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A Satisfied Reader
I wanted to take a minute out of my day to thank you and everyone in your organization for the service you provide. Long ago I canceled my subscription to the KC Pravda (aka Star) because of their constant liberal bias and inaccurate reporting. I don't even like going on their web site for fear I will generate advertisement revenue for them.

I find your site a breath of fresh air and have told everyone I know about it. Keep up the great work and I wish you and everyone there a very happy new year. God bless you all.

A Dissatisfied Reader
I was thrilled to hear of your website the other day, then again today on 710, so I visited, but now am divested to see your site is a pathetic diatribe of rhetoric and political anguish. At least the Star makes their reading enjoyable - even if inaccurate and biased...it is pleasant

I considered myself a conservative and a Republican my entire life. I am enjoying turning away, mostly because of the conservative talk/news shows and sites like this. I'm tired of whiners. I don't know what I'll become, but I don't want to be like you.

I may visit again one day....perhaps you will evolve.
Kevin

The mind boggling world of taxation
Let's see, what's not really been talked about in the mind boggling world of taxation. The fair tax, the consumption tax, the tax only the rich tax, etc, etc, and so on. All forms of ideas have been tossed out in the last few years with little attention paid by the masses.

Now there is the idea of the tax holiday by Texas congressman Louie Gohmert. I have read the plan and it is a well thought out plan. It makes you wonder why all the supposed government experts can't think outside the box?

Now, let me go one better. Instead of no federal taxes for a two month period ( which is Gohmerts plan ) give each taxpayer the option to once a quarter forgo all taxes, for two weeks. Let the taxpayer decide when they would exercise their option to go tax free! This would let them plan out major purchases, as well as letting them plan on working overtime, accepting a bonus, working a part time job etc.

This money would no doubt get funneled back into the system rather quickly. In this way the government would be getting a true stimulus package into the hands of the people that actually make this country go.
Bob Mahoney

Flawed Police Chief Term Extended Two Years
Corwin gets two more years, because even the most "conservative" amongst us (on local talk radio) praise him. That leaves NO ONE to criticize him. No wonder he's staying, No matter how liberally he's performed. and no matter how many good cops get fired, and no matter how many shyster criminals (Salvo) get big bucks from the city in lawsuits, we have to put up with two more years of a DEMOCRAT-ACTING Police Chief. No mystery. It happens when you have DEMOCRATS in government.
Bob Hazlett

Governor Rod
Police Detective: "Evidence shows you were at the bank last week when it was robbed. Did you rob the bank?"

Bank Robber: "No sir. We, er...I mean I was no where near the bank when we robbed it."

Media: "Mr. President-Elect, did you or your team have anything to do with the Pay-For-Play Senate selection process or contact the Governor about that selection.

AND HOW IN THE WORLD CAN ANYONE BELIEVE HIM? (Including the 90% of the DEMOCRAT MEDIA who are DEMOCRATS.)

Where do you think our country is headed? Right back to the 90s maybe? Didn't we hear all the excuses back then? Oh, how new and transparent our change agent has changed...since he was elected.

We deserve the socialism and corruption we are about to get. We elected it.
Bob Hazlett

Yesterday, Nov 4
Today isn't that much different than yesterday - in weather, gas prices, bailouts, your favorite foods, or most anything else you can think of. We didn't even head much farther down the road to socialism yesterday, and I only mention that because it has been a hot election topic lately. No matter what you think, socialism (and the totalitarian state that ALWAYS comes with it), has already infected us to a great degree. We can quibble over how much - but control of the means of production and redistributing money, goods, and services by government, on a large scale, began a long time ago (since FDR, and at a faster pace since LBJ). "Government", at all levels combined, controls nearly a THIRD of employment and spending in our economy, or more, with both numbers growing. I don't know what you would call control, but they are well on the way.

So, why was yesterday important? With our election yesterday, we enabled government to take us to a point (over the next few years) that is the most important point in the history of any society. In our case, with the coming legislation, the continued growth of government, the selection of judges at many levels, the increased regulation, the demands placed on industry and the private sector (energy demands, health insurance demands, etc.), we will reach that important point.

Well, what point is it? Quit beating around the bush already. What point will we reach because of yesterday?

Imagine paddling your canoe down the river, knowing there is a waterfall ahead. You know you can stop and go to shore any time before getting to the waterfall and sure doom. So, you keep paddling happily, enjoying your beautiful surroundings. Even though you know it's there, and you can hear the crash of the waterfall, and the river is flowing faster, you feel safe, because you know you are in control. The point? You don't actually have to hit the waterfall to be doomed. All you have to do is get to a place where we "elected" to go yesterday.

The point or place we got to yesterday? It's the place where you can't physically get out of the river anymore. It is the "Point Of No Return". There is no sign post. There is no warning. But if you go there, you can't go back. IF we weren't necessarily heading there yesterday morning, we were by the time the day was over.

The waterfall IS socialism, and yesterday, we VOTED to go past the point of no return. We voted to never get back to what our Founders founded. We voted to never even have another chance.

It's still a matter of time, but this country is done. Too many pulled the lever for the candidates with a "D" next to their name - AGAIN. That is the sole reason we are done. Do the "R"s always fix things? NO. (That's a separate issue.) However, do the "D"s always take us closer to the point of no return? YES. When we look into history, which we don't do nearly enough, the proof is there.

On a somewhat humorous side note, I'll bet you no one pulls the "O"s off the keyboards during the January transition, like they did the "W"s eight years ago. That should tell you a lot. It should have eight years ago, before we voted to pass the point of no return.

And if you don't believe that one-third of jobs and spending are already controlled by government (the premise upon which my predictions of doom are based), I can prove it. With a small amount of investigation, you can too. These numbers aren't advertised, and that is intentional. They should be. If you can't find them, I'll be happy to show them to you.
Bob Hazlett

ACORN
Every time we see the word ACORN and hear about their voter fraud and activism, we should see another word right along side it. That word is DEMOCRAT. There are no exceptions, and it is amazing to me that they both aren't mentioned in tandem every single time - in print, on radio, or on TV.

From Barack Obama, to Claire McCaskill, to every other race ACORN is involved in, it's always to elect a DEMOCRAT (or pass a DEMOCRAT issue).

Also, thanks KCNewswatch for posting the ridiculous nature of the "townhall" style debate that Brokaw held the other night.
Bob Hazlett

How is the Star really doing?
If everything is so great through the rose colored glasses of the KC Star's Mark Zieman why did the Sunday Moneywise section cease to be published after 11/23? The end of Moneywise was confirmed by the reader 's rep on Monday 12/1. Anything that might be of practical benefit to school age folks as well as adults lacking in finance information is the first to go. Must be comforting to work for a dying dinosaur.
Mike

This is a Time to Celebrate
Lewis Diuguid writes: “My daughters, my friends — going back to high school and college — and people I don’t even know called, e-mailed and sent text messages bursting with pride, tears and happiness for what Americans had accomplished. To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., we had overcome. People who called and e-mailed since Nov. 4 reminded me of my Oct. 22 column on the presidential race. I had written that I thought GOP candidate John McCain would win because America was not ready to elect a black president.”

Well, it's no surprise that Loony Lewie sees things in the most simplistic terms of Black and White.

So it's no surprise that he believes that there was only one reason to vote for McCain: that McCain's supporters weren't ready to elect a Black president (out of respect for Black Americans, I capitalize "Black", even if Lewie doesn't).

Indeed, as KCNewswatch.com's editor stated, Loony Lewie believes that race trumps everything. But Lewie's stunning hypocrisy trumps even his own numbing stupidity. When he invokes Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. he manages to ignore Dr. King's greatest quote, in which he prayed for a day when folks would be judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"

But Lewie's celebration of Obama's victory is all about the color of
his skin, isn't it? Does anyone really believe that Obama was elected
on the content of his character?

Stu Tarlowe

Global Warming
I am glad to see the humor on Global Cooling on the side of your page.

I am just amazed that this has been taken as fact with no true evidence to support it. I have done some research and find that the effect all manmade gases have on the Green House Effect is about one quarter of one percent. That the models they like to talk about leave out water vapor which is 95% of the Green House Effect. The so called scientists that make up the proponents of global warming are not experts or climatologists.

I like to say their model is like trying to figure out how hot the oven will get if you put in a larger watt light bulb.
I have heard the ads on the radio about this site and I hope that it takes off big time, we need someone to check on the real story instead of just the station or the papers opinion. Report the facts for once.

Bird Cage Liner
The KC Star is suitable only for lining a bird cage. Duiguid is funnier than the comic pages and Hendricks fancies himself a satirist. Lokeman pontificates from her thin air perch and the selection of front page, above the fold "news" articles is ludicrous. No wonder they are losing readership and advertising. Anyone with common sense is NOT going to waste time and money on this rag sheet!!

ACORN

I had to laugh out loud when I read ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg say that there is no connection between Chicago's Project Vote and ACORN and that there is "no financial intermingling." This is the same story Planned Parenthood tells when they share an office building with an abortion clinic. Some of us were born at night but we certainly were not born LAST night!!! When will Senator Obama tell us the truth?

Susan Phillips

From Barack Obama, to Claire McCaskill, to every other race ACORN is involved in, it's always to elect a DEMOCRAT (or pass a DEMOCRAT issue).

Also, thanks KCNewswatch for posting the ridiculous nature of the "townhall" style debate that Brokaw held the other night.

Kay Barnes

When are we all going to have more responses to the Kay Barnes Boondoggle? It needs to be pointed out that she WASTED taxpayer money via a TIF on this whole Gangsta Entertainment District with arena that has lousy parking and nothing but controversy! A shooting already; discrimination reports; nowhere to park; & MOST important - NO NHL or NBA team. NO NHL/NBA team - WHY build all of that stuff in the FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?!?!

I guess we had to just waste taxpayer money on something. Heaven forbid we should actually spend it on REMOVING SNOW and PICKING UP TRASH!!!!

Obama youth story
Finally, the Star is reporting the Obama youth story. Today, it is a KC Charter school but a few years ago, it was the public schools in the Northland that "informed" the parents via the students on the Hancock II amendment. I watched voters at the polls take out "voting suggestions" from our local school district and decided that I would never sit back and just watch again.

Bosniak
When any Republican stumbles or fumbles, we hear about it almost instantaneously, and relentlessly, on the comedy shows.

David Letterman, for example, has made an ongoing nightly feature of "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches", in which George Bush's verbal gaffes (of which, admittedly, there have been many) are milked for laughs ad nauseam.

There is no expiration date or statute of limitations on ridiculing Republican foibles; Dan Quayle has never lived down, or been forgiven for, his misspelling of "potato".

Following the Vice-Presidential debate, however, and stymied by the dearth of exploitable comedy fodder in Sarah Palin's legitimate quotes, Letterman's crew was reduced to crudely editing Palin's remarks to make her appear to say "I am not qualified to be Vice-President" and similar statements that never actually crossed her lips.

At the same time, Joe Biden's reference to (presumably) the people of Bosnia as "Bosniaks", although everyone watching saw it drop like a fat, ripe plum into the comedy writers' collective lap, has been, somehow, roundly and soundly ignored, worthy of not even a rimshot as they scrambled to reach, often too far, for material that could be cast as embarrassing to Palin and McCain.

The "Bosniak" soundbite somehow slipped beneath the waves with nary a ripple, and Biden got his usual free pass for a bungle that, if uttered by a Republican, we'd be hearing about for years.

Oh, well, at least neither McCain nor Palin talked about visiting "all 57 states"!

We have to fire Reverend Cleaver
Congress didn't listen. Don't buy the Congressional leaders hype, the American taxpayer did not suddenly become in favor of this massive boondoggle. They passed the wrong bill, a bailout that will mortgage our grandkids future and that many aren't sure will work. A bill so ladened with pork it oinks. If this was a true crisis and this bill was the only way why was so much pork added to make it palatable to our Congressmen and women including Reverend Emanuel Cleaver? His original 'No' vote was not one of conscience it was one of politics. Once his preferred earmarks were in the bill he took your money for billion dollar corporations and multi millionaires.

Don't get me wrong. Congress had to take action to free up the credit markets but this was the wrong way. Several other good, fiscally responsible proposals were put forth over the last week and Reverend Cleaver ignored all of them to line his own political nest. Dave Ramsey's. George Soros'. Newt Gingrich's.

Even worse Reverend Cleaver has signed onto a bill as of September 15^th 2008 to bring back the Down Payment Assistance programs, lax lending standards and mandated predatory lending that caused this crisis in the first place. He does not have the judgment to continue to regulate the financial markets and look out for us, the folks. To oversee our $700 billion dollars we need good people watching the store.

5. "Jeez, get me a [blankety-blank] DRINK and get me the [blankety-blank] OUTTA HERE!!"

2. "Who am I and what am I doing here?" (A reference to Admiral James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running-mate in 1992, who introduced himself thusly in the Vice-Presidential debate that year. This is also appropriate because Biden is known for passing off others' words as his own).

Great Website:
Finally, an alternative to a liberal rag that puts the VERY FIRST movie caption on its front page featuring the duffus - Bill Mahar, as if it is a must see movie.

The Kansas City Falling RED SCAR either is incompetent or far less than 'comprehensively FAIR AND BALANCED'. Seems there is a movie debut today with a cameo by Bill O'Reilly.

'The BIGGEST stranger to the KC FALLING RED SCAR is THE TRUTH!'

Jim Coldwell

Debate
The very notion that we have to be told who won the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, or that Barack Obama was the winner of the first debate "because he did better than expected", runs contrary to the wisdom of how winners and losers are decided in such contests.

In boxing, for example, the challenger has to take the fight to the champion, and must win decisively. Without such decisive action on the challenger's part, the round, and ultimately the bout, will be scored in favor of the fighter defending his title. The challenger has to show effective aggressiveness and deliver clean punches as well as move defensively; he has to dominate his opponent and also control the ring.

McCaskill
Right now (Friday Noon), Rush Limbaugh is taking Claire McCaskill apart for her lies about this bail out plan process and her support for Barack Obama and his dirty political tricks (and those of the other DEMOCRATS, including Claire).

Now, if only someone here in Missouri would get her on the radio and make her pay the piper for those same lies and that same support for socialism. She's OUR Senator - not Rush Limbaugh's. Yet, he is the only one who dares to take her on (she wouldn't DARE appear on his show). The softball treatment she gets around here is truly disgusting - almost as disgusting as she is. I can't believe we can hope for truth in media when we won't ask for it in our local interviews.

Claire is not the only one, mind you, but she is the biggest Obama supporter of all, and she is from HERE.
Bob Hazlett

Flags and Obama
I know, I know, it's wrong to impugn the patriotism of those on the Left, even if Michelle Obama did say that when her husband declared his candidacy was the first time she was proud of her country. And I'm familiar with Samuel Johnson's remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel".

Nevertheless, I'm proud to fly Old Glory in front of my house; in fact, in accordance with flag protocol, I even illuminate the flag at night.

And, as I drive around town, I occasionally see other homes flying the flag. I also see homes with "Obama" signs prominently displayed. But I have yet to see Old Glory flying at a home displaying an "Obama" sign.

Far be it from me to draw any conclusions from that; I'm just saying it's something I've noticed.
Stu Tarlowe

Biden's Gaffes
When it comes to gaffes by candidates, the media seem to apply the same double standard they employ for most everything else.

Take Joe Biden, for example, a "gaffe-generator" if ever there was one. Never mind that he is still best known among some of us for plagiarizing an entire speech from British politician Neil Kinnock; that goes so far beyond a mere gaffe that it should have disqualified him from higher office altogether and, had he been a Republican, surely would have.

Consider when Biden praised Barack Obama for being "articulate and clean", with the clear implication that those qualities were remarkable in a Black man. Obviously, Obama has forgiven him for that racial insult and expects other Blacks to do so as well. But had that been uttered by a white Republican, we would still be hearing about it.

Many of Biden's gaffes are honest mistakes, like asking a fellow Democrat to stand and take a bow and not knowing enough about the man to know he was wheelchair-bound, or slips of the tongue, like introducing his running-mate as "Barack America".

His latest goes beyond a mere slip of the tongue, though: he described how, in the stock market crash of 1929, "President Franklin Roosevelt went on TV to address the people..." But in 1929 Herbert Hoover was President and there was no television!

I think we know what the media's Gaffe Police would make of Sarah Palin exhibiting such a profound ignorance of history or such a willingness to play fast and loose with historical facts.

But Joe Biden's gaffes get laughed off. After all, it's not as if he did something really unforgivable, like misspelling "potato"!

Suicide?
THE K.C. STAR IS COMMITTING SUICIDE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. IT’S AS IF CHRISTMAS IS EVERY MONTH. THE STAR’S FAR- LEFT OPINIONS ARE THE “GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING”. KEEP IT UP.

Columnist predicts (or threatens?) "race war"
Tuesday night on a local radio talk show, there was a discussion of the comments by Philadelphia newspaper columnist Fatima Ali, in which she warned (or was it a threat?) that "If McCain wins, look for full-fledged race war".

One of the callers stated that, if there were extensive riots, it would set back progress for Blacks to the extent that "there would not be another Black nominee for President for the next 50 years!"

Well, that's probably true, except that I can still see a Black nominee for President in the future, but from the Republican side.

After all, despite Bill Clinton's claims that he would have a cabinet that "looked like America", it was the Bush Cabinet that, based on actual qualifications, installed minorities in significant, responsible positions, including two Blacks appointed Secretary of State.

For years, I've thought that one great hope for this country's salvation from its path to socialism would be a conservative Black backlash, when American Blacks realize that it is the Republican Party that is the party of Black empowerment, Black self-determination, and Black progress, and that the Democrat Party is, for Blacks, actually the pandering party, the patronizing party, the Plantation Party.

I'm disappointed that it hasn't happened yet, but maybe the defeat of Barack Obama will, rather than set things back, actually help things along.

And I can see a future in which the Republicans nominate a Clarence Thomas, a Thomas Sowell, a Dr. Walter Williams or some other Black American who "gets it". And I can see the rest of America (those not brainwashed by Democrat propaganda) embracing that nominee.

Obama Campaign Staff to Have Massive Layoffs
AWESOME!! So when do Jason Whit"less", Mike "Idiot" Hendricks & Barbara "Anti-Christian" Shelly pickup their pink slips?!?!?!

When will McClatchy be announcing the introduction of new columnists: RUSH LIMBAUGH; SEAN HANNITY; & DR. JAMES DOBSON?!

Alec Baldwin
Of all the celebrities venting their outrage at the idea of Sarah Palin being nominated for Vice President (Did I miss something? Does she pal around with unrepentant domestic terrorists and other assorted America-haters, or something similarly unconscionable?), one voice has been conspicuous in its absence.

WHEN Oh when will we be treated to hearing that brilliant political analyst Alec Baldwin threaten to leave the country if McCain and Palin are elected?

I, for one, am waiting with bated breath...

Stu Tarlowe

McCaskill joins "cheap shot club"
Monday morning Chris Stigall [5 to 9 a.m. on KCMO - Radio 710] played a clip of Claire McCaskill telling George Stephanopoulos that not only was John McCain's age "a reality we have to face", but that "others have mentioned his melanoma..."

Chris asked his listeners if this constituted a cheap shot by McCaskill. Well, of course it does! Just as you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig, you can deliver a cheap shot in exquisitely subtle fashion and it's still a cheap shot.

But cheap shots are nothing new from the Left. What's more significant is that it shows, in no uncertain terms, that McCaskill, who previously projected an aura of reasonable-ness, is no longer shy about demonstrating what a committed Democrat apparatchik she actually is.

Whether she's motivated by ideology or by ambition to have a role in an Obama administration (or ambitions even beyond that) doesn't really matter; she's now more than willing to step up and be the Democrats' hatchet-woman.

Now that she's "come out" (and no doubt been back-slapped and lauded by the cadre of her fellow Democrat hacks), I think we can look forward (!) to her being the mouthpiece for whatever other low blows can be expected from the Dems' party line.

The Funksters
So, the KC City Council has its knives out for Mayor Mark Funkhouser, and has ruled unanimously (except for the Mayor's lone dissenting vote) that his wife (who functioned as his personal assistant and confidant, probably because she's the only one he can trust!) is banned from City Hall on pain of arrest.

Naturally, my gut reaction is to feel sorry for the Funkhousers, who seem to me like fairly decent, likeable folks, whereas the City Council members are largely self-serving, disingenuous political hacks and opportunists, and at least one is an outright thug.

But then I'm reminded that ALL of them, the Funkhousers included, are dyed-in-the-wool, committed Liberals who enthusiastically endorse the Democrat nominee for President.

So maybe somebody needs to 'splain to me why I should be at all sympathetic when card-carrying members of the Obama Fan Club turn on one another.

Editor's Note: You're right, Stu. Why should we be sympathetic when liberals quarrel with each other?

Adversarial interview
Oh, how I wish I'd been Sarah Palin's "cornerman" for her interview with Charlie Gibson. I would have told her to counterpunch, to take the fight back to Gibson, instead of letting his aggression force her into a defensive role.

He questioned her like a trial attorney examining a hostile witness, except that he was the hostile one. She should have acknowledged the adversarial nature of the interview, and then come out slugging. When he hammered her with questions like,

"Well, if you support making Georgia part of NATO, doesn't that mean that if Russia invades Georgia again, we'd have to go to war with Russia?", or

"Do you support Israel making a strike against Iran, and wouldn't that draw us into a war with Iran and her allies?",

"Well, what are you advocating, Charlie? Because it sounds to me like you'd prefer a policy of appeasement. Are you saying that, rather than honor our treaties and stand up for our allies, we should tell Russia, 'Just take what you want -- we don't want any trouble'?"

After that, I'd have had her tell him, "Appeasement didn't work when Neville Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler to try to buy 'peace in our time', and it doesn't work today. I can assure you that the McCain-Palin administration will use all the diplomacy possible, but it will always be backed up and enforced by the option of military intervention. Unfortunately, Charlie, in the real world, sometimes war is the answer!"

Interview with a DEMOCRAT
No one, up until today, has pushed as hard (including O'Reilly with Obama), in such a confrontational way, as Charlie Gibson did to Sarah Palin today. I've only seen the very first hit job, at the beginning of the Thursday broadcast, and it's already evident.

I don't mind, but I want to see ALL the guys and gals get that treatment. I want to see Obama really pressed on his Muslim and wacky church backgrounds, and his Chicago dealings, and his potential actions in Pakistan and Iran and Georgia. I want to know more about his income redistribution and welfare plans.

I want to see Biden get grilled on all his 30 years of liberal voting, and the consequences of those votes, in terms of debt and national security. I want to know how he will explain the idiotic plan he had for Iraq.

I want McCain to get the same treatment.

But, for now, it's only Palin getting hammered, and getting hammered RUDELY. What's good for the goose, is good for the three ganders, no matter who's wearing lipstick.

Bob Hazlett

Stu Weighs In
Some of us are all-too-willing to "forgive and forget". Some of us are all-too-willing to understaaaaaaaand what drove the 9/11 jihadists to do what they did.

(And some of us take our comfortable lives and our security so much for granted that we have all but forgotten what happened 7 years ago without even giving it much thought. We just inhabit our own complacent little worlds, yakking on the cell phone while driving our SUVs and honking angrily at pedestrians who have the gall to get in our way.)

But I am less willing to forget, let alone forgive. The "message" we were sent on 9/11, with the deaths of thousands, was no more or less clear, and no more or less forgettable, than the "message" sent by the videotaped beheadings of Nick Berg and others, and every other act of jihad.

There are people who are sworn to either convert us, enslave us, or kill us. They will not be deterred. They would just as soon obliterate us; what has thus far kept them from doing so is that they are essentially still in the 7th Century and are technologically outgunned. But that imbalance will not last forever.

The Talmud says "If a man threatens to kill you, rise up and kill him first". And Machiavelli, were he alive today, would surely say, "They want to obliterate you, and you have the means to obliterate them? What are you waiting for?"

Claire and Sarah
There's a big flap today about a GOVERNOR of Alaska and her family taking some $60,000 (TOTAL) in expenses for travel, meals, etc.,, over about a 300 day period, and that some of that time the first family was in their own home (as opposed to the Governor's Mansion). Democrats are whooping it up, including criticism of Governor Palin from CLAIRE McCaskill in the KC Star.

This distraction is a joke. First of all, $60,000 is PEANUTS in a state budget. Secondly, the state provides for ALL living expenses of the Governor and family (a normal and necessary perk of the job), and providing for them in their own home is just as justified as providing for them in the mansion. Lastly, Sarah Palin CUT so much more waste from the Alaska budget than she spent, it's not funny.

This is all part of the ATTACK of DEMOCRATS and their DEMOCRAT MEDIA Club. McCaskill should be ashamed. And when McCaskill appears on local radio, she should be challenged (fairly, but with very hard and pointed questions), not given the "love-fest" she has recently gotten. CLAIRE has been the world's leading supporter of a socialist who won't vote to stop infanticide and who will NOT release the records from his past to show his true colors. Maybe someone should challenge CLAIRE, and maybe they should do a little digging into all her Campaign Obama travel.

Claire is supporting a bad guy (even based on recent KCNewswatch articles), and she should not get a free pass in ANY of our local media.

Oprah
I do not care to see Sara Palin on Oprah. Oprah would attack her. It wouldn't be a schmooze-fest.

Drill, Baby, Drill
Of all the memorable lines being quoted from speeches at the Republican

Convention, the shortest and punchiest, and therefore the one with the best potential to become a rallying cry, is apparently being overlooked by both the mainstream media and the Republicans themselves.

It not only makes a great rallying cry in its literal meaning, in which it calls for us to do what is needed to achieve energy independence.

But, because it was uttered by a Black Republican, and because it references the cries of "Burn, Baby, Burn!" uttered during the Watts riots of 1965, those three little words also carry the subtext that today's Republican Party welcomes Black Americans and the special energy they can bring to it!

Plus, it serves as a reminder that there are Black Americans who are not voting for Barack Obama!

Republican Convention
In response to all the laughing and crowing the despicable Michael Moore and the rest of the leftist Democrats have been doing about Hurricane Gustav slamming the Gulf Coast just as the Republicans are scheduled to convene in St. Paul, I offer this:

The Republicans have managed to find a way, when presented with a lemon of a situation, to make lemonade. The buzz from up north is that they're planning to shift the emphasis of the convention from politics to Gulf Coast disaster assistance. There's even talk of the GOP sponsoring a telethon running concurrently to the convention to collect donations from all over the nation for Gulf Coast hurricane relief.

What are Michael Moore and the Democrats--including the Kansas City Star-- going to do this week, besides their usual brainless carping about President Bush--who isn't even up for reelection--and their unconscionable and uninformed savaging and personal attacks on Governor Sarah Palin?

I predict that by the end of this week, the Democrats are going to wish that a hurricane had hit during their convention!