Soliah must stay in prison

A few months ago, it appeared SLA terrorist and faux-hockey mom Kathleen Ann Soliah, referred to in the SLA-loving local liberal press by her fake name, Sara Jane Olson, might have been the beneficiary of a “Get out of jail free” card.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil, in a rare case of judicial sanity, rejected the arguments of Soliah’s attorneys and said the fashionable terrorist had to return to prison. Despite remaining a fugitive for over 25 years, Soliah was finally tracked down and arrested in 2001 in Minnesota, where she had married, had children and tried to blend anonymously into society as hockey mom Sara Jane Olson.

Despite serving only seven years so far, Soliah tried to take advantage when she was released in error on March 2008, where she remained free for five days before being re-arrested in Los Angeles, where she was hoping to fly back to Minnesota. Her proper release date was calculated to be March 2009, not March 2008.

Soliah was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of explosives, explosion and attempt to ignite an explosive with intent to murder for the crimes she commited while in the SLA in the 1970s. Even with the extra year yet to serve, it’s a small amount of time for someone who had a hand in such violent crimes; she should remain behind bars sweating at the fitness equipment, rather than a year away from freedom, but at least California has decided Soliah is as least one blonde woman they won’t set free after less than a day and a half-hearted crying jag. (See Paris Hilton, among others.)

Tax hike supporter Franken taxed by taxes

If he were a certain type of celebrity, Al Franken, hoping to secure the DFL endorsement to run against GOP Senator Norm Coleman, could blame this oversight on a stint in drug rehab. But Franken has no such convenient excuse to fall back on.

As the next socialist hoping to be elected from the state of Minnesota, Al Franken, who supports taxing the rich into an early grave, and then taxing the remainder out of their heirs, has fallen afoul of his own pet policy, taxes.

The PioneerPress is reporting that Franken owes over $70,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest; apparently amorphous Al attempted to pay taxes only in the state where he primarily worked and not in all the states in which he earned money. This interstate-taxation scheme, dreamed up by socialist tax-n-spenders like Franken himself, has finally nipped one if its proponents in the rear.

Franken has said he will pay off the $70,000; it will be interesting to see if he still says rich people like him are not paying, “their fair share.”

Matthews’ political hopes not hardball

MSNBC commentator and talk show host Chris Matthews, who has made a name for himself hosting Hardball on the mini news net, is rumored to be considering a run in 2010 against GOP Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Though he has not formally announced intentions to run, he’s certainly adding fuel to the speculation he may run, if for no other reason than to ensure high ratings.

Matthews, whose own memory is not quite as reliable as Dell memory, is a former White House staffer during the Carter Administration and also worked on the staff of then-Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill. Short-spoken, acerbic and often humorless, Matthews left-leaning agenda has always been obvious on his MSNBC show, even though his brother ran for lieutenant governor a couple years ago as a Republican.

Ironically, Specter is an aging liberal Republican who the GOP wouldn’t mind eventually replacing with a more reliable conservative, so it’s not as if Matthews would be running against Newt Gingrich or Bobby Jindell here. The differences between Spector and Matthews is paper-thin, and if the GOP changes horses from Spector to an unknown, it could mean a switch from a reliable GOP seat to a Democratic one; the only thing that could overcome a Matthews candidacy is Spector has superior name recognition and political experience in Pennsylvania.

OPEC blaming the victims

Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister and president of OPEC, in the wake of oil hitting a record $125 per barrel this week, has predicted that oil could rise as high as $200 per barrel before the market peaks out. Rather than blame consistent production cuts designed to spur the price inflation, however, Khelil decided to blame the victims.

Khelil said the blame for record oil prices and inflation at the pump lay at the feet of the weak U.S. dollar and “global insecurity.” That’s funny. And here I thought the weak US dollar had a lot to do with these out-of-control oil prices. Silly me.

As for the “global security” problem, things have never been better, when you think about it. Iraq is closer to being a stable democracy than it has ever been, the troop surge put a huge dent in the terrorist cell resistence, and about the only real risk out there now is the rabid president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who really might want to invest in some medical ID tags for his citizens and himself if he doesn’t cool his jets and start acting like a diplomat instead of a terrorist.

So much for our “allies” in the Middle East; those who aren’t trying to blow up America are taking notes from Japan and waging an all-out economic war on the West.

The only one talking sense

In the wake of Jimmy Carter’s Hug A Terrorist tour of the Middle East, the only one talking sense from the perspective of Israel is former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The popular conservative is speaking like Jeremiah in the streets of Jerusalem about the impending dangers of a nuclear Iran. Yet the news media ignores the problem as much as it can, and the US government mostly just stands by and watches Iran’s nuke build-up.

“This is not merely a local problem, this is a global problem. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons everything we have been talking about will pale in comparison,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday in a Newsmax.com story. “Their goals are unlimited. Whatever successes they have had so far, they don’t intend to stop. The militant Shiites in Iran are openly boasting that they are racing to develop nuclear weapons with the explicit announced goal of wiping Israel off the face of the map, and of reestablishing the caliphate, of course under militant Iranian rule.”

Rumors are already swirling that the US is planning a strike on Iran, though that seems a bit unlikely given the election year factor. Sure makes a person wonder what’s more important to worry about, a nuclear Iran or your kid whining about wanting new pool floats. Pretty elementary for most folks, eh?

CBS shows support for Couric … she’s doomed

Top CBS brass recently held a “pep rally” in support of their albatross of an anchor, Katie Couric. The communist in cotton, also known as Pravda’s sweetheart of the West, Couric’s helped CBS Evening News become a boat anchor instead of being its anchor, and word is that CBS will dump Couric shortly after the 2008 elections.

Heck, Couric’s numbers are lower than Bob Schiffer’s, and he was about 120. The big question is, once they dump Couric, where do they turn next. If CBS were serious about turning it’s news program, I’d suggest they turn to NBC a second time, and hire themselves another morning host.

But not a Today personality; I’m talking Sunday, not weekday. There’s just simply no one better qualified to become a network news anchor than Meet the Press’ Tim Russert. The man may be a former Democrat political operative – and outside of Fox News, what network news guy or gal isn’t? – but Russert has demonstrated an admirable knack for asking tough questions of both Demorats and Republicans. Hiring Russert would give CBS a fighting chance against Brian Williams and Charles Gibson.

There may be a few journalists who have more credibility than Russertt, but they’re all old as the earth and spent their time on Caribbean cruises, not digging up stories anymore.

The legend of El Dorado

First there was Ruby Ridge, then there was Waco. Now there’s El Dorado, Texas as the latest site of excessive government force being used against private citizens.

Now, I’m not Mormon or fundamentalist Mormon, and I’m certainly not in favor of polygamy. (One wife is enough, thanks!) But El Dorado is sure to soon join the ranks of Ruby Ridge and Waco, as well as what the Janet Reno-led ATF did in Miami to Elian Gonzoles all those years ago. The same overuse of force is evident.

It’s a classic tale of an overbearing government using children as a sheild and excuse to attack people of an odd faith and impose their will on them. All the cameras and fiber cable in the world won’t change the images of an excessive force raid El Dorado’s “FLDS compound.

The black helicopter conspiracy theorists will be all over this one for decades to come.

The CNN crackup

As though the humiliation of being beaten so thoroughly by Fox News in the ratings every night isn’t bad enough, CNN is going through a major crackup. At this very moment, two separate stories are breaking that indicate the earth-moving going on at CNN Center in Atlanta.

First comes this tidbit from Yahoo news, about a CNN reporter being arrested on a drug bust: “Richard Quest, 46, was arrested around 3:40 a.m. on a count of possession of a controlled substance — a misdemeanor that usually refers to a personal use amount of a drug. He was also charged with loitering; the park officially closes at 1 a.m.”

Well, at least he wasn’t writing fiction and publishing it in the New York Tmies as though it were Gospel, like a certain New York Times reporter did a few years ago. What the world wouldn’t give to see what else was on Jayson Blair’s USB flash drive.

As though that weren’t enough, CNN’s Jack Cafferty has many in China and some Chinese Americans calling for his head on a silver platter after making derogatory remarks against China recently. Never mind the basis in truth of many of his comments; Cafferty’s problem is that he’s become a newsmaker rather than a news reporter. That’s not CNN’s style, which is, if you’re going to say anything derogatory about anyone, just make sure it’s a Republican and no one else.

Anyone who had any doubts that CNN is a losing news organization can now at least rest in the fact that many of them are losers. OK, enough blogging… time to tune into Hannity’s America and Bill O’Reilly.

It’s anyone’s guess … and who cares, anyway?

It’s anyone’s guess which Democrat will win the state of Pennsylvania, and who cares, anyway? Neither Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham lack the electoral majority to win the nomination outright. Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos may have had an influence, but the truth is that it was close even before he got involved.

While Obama appeals to a younger demographic that is still dating and into electronics, Hillary appeals more to older, embittered liberals – in other words, anyone over 45 who’s not a conservative.

But who cares which of them wins Pennsylvania, anyway? This thing’s going to the Democrating National Convention and it’ll be fought out there; who knows, maybe neither of them will get it and the Dems will decide to anoint Algore and his zittohead sheep as the party’s nominee. Check, nominate Ralph Nader and get it over with already.

The Dems may win, but with the mess they’re in, I wouldn’t rule out a shocking McCain landslide come November.

Antisemite Carter on “hug a terrorist” tour

Instead of promoting Viagra for doing commercials for natural acne treatments, former President and antisemite Jimmy Carter is spending a week or so in the Middle East, visiting with as many mortal enemies of Israel as he can manage to fit into his schedule, despite the fact that he hasn’t been president in over 27 years.

While his meetings with Hamas are being covered by the liberal media as though they mean something, the truth is that the US opposes Carter’s trip and have made clear that he does not represent official US policy. Of course, anyone who thinks Carter is doing this purely to frustrate President Bush doesn’t have a very long memory; Carter has been a pain in the keister to sitting presidents ever since Reagan took office, and even flouted the Clinton Administration – a fellow Democrat – to promote his own agenda.

The older he gets, the more embarrassing James Earl Carter becomes; his recent spate of antisemitic writings and actions only further besmirch the post-presidential career of a man who, although liberal, at least used to have my respect. Now, that is simply no longer the case.

CO2 is not a pollutant

One of the most ridiculous claims made by Algore and his mind-numbed zittoheads is that CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a pollutant and a major source of global warming. A little market research would tell even a rather simple-minded child this assertion is false on its face. To quote Wikipedia on the subject:

Carbon dioxide is produced by all animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms during respiration and is used by plants during photosynthesis. This is to make sugars which may either be consumed again in respiration or used as the raw material for plant growth. It is, therefore, a major component of the carbon cycle.

All living organisms produce CO2 simply by exhaling. But what is waste-gas to us is food for plant life! Without CO2, plant life would perish, which includes all major food sources for organic life. This is the work of a pollutant? I think not.

CO2, it is true, can be deadly to humans in too high a concentration over a prolonged period, but it is not a pollutant. The simple fact is that each year, volcanic eruptions distribute more alleged ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere than has any human activity from the time of the industrial revolution to present. To say human activity and human-caused CO2 production is the cause of global warming is naive, underinformed and outright false.

Truth is, CO2 is found most heavily in the Earth’s oceans, and through the evaporation cycle, the world’s oceans themselves pump more CO2 into the atmosphere than volcanoes, industry and cow farts combined.

Are we clear, yet?

Evidence against global warming mounts

Just as we emerge from one of the longer and colder winters in recent memory, and evidence against Al Gore’s global warming Chicken Little-ism continues to build, it appears the Bush Administration may be buckling to the pressure, just as the pressure valve is set to release.

Wearing roller shades of his eyes, if Bush enacts a global warming agenda, it would mark a severe course correction; he was the one who reversed course from the Clinton-Gore Administration, who commited the US to the Kyoto Accords just prior to leaving office, and when Bush took over, he pulled the US out of the ecomony-destroying climate treaty.

Contrary evidence is piling up every day. Vast evidence now supports the idea that global temps peaked around 1998, have held steady since, and actually dropped about a full degree this past year, meaning that the full century’s worth of creep Gore tried to claim was destroying the plant was wiped out by one cold winter.

Sunspot activity is deemed the most likely cause of global temperature changes by most traditional scientists, including the Dr. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, who wrote “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years,” and not as a result of human activity, as Algore and his zittoheads allege.

Minnesota and the upper midwest have been hit my mid-April blizzards and freezing temps, with gardening and crop-growing season starting later than it has in many years. Of course, for the zittoheads out there, there is no such thing as contrary evidence… even the coldest year on record in decades is “further proof of global warming” to those mind-numbed robots.