Okay, folks, let me see if I’ve got all this straight. Now, follow me along here and we’ll show you what’s happening. Last year, during the election campaign, the Democrats kept referring to the Republicans in Congress and their “culture of corruption”. Then she very self-righteously promised that this Congress would be, to use her term, one she borrowed from Slick Willie, the “most moral in history.” 

Well, let’s take a look and see this display of morality and righteousness in this new Congress, which hasn’t been in session a month yet. Where do we start? 

Okay, let’s begin with one of the holy grails of the Democrat campaign, upping the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. To hear them tell it, Americans were starving to death in the streets and if they didn’t get the minimum wage up, we’d all be so hungry we wouldn’t have the strength to put our arms in the air when the Democrats surrender the country to Osama bin Laden. 

Well, there was a little matter of a place in the Pacific, an American-owned territory called American Samoa. They’ve got a Star Kist tuna factory there and American Samoa finds itself exempt from the proposed increase. You don’t think that would be because Star Kist has its offices in the same district in San Francisco that Nancy Pelosi represents, do you? How could you possible think that? You people are a bunch of cynics! 

And Comrade Nancy’s counterpart in the Senate, majority leader Hypocrite Harry Reid, just pulled off a land deal to buy a big portion of land near Bullhead City, Arizona, a rapidly-growing retirement community that’s spreading quickly into the desert, for $166 an acre. That’s because Harry introduced some legislation he introduced that would benefit a few people. That land normally goes for $1,700 an acre and the price is rising. 

Oh, and Harry tried to block legislation that would make pork barrel projects public, a bill that those corrupt Republicans introduced. All Harry was trying to do was maintain that great political tradition of the separation of the public from its money. How dare you even insinuate that there were some shenanigans going on! I’m shocked that you’d even think such a thing! 

And lest we forget that in this Congress with the halos over each of their heads, is Hillary Rodham Klingon whose market wizardry through some questionable connections, turned a thousand dollars into a hundred thousand dollars in a month. Why that’s almost as fast as you can say “Rose Law Firm”. Folks, I think the Democrats’ reality check just bounced. The reason was insufficient moral funds. 

Oh, there’s plenty more but I don’t have time right now. Just let me sum it up by saying that if dishonesty was music, the Democrats would be Beethoven.

Right out front, I think I’m going to have to explain something lest you get the wrong idea. The N E A, the National Education Assassination, uh, Association doesn’t like the No Child Left Behind Act. Neither do I. But don’t get the idea that I’m suddenly in their camp concerning this major insult to the education of students in America because I’m definitely not. 

The N E A is nothing but a far left wing union who couldn’t care less about the education of children. They’re more concerned with taking the union dues of their members and supporting any group or action that will further dumb down the nation. 

Well, believe it or not, we agree on another thing and that’s this. The Bush administration has unveiled a plan that would extend vouchers to private schools under the No Child Gets Ahead Program. The N E A doesn’t like it because it concerns private schools and private schools are out of the reach of their grubby paws. And, not to mention the fact that students enrolled in private schools consistently get a better education. Maybe that’s because they’ve also been out of reach of the totally useless Dept. of Education’s grubby paws. 

But now, President Bush, who if he’s a conservative then I’m Ronald Reagan, wants to bridge that gap and get the government involved in private schools by making school vouchers part of the No Child Gets A Real Education Act. 

Now you’d think the socialists at the N E A would be all for this. But they’re not. The N E A is a UNION and they still don’t have any control over the teachers. Ah, the federal government will if this patently illegal motion goes through. 

Don’t kid yourselves. The government wants control over private education. Ever hear of a government program that didn’t have more strings than a symphony orchestra? No, and you won’t. George W. Bush has revealed his true colors here, as well as in several other areas. It’s government control, government control, and more government control. 

He wants to subject the private schools to what should rightfully be called “The Dumbing of American Students” Act. Anyone in the public who’s barely conscious knows No Child Left Behind is a scam. And it’s doing nothing but turning out functional illiterates with high school diplomas. 

Now, the president wants to turn this federal government abomination on the private sector of education, something he’s not constitutionally authorized to do. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing and the government is just waiting till the moon is full.

If I may, I’d like to borrow some terms from the career of Muhammed Ali to describe a situation. If you’ll remember, in his career there was the Battle in Seattle, The Thrilla In Manila. Well, folks, over this past week, we’ve seen the Charade in Sheridan.

Last November, and even the bon bons and Oprah crowd will remember, we had an election. Outside of a few local races that went right down to the wire, the only nail biter was the race for Congress between incumbent Republican Barbara Cubin and challenger Democrat Gary Trauner. Cubin won by just over a thousand votes over Trauner.

Well, two months after the fact, here come some Democrats—the electoral three musketeers—in Sheridan, where Trauner was predicted to win but didn’t, to challenge the results. But they just couldn’t come charging in with faces that looked like they’d each just eaten a raw lemon. They had to find some noble, semi-believable reason for the challenge.

So what did they do? They said, “We want to check the accuracy of the electronic voting machines. ” Why this wasn’t done the day after the election will be a featured segment if they ever bring back “Unsolved Mysteries” but that was their story. And they INSISTED that it be the house race where the results would be challenged. Wyoming law doesn’t allow for hand recounts so, under the guise of checking voting machine accuracy, these three crusaders of righteousness, got Sheridan county to agree to let them count the ballots by hand, all 11,000 plus.

Well, guess what happened? After a tedious hand counting of the ballots, did they find some great, sinister voter fraud that denied Gary Trauner the seat in Congress? Uh, no, they didn’t. What they found was, out of more than 11, 000 ballots cast, six of them were doubtful. And those six weren’t even counted. The machine threw them out. And to add insult to injury, out of those six, four of them were for Cubin. And if they’d been counted, she would have won by four more votes than she actually won by. Well, so much for that vast right wing conspiracy theory.

And you know the reason these three sour grapes Democrats went on this fishing expedition. The Democrats had predicted Trauner would win easily in Sheridan County. This was nothing but a game where the losing kid always says “you cheated” to the winner because he lost. Well, I hope this puts this little juvenile, thinly-disguised game to bed once and for all. And it probably will…until the next election.

But in the meantime, if the Democrats insist on acting like children, the only response to this faux pas they’ll understand is …“Ya, ya, ya-ya, ya, ya. ”

The other day in this time slot we speculated on the future of Barack Obama, the mystery man who suddenly became the rock star of the Democrat party. We asked what he stood for and what was his background. Well, we didn’t find a whole lot about where he stands because he’s either kept his positions well hidden or he doesn’t stand for anything. But we DID find some interesting things looking in his earlier years.

Actually, we didn’t do the looking, the campaign of Hillary Rodham Klingon did the digging and we’re just reporting it. And we know she’s got a real vested interest in finding out everything, and I mean, everything about Obama for obvious reasons unless you’re in the bon bons and Oprah crowd and then it’s too involved to explain so just go back and watch Tom Cruise bounce up and down on the couch.

Now, some of this is some pretty surprising stuff, folks. Barack Obama, the boy wonder of the Democrat party, for four years was a student at a Muslim seminary in Indonesia. Now, has he been forthcoming with this information? No, he hasn’t. Why? Obama’s press secretary said he would ask and call back. He never did.

Young Obama was given the name Hussein by his Muslim father. Does he ever mention that? No, he doesn’t. In fact, not only was he a student at a Muslim seminary, he was raised and taught in the Muslim ways. The school he went to was financed by the Saudi government and teaches the Wahhabi doctrine. That’s the doctrine that says that if you’re not a Muslim, you don’t have any rights.

Yet, in his book, The Audacity Of Hope, Osama, uh, Obama claims his upbringing was mostly secular. And this is the same guy who went to a Muslim school where they taught militant Islam? Hello? Secular? I’ll believe that the day I see Jerry Falwell at a party at the Playboy Mansion.

A Muslim president? Quick, get the writers at 24 on the line. They didn’t even think about this one.

But will he be scrutinized by the media over this? Don’t hold your breath. Apparently, Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s got a good deal to hide. And one thing you can count on is that the media aren’t going to do anything to rattle the skeletons in his closet. And this’ll be interesting because he’s their creation.

Previously, Hillary was the golden child. And if it keeps going the way it is, the media will diss her in favor of him. I saw a picture of Obama recently walking across the White House lawn. Supposedly, he’d been meeting with President Bush but I think he was casing the joint, to see if any windows face Mecca.

Okay, folks, here’s a new one. The Wyoming House of Representatives sent a tax bill back to the House Revenue Committee because it was too complicated. This has to be a first in the history of tax laws. Let me explain what happened. 

Last year, the Legislature passed and sent to Governor Freudenthal for his signature a bill that would put a two-year moratorium on sales taxes you’d pay for groceries. That means that sometime in 2008, if something isn’t done, then we’d revert back to the state sales tax on groceries. 

But there’s been a lot of talk around the state of making the grocery tax repeal permanent. In fact, that was one of the big items the legislature would be discussing in this session. 

Now, the reason the House sent the permanent repeal motion back to Committee is because when the bill was brought to the floor for a vote and was looked at, it was loaded down with amendments nobody understood fully. One that was understood was a provision in the bill that the state would reconsider its effect on state revenue in 2013. 

House Majority Floor Leader Colin Simpson of Cody thinks it’s what he calls “a bit hypocritical” to repeal taxes on groceries in one section of a bill and then try to work its renewal in another section. Representative Pete Jorgenson of Jackson questioned the idea of putting a sunset date for tax exemptions. And House Speaker Tom Lubnau of Gillette suggested the whole thing go back to Revenue Committee due to the volume and incomprehensibility of the amendments.”  So how did all this get out of hand and into this chaos? 

Well, to find out, let’s go back to last year’s session. Representative Rodney “Pete” Anderson of Pine Bluffs fought even a temporary repeal of the grocery tax as hard as he could. And guess what? He’s Chairman of the House Revenue Committee. Are the lights coming on now? 

The way you kill a bill that’s very popular with the voters is load it down with complicated, meaningless amendments until it sinks under its own weight. In politics, this is called “Well, I’ll show them.” 

And the timing couldn’t be more exquisite. There was a poll out yesterday that said 64 percent of voters in Wyoming want the grocery tax done away with and given a decent burial. Apparently Representative Anderson doesn’t want to be the undertaker so what you get is a smoke screen of complicated amendments. 

As somebody said once, “politics is the art of denying people to the affairs of life that concern them.”

Yesterday we told you about Nancy Pelosi, the new boss in the House of Representatives and her minimum wage bill exemption for the Star Kist Tuna Corporation who just happen to have their company headquarters in Nancy’s district in San Francisco. I called that “Meet The New Boss…Same As The Old Boss”. Well, today, let’s go over to the Senate for Meet The New Boss…Part 2. 

The new boss there is Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate Majority leader. Well, Senate Democrats, backed off ANOTHER promise last week. They’ve only been in office two weeks and the number of promises they’ve reneged on is getting mind boggling. 

The latest one, led by Hypocrite Harry, concerns a procedural rule that the Republicans offered that would require full and complete disclosure of spending provisions on bills, known as earmarks, but in reality they’re pork barrel projects. Now, what this does is keep in place the exact same way of doing things that Hypocrite Harry attacked Republicans for during the campaign. The bill was called Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act and it would require members of Congress to disclose all earmarks they request. They’d have to let the public know just who’d be the beneficiaries of their spending.  

The Senate expressed support for it with a 51-46 vote against killing the bill. But wait. Here’s comes Hypocrite Harry, the man who claimed to be as pure as the driven snow and would NEVER be involved in anything like not letting the taxpayers know where their money was going. So what does he do? He puts a delaying tactic on the bill so that the bill itself can’t be brought up for an official vote. That would give the Democrats more time for politicking to get the bill voted down. And if it is, then Hypocrite Harry can scream bloody murder to the media about how the Senate doesn’t want to be honest with the people and he’s in there trying on America’s behalf for honest and open government. It sort of tugs at your heart strings doesn’t it? 

Nothing has changed here. What we’ve got is the Senate version of  “meet the new boss…same as the old boss.” 

Let me correct something I just said. There WILL be a change or two. Your taxes will go up for one. That’s so these pork barrel projects can be sweetened. And you’ll see the anti-war maggots of the ‘60’s, the aging hippies, try to weaken America’s defenses with drastic cuts to the military and huge increases in social programs which is sort of like leaving your front door wide open in a crime-ridden neighborhood while you go to pick out new furniture. 

Hypocrite Harry Reid, in blocking the transparency bill the Republicans offered, the people he vehemently accused of corruption and pork barrel spending, has proven one thing. There is honor among thieves.

The U. S. Congress is on its way to passing a minimum wage hike. They say that within 26 months of passage, the minimum wage in America will go from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour. This was what the Democrats promised if they got in power. 

Well, they’re in power and they’re voting for it. Comrade Nancy Pelosi, in her attempt to tell American business what they can and can’t pay workers, is trying to come off like the savior of the poor, the woman who’ll rescue the entry level working person from poverty in the United States. 

Well, hold on here just a minute. There’s a little matter of those people working in U. S. Territories like, say, American Samoa. You see, in American Samoa, there’s a tuna operation there run by Star Kist. And it turns out that American Samoa is exempt from the minimum wage increase. And why would they be exempt? Well, let’s follow the money trail and I guarantee you we’ll find the truth. 

Star Kist may have that tuna operation in American Samoa but guess where their corporate headquarters are located. Through the most unlikely of coincidences, Star Kist has its corporate headquarters in San Francisco. Now, who can you name in Congress who just happens to be from the same district where Star Kist has their corporate offices? 

Yes, Nancy Pelosi, the friend of the working people, the ally of labor unions who, with her husband, runs non-union vineyards in California. But I thought Nancy was on the side of the worker. Foolish me! 

My friends, I’m reminded of the line in that rock song from the early ‘70’s by The Who called “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. The line goes “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”  But we got fooled again. 

And we were taken in badly this time. Somebody should have looked up Democrat in the dictionary and they would have found it comes between the words “deceptive” and “dishonest”. The party that gave us Bill Clinton, the man who promised the most moral presidential administration in history and look what we got, has now inflicted Nancy Pelosi on us. Oh, by the way, Nancy also promised the most moral congress in history. I’m getting a bad case of déjà vu here, folks. 

And where have the media been in all this? They’ve been completely mute. Outside of radio talk shows and the Internet, you haven’t heard a peep about it. If a Republican had done this, that’s all you’d be hearing about on the evening propaganda parties they call news and the Sunday morning TV talk shows. Nancy railed on during the campaign about the Republicans and what she called their “culture of corruption”. She said she’d clean house in Congress if she was elected boss. 

Well, meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
 

Folks, everything I’m about to tell you is true. None of this is made up. And when you get right down to it, you can’t make up stuff like this, no matter how creative you are. This is about the value of a college education and just what you parents who are hocking your souls to send your kids to college are getting for your blood, sweat, and tears. 

The Young Americans Foundation has just done a research project and found that some of the pricier colleges in America are offering truly cutting edge courses designed to push back the frontiers of education. For example, at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, California, where the tuition is $33,000 a year, your child can take a course called “The Phallus.”  And it’s not an anatomy course. It’s offered by Occidental’s department of critical theory and social justice and it’s a survey of feminist and queer takings-on of the phallus. 

If that doesn’t interest you, maybe you could go for Occidental’s course called “Blackness." This course explores new blackness, critical blackness, unforgivable blackness and post-blackness. Post blackness? What’s that? But before you can take the blackness course, you have to take and pass a course called “Whiteness." Together those two course will run your parents $12,300. Why hasn’t someone come up with a gay version of this called “pinkness”? 

At Cornell University, your offspring in search of a quality education, can enroll in a class called “Cyberfeminism.” This ought to give them a leg up on the rest of the world when they find out that this “cyberfeminism” course has discovered, through diligent and painstaking scientific studies, that women…use computers. That’s a shocker that’s well worth the tuition, at any price. 

And here’s one that there’s been a crying need for in American education and thank goodness Johns Hopkins University is filling that need—at a price—with a course called “Mail Order Brides: Understanding The Phillipines in Southeast Asian Context”. I don’t know how we’ve made it this far without that course. 

As we all know, college faculties in America are hotbeds of Marxism. Well, Amherst College has a course called “Takin' Marx Seriously”. (People still do that?)  At any rate, I’d say the main thrust of the course is to teach the average Marxist on campus something they’re not aware of, the difference between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx. 

So next time, you’re down at the bank, getting a loan so your son or daughter can continue pursuing precious knowledge, and the banker wants to know what they’re studying, share some of the courses I just told you about with the banker. And hope there’s no traffic coming when he throws you out on the street.

Folks, the age of miracles is NOT over. There’s a new report out by the United States Domestic Policy Council that says that human embryos are human beings. Let me repeat that if you think you heard me wrong. There’s a new report out by the United States Domestic Policy Council that says that human embryos are human beings. They made that statement without reservation in their report on human stem cell research entitled “Advancing Stem Cell Science Without Destroying Human Life.” 

The report condemns the destruction of human embryos for the purpose of stem cell research and advocates alternative sources of stem cells such as amniotic fluid or adult stem cells. And they say research on these sources of stem cells holds much more promise of the liberal-praised but ethically-challenged use of embryonic stem cells. You see, when you use embryonic stem cells for research, you destroy the embryo. And the domestic policy council says that’s destroying a developing human being. Yes, my friends, I think the word we’re looking for here is “abortion,” isn’t it? 

The report goes on to say that each embryo is deserving of the same rights as other people, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness come later. Right now, we’re talking about life, the first of the three and they’re listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independece quite eloquently, thank you. The group wants a ban on funding that kind of stem cell research, including that which is privately funded. Oh, don’t you know the liberals are going to be on the warpath now? 

If anything comes of the Domestic Policy Council’s actions and embryo-destroying stem cell research IS defunded, why would the liberals care? Because it would mean that there’d be ANOTHER view of abortion, one that holds that a fetus is a living creature, a human being under construction. Liberals don’t look at it that way and, with liberals, there’s only their position that has any merit. Liberals all work from the following idea. “It’s a given that I’m right and if you don’t agree with me it’s because you’re afraid of me.” 

But liberal positions are based in nothing but irrational emotion and faulty logic. And, in the case of abortion, the idea that they’re God and can take human life at will. 

But reason to a liberal is like a crucifix to a vampire. They panic and lash out at it. That’s why they’ll fight this latest report with all the irrational emotion they can because they just might lose some of their influence over abortion. But what would you expect from a group of people who are for killing unborn babies and yet are against capital punishment?

Well, it’s time now to begin in earnest the annual ritual when men and women from all over Wyoming gather in Cheyenne to figure out new ways they can shaft Campbell County. Yes, the 59th legislature is in session. The pomp and ceremony are over. The leaders of each house have been sworn in. Governor Freudenthal has given his state of the state message. The only thing left to do now is to see how much of Campbell County’s and two or three other counties’ money they can take and not give anything back in return.

Alright, you might say, Steve, what are you talking about? Well, can you say Vo-Tech Center? That was last year’s coup.

Before that, we had the widening of Highway 59 shot down because some of the legislators voted against it because they never used it even though it is, outside of the Interstates, the most traveled road in the state.

And last year, there was a little matter of the state loan and investment board threatening Campbell County with losing state energy impact money because they only charged 11 mills of property tax instead of the full 12 and still showed black ink on the books.

And, lest we forget, there’s Amendment C. In case you’ve forgotten, that was the amendment which was voted down soundly in November in Campbell County but passed statewide by a narrow margin. It’s a darling little plan that distributes school recapture money evenly around the state instead of allowing districts that need it to keep it, such as Campbell County. Oh, and the legislature isn’t even under orders to spend the money on education, even though it is distributed evenly, theoretically.

So what can we expect this time around? How about toughening up the laws against child molesters? That’d be a nice start. Governor Freudenthal has made no secret of how he feels. He wants laws toughened with life sentences handed out for a second offense. Last year, the legislature had eight chances to come down hard on these perverts and did nothing.

What about making the repeal of the grocery tax permanent? That one ought to separate the taxaholics from the true representatives of the people. Keep an eye on that one and find out how your representative votes if that comes up, and it most likely will.

Now, I realize that WyDOT is short on money and the roads need lots of work. They say $500 million. And while I think that figure may be a little high, there’s talk of a nickel increase in gas taxes. Yeah, that’s the ticket. That ought to raise an astounding $34 million or 6. 8% of what WyDOT says it needs while it costs each driver a nickel more for each gallon of gas. Isn’t math revealing?

And that’s just a start to some of the things the legislature will talk about this term. To the Campbell County legislative delegation, one bit of advice. Keep your eyes open at all times. Think Campbell County first. After all, we do provide a significant portion of the money they’re playing with in Cheyenne.

Remember, the golden rule. He who has the gold gets to make the rules.

Well, the first 100 hours of the socialist takeover of Congress have come and gone and what have they done? Did they pass any legislation that would raise the minimum wage like they promised they would? No. Did they pass any cut and run legislation about Iraq, the way they promised? No. And, folks, we haven’t seen any precipitous drop in the price of prescriptions, have we? They promised us it would be a time of historic change. Well, we’re waiting.

Oh, one thing they DID approve of in the Comrade Nancy Pelosi-led House was a vote on a procedural rule that make it a lot easier for them to RAISE TAXES. Do you see where the priorities are here? See what’s at the top of the list? RAISE TAXES. Did you hear about this as a big story from the empty suits on TV or see any banner headlines about it? Here’s what happened.

Back in 1994, when the Republicans took over with their promised Contract With America, they got through a procedural rule that said before any tax increases could be approved, they had to have a supermajority vote, that is, a 60% majority. So what do the Democrats do? They shot that rule down first thing. Now, that means that all they need is 218 votes for a tax increase and they get the gold mine and we get the shaft. Now, when was the last time we had a tax increase? That was in 1993 when Slick Willie made us bend over for the biggest peace time tax increase in history. Remember that? Remember how he campaigned on tax breaks for the middle class and tax hikes for the rich? It turned out that if you made over $30, 000 a year, Slick Willie considered you rich.

Folks, it’s déjà vu all over again. The Democrats, who never saw a tax they didn’t like, are back in power. We tried to tell you this was going to happen and now it is. You know that new car you may have had your eye on? Forget it. There are hookers, dead beats, and welfare queens in line ahead of you now. It’s all part of the liberal plan to make everybody dependent on government so these wannabe Marxists can stay in power. That’s the only way they CAN stay in power. They certainly can’t point to anything they’ve done in America to make the country better.

The only way the country can be made better is through individual achievement, not high taxes and government programs. Oh, and with that comes overpaid and weak minded bureaucrats telling you what to do after they’ve robbed you. And, when you get right down to it, it’s the bureaucrats who run the country and make all the rules. And drown us in a sea of regulations and paperwork in the process.

So get out your checkbooks and be ready. Here come the Democrats. In the Congress of 1995, we had a contract with America. In the Congress of 2007, we’ve got a contract ON America.

Last Thursday, when the Democrats were swearing in their new storm troopers as well as the other members of congress taking their oaths, Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota was just a passing blip on the radar. Ellison, a Muslim convert, became the first Muslim to sit in Congress. And he insisted on being sworn in with his hand on a copy of the Quran.

But as a gesture of so-called Americanism, he used a copy of the Quran that was once owned by Thomas Jefferson, as if that made it any less a handbook of why all non-Muslims should be killed.

In response, Representative Virgil Goode, a BLACK congressman from Virginia, said laws should be toughened to restrict the number of Muslims immigrating in to the United States. As you might suspect, that set off a blizzard of letters to the editor in publications and internet sites around the country, calling Representative Goode a bigot and saying we needed more diversity.

“Diversity” is one of the liberals’ favorite words and it’s true meaning is “anybody but a white, male, Christian, conservative. ” To discriminate against them isn’t bigotry, it’s diversity.

Well, let’s look at diversity and see what it means. America has always had diversity. It’s the most ethnically diverse nation on earth and has been almost from its beginning. But to the leftist radicals, diversity doesn’t mean a variety of different people who come to this country seeking to become Americans. Diversity means coming to this country, illegally in most instances, and refusing to become American. Diversity means granting special privileges to any group who whines, “We’re victims of American oppression. ” American oppression? Then what are they doing here to begin with if we’re the villains?

Diversity, as defined by the liberals, is nothing but the illegitimate love child of political correctness. It’s turning America into a nation without its own cultural heritage. Blacks aren’t black. They’re African-Americans. Orientals aren’t Oriental. They’re Asian-Americans. And so on down the line. How is it bigoted if we expect immigrants to learn English? How is it bigoted if we expect immigrants to obey our laws, like entering the country legally?

The definition of diversity, as with everything else the liberals and politically correct touch, has been perverted. Just because you came here from another country doesn’t mean you don’t have to obey the laws. It doesn’t mean you’re entitled to anything anymore than anyone else is. America is the land of opportunity, a chance to work and make something of yourself.

Ooops, I just said "work" and that’s a four letter word to a lot of people who come here expecting nothing but a handout for doing nothing…and expecting us to bend over for them. Political correctness is a parasite, sucking the blood of America. And don’t parasites always wind up killing their hosts?

While the liberals in Washington continue with their much heralded hijacking of Congress, something is sneaking in under the radar that should greatly concern every parent with a child in school listening to my voice right now. President Bush plans meetings next week with lawmakers to try and push through an extension of the No Child Gets Ahead Act or as its true name is, No Educrat Left Behind.

As we’ve pointed out on the morning show many times, the federal government has no legal right whatsoever to be involved in education—it isn’t mentioned in the constitution as a function of government and therefore is illegal—but there they are anyway. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the date the No Educrat Left Behind act was inflicted on the American people and its time is just about out—it has to be renewed or education just might stand a chance of educating kids and then where would we be?

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings who holds the illegal title of Secretary of Education says the law aims to insure that kids can read and do math at grade level by 2014. 2014?? Is it just me or shouldn’t we have kids doing that at grade level all along? It used to be that we did that.

But that was before the peanut man, Jimmy Carter, decided to found the Department of Education and let the government stick its nose in where it had no business. Since then, as with all federal social programs, the costs have gone up while the results and the efficiency have gone down. Spellings says No Educrat Left Behind is one of the few areas where the President and the Democrats agree. You mean they both agree that teaching to the answers on a test and nothing else and placing emphasis on the lesser achievers at the expense of the brighter kids is something they both agree on?

That alone should cause concern, but let’s throw something else into the mix, the cost of this mess. Tipsy Ted Kennedy says the government should be spending a lot more money than it already is on this illegal scam. He says the president has proposed about $50 billion less than what the balanced-budget conscious Democrats had proposed. With cockamamie ideas like that, how can you keep a straight face when you hear a liberal say anything about balancing the budget? What are they going to do with extra $50 billion, create more overpaid empty suits to go with an administrative structure in education that’s already top heavy just so they can further hamstring teachers by giving them more pointless paper work to do while the little kids are memorizing answers to questions they’ll be asked on a test? Spend more money than we’re already wasting?

This is vintage liberalism folks. Throw money at a problem and make it worse. Then to solve the problem, throw more money at it and make it even worse. Then throw still more money at the problem and…well, you get the idea.

Isn’t it about time somebody woke up those dullards in Washington and point out to them how it would be in education’s best interest to leave the No Child Left Behind act…behind?

Let’s have a little fun today and look at some of the glorious ways the English language can be twisted to mean something other than the original meanings of the words. Several years ago, I got a copy of a book called Anguished English by Richard Lederer who’s been a lifelong English teacher. Mr. Lederer delights in finding unusual misuse of words and phrases in the language and his book was a treasure trove of those. 

Well, now I’m glad to say I’ve discovered the sequel to Anguished English called The Revenge of Anguished English. And it’s another hilarious tour de force of misplaced modifiers, dangling participles, and hilarious non-sequitirs. One section of the book he devotes to the advertising world and some of their verbal bloopers. This strikes especially close to home for those of us in media because that’s how we make our livings, through advertising revenue. And Lederer has found some of the most forgettable moments in advertising to amuse us. 

For example, there’s this immortal turn of phrase. “Your home deserves a monthly termite inspection. So when you think of pests, think of Chuck O’Hara, your Terminix Man." 

And here’s another priceless example of saying it just the wrong way. "FOR SALE: Braille dictionary. Must be seen to be appreciated." 

And on a marquee sign, it read “Friday and Saturday, it’s our dog show. And Monday, don’t miss our flea market.” 

From the lost and found, "LOST: Male Cat. Owner worried, neutered, and declawed."

From the help wanted section, "WANTED: Meat Inspector: The successful candidate will be expected to insure that no food fit for human consumption will be allowed to get to the general public."

 And from the wonderful world of misprints, "Room and Broad, $600 a month."

And here’s a medical headline worth noting. "Come to the Alzheimer’s Center’s Open House. It’ll be an affair to remember." 

Having mechanical problems with the car? Well, see these people immediately: "Auto Repair Service, once you’ve tried us, you’ll never go anywhere again." 

And how can you turn down this offer? "When you go on vacation this year, while you’re gone, why not have your home exterminated?" 

That’s just a sample from Richard Lederer’s Revenge of Anguished English.  In media, you run into those a lot and, hopefully, correct them before they’re exposed to the public. Otherwise, Richard Lederer could be waiting just around the corner to snap up the latest advertising faux pas he finds.

Look at this now. Hey lawdy mama, it’s another story, about Barack Obama. The way the media are embracing the wonder boy senator from Illinois, you’d think the next thing he’ll do is have a press conference in Chicago and walk across Lake Michigan.

They love this guy. The main reason for that is that he’s a fresh face on the political scene. That’s all, he’s a fresh face. You see, as much as they sit back in their empty suits and protest to the contrary, the national news media have become nothing but another corner of show business. Show business loves fresh, new faces on the scene. And now, so does journalism. After all, you’ve got to have fresh new faces because you can only tout a politician as the next Thomas Jefferson for so long, the way they did with Al Gore or Bill Clinton, before their lies and distortions become readily apparent to the American voters.

But this is nothing but another media darling whose coronation they’re trying to arrange.

“Hey Obama’s going to run for president! Isn’t that wonderful?” 

“But where does he stand on the issues?” 

“That’s not important. He’s a new face, he’s photogenic, he’s got charisma, what do issues have to do with anything?” 

And the thing they’re really dancing about is that Obama, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, that is, is black. But now, you’ve got a question I don’t think the empty suits in the media have thought about. Will he be able to play in the ‘hood? Well, you might say, why not? He’s black.

But here’s something that’s been completely overlooked. How many black leaders are singing his praises the way the guilt-ridden white liberal media are? The answer is very few, if any. Have you heard of any? The media like Obama because not only are his politics just a little to the left of Karl Marx but he’s also their version of Uncle Tom.

First off, he graduated from Harvard Law School, and that isn’t exactly the hip hop capital of the world. To the back folks, he’s the white man’s version of what liberals think a successful black man should be. And Obama doesn’t do anything to dispel that notion. He just goes in front of an endless parade of cameras with his false modesty and that “aw, shucks” image he tries to convey.

But underneath all that, folks, there’s just another liberal. It doesn’t matter, white or black, he’s a liberal. But if you speak out against him, you can bet the first card they’ll pull from the deck to play is the race card.

But this time it won’t work. More and more black voters are becoming conservatives and they’ll see through this. What they’ve got is an ALBINO, American leftist, black in name only.

Last week, while I was away on vacation, America saw the passing of Gerald Ford at age 93. All the television news programs have been filled with retrospectives of his administration, which was the second shortest of any American president, second only to William Henry Harrison who died in office after only one month as president. 

Ford will always be remembered for his pardon to Richard Nixon. Some in the media are calling it a brave act, which it was and that surprises me given that Ford was a centrist Republican and not the left wing Democrat ideologue that make up most of the media today. 

How history will judge Mr. Ford remains to be seen but there is one point I’d like to make, not about his presidency but about his ex-presidency. Gerald Ford was a good example of what an ex-president should be. He retired from office after losing the 1976 election and for the thirty years that followed, he maintained a certain grace and dignity that we’ve come to admire in former chief executives. He was off the stage and, while I’m sure he was called on for advice by his successors in the Oval Office, he remained off the stage. 

That grace and dignity was followed in office by two presidents who smeared the image of the presidency with disgrace and shamelessness. Yes, I’m referring to Jimmy Carter, the peanut man, and Slick Willie Clinton, the flim flam man. To this day, both are parading around the country either hawking a book they’ve written or making patently stupid statements that the media don’t question. 

Take Jimmy Carter, for example. I’m fighting the temptation to say “please” when I say “take Jimmy Carter”. Did you see Gerald Ford going on every television show to offer his opinion on Iraq, an opinion nobody asked for? About the only show Jimmy’s missed is being a contestant on Wheel Of Fortune. 

And you can’t turn on your TV or pick up a magazine or newspaper without hearing the latest braying from Slick Willie about this or that. In their administrations, these two were complete disgraces to the office of president. You’d think they’d know what total failures they were and shut up in hopes that people would forget. But they don’t. They just keep on acting like they were still running for president and the campaign isn’t over. Come to think of it, that’s the only success either one of them had. They won elections. After that, they had no more idea than a goose what they were doing, and I mean no disrespect to geese by saying that. 

The only other surviving former president, George H. W. Bush is also showing the grace and dignity an ex-chief executive should show. Liberals don’t have any concept of grace and dignity. If they did, they wouldn’t be liberals. 

Rest in peace, Gerald Ford, and may your spirit know that compared to two of the ninnies that followed you in office, you achieved the stature of a George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson.