hiding her.  This all proves once again that in order for Democrats to be elected, they have to hide who they really are.

Or in this case, actually hide themselves from the media.  Evidently she hasn't been seen in public since October 22, when she did an interview on '60 Minutes.'  Come back, Nancy...your country needs you.

NOW JUST WHAT PART OF THIS STORY IS SUPPOSED TO SURPRISE US?

We learn today that The Reverend Ted Haggard, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, has stepped aside.  It seems that someone named Mike Jones, of Denver Colorado, appeared on a Denver talk radio show to say that Rev. Haggard had been paying him for sex.  Haggard, you see, is a staunch opponent of same-sex unions and Jones says he felt Haggard was being just a wee bit hypocritical.  Haggard is denying it all .. .yet he has stepped aside as pastor of his church and from running the National Association of Evangelicals.  OK .. you folks let me know when I hit something really surprising here .....

Oh .. one more thing.  How long before the media and the Democrats try to tie this character to George Bush?  Bush is, after all, an evangelical. 

DEMOCRATS WORKING TO SUPPRESS MILITARY VOTES ..... AGAIN

Democrat Party disdain ... bordering on outright dislike ... of and toward our men and women in uniform is what pounded me back into reality earlier this week.  John Kerry made his insipid remarks about soldiers in Iraq and Democrats, by and large, remained silent.  Harold Ford stepped up, and perhaps one or two others, but by and large Democrats were content to let Kerry make yet another in his long string of remarks denigrating our military without condemnation. 

Kerry's remarks served to remind me also of the Democrat's penchant for trying to suppress military votes.  Sadly, too few Americans remember that in 2000 Al Gore and the Democrats sent hoards of lawyers to Florida during the recount debacle.  These particular lawyers were charged with one responsibility.  They were to fan out to every single voting district in Florida and do everything they possibly could to make sure that military absentee ballots were not counted in the election.  Funny, isn't it, how the media doesn't seem to be too eager to remind us of this attempt at voter suppression.  But let the Republicans support the idea of a voter proving his identity at the polls and all media hell breaks out. 

Well ... here we go again.  New Jersey Democrat Congressman Rush Holt has fired off a letter to Donald Rumsfeld challenging a Pentagon program that allows service members to request and submit ballots in the upcoming election via fax or email.   Holt, wanting to appear as if he's actually trying to protect our troops, says the system could expose them to identity theft. 

Yeah ... right.

Democrats know that military personnel are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat.  They also know that there is a wave of anger in the military over Kerry's remarks.  Time to get out there and make sure those military votes don't count .... again.

PRIMARY MOTIVATION

Sure ... many conservatives are fed up with the Republicans big-government and big-spending habits of the last six years, but that's not the primary factor driving the Democrats to victory -- at least in the House -- next Tuesday.  The biggest reason that Democrats will do so well next week is because they offer Americans security rather than liberty.  Many - perhaps a majority - Americans do not love freedom.  These people are not willing to embrace freedom it if means accepting the responsibilities of being an adult in a free society.  Democrats know this .. and they provide the alternative.  In a freedom-loving country Democrats with their womb to tomb paternalism wouldn't stand a chance.

UP IN ARMS OVER SADDAM'S WMD

A controversy is swirling this morning about documents posting by the U.S. Government on a website.  The site in question posts documents that are scanned in and made available from papers seized from the former government of Saddam Hussein.  Much information has been discovered over the years in these documents, but here's the latest.  Evidently some of the papers, which have since been pulled from the site, show how to make a nuclear bomb.

But wait....I thought Saddam Hussein didn't know how to make a nuclear bomb!  We know this because the mainstream media and Democrats have told us for going on 4 years that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.  Uh-oh...looks like in complaining about these documents being posted on the web, the Left may have just admitted to something they didn't want to admit to.

Other documents posted indicated how to make different kinds of nerve gas, something else Saddam wasn't supposed to have.  You're going to hear a lot of criticism in the coming days about how this was irresponsible to post and how somebody might be able to make bombs and nerve agents from these instructions.  That's true...the papers shouldn't have been posted online.

But in doing so, now we have iron-clad proof that not only did Saddam Hussein know how to make Weapons of Mass Destruction, but he was working on it.  If anyone needs proof, they can just look online.  How handy...Democrats can actually use their own computers to debunk their lies!

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Who says you have to be a snooty liberal to be interested in alternative fuels? More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

David sent us this picture of exit 69 on I-75 near Detroit. If you listened to the show today, you'll know why it's relevant. If not, well shame on you!

The President of the University of Pennsylvania has a Halloween party. That's nice. Perhaps you'll think this picture of her posing with someone dressed up as a suicide bomber is nice also! Do you think she would pose with someone dressed as Hitler?

What happens when you mix the Super Friends cartoon with audio from Office Space? Hilarity, that's what. [PG language]

The Washington Post maintains a nice database that lets you browse the voting record since 1991 of the members of Congress.

A study shows people trust attractive people more, but also have higher expectations of them.

You've heard Herman Cain fill in for Neal Boortz. Read his latest online column.

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