THE NEW YORK PLANE CRASH

I'll have a lot more to say about this small airplane that crashed into a highrise in New York City in tomorrow's notes and on the air. For now, just a few points:

Can see how this would be a terrorist attack.  A terrorist would have chosen a much more spectacular target than this old apartment building.

We're hearing now that the pilot of this airplane may have been New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. Lidle owns a Cirrus SR20, a single engine private plane.  There are also reports that Lidle had made a mayday call saying that he was having control difficulties with the aircraft.  Lidle had reportedly been a pilot for about seven months.

Just last month delawareonline.com ran a article about Lidle and his piloting a small private aircraft, saying:

The Phillies weren't enamored of pitcher Cory Lidle's hobby of flying a four-seat airplane.

But now that Lidle is with the Yankees, it's an especially sensitive topic.

In 1979, Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died when a plane he was piloting crashed near his home in Canton, Ohio. Lidle earned his pilot's license last offseason, and has insisted his plane is safe.

"The whole plane has a parachute on it," he told The New York Times. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land.

"But, if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly."

Now ... here's one thing I don't have to guess about.  The anti-airport groups will make the most out of this.  The anti-airport that I'm most familiar with is the group fighting to close DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Atlanta.  PDK is my home base.  I will guarantee that people from this anti-PDK group are calling their favorite reporters right now to try to get on the news shows with their tales of horror about how dangerous it is for everyone living around PDK.  They will surely tell their favorite reporter that although this particular incident may not have been terrorism, some real terrorist could use PDK to launch a terrorist attack on Atlanta! 

Oh .. .and my guess for the reporter who will go on the air with the most frightening, alarming story here will be named Dale Cardwell.  He seems to be in the pocket of the anti-airport crowd here.

Well ...let's stay tuned.  We'll know by tomorrow if I missed the mark here.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE, DROP-DEAD, MUST SEE!

Before you do anything else  ... you gotta see this video.  Drudge posted it late yesterday.  It's a campaign advertisement created by Hollywood mogul David Zucker.  The intent was to have Republican organizations use this ad in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.  Apparently Republican leaders are afraid to use the ad .. they say it's over the top.  You watch. You decide.

MCCAIN BLAMES CLINTON FOR NUKE TEST

It's still a bit up in the air as to whether or not the Norks actually set off a nuclear test the other day. The word now seems to be that The Gargoyle's minions attempted to set off a nuke, but that something went wrong and all they got out of it was a smaller blast. Or .. .they could have been bluffing. Word is they might try it again. With all of the hand-wringing they're causing around the world you could hardly blame them.

The Gargoyle just loves being the center of attention, doesn't he?

Democrats have come out and blamed all of this on George W. Bush, of course. This is what Democrats do. They blame. No solutions, just blame.

Example: An op-ed in the Washington Post by former Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry blaming the current administration for not engaging North Korea more.

It now seems that Arizona Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain has had enough. Time to put the blame for the North Korea mess squarely where it belongs: the Clinton Administration.

Said McCain yesterday: "I would remind Senator Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration's policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure. The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They've diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military."

Well said, Senator! You do get one right every once in a while, though this doesn't absolve you of your wrongdoings with that hideous anti-First Amendment campaign finance reform bill. But, McCain is right. That's exactly what happened....you can watch David Zucker's campaign commercial for a quick history lesson.

So out comes The Poodle to defend the Clinton Administration. He said "The truth is the Clinton administration knew full well they didn't have a perfect agreement. But at least they were talking." At least they were talking. Lot of good that did. Does sKerry really believe that had the Bush Administration been talking to North Korea that the Norks wouldn't have tried to set off their nukes?

Evidently in his fantasy world, he does.

AVOIDING THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE

President Bush has officially taken mention of illegal immigration out of his campaign speeches for the 2006 midterm elections. Why? Because his policy is unpopular and he knows it ... so he figures it's just best not to bring it up.

There are, however, several candidates running for office around the country that are using illegal immigration as their campaign issue.

It's really too bad, because he GOP could have used this one as a winning issue. People are tired of the Mexican invasion...they're tired of the 12 million illegal aliens that have broken our laws and invaded our country and the thousands more that come every day. They want them gone. They want the border shut down. They want somebody to build the Great Wall of Mexico...a 2,000 mile long barrier between the United States and Mexico, which is a third world country.

But sadly, all Bush has been able to talk about up to this point is amnesty...a "path to citizenship" for the 12 million members of the invasion force already occupying the United States. They can't even agree to build a 700-mile border fence...which is about 2/3rds of the way too short. So now he's not even bringing it up.

The illegal alien invasion and the outrage it has brought cuts across party lines. The Republicans had a winner and they threw it away. Too bad.

9/11 CONSPIRACY PROFESSOR IS BACK

Remember Kevin Barrett, the University of Wisconsin professor that came out and blamed the 9/11 attacks on the federal government? Well, he's back....and this time he's doing the same thing liberals always do when they run out of ideas: they compare conservatives to Nazis. Standard leftist fare.

Barrett has written an essay...which is required reading for his classes, by the way....which compares George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. That's right...the last refuge of a liberal who has lost an argument. They will call you a Nazi or a fascist every time. According to Barrett, these are the similarities: "Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies." Yeah...that's what happened.

Just remind yourself of this as you send your kids off to college this fall...these are the people that dominate the departments of higher education. Not just Bush-hating leftist...but total moonbats that aren't even grounded in reality. All that money you're paying for college? It's going to people like this. Kevin Barrett is the rule, not the exception.

Oh.....but he says he's not entirely comparing Bush to Hitler, because he thinks Bush is dumber: "Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler." Barrett is writing a book...oh boy, can't wait for that!

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I'm sure this is exactly what this bride has been dreaming of since she was a little girl. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A new study is doing its best to elect as many Democrats as possible to Congress November 7th.  According to a study by somebody at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 655,000 Iraqis have perished since Operation Iraqi Freedom began...a number so wildly high even the mainstream media is disputing it.  But they'll still report it, of course.

David Zucker, the Hollywood producer behind 'Scary Movie 4, Airplane and The Naked Gun' has produced a campaign commercial making fun of Madeleine Albright's visit to North Korea 6 years ago.  It's very entertaining...you can see it here.

Is the Mark Foley incident an October surprise?  Harper's Magazine says it was given Foley's e-mails by a Democratic operative months ago, but ultimately decided not to run a story about them.  So...let me get this straight..the media is drilling the Republican leadership for not doing anything about Foley when many of them decided not to expose him either?

A California Democrat is accusing Jay Leno (of all people) of being biased against Democrats.  He points to the appearance of Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Tonight Show this week as proof and is requesting equal time for his opponent...state Treasurer Phil Angelides.

A few members of Congress are stepping in to remind the Department of Homeland Security and the Bush Administration that when they authorized the building of the 700-mile long border fence, they meant it.  As soon as the president signed the bill, people started to say the government might not even build the fence.

A judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed in which two teenaged girls are suing McDonald's for making them fat.  John Stossel says the judge involved actually dismissed the original lawsuit, but told the girls how to refile it with more specific information.  Only in America.

Debra Saunders marks the 10th anniversary of Fox News and says the 24-hour news network provides balance to CNN and other media outlets, which tilt to the left.  The problem is, those outlets don't know that they tilt to the left.

Ted Turner's recent comments about the United States and terrorism show why we need Fox News now more than ever.  This according to Michelle Malkin, who says Turner is still whining about public displays of patriotism after the Iraq invasion 3 1/2 years ago.

Thomas Sowell has a message for people who think there's no difference between the political parties and thus no reason to bother voting.  He calls the Republicans "disappointing," but has another word for the Democrats:  dangerous.

Ned Lamont, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut, actually said when running for that office that America was stronger when we negotiate with our enemies.  Rich Lowry reminds us that his strategy is on full display with North Korea's launching of a nuclear test (or almost test, whichever it may be.)

Michael Yon echoes what I suggested on Monday morning.  The Nork explosion wasn't nuclear.

Perhaps you heard about this one.  Columbia University has a history when it comes to free speech.  The history is generations old.  Free speech on the Columbia campus is not to be tolerated if the person speaking is not a liberal.  Ayn Rand was shouted down over 40 years ago.  A few days ago it was the founder of the Minutemen .. .the group dedicated to monitoring and stopping the Mexican invasion across our borders.  Read this column to get an insight into the "thought processes" of the students at Columbia.  By the way .. .you should know that the Columbia University School of Journalism is the primary launching platform for today's mainstream journalists. 

Oh man.  I just LOVE stories like this.

Two teenaged lard-ass girls sue McDonalds.  They say that McDonalds "tricked them" into eating all that fast food.  Here's John Stossel's take on that little gem.  Stossel agrees with me.  Move to a loser pays system.  Slow these lawyers down.

Now -- about that border fence to stem -- or merely redirect -- the Mexican invasion;  Bush has signed off on a small down payment for the construction of the fence.  Fence fans fear that full funding will not be in the offing, considering Bush's general opposition to closing the border.

Now this is quite a rant about out two party system.  I don't agree with all of it.  Just some of it.  But it's a really good read just the same.  Guaranteed to make you think.

Back to the Mexican invasion.  Republican candidates have a lot to say ... Bush has nothing to say.

Do you regularly read the CyberAlerts from the Media Research Center?  You should.  Nobody does a better job of chronicling the liberal bias in the media that the MRC crowd.  In this CyberAlert we learn that George Bush has only made our "historic fear" of North Korea worse -- oh, and that Bush ruined all of the good work that Clinton had done in North Korea. 

"The List" has arrived on the computer of Byron York.  The List?  What List?  And just what is this California foundation that is sending out all of these emails?  Anyone smell a Democrat?

 Bill Bennett says "don't stay home on election day."  Fine.  How about giving us something to vote for instead of all that we have to vote against?

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