U.N.-American Body

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Oct 14, 2003 | by Douglas Burton

Byline: Douglas Burton, INSIGHT

U.N.-American Body

Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Southern Florida, www.RushLimbaugh.com

Kofi Annan thinks that the future of the United Nations is at the fork in the road. I was hoping he'd say, "We're at the fork in the road, and we're going to take it." It would be best if they would take the fork in the road and split themselves up on it.

With Tom and Gray California Dreaming

Tom Marr, WCBM-680 AM, Baltimore, www.wcbm.com

[Tom] McClintock would make a great member of Congress, [but he] can't be elected statewide in California. And he can only hurt Republican chances. McClintock could cost [Arnold] Schwarzenegger the race, but he walks around as if he's going to win, citing things that happened in California 35-40 years ago when [Ronald] Reagan won. A lot has changed in California since then. We conservatives sometimes have problems in that the highway we travel has to be so narrow that we wind up shooting ourselves in the foot over and over again.

Roger Hedgecock, KOGO-600 AM, San Diego, www.rogerhedgecock.com

Gov. Gray Davis has given us yet another reason to vote yes on his recall. In an appearance before the Indian Gaming Association a coalition of casino-owning tribes Gray Davis asked them for their support and, as reported in the [San Diego] Union-Tribune, asked the tribes to submit nominations for appointment to the California Gambling Control Commission.

Now the Gambling Control Commission is supposed to enforce the rules governing Indian gaming. Gray Davis asking the gaming tribes to nominate commissioners is like putting the fox right in the henhouse. Worse yet, in this time of fiscal debt and deficit in our state government, the Gambling Control Commission is also supposed to settle how much the Indian casinos will pay the state government under the terms of their gaming compacts.

With state government and education programs hurting, did Gray Davis just promise to put Indian gaming representatives on the very commission which will determine how much of the $5 billion annual profit those casinos make will be paid to the state? Well, yes he did, with a straight face, too. Just like the face I'll have on when I vote yes on the recall.

Charity at Home

Rand Holman, [Formerly on Jukebox Radio, WJUX-FM, New York City], www.Rand holman.com

In 2003, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spent approximately $3.22 billion out of $6.25 billion in total grants extended addressing the health-care needs of the Third World. Admirable as it is, it nonetheless pains me to think about our seniors, some of whom still go to bed hungry, who have to wait days sometimes weeks for primary-physician health care. And when needing oral prescriptions, Medicare is useless, with many states offering little or no aid to help the monthly increases in their prescription costs. Maybe the old maxim still applies charity begins at home.

A Modest Proposal For Besting Dems

Tom Adkins, The Common Conservative Internet Radio Show, Philadelphia, www.CommonConservative.com

The Cambodian government is asking the citizens of Phnom Penh to eat dogs. Why? Because there are too many of them running wild around the city, and they are causing chaos!Hmmmm ... Okay, everyone ... eat more Democrats!

You know that Howard Dean one-liner comparing Trent Lott and Martin Luther King? Dean claimed he made it up himself. Then we found out James Carville gave it to him. You know, every time Howard Dean says something, I keep expecting Regis Philbin to pop up and ask, "Is that your final answer?"

A Muzzle Too Far

Phil Paleologos, National Radio Network, New Bedford, Mass., www.DinerShow.com

If the First Amendment means what it clearly says, then the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law is unconstitutional. The most basic problem with having politicians manage and control campaign finance is that, by design, elections are intended to have charge of the government, not the other way around! If Washington holds the purse strings that regulate political debates, where does that leave the citizens? It's not only unconstitutional to set limits on participation in elections, but who in their right mind would be in favor of giving politicians the power to decide what we can say about them?

Douglas Burton is an associate editor for Insight magazine.