Michael Medved's Open Letter to Rep. Ron Paul

Since Paul Hue is such an avid supporter of Congressman Paul, I can't help but wonder what his (and Ron Paul's) response would be to this:

Dear Congressman Paul:

Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 “Truthers” and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.

Do you welcome- or repudiate – the support of such factions?

More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press –a publication of the nation’s leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the “comforts and amenities” provided for inmates of Auschwitz.

Have your columns appeared in the American Free Press with your knowledge and approval? As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?

As a guest on my syndicated radio show, you answered my questions directly and fearlessly. Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?

Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.

Respectfully, Michael Medved

If all of these assertions Medved makes here are true, which as far as I've been able to discern they are, it's beyond me how anyone could support this loon as a legitimate presidential candidate. But hey, that's just me.

US Poor Gain Wealth... If They Behave

From the essay:

For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let's examine some numbers from the Census Bureau's 2004 Current Population Survey. There's one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only 13.7 percent of their under-5-year-olds are poor. There's another segment of the black population that suffers a 39.5 percent poverty rate, and 58.1 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor.

Among whites, one population segment suffers a 6 percent poverty rate, and only 9.9 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor. Another segment of the white population suffers a 26.4 percent poverty rate, and 52 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor.

What do you think distinguishes the high and low poverty populations? The only statistical distinction between both the black and white populations is marriage.

Halloween Candy Ban Wrongheaded

Leaders of a Syracuse, NY school district think they're helping kids by banning candy and cakes. Instead they are exposing their ignorance of perfectly healthful candy and cakes, made from fine natural ingredients, loaded with nutrients and tasting even better than the much more popular junk versions which have given treats a bad name. Why not mandate ingredients, rather than the final products? Instead of banning cupcake, why not merely mandate the following ingredients:

Unrefined sugar substances (evaporated cane juice, grade B maple syrup, agave syrup).
Unhydrogenated oils
Organic butter
Whole grain flours
Organic brown eggs

And ban the following:
Refined white sugar
Margarine and other hydrogenated oils
White flour

Three Years Prison for Dog Toss

Those blaming racism for Michael Vick 2-year prison term must explain this this 3-year term for a guy (I assume he's white) who tossed a dog out a three-story window.

CA Wildfires v. Katrina: Aircraft Boondogle

People who blame poor govt response to Katrina on racism must explain poor govt response to the wildfires threatening the lives and property of rich honkies in California. Surely these people would blame racism for idle firefighting aircraft in the midst of these fires, if the threatened people were black.

Protesting Nooses, Ignoring Murders

Stanley Crouch supports the rage against white folks hanging nooses in Jena, LA and the resulting criminal prosecutions only of black folks in the resulting conflicts. He wonders if this organized response to the Jena injustice will translate into (finally) an equally unified and loud response to the even greater problem of black monsters in black communities ruining life for everybody. We wonders as well about the lack of such a volunteer effort to teach the black kids who are goofing off during the school day.

Here he revisits the theme, comparing the rage by blacks at Columbia over a noose hung at a black prof's door, to the silence resulting from black thugs executing three black teens a few days later in nearby Newark.

In this column, Crouch reveals how Phily's Nation of Islam chapter fronted for a hard core black mafia family of cold-blooded killers, and how Heuy Newton -- so proudly cheered on the t-shirts of rigteous "community activists" -- took transformed Black Panthers into a street gang.

Bravo for Crouch's campaign to get people interested in addressing the "national issue of excessive urban murder."

Top Climate Scientst Boos Gore's Nobel

"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was," Dr Gray said of human-caused global warming. "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures. It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."

We'll see.

Nat'l Healthcare in UK: Pull Your Own Teeth!

Thanks to socialized ("national") dental care in Britain, dentists are fleeing the country, potential dentists are finding something else to study in school, and citizens needing treatment wait so long for "free" services that they just pull their own damn teeth. Maybe if these people had to pay for their own dental care, they would take care of their teeth in the first place.

Racism in Fashion Industry

Only racism can explain the absence of non-whites from today's fashion scene, since so many non-whites aspire to these all-white jobs. But the people who do the hiring here (white people), whom do they vote for in the elections? The same people advocating affirmative action. Very strange.

Racist Insurance Companies?

Insurance companies are responding to the Hurricane Katrina mess by canceling policies all over the country, including the policies of affluent white folks 12 miles from the coast, like this couple in Long Island. If this happens to any black folks, count on it getting declared, "Racist!"

The Real Clarence Thomas

Whenever people inform me, as many do regularly, that Clarence Thomas is either stupid or unknowledgeable, I know that these people have never sat still and listened to his speaches on C-SPAN. Whenever such people inform me that CT has "sold-out", I know that they must be unaware of the millionaire bank rolls of CT's adversaries like Jesse Jackson and his sons, Ron Dellums, Al Sharpton, the Clintons, Kwame Kilpatrick and his mom, John Conyers, etc., compared to the net worth of Thomas at the time that he got nominated.

Gore Nobel Perplexes Czech Prez

It perplexes me, too, except when I realize what the Nobel Peace Prize now constitutes: leftist applause. It surely has nothing to do with the promotion of "peace", though I am unsure how it is that anybody can "promote peace" anyway. But surely hypocritically demanding the end of modern commerce doesn't count.

I agree with this guy:=========================

"The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct," the statement said. "It rather seems that Gore's doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace."

Klaus said in a recent speech that environmentalists' efforts to halt global warming "fatally endanger our freedom and prosperity." The Czech president publicly expresses doubt on what scientists, including those participating in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, deem very likely - that global warming is caused by humans.

He also said that rising temperatures may not matter enough for governments to throw funds at halting the process. In a newspaper interview earlier this year, Klaus said that only Al Gore, and not a sane person, would say that mankind is ruining the planet.

High Schools w/ 1,000 Students... Eating on Floor

Why have 1,000 students in one school? Is there any what that this helps their education? All that travel time, the great distance away from home, with so many neighborhoods feeding the same school. Speaking of feeding, here's a school that in order to accomidate so many students, at lunch time some have to eat on the floor.

Only two reasons justify having high schools larger than elementary schools:

1. After learning basic reading, writing, and math in elementary school, now what to do with teenagers? Teaching them advanced writing, reading, and math would require educated and hard-working teachers. Lazy and uneducated teachers prefer teaching easy elective classes, like business and career awareness. You need lots of students to fill lots of stupid classes.

2. The more students, the better the sports teams! And the better you want those students to perform, the less time you need them working on advanced intellectual courses. Instead, fill their schedules with "electives".

Peace, US Support in Iraq's Sunni Anbar Province

The residents there first fled, then fought -- successfully -- the retarded Al Qaidas who made this hell on earth for two years, 2004 - 5. My friend Vassar working there for KBR / Haliburton credits the US Marines, who, he says, differ from US GIs in the following way: Marines preemptively kill anybody that they feel threatens them, whereas US Army troops won't even return fire without receiving radio permission from a central command.

From the London Telegraph article: =================

Mr Kareem and other Husaybah residents claim that the peace that followed the expulsion of al-Qa'eda has triggered an economic revival and restoration of favourite pastimes. Ghanim Mirdie Waleed, coach of the local football team, who celebrated a recent victory with cigarettes, paid tribute to the American role in Husaybah.

"The conflict here was all caused by al-Qa'eda," he said. "We work and play as we like under the coalition security. There are jobs for people, shops are opened and we are very happy."

With al-Qa'eda pushed out, Anbaris are even rallying to a new shared cause with America - a fight to secure the country against Iranian infiltration.

Why Not Move Isreal to Alaska?

Iran's despotic front man has some pretty good ideas. One is for Israel to move to some landmass where the inhabitants won't react with murderous zeal if Jews massively migrate there and declare a democracy that affords special privileges to Jews. Sure, the non-Jews in Israel and surrounding areas could all live prosperously and freely if they accepted this, but they aren't. So why not just move Israel elsewhere? The retarded people in and around Israel today fighting for its destruction will remain retarded, and surely will just find some other excuse for destructive behavior. Meanwhile the productive Israelis -- including many thousands of non-retarded muslims -- will remain productive and sensible in their new location, and won't have maniacs destroying property and murdering.

Lotteries Fund Themselves, Not Schools

State officials advocate state-sponsored lotteries to "fund school", but of the millions incoming from ticket sales, most goes out as jackpots, marketing, and salaries, with participating states only getting about 1% of their education budget from this source. What business has government in the business of gambling host and promoter? None, I say. I wonder how the govt income compares between state-owned lotteries and private-run casinos.

Bush Screws Soldiers Again

One of the reasons the Republicans will lose my vote to the Libertarians next election, and why I'll vote Ron Paul in the primary: Bush has never supported the troops that he sends to battle. Here these guys return from 22 months in Iraq, but earn the paltry benefits of troops who serve no more that 729 days. The 730th day of battle service qualifies vets for a little more, but these guys' order was written for just 729, and their extra days resulted from multiple "extensions", which do not count for these benefits.

More Plame / Wilson Phoniness

Robert Novak now reveals that prior to publishing his column exposing Joe Wilson has having a wife, Valarie Plame, employed by the agency -- the CIA -- that sent him to Niger, Novak explained this fact to Wilson, who did *NOT* cry bloody murder. Instead, the huge phony Wilson haggled over Valarie's surname (Wilson or Plame) and lobbied for a bloated description of himself.

Low Taxes, Malpractice Caps, Free Markets Solve MD Shortage in Texas

The NYT reports: "Four years after Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors are responding as supporters predicted, arriving from all parts of the country to swell the ranks of specialists at Texas hospitals and bring professional health care to some long-underserved rural areas. The influx, raising the state’s abysmally low ranking in physicians per capita, has flooded the medical board’s offices in Austin with applications for licenses, close to 2,500 at last count."

The article also cites lack of a Texas income tax as contributing, but of course that was true as well before malpractice caps. I wonder why physicians don't flock to Cuba or Canada?

Chris Mathews vs. Jon Stewart

I like Mathews better than most of the news talk hosts, but I like that he got blasted by Jon Stewart for writing a book about how lessons from politics can help you in life.

Black Kids Can't Make it Without Affirmative Action?

This NYT article hits it pretty hard: "Ten or 20 years ago, Frances Harris almost certainly would have been admitted. Her excellent grades might not have even been necessary, because Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — the jewels in the U.C. system — accepted almost all of the African-Americans who met the basic application requirements. To an admissions officer, Harris would have seemed like gold: diversity and achievement, wrapped up in a single kid."

But is it fair or helpful that if Frances was Asian she would have had no chance 20 years ago, much less today? The article describes all sorts of problems that Frances has dealt with in amassing her "A-" GPA from a school that's not very good. But what about Asians in the same boat? Sounds like her academic background has prepared her not for an elite university, but rather a non-elite one, where she can continue her hard work and smart choice, and still build for herself a very successful life.

The do-gooders in this article want to do every thing in the world to boost the numbers of black kids in elite schools except what matters most: convincing more black people to make smart choices, including parents providing a stable household for their kids, and kids not going to school and ruining the environment for themselves and others. And of course the do-gooders here have nothing to say about black kids getting to college and selecting worthwhile majors. Surely if these factors turned around, people would stop taking a negative view of "black-sounding names", a factor presented here as a reason to lower the academic standard for applicants who "check the black box."