WHY PEOPLE DON'T EVACUATE

Hurricane Gustav was much milder than expected. As it turns out the complete evacuation of New Orleans wasn't necessary. So, can the people come home now? Well ... no. The august mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, is asking that people stay away. OK ... so what happens with the next threat? People will remember that they evacuated when told to do so. They will also remember that they were prevented from returning to their property when the threat didn't materialize. So ... next time they stay put. Governments in all hurricane-prone areas need to realize that one of the primary reasons residents resist evacuation is the expectation that they're going to run into roadblocks when they try to return again.

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WHY ARE DEMOCRATS IN SUCH A PANIC OVER PALIN?

And believe me, they are. Yesterday we have the New York Times running stories on Palin, including one questioning whether a mother of five should be working at all! The whole so-called "troopergate" thing is going nowhere --- after all, she called for the investigation of her actions on her own! People who lost their jobs in that situation are even saying that she had no role. What's more, people have this annoying tendency to side against a state trooper who would taser his own stepchild. Me? Not so much. Probably did him good. The trouble is that Sarah Palin just too middle-America. She wasn't a community activist .. she was and is a working mother. If Sarah hits a home run tonight look for the attacks ... and that includes attacks against her daughter ... to only increase. There's something about this lady that scares the left senseless. As if the left wasn't already senseless.

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THE LATEST FROM PHIL GRAMM

The liberals already getting bent out of shape about this quote from Phil Gramm at the Republican National Convention ... "If you're sitting here today, you're not economically illiterate and you're not a whiner, so I'm not worried about who you're going to vote for."

So here is the headline for Democrats: "If you're not for John McCain you're economically illiterate." Actually that is pretty close to the truth. Anyone with an ounce of economic understanding would recognize that Obama's tax policies will be crippling to our economy. If your economic understand doesn't go beyond "That guy has more money that I do and I want some of it," then you are certainly a typical Obama supporter. On the Obama side we have people who couldn't tell you the difference between a profit and a profit margin if their lives depended on it ... and who couldn't write a cogent paragraph on the concept of supply and demand. If you told them that prices are the means by which a free economy allocates scarce resources they would stare at you with their mouths hanging open - uncomprehending brook trout.

How dare anyone accuse someone who is ignorant of being ignorant?

Phil Gramm is an economist. He taught economics at Texas A&M. He knows of what he speaks on this one.

THE EXPERIENCE DEBATE

Barack Obama has served the ball back into the Republican's court by stating that he had more experience than Sarah Palin in dealing with natural disasters. Obama sites his litany of post-Katrina ideas that consist of nothing more than government handouts and proposals for bigger government. Obama said, "My understanding is that Gov. Palin's town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year - we have a budget of about three times that just for the month." Just a quick note, what Obama fails to realize is that Sarah Palin is now a governor ... she operates a $9 billion budget, and manages $13 billion in revenue. She also runs a government that employs 25,000 people.

The McCain campaign has already responded, calling his response "laughable."

By the way ... I hear more and more Obama-bots telling us about all the "experience" he has running a major presidential campaign. Excuse me, but he isn't "running" the campaign. He hired people to do that. He won't be able to hire someone to be president for him.

AND NOW FOR THE ISSUES

The Politico has obtained a 2006 Democrat research document on Palin. We are currently combing through it to see what details we can bring you about her experience as mayor and governor. We'll keep searching.

A DEPARTURE FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

The UN General Assembly currently has a resolution on the table that demands the respect for Islam (which it specifically names) and other religions (which it does not). It's called the "Combating Defamation and Religion" resolution and happens to be sponsored by the 57 nations of Islam. This absurd idea has been swimming around for about four years. It is nothing less than a UN device to restrict free speech. Instead of taking on those who use Islam as a reason (or excuse) for their violent actions, the Islamic world just wants to shut the rest of us up. This is an idea the UN would love, but an idea Americans should reject. .

The US and many European countries are mounting a new effort to defeat the resolution. Don't worry, they won't have the gonads to do so.

HOW ABOUT A STRAIGHT LINE TO GOD?

Now who would guess that one of my buddies is the former head of the Christian Coalition? You see, he knows me and my feelings a lot better than some of you do. Anyway .... Ralph Reed has written a book. "Dark Horse" would be the name. The book is a novel about a presidential election and it has been on the bookshelves for some time now. So .. .why bring this up? That would be because in this book Ralph Reed writes about a presidential candidate who surprises everyone by choosing as his running mate a female who has been a governor of a state for less than two years. Coincidence? Or does Ralph Reed have a straight line to someone in the know?

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's Dick Morris with his latest take on the Republican convention McCain's choice of Palin as his VP.

And here's a black columnist from Philadelphia warning of a full-fledged race war if Obama doesn't win the presidency. Nice.

If Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, can keep it together, he is really going to be a great asset to the Republican Party.

Watch this interview with another up-and-comer in the Republican Party former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.

Another rumor squashed by the McCain campaign ... Sarah Palin was not a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.

Barack Obama's city of Chicago is having a brouhaha over the "disparities" government school funding.

Here's more from the Wall Street Journal on John McCain's tax plan and how it will create jobs.

McCain raised $47 million in August, more than $10 million came after he announced Palin as his VP.

For those of you wanting some more answers about Sarah Palin, here's an interview that was conducted in the beginning of August 2008.

Fred Thompson spoke last night, but here is more of what he had to say at an event yesterday afternoon about the presidential race and Sarah Palin.

This is a little information about the 2008 GOP platform ... just in case anybody actually cares about the issues anymore.

This is a little more information on Obama's mystery years at Columbia University.

Do you remember Father Michael Pfleger? He recently said that nothing will change in America no who matter who is elected in November.

The Washington Post examines why reporters feel the need to report about hurricanes ... from the middle of the hurricane.

This is news to me ... hip-hop artists in Africa are "the journalists for the people."

A secret tunnel from Mexico to the United States has been discovered complete with lights, an elevator and air-conditioning.

A Muslim in Great Britain quit over the NHS's "bare below the elbows" hygiene policy because "she was being discriminated against over her religious beliefs."

Local authorities in Great Britain are creating a booklet to educate parents on how to recognize if their teenagers are in a gang.

Is this how John McCain vetted his VP choice?

By popular request, here's the article Neal read on the air from the Wall Street Journal about President Bush's economic record.

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