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For some time the Media has been howling about pausing in our attack on the Republican Guard. Their stories show their total lack of knowlege of all things military. Eveyone, even the media, agrees that success in this war hinges on taking Baghdad. So how would you propose to do it when attacking from Kuwait? The first task would be to move troops to a position from which the Republican Guard can be attacked. That is a distance of 300 Km. It would seem obvious that we must move troops tanks and artillery to that position from which an attack...

I wonder if Senator Kerry is really just a couple of pants suits shy of a Hillary. He has trotted out a new tax cut idea. He wants to reduce payroll taxes to help the poor. You know what payroll taxes are don't you? Yes Virginia, they are the Democrats new name for the Social Security Taxes all workers pay. Kerry wants to mess with Social Security. He plans to take money from Social Security, so lower income Americans have more to spend next year. Kerry's tax plan is a one time tax cut paid for by the Social Security...

It is a terrible dilemma for a party. There is no good solution. It happens when a party in power loses a close election to a centrist when their candidate was also a centrist. If you recall Nixon was a centrist. He got beat by JFK, also a centrist, in a very close race in 1960. The Republicans moved sharply to the right. It is a natural human reaction. Eisenhower was not a right wing conservative. He was a centrist. The republicans were happy for the wins in 1952 and 1956, but Ike undid none of FDRs New Deal. Ike...

For years companies have bought time on Public TV in hopes that public TV would not attack them. Manufacturing and oil companies are constant customers of PBS in hopes they will not target them. The big companies always do these non commercial commercials that brag on pubic TV while pushing their support for a show you know they do not support. It occurs to me that the tables could be reversed with Rush. If the left really thinks Rush could get them hurt by too much emotional involvement then perhaps he could sell some restraint commercials for his show. Like...

Some years ago there was a country music song called Looking for Love in all The Wrong Places. That to me seemed to be stating the obvious. I think Democrats are off looking for votes in all the wrong places. That is pretty obvious too. Democrats in the form of Daschle, Gore, McAuliffe, and the Clntons have been for months telling us that the Repubicans in general and President Bush in particular have it all wrong. Primarily Democrats have taken the tact of attacking what ever approach President Bush takes to a problem. It was not a way to find...

Have you pondered why Daschle attacked Limbaugh? Consider. Daschle could have passed all the appropriation bills this year but he decided on a continuing resolution to continue them until next year when he might have the house and he would certainly have 2 or 3 more votes in the Senate. Then he looks up on election night and realized he has handed control of this years appropriations to Bush and Trent Lott." Not too good for the Daschle strategy reputation is it? Then Tommy finds out Bush has talked to a bunch of Democrat Senators and they are ticked at...

If one stops to think a moment, you can logically draw the conclusion that the main stream press is soon to be extinct. Bear with me a moment as I make the case for the decline and fall of the media empire. The media was created to handle the problems of time distance and availability. Not many years ago there was no way for a person to stay informed without the media. The newsmakers contacted the media with what they wanted the public to know. The media reported it to the public using a means convienent for the public. The ...

Many of us see the posts of those demanding immediate action and accusing our president of being a coward or dupe of some group. It is a common reaction to uncontrolled fear. People who are scared to death demand action. Because they believe action can remove their fear. Fear is uncertainty. Will a plane crash tommorrow? Will I be killed or poisoned or worse? When will the next attack come. Will I survive it. That is the fear that drives people to demand instant action. If Bush just killed all the bad guys today it would be over. Their fear ...

We just got introduced to the new method of war last night. Wars from the time of the Roman Legion have been fought by men dressed in military uniforms appearing on a field to do battle. Until our own revolutionary war little thought was given to cover or protection. Only those defending castles or cities had the protection of buildings and walls. That was done more to protect the city and the civilians in it, and not the soldier. Our revolutionary war changed that. We took cover and fired weapons from behind trees and rocks. By the Civil war we ...

In the Florida Democratic Primary for the Governor's race Democrats fear that Janet Reno may only get about 37 percent of the vote. Under the rules signed by Jeb Bush and passed by the Republican controlled Legislature, there is no run off required. The biggest vote getter will be the Democrat nominee even if that person gets a lot less than 50 percent of the total. With 5 people running Janet's 37 percent is expected to win, even though she trails Jeb Bush in the polls by a large margin. One wonders why Democrats were not in favor of a ...

The concept that the recent attack on the United States required a powerful government and huge assets is just not true. Just a few minutes thought should convince anyone of that fact. First, it seems that it took somewhere between 12 and 16 people to kill thousands. The early reports said 3 to 5 people per plane. At five each that makes 20 people to do it. Twenty people is a fairly small organization. It may have only been 12. Secondly, 4 of them had to be pilots. Every pilot both commercial and private, has to learn the air traffic ...

There have been many posts about the demise of the Cable Channel founded by Ted Turner. Ted only had one vision in his life, but that vision was plenty. Ted understood 20 years ago that in decades we would have dozens of tv channels available to almost everyone in the world. Ted had been around in the early days to see the transition of radio. In the 1930's there were only a handful of radio stations. And stations carried networks. Each network tried to carry programs for many segments of the population. They carried news at 8:00Am, 12 Noon, 6 ...

I was somewhat surprised to hear that CNN is after Rush. It appears that things at CNN are tougher than I first thought. Most of us are surprised at an offer to Rush because nearly all newscasters and commontaters are liberal. We would expect the media to hire liberals. They would if they had the numbers. becuase that is all that ever applies. Newscasters are liberal for the same reasons sportcasters are pro sports. Sportscasters love sports. That is why they become Sportscasters. Newscasters love government that is why they fight to report on government. They love goverment. A few ...

History is full of examples of how to change the political climate in the United States. I am sorry to say our schools or even colleges do not teach it. Our schools teach "the person" not the "party".... But the teachers union knows that is garbage. The persons the teachers union supports are all Democrats. The teachers just don't want the students to think about that. They say vote for the person, not the party.. but to the Teachers all good persons just "happen" to be Democrats. What the teachers union practices but doesn't preach, is that the only chance ...

It is obvious that Jefford thinks the trends are toward the left, but that is not true. It may be true in Vermont, but not else where. He does not know it, but he just gave Bush a huge amount of cover. The Democrats are about to paint themselves in to an obstructionist corner, where the fault for economic failure will be laid at their door. Does anyone remember what happened to the economy the last time oil prices were really high? Let me go review the role of energy and remember what took place from the mid 1970's to ...

Ninty percent of what I read in the media about the take down of our spy plane in China is about feelings. How liberal is that. Nations and national leaders rarely if ever act on feelings. Nations act in their own best interest. Successful foreign policy is the art of causing other nations to do what you want them to do. You have to structure the game so that the other nations best shot, is to do what you want done. It should be obvious to any observer that China has been intent on taking back Taiwan ever since Chaing ...

What his campaigning? It is getting your message out. It is persuading voters to vote for you. Candidates are always going to campaign. The sun will come up in the morning too. To buy everything from TV time to yard signs costs money. If candidates ever stop spending money on campaigns we will be voting for people about which we will know very little. Once that happens, we will not have a clue as to who to vote for or why. We need to see and hear the campaign spots. We need for canditates to reveal themselves. It is the ...

I often wonder why media people don't understand how things work in the real word. If you hire an attorney to get you a pardon from the president, it is best if you get one who has a personal relationship with the president. This technique does not work with ethical lawyers or presidents, but we are talking about Clinton and the lawyers he knows. So Rich hired an attorney that could talk to Clinton on a personal basis. Mark Rich did hire a former Clinton Lawyer. What does this lawyer do? It seems obvious to me. What would you do ...

Most of my life I have made a living by learning to think like the peopl I compete with. When I have been successful it has allowed me to be a couple of steps ahead of my competitors. Here is my take on thinking like Hillary and Bill Clinton. I have tried to understand the reasons for the pardons for money. I have tried to get some ideas of where to look for the evidence. First lets review the last 8 or nine months and look at what was then the prospect for the Clinton's future income. After the election ...

Some of you may have seen my post on how I believe that the Gore political machine infiltrated the Voter News Service to make the networks call Florida before the polls in Western Florida closed. Here is how it was done. To do that, they had to mess with both the actual exit polling and the actual results VNS reported to the Networks and the Campaigns. It is certain that someone got it done. There is no doubt the numbers were screwed. One of the things I learned years ago is that Democrats try to keep corruption compartmentalized. That is, ...